Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- South Molton
Plenty of quality grazing here on the heavier land.
It always burns around you every year thats why the dairy farmers in that part of Devon are Autumn calving and grow maize.
- Location
- West Wales
Very dry here, 3 weeks plus since any moisture which was just a few hours. When you walk over grass here now it rattles and snaps like walking over dried out leaves. Chucked a fag onto the lawn last night and it caught 
- Location
- East Sussex
It is always amazing the difference around the country.
We have had no rain since early May and now everything is brown and burnt.
No unusual for this but what is different is the lack of water in the ditches which is a major issue. Last time it was like this was 1976.
Fortunately there is plenty of fodder.
We have had no rain since early May and now everything is brown and burnt.
No unusual for this but what is different is the lack of water in the ditches which is a major issue. Last time it was like this was 1976.
Fortunately there is plenty of fodder.
- Location
- Huntingdon
The collie had a litter, and now there’s not enough room for the brown idiots!
C B
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- Location
- Huntingdon
think we are at about 45mm since begining of March, of which 25mm came in one day in late May/early June I forget, the rest has been 1’s and 2’s that burn off. Most hedgerow ponds are now dry or about 3/4 empty.
Didn’t send any lambs yesterday but apparently back 25-30p,
CB
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Pouring down here this morning 
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
Same here, carting water for sheep to fields that are watered from a spring. Not had to do that in the 11 years we've had those fields
Not much in front of our sheep now. Hay taken last week and usually wean lambs onto that after a few weeks. Whether we will get that far not sure.
- Location
- The North
Problem you have is the creosote from all your new fence has killed your grass…
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Strange that as most farmers around here calve all year around!View attachment 1049526
Plenty of quality grazing here on the heavier land.
It always burns around you every year thats why the dairy farmers in that part of Devon are Autumn calving and grow maize.
And no more Maize is grown around here than other parts of the SW!
Very rare for the streams/rivers to be this low and we certainly have not had the rainfall like this year and we certainly do not burn up like this every year!
- Location
- South Molton
Funny I can think of a dozen large units around Crediton to Tiverton that autumn calve due to being burnt up from June to September.
The diet of these units would be predominantly maize and whole crop while the grass would be fed as spring flush early turn out or as standing hay while dry.
If cows are housed all year round due to milking with robots,I can think of 4 off top of my head, then yes they would calf all year round but in no way again reliant on summer grass growth. It's too dry as you have stated earlier.
Aye in the garden!!
- Location
- North of Perth
I got 2 years worth to get rid of.be interesting to see how much I get for it.
Any prices from the irish fellas, looking back on last year and they were paying 40p
Paying 40 p this year.
ritchiekirkland
Member
Where is this drought at that folk are on about
- Location
- leicestershire
I think they cancelled lambs one day this week as well!Mate took some lambs into farmers fresh this morning and reckons they had 3000 lambs in and nowhere for them to go