Recent content by t murrr

Would all the fertiliser be out of a silage it been cut at such a short interval. They always say six weeks providing the weather is sunny

Has anyone here changed there farming system lately .We are in suckling and are thinking of rearing dairy calves either to beef or maybe as stores cause of input costs .I know the margin is a bit lower than the cows but it would not maybe a labour intensive as the calving season and could maybe...

Do you not find it hard to shift the lesser cuts of meat .I know of a lad who is trying to get into a couple of restaurants before covid but said the trudging was hard .He was selling meat for bout £11 per kg .You would neatly need to own a restaurant to shift any volume easily.

Some people can be very good at there job hard working and a great can do attitude but just never get the breaks that needed . I was often told that alot of people that made it to the top were ruthless and got to the top by standing on other shoulders .I do believe that the next generation are...

There is a thought that the temp outside does never dip much into to minus figures .Last year we recorded minus 8 and us looking to get18 -20 indoors so that's a difference of 28 degrees I can tell you I will stick with my 35 kw boiler rather than go with solar etc .Also its generally colder in...

Suppose if you think of it like this a rule of thumb is a 10 kw per 1000 sq foot so unless you can produce something close to that you are wasting your time .There is a calculation of how much in volume a 1 kw etc immersion will heat to a certain temp and maintain it. Water is one of the hardest...

What sort of price point are you giving per pig place and has anyone bedded them on something other than deep litter or straw .Think the straw thing is played out even the mushroom men are now on the hunt for alternative alot being ploughed back into ground carbon footprint 🙄

Is the bird job not slowed a bit especially with the price increase in meal .The contract seems a good way to go maybe not as much of a risk as buying the birds and the banks like less risk .

With the rise in price of meal and given a base flat price of 2€ a kg for more planer stock Angus, bwh in a mart is any of these leaving anything behind them apart for manure or is finishing the only option for these .Given 25kg of meal is 8€ a bag and each one eating a bag in 7 days .

That's seems quite high a margin even if you take them lads to get finished would take 1.5 tonne of meal I reconed you were getting £300+ on them .Round here if you are screwing £200 that's your lot .If you count your hours roughly and divided it into you profit that should give a good...

Sorry should have said not milking either suckling here

I am looking to increase my herd and add new blood to it would I be better buying bulling hefiers or calves - weanlings. Quality hefiers are big big money .I know of fleveich cross simmental heifers calves for sale 🤔

The slated system is more of a risk but the shed if things went bad could be used for ducks or calf rearing .Def straw would be out the window here a big square bale was 45 euro absolutely ridiculous

Is anyone on here on slats with the pigs as straw here would be up to £30 a bale here if even stop at it .I crunched the numbers and unless you had a good chunk of cash to throw at it you would need a part time job as well example shown on above figures assuming which wouldn't happen 100% loan...

Was looking at buying some fleckvieh cross simmental heifers calves and was wondering did anyone ever take these or any other a onto cow level and what sort of cost involved as bulling heifers are a ridiculous price round us 😱