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  1. willie waver

    Scotland new sub’s and AECS

    never received a penny from AECS or capital items, hopefully they'll keep a bit of money for us food producers rather than the subsidy junkies
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    What does it cost per day to feed your dry suckler cows?

    3/4 of my little 600kg sucklers are getting about 50p worth of pit silage and a nibble of their bedding straw. the other 1/4 were leaner at housing and are getting about 75p worth. a month before calving, they'll all get a kilo of blend which will add another 35p this year
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    Brahman’s in ireland?

    are you talking about the cattle or australians?
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    The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)

    i culled 20% of mine this autumn, taking advantage of the high cull price. the store price was sh!t at beginning of the year so us suckler producers got nothing to offset the raised input costs. store price will have to go up or i'll go back to finishing my own and culling back even more
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    Cattle clippers

    is the cutter moving? i've just got my heineger back from being repaired as the cutter had stopped moving across the comb and just burred on the one spot
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    Montbeliard X Norwegian Red X Friesian Heifer as suckler cow?

    had a couple of norwegian red x holstein suckler cows, they were a bag of bones but great milkers and grew big calves, biggest problem was they weren't eligible for the calf sub and needed some special feeding in the winter because they were so skinny. got rid last year after just 4 calves...
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    Question for those in agriculture who work outside during winter(that excludes cosy cab tractor drivers)

    just the usual boiler suit with cagoul to break the wind. few minutes hard work and your body temperature should be high enough to keep you warm on its own
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    Bulling period.

    40 weeks, they stay with the cows up till the next calvings start
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    The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)

    normally i'm similar to you, but this year been getting 1300 for anything half decent, only the odd p being down in the 800s, good year to get rid of a lot of teenagers
  10. willie waver

    Advice from 100 years ago

    out of interest, have you ever gone back and checked what the value of the old 30 acre place in cheshire is now? would be ironic if it'd been turned into 30 acres of million pound mansions :LOL:
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    Advice from 100 years ago

    the author is suggesting the opposite though, the title is how to go broke, so he's saying you should cooperate with your neighbours to avoid going broke
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    The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)

    jobbies mean something different in your part of the world to here? 🤭
  13. willie waver

    The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)

    because store prices haven't moved at all. its suckler farmers that are taking the hit, not the finishers
  14. willie waver

    Feed barriers

    serious shed envy here
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    Who’s put cows in?

    you can say that again
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    Who’s put cows in?

    everything in out the mud
  17. willie waver

    Auto yoke cattle crush

    if they're quiet, some won't close it and need pushed, if they're wild, some hit the sides and close it in front of them. you can't win:mad:
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    Running mixed store cattle age and size together

    don't do it. keep them in size groups and keep newly bought in ones in a different shed if possible to stop bugs passing until they're free of anything they're carrying
  19. willie waver

    The biggest problem in farming, currently is?

    rain a big f**king umbrella over the whole farm
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