- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Any red clover in grass leys pete?
Beef cattle fattening&finishing
- Thread starter Kevtherev
- Start date
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
A good question - what price protein?
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- Welshpool Powys
Not heard no prices on soya bean meal per ton
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
£314
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- Lincolnshire
Grow my own Lupins for about £200 per tonne. 30% protein.
They roll to nice flat flakes but it knocks hell out of the mill, so hammer mill them with a coarse screen in.
Harvesting them dry in October is a bit of a challenge, but I don't need a big acreage.
All my farming life I just feel I have been messing about with all sorts of different things. I wish I was one of those farmers who has it cracked and does the same perfect system every year.
Picking up the phone to order a tonne of soya is easier but somehow feels like cheating.
They roll to nice flat flakes but it knocks hell out of the mill, so hammer mill them with a coarse screen in.
Harvesting them dry in October is a bit of a challenge, but I don't need a big acreage.
All my farming life I just feel I have been messing about with all sorts of different things. I wish I was one of those farmers who has it cracked and does the same perfect system every year.
Picking up the phone to order a tonne of soya is easier but somehow feels like cheating.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Why do you keep chopping and changing?
can all the farmers like that please make themselves known
beefandsleep
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- Location
- Staffordshire
[emoji112] hi
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Changing climate, reversion to mixed farming, changing economics, survival.
beefandsleep
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- Location
- Staffordshire
You should always be willing to try different things but it’s more evolution than revolution here.
We buy all BBX heifer and bull calves and rear on the bucket. Wean at 8-10 weeks on 18% nuts and begin on TMR at 12 weeks. All turned out to grass, usually just one summer, then brought indoors on grass silage, rolled oats, minerals, small amount of straw and beans depending on protein level of grass silage. Moved onto finisher ration at 18 months av 580kg. Finisher ration is just grass silage, 8kg/hd/day rolled wheat, small amount of straw, minerals and limestone flour. On av killed just before 21 months. Av live weight of 680kg. av dead weight of 375kg.
Used to grow and feed maize but it became too inconsistent to grow. Cost per tonne could vary a lot from one year to the next dependant on yield.
Grade sheet from this weeks kill below.
We don’t normally sell this many in one go, it just worked out this way.
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Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Was that dawns? And what did they dock you on the 443 one?
Yes dawns, spoke to buyer yesterday, docked 5p/kg on that one. Always feel a bit hard done by when they dock on an over weight that’s only 21 months old.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I was docked on a 19month old one
What weight are they paying too?
Full weight usually.
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Never known dawns pay to full weight....
I was there when it was 450, then 430, and left when it dropped to 400...
On the grid I’ve got it says they pay up to 420kg. It’s pretty rare we have anything over 420kg tbh.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I think it’s paid to 400 standard but to 420 with deductions
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
A little to a lot.
I want lots more so that will be the autumn project - broadcast seed and tramp in.
harperfarmer
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Serious performance for half dairy cattle!
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