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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
I think everyone hypes calf price well up I ever seem to get what everyone talks about
top calf prices usually reflect the fact, that someone has kept those calves, on a cow, for 6-8 weeks, and the fact that someone likes to get named, as top priced calf, even machines cant quite get the 'bloom' on them, quite like a cow can. Whether it actually pay's to do, is another matter, but it does enable mkt's to quote a higher av price. Which means many farmers are left slightly disappointed, with their prices, when really they shouldn't be.
 

Jdunn55

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The question is, is that enough cake to do tonight and tomorrow morning 😬😬😬🤞

Relief was back tonight and has ended my 3 weeks in a row and for the first time since july I'm inside before 7 😱 don't know what to do with myself now though 😂
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
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The question is, is that enough cake to do tonight and tomorrow morning 😬😬😬🤞

Relief was back tonight and has ended my 3 weeks in a row and for the first time since july I'm inside before 7 😱 don't know what to do with myself now though 😂
it has to be, doesn't it ? You certainly aren't going to get it any quicker, unless you get some bags, and manhandle in there, which isn't recommended.
Farm sale tomorrow, 3 fullwood merlin mk 2. 2018 robots included, who is going to guess the price, locally decided, 2 prices, first, if fullwood buy them back in, or, a farmers price, will be interesting to see the result.
 

Martyn

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Location
South west
I love milking but I just havent got the time do all of them unfortunately and in order to be able to do them all something had to give and that was me, 4am-9/10pm for 3 weeks straight is not a good idea as it turns out...
Sorry I ment the cow cake would last three months🤣hope your ok, we all need a break at times!
 

Rossymons

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Location
Cornwall
This was my view at 6:30 this morning and I was questioning why I'd bothered to get someone to milk for me so that I could carry on moving straw. Then we had an inch and a half of rain in a very short space of time.
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I don't have any photos of the storm but it was a hugely impressive lightening show. I've never been surrounded by forks of lightening in the day time before.

"20 minutes of chaos" was how someone described it to me earlier.

@lazy farmer
@dinderleat

What's the weather been like with you? What do you think it's doing tomorrow afternoon? Only need it for forty overs in the early evening
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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