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£88 a cube for 18 metres here last week, Staffordshire

Extase just starting to break out into ear here too (West Midlands) Is it good if wheat heads in May? Why is it important?

Even if there was an increase in supply of farms/land for sale, I can't see prices dropping, if anything they're on the way up again in my opinion. A 50 acre block of rough grazing land was sold this winter here (West Midlands), nothing special and no development potential, you could silage it...

Apologies to hijack the thread slightly, but can AIA be claimed on second hand plant and machinery purchases?

Graze off hard Drill immediatley Shut gate Graze off hard again 14-17 days later after drilling Shut gate

Does incorporating a farming business from a partnership to a limited company affect APR for the next generation? Assuming farming activities don't change and are still the nature of the business?

Yes we've tried this on our wheat this year and has worked very well, we used Harbro Maxxomon which i assume is much the same as Home n Dry? I'm wondering on growing some barley in the future and using alkali treatment to make alkagrain, would it be possible to feed this ad-lib to beef calves...

£205 for blend sounds a reasonable price considering the price of spot markets now. We will be cutting back to 3kg a head from today so will let you know how i get on. We're the same and still experimenting in the 3 to 6 month range as to what is best, balancing between pushing them on but...

Very useful suggestion thank you, I downloaded it a while back a use it quite a bit!

Yes i think i'm leaning to grazing the lot now, 16% rearer nut is £255 delivered.

You mean like not to get them too dumpy and make sure they grow adequate frame?

4.5kg per head per day now :cry: But they are growing well to be fair, but not sure how economic it is if i continue with them like that!

Yes we've had a similar experience to you when enquiring about reducing protein in the nut and never seem to save that much. Ok that sounds quite good, will cut them back to 3kg a head and mix it in with the silage.

Plan will be to split the heifers and steers, heifers will go out to graze, then hopefully keep the steers inside and push them on, looking at switching them to a ration of wholecrop later in the year to aid finishing them circa 18 months next winter.

Silage is actually 20% protein but it is really black in colour and quite wet, it's a 3rd cut from late 2018. Based in the West Midlands. Currently have 16% rearer nuts tipped, but they are very expensive, and then feeding very dry haylage alongside it, working well but they are getting to the...

To try and push them on on a semi-intensive beef system... usually we would feed an ad-lib rearer nut, but this year it is crucifyingly expensive, would just feeding rolled barley and silage work ok though a wagon? Also, would ad-lib barley and hay be ok or is that too gung ho? What if barley...

To be fair @jackrussell101 has a point, wheat is over £200 a tonne now and £170 for next year, beef's nearly at £4 and lambs fast approaching £6, you really do have to wonder with most non-aligned milk prices at 26p.... :(

How many 3 week old calves would you get in a P6 or a P8?

We reckon ours do 0.8-1kg daily LW gain from grazing