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The reduction in BCS was pretty minimal ie a total of 0.1 if I recall correctly over 10 years and 3 generations in the low emitters

They took an initial 1000 ewe flock and divided it into 2 halves - one of low emitters and high emitters. 10 years and 3 generations later they had reduced methane emissions by 11% from the start whilst still increasing the overall economic performance of both the divided flocks. Lots of...

Dr Rowe described the ways in which lower methane sheep differ from high methane ones. This knowledge has been gained though a 12-year programme ......... demonstrating in practice that genetic gain was not adversely affected by adding methane emissions to the selection index. She said 'We...

12 years research already done Mini summary at https://beeflambnz.com/news/low-methane-sheep-genetics Better genetics. Ask your ram breeder what he is doing about all these things?

Sorry my omission The Breed for Ch4nge Grant given to the group above was £2.9 million

I said You might be right or you might be wrong. However I personally am reluctant to criticize people who are putting a considerable amount of effort time and money (their own) into a project that they believe will bring benefits to the UK sheep industry. I am sure this sounds a bit pompous...

You might be right or you might be wrong. However I personally am reluctant to criticize people who are putting a considerable amount of effort time and money (their own) into a project that they believe will bring benefits to the UK sheep industry. I am sure this sounds a bit pompous but at...

LowFootprint certainly have the scale - 4000 ewes in 1 flock and with the 1 partner contributing limitless amounts of AI etc FOC ( they are already tupping low methane ewe lambs with low methane tups and that is with no Gov subsidies) and with a willingness to cull everything that is not up to...

What type/variety of clover and how much feed should it give over what sort of period this summer?

We are an all grass farm apart from some fodder beet for winter grazing ewes and some brassica forage crops we sow pre reseeding. We will bring forward as much reseeding as poss into SAM3 over the next 3 years, as this is what our reseeds consist of anyway. We also intend applying for CS grants...

As above Strakers have the most genuine of all the autumn sales ranging from fancy bred to more workaday Suffolks. You need to speak to Lyndon Trumper at Straker Chadwick. He has been selling Suffolks in Abergavenny now the Monmouth Livestock Centre at Raglan for well over 35years and will...

I look forward to catching up with you and yours on one of my grand ram delivering tours over the coming weeks. i promise that I am a reformed character so will visit and leave during daylight hours

As I have not seen you for so long you may have forgotten that I actually live in Shropshire. You could dual task by visiting on a ram buying trip/holiday.as you appear to find time to attend many ram selling events:giggle:

I assume one of the problems underlying everything is that auctioneers selling in their own markets get all the sale commission whereas at Builth this is shared with the NSA??

I see the averages are up. How do numbers sold compare to last year ( reports say clearance up at 90%)