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KID goatmeat - amazing, very tender. My goats are now in Devon at Daynes Farm, still organic. Best cuts: leg, shoulder - slow roasted in foil for 4 hours low heat.... Liver and heart from grass-fed kid goats if you like it

Last year we had a plague of horseflies and the goats were going berserk. I ordered this and it's very satisfying to empty out the container full of drowned horseflies. It seems to be working this year as there are plenty in there - it is sited right by a pond so hopefully gets them as they...

Sounds like cud to me - it's pretty gross once they've been chewing it for hours. You can always stick your finger in the side of his mouth and fish some cud out for verification....

Horsey places will have the red rockies (small size like bricks) as well as Ag stores who might just stock the big ones. Red rockies contain copper

If they are wethers they should be fine on grass if you have enough with a red rocky lick and maybe a mineral lick plus hay at night. I'd cut the hard feed down slowly (if they are used to it, best to take it down a bit each day) and perhaps end up giving them a handful in the evening to keep...

I just had my overdraft interest rate on renewal hiked from 3% over base to 6% (they can't do more than 3% a year apparently) Renewal charge up too from last year by about 40%. The very nice Ag manager just said that's how it is - no room to negotiate any more but I felt lucky being able to...

When I fenced using the flood fund money, I argued that even though they weren't on the list of approved products, hardwood chestnut fence posts were necessary as softwood rots under water and in boggy clay ground. They agreed and the price was only about 5% more and they will still be OK in 15...

Sadly that excludes working sheepdogs and hounds - crazy. OP: - tell the local press and your MP. Subsection (2)(c) of this section shall not apply in relation to— (a)a dog owned by, or in the charge of, the occupier of the field or enclosure or the owner of the sheep or a person authorised...

Clearing time seems to have dropped for cheques over £500 - paid one in yesterday and its cleared today - hurray!

Final payment for 2017 finishing OELS arrived on Friday in the bank after a couple of email exchanges with NE asking me for my organic certificate (luckily not the schedule as field numbers have changed because of RPA deciding my tiny little grass parcels outside the buildings have changed size...

What do they do in the rest of Europe for conservation schemes? Is each one country-specific then?

I applied last year, had a letter saying they couldn't decide until 28 Feb (therefore losing me 2 months of the best hedge laying/clearance time) and now I have an email with queries on - mainly photos needed, confirmation of this and that and just 10 days to reply to it - lucky I'm not in the...

You can come and have a look here if you like, we have Stour Valley sometimes - great bunch and they give me their finds too! I'd like a couple of references and membership of the NCMD...

Best thing I ever did, we have at least 50 people a day walking their dogs through the farm and this has given me back 25 acres which before had dogs running round and people pleading ignorance of where the footpath was. We have double gates to go across when haymaking. It is a very muddy at...

I don't know if connected but I was told to never inject goats in hind leg as the sciatic nerve runs down (not the same worry for sheep I believe though the nerve must be there!)

It took me quite a few days and much stress to get my application in on time this year. I have about £20K of capital works, half of which are hedge laying/replanting/tree pollarding etc. I had a letter yesterday saying that my application is still being verified and they will give me an...

What a great programme and the photography is superb. Clever goats of course and the cows at Knepp were interesting

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Organic (Bio in EU) is "trademarked" by the EU (and the world - no idea?) for food only - so organic shampoo might have a drop of organic something but the rest can be any old thing. Customers usually quite happy with "no pesticides" etc although some people seem to think organic means no meds...

Something, I have never been without some sort of a business! I had a long chat with an ex-farmer in his 60s who said the hardest part of selling the farm will be not having your own fields to walk on.