Recent content by William Mellor

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    Heat Detection Systems

    installed Genus Breeder tag here nearly 6 weeks ago, so far very impressed, picking up a lot more than just heats and recommended service windows 👍
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    Fleck Vs Monty.

    Got both here, montys can be very mardy and definitely have an attitude, the fleckviehs are quieter but still not as quiet as any black and white but don’t seem as milky though, well not for the first couple of lactations anyway
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    Another kick for Freshways producers

    Have heard that meadow foods have taken on some of freshways biggest producers on that were dumping milk, seems a bit patronising when they telling their existing producers that covid 19 has effected demand and therefore don’t want extra milk
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    British friesian bulls

    Yes got about half a dozen milking here nice shaped heifers
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    British friesian bulls

    first heifer to calve by Kirkby Malvern
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    Milk Price Tracker

    25ppl
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    Drying out, again!

    Definitely no shortage of moisture here
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    Drying out, again!

    Ow I see where the £20K comes from now (y) was thinking I’d slipped up somewhere! :eek: Would cost an app solute fortune if we were to get contractors in and be uneconomical Easy to say about not losing any sleep over Ea but when they come and start threaten court cases against us it’s hard to...
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    Drying out, again!

    Not as bad as dad who has the job of driving bale wrapper :ROFLMAO:
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    Drying out, again!

    A 1991 MF 390 and 915 Loader, does all our loader work. We had 2 neighbours up with their loaders to help out with stacking for the first time this year, one has a Kramer Allrad 750 and the other has a JCB 526 telehandler
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    Drying out, again!

    There’s over 2,200 bales in top pic and there’s over 600 in bottom pic then there’s another stack at the back of the farm with the rest
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    Drying out, again!

    £20K? £1.50 to wrap and around 75p per bale for net wrap so where’s £20k come from? My baler cost that new 8 years ago. Also one of my previous posts says we’ve had serious problems in the past with environmental agency not liking us having a clamp because of where the farm sits on top of a...
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    Drying out, again!

    Brought some silage last winter which was bales like that and didn’t suit us as you can’t cut the wrap off the bale and then take the bale to the feed ring as you end up cutting thro both layers of film :banghead:
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    Drying out, again!

    To fair I don’t think we’ve ever made as many as we have this year probably because we have never used as much fertiliser before but we are planning on expanding the dairy herd this autumn from 120 to 150 with a twice as many calving heifers than usual, all due between now and end of January so...
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    Drying out, again!

    Have thought about a bale shear before but often think why fix something when it’s not broken I.e if it’s working why change
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