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Too cold
Does anyone think we need cloud cover as like a kind of insulation?- muleman
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- builders calves calving carbon co2 cows drought ewes forecast grass hail lambing lambs milk pickup seeding sheep slurry weather
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Will it ever dry up
Will it ever dry up? No, goodbye😩🤷🌧️🌧️- muleman
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- cereals cows drilling drought ewes lambing lambs potatoes repairs silage slugs weather wheat
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Dry spell
From 1pm till 4 today it didn't rain......How did people enjoy the dry spell? Did you make the most of it and get caught up with a few jobs?- muleman
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- boots cattle ewes forecast grassland lambs turnout weather
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Tightening margins
We are forever being told to price things and shop around to try and run our business more cost effectively but these salesmen don't seem to like it when people try something different and they might lose a sale. They will have to get back to their bosses and sharpen their pencil, but then I...- muleman
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- ahdb beef calf cattle clamp dairy drainage ewes fertilizer gate gates grass health hilux insurance lambing lambs learning maintenance milking parts pickup poultry quad renewal repair repairs savings sheep theft toyota training warranty weather
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Frosty
Are things a bit frosty and ready for a thaw? And how are things outside ,be a few pipes frozen!- muleman
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- bedding beet calving cattle cows dairy ewes fertiliser fodder fodder beet grazing lambing organic pig poultry sheep slurry
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Drought
This year isn't going to be one.- muleman
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- beet calves cattle co2 cows downland drills drought electricity ewes flooding fodder fodder beet forage forecast grass grazing lambing lambs massey paddock quad rainfall sheep slurry storage stubble tup tups weather worms
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2012
Wonder if it's gonna be another 2012?🤔- muleman
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- grass tedder
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Rare breed
Just been round baling haylage, got some real stuff. The contractor who bales and wraps it is 85 and drives modern 200 hp tractors, he must bale 20,000 bales per season at a rough guess . It just got me thinking .....us farmers really are a rare breed, I wonder how many other industries have as...- muleman
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- baling beef cattle ewes family gate lambing land rover
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Crop situation.
whats the crop situation like round and about the country? Into the last bay of silage here in Cumbria, should make it till turnout now unless it comes cold again, have another 100 round bales left so could hold the cattle in till July if it cold again but want them out by June really if at all...- muleman
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- beef bolus calves calving cattle cows dairy drought fertiliser first cut fodder grass grazing haulage holstein lambing lambs loader management mongrel nitrogen paddock parts rainfall round bales sheep silage stubble turnout weather weather station
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2012?
Long range forecast saying potentially wetter for the start of May. Are we going to see a repeat of 2012 where it rained all summer making silage/hay making nigh on impossible. The trouble is 2012 we had a very dry march april and may, this time a very wet march and april so setting off already...- muleman
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- blight calves calving cattle cows dairy drought dual wheels ewes fire first cut forecast fungicides fusarium grass grazing harvest immune lambing lambs maize organic parts pickup potatoes quad rainfall round bales roundup sheep silage slurry stubble weather wheat yields
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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By its wet
By its wet🙈🌧- muleman
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- beet boots calves calving camping caravan cattle cows dairy death defender diesel drought ewes fodder gate grass grassland grazing hail honda hoof jcb lambing lambs lamma maize market paddock parts pickup polaris quad rain gauge rainfall sheep silage storm stubble warranty weather station
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Is the tide finally turning?
After such a terrible wet autumn it is finally showing a drier spell on the forecast.....no rain showing for at least ten days for the first time since july, have we finally seen the back of the wind and rain? Lets hope so!🤞 Starting to see the usual problems after a wet year of liver fluke...- muleman
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- anthelmintics cattle drought ewes fluke gate grass lambs parasites parts pneumonia potatoes rainfall sheep silage tupping weaning worm resistance wormer worming worms
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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Shearing
How much are people paying to have sheep sheared at the moment please? What is the going rate? Thanks- muleman
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- ewes grass milk sheep tups
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Pig tracker (no beef and sheep)
Pigs only please.- muleman
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- cattle market pig poultry sheep
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Wool, what will you do with yours this year?
Got ours away this morning, nice to get a bit of something for it.- muleman
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- baling bedding carbon deadweight ewes fire gate haulage lambing loader management market mart pollution premium sheep silage storage worms
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Rain
Another inch this morning, how are people getting on with their silage, Its a right struggle here in cumbria. we arent ready yet thankfully but the dairy fellas are having a bit of a fight, its a good job there are modern machinery nowadays , they will do 200 acre in 24hrs but its still hard...- muleman
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- baling beef dairy first cut grass sheep silage storm
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Queens jubilee beacon
Just out of interest, How many are thinking of lighting a beacon for the jubilee to get rid of a bit.....i mean to celebrate the queens jubilee?🤔😁- muleman
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- clamp hedge needle rust silage storm
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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Wet May, plenty of hay.
Only trouble is we are wanting to get a start turning cattle out, if the fields get poached up this time of year they are ruined for summer.- muleman
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- baling beet cattle clamp cows docks fat hen first cut fodder fodder beet forage grass grazing maize mower needle nutrients parts pig quad sheep silage slurry
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Ever increasing cost of sheep medicines/vaccinations and are they efficient?
Does everyone think that these vaccinations are actually as effective as they used to be, im beginning to wonder and with the ever increasing cost of them surely they should be improving?🤔seriously starting to have doubts it is doing what it says on the label!- muleman
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- antibiotic bravoxin clostridial covexin death disease heptavac lambing registration sheep stress vaccinate
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Turnout
got a start turning some cattle out today....anyone else got any out or am i the first?- muleman
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- bolus calves cattle grass lambing
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage