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Contract finishing of cattle any good or not???? Pros and cons

Spray operator/drill operator,stock work,gfw, cottage available,, near Market Weighton, East Yorkshire

Mainly feed and straw,rent

Yes I would agree pure salers take a longer to finish, in the process of changing all of our cow's with salers fantastic mother's,cross them with the charolais and limousin very good quick growing calves, last year our bull's were doing 1.85 dlwg

I produce nearly all our own feed, and still can't make it pay,so I dreed to think about the poeple who have to buy in Straw and Feed,

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Probably new there wasn't much in it,

Just done my own benchmarking project, and was frightened by how much they are losing ,I thought we were doing a good job, up to date with everything, very shocked,

Is anyone else having problems with uneven seed distribution on hills and valleys one side of the drill is not putting as much seed on , but then coming the other way it's fine ,on the level ground it seems ok ,any idea's? , It looks a mess

Is anyone else having problems with uneven seed distribution on hills and banksides 4or5 coulter's at one side putting less seed on , seems to be have worked fine on level ground

Two limousin bull's wanted to hire from mid May for 10 weeks . East Yorkshire

Just done our first field, others are still to thick, been waiting for a frost or two to knock it back a bit. think I will have to wait a bit longer! !