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    No Deal Brexit

    I really don't know why so many are getting that upset, just to use an example the likes of @Nithsdale Farmer or @jendan , as things have been so good, you must have half a brain and with your profitable enterprise within eu invested wisely so no concerns post brexit. As I have done. No...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Not sorted yet but will be selling 12 to 20 friday at thame, always sell a few at their Christmas sale, probably wont this year but normally get on ever so well. Many big buyers had a good clear out on cattle fattened for Christmas trade, smaller farmers normally keen as mustard with single farm...
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    Tesco's - What does this mean?

    @Steevo I think aldi are up there with the best, but read an article in paper and im sure they stock around 30/40 % british in fresh produce, good sales pitch as I guess biscuits, ready meals etc is 0 %. I doubt Tesco fall foul of laws as @yellowbelly suggests, though may be wrong, the size of...
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    Castrating Sucker Calves

    Without a shadow of doubt more hassle putting in a dehorning crate when 2/3 days, or actually a week or two, but when on your own, like yourself, but bt ties like lambing there is no way I get to dehorning at that age, put a crate in calving box, 12 x 12 with a pallet and they run straight in...
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    No Deal Brexit

    Think @Smith31 makes some great points, though I see an odd point differently to him maybe? During bse and foot & mouth we had exports stopped yet meat came in for obvious reasons, the argument suggested it will continue post brexit if a deal or no deal. It will, but regardless of pound value in...
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    No Deal Brexit

    I must be one of the few, didn't expect this, and whilst like @Northeastfarmer finding it tedious despite its importance, if if I had wanted 20 billion cuts and then massive tax rises id have voted labour, oh no that would have been 20 billion cuts then sold the uks vast gold reserves, spent...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    A poor claim to fame but thame , my local town, has for the second year been national kebab van winner of the year winner. If ever there is a great business... opens at 6, for 2 hours would be a que 10/15 deep, I know, 2 kebabs cost just shy of 15 quid. Cost of living around here, but I work out...
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    How much profit in beef cattle?

    Amazing the variations of whats easy to sell and what your stuck with depending on where you are in country. Here in home counties steak and mince you couldn't sell fast enough, stewing steak people would barely know what it was. Joints would be a struggle generally, and easier to shift and as...
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    The winter 2018 Forage/ Bedding question.

    I cast the vote to will have to purchase, but I always do. Carry fairly high numbers of stock rather than less and making extra forage, this year wont be cost effective with lower cull cow prices and store prices and higher forage price. However last year was buying fodder in a fairly big way at...
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    Big Bales in cattle yards problem

    Not the point to OP but people forget theres a difference with spreaders and choppers, the volume of dust. Even boardy wet type bales chopped generate a fair bit of dust, and obviously not allowed to be used over cattle to comply with fabbl rules:rolleyes: I have a spreader and chopper, have 3...
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    Labour on beef unit, stock per person

    Like said, how longs a piece of string. A few miles away a finishing unit that has between 2/3000 cattle on site at one time has one guy and they struggle to keep him as he gets bored. But all transported in, no cattle out, all grass is silage then sheep grazing in winter. So no fencing, simply...
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    anyone sold any incalf suckler cows recently?

    @livestock 1 I can see the benefits you posted, sadly the opening one that we as beef producers see the benefits. All we hear in the bulletin articles on news is the inefficient use of land producing red meat as opposed to corn, no mention of how land could become infertile with no livestock in...
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    Skipping Hept P+

    as @andybk stated I always thought highly fertilised and young leys, as I do here are prone to more clostridial problems. Always did lambs, feb/march lambs from ewe flock, and april born lambs from ewe lambs with ovivac p twice. Always picked up 4/6/8 lambs from 800 out of early lambers, when...
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    EBVs

    That reply is fair enough and I accept and believe in it, possibly im missing a trick, and mean that, by not recording lambs sired by a top ebv ram, my justification, just to be a pain in the xrsx, is run 550 cattle and 1000 ewes on my own with 80 year old parents, my interest in eids andweight...
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    EBVs

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