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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Are cull cows holding up this week?
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    I fully get your point livestock1 maybe not ideal, but maybe if more of us stood up for ourselves and others in the industry once in a while, and made these "none jobs" realise us lads, deserve a bit more gratitude and that they only have a job criticising and pointing the finger because we put...
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    Coming Home For Lambing.

    It's strange how I have grown to feel I knew your Father and farm from following his annual antics on TFF. A courageous, tough guy with a huge heart. Society should take a leaf from his book hard working and determined. Life is fu##ing sh!t sometimes chin up lass he thought the world of ya!!
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    Concentrate Price Tracker

    A is best feed their I hate seeing palm kernal on a label.
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    Dorper Sheep

    I had 12 ewes 11 years ago even after footvaxing they were consistently lame. I had them on a bare piece of almost hill ground that seemed to help but as soon as they even sniffed green grass the feet heated up again. Oh and had to clip rugs off their backs also.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Needs to be minimum £5.35/kg to allign with live today.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Excess/ unwanted ewe hoggs from the scottish upland sheep support scheme can be killed after 31st March that may give a short term flush of lambs for slaughter for a week or two.
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    Older off road 4x4

    I'd go for an old 4wheel drive tractor with diff lock nothing hefty 60hp zetor pick one up £3-4k. Trucks are fine but when they go down they're down. If you're hell bent on a truck then i'd look for a 2.8 swb pajero they have 4 wheel lock on them and not too heavy.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    THAINSTONE, Aberdeen and Northern Marts (Friday 31st July 2020) Sold 1,637 Breeding Gimmers and Ewes and Store Lambs. Breeding Gimmers (789) sold to £420. Breeding Ewes (309) sold to £180. Store Lambs (539) to £86. THAINSTONE, Aberdeen and Northern Marts (Friday 31st July 2020) Sold 1,637...
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    Direct drilling forage rape

    How come you haven't sown it sooner the rape would outcompete the grass if it gets the headstart?
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    Grass quality and lambs

    How do any of your neighbours sheep perform in relation to you're own? Do they run the same breed or similar? Sometimes the land will dictate the growth rates and reading to much farmers weekly can lead to high expectations.
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    Grass quality and lambs

    Sounds like a grand response you got!! No questions about that.
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    Grass quality and lambs

    I don't suppose you have before and after bolus/trace element drench photos or weight records from when you found out you had a problem?
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    Grass quality and lambs

    Have you bolused along with the top up mineral drench? Lambs look decent to me what weights are some of those ram lambs?
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    Grass quality and lambs

    Look grand lambs. I have almost identical sample results so interested in how you're sheep respond to the mineral drench. Are you bothered with mucky backsides but the worm counts being clear?
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    Docks in reseed

    Hopefully not i was advised to sow as close to spraying as possible roundup shouldn't have any residual effect i'm led to believe.
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    Docks in reseed

    Sprayed my swedes twice for flea beetle at the end of may haven't seen damage to the rape that has appeared so far. Just a very poor emergence over the grass area. It's dissapointing when you pay a contractor and put you're trust in his expertise and machinery.
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    Docks in reseed

    Lots of rain?. Sprayed off 30th may sown 31st into very dry ground rain started on 4th june and been showery since i'm hopefully being impatient got the local agronomist coming inpast with some kale seed tomorrow for a ploughed field so will see what he thinks.
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    Docks in reseed

    Is Mingary the seed mix for upland north facing slopes? If it is i have a field, must be 7 year old now and is going strong. It comes early in the spring considering its at 1000ft on a north facing slope and is lying up against the forest. Would recomend for that situation.
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