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    How much would it cost to lay something down on a field to make it accessible for a non 4x4 vehicle?

    If you want to buy mesh you won't have enough left to buy those trees😉
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    A good calving course?

    Here is a plan. You get the feel if if it will be successful. Feet not too big and room to get a hand over the forehead is positive. Leg back, full breech I would tend to call vet if not easily fixed. A jack properly used has saved lots of calves here.
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    Damaged fert bag still ok to use?

    Be fine. Maybe need a small hammer. The bags are not airtight
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    How much would it cost to buy and plant 3k or so trees?

    I am not a forester but I think you should get one. Too many variables in your questions. There is loads of advice on trees, planting and costs. Without a grant it will be expensive
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    How much would it cost to buy and plant 3k or so trees?

    Tree £1 Tube for deer £1-50 Stake £0.60 Plantinf£1 800m stock fence for 3 hectares £8000. £4 per tree to plant. Maybe fenced already?
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    How much would it cost to buy and plant 3k or so trees?

    If you take in the tree, planting, plastic guard, wooden stake and fencing you might be around £8 per tree, depending on the size of the plot. The grants are around £5000 per hectare I think. I have seen trees planted on the stumps. Cut a sod and put it on top with the sapling and it gets...
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    Forest fukup

    I don't think they are dobbing in their neighbours because they said they don't like the French. It is an organisation to ensure that the aspirations of the National Parks are met which I think is a good thing as we have a government up here which can do what it wants and relies on 6...
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    Today at work

    Just calved number 6 for her and the sun was shining
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    Farming stigma…. Working like “crazy”

    I have seen photos of him attending meetings carrying his children. But he also calls them by a single letter so maybe he should spend less time with them
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    Last years un-mown grass

    My cows would eat that. There will be some feed value as it still had a green tinge. Ideal for putting in a trailer in October when grass is going
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    Farming stigma…. Working like “crazy”

    I have no issues with you working all hours but what if you were ill? You can't have any reserve in your business doing so much yourself. You see success as a bigger business with big returns I guess but I have had conversations with people who are ill or dying in later life and they regretted...
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    Farming stigma…. Working like “crazy”

    It would be successful to have someone work for you for 26 years. Suppose depends on how you define success
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    Try stringing one up by the wings so it flaps in the wind. Seems to work better
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    Ewe flock annual mortality rate

    Life expectancy was early 60s then so a big jump. Better housing and diet has helped but the expectancy was lowered by children dying of infections. Some of those would have lived to 100 if they avoided all the diseases which are now preventable by vaccination. Longevity is strongly influenced...
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    Weekly Caption Competition

    New take on eating on the go.
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    Farming stigma…. Working like “crazy”

    That's nothing, I have done 15 hours a day while living in a shoe
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    Today at work

    Had a disastrous scanning in November due to 2 sub-fertile bulls with 24 empty out of 64. Kept 17 to immediately drop into the autumn block and today 15 were scanned in calf so quite relieved as one bull was lame for a couple of weeks. 4 sets of twins, 12 empty of 91 scanned, a bit higher than...
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    Net Zero - its over.

    While Drax is paid megabucks to burn foreign timber, the Scottish government has banned me from putting a piddling wood burner in my new house.
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    Triplets

    Scanned quads, lambed herself overnight and no extra milk needed except colostrum day 1. Now outside with 3 of them at a week old. We took some triplets off but the pet pen was heading to 20 with that strategy so 10 are out on plenty grass and cake. Some say they never thrive but maybe those...
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    Fence cut or broken

    That has been cut. Also looking like a path on the other side unless you made that.
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