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There'd nearly need to be something more in the way of encouragement to keep at this.Certainly seems to be a larger number of dispersal sales than normal. ...

Has anyone sent unfed cattle to plants lately? Where would lightish p1/2 cows be standing at pp/kg?? Thanks

Never really paid any attention to the whole carbon thing, so a genuine question, is a 100 x12000litre cows more efficient than 200 6000 cows from a carbon viewpoint?

I take it you can delete negative comments on Facebook, its amazing the amount of positive comments they have on the posts informing people of the news.

Yeah tell your friend not to bother, had a relative who's oil supplier didn't clean the line and put a bit of red in with a small order of kero and they found it it sooted up the stove uo significantly...

A little part of me feels that we're collectively guilty of this, in that we failed to highlight successfully the fact that milking cows isn't the brilliant, profitable rock and roll lifestyle that it's made out to be, and at times can really be quite grim. Regardless of facilities, is there...

I'm sorry to read that your thinking this way. If you do choose to sell, don't give it a second thought and keep looking forward. There is absolutely no shame in selling out. Your posts have always gained a good response, I think partly because the people on here (definitely myself anyway) have...

Not really, if you have any questions ask away. It's just that it's not surprising to hear that out of the many millions of sheep in the UK, that a lamb died because of flystrike

I don't know why everyone is being so suspicious of the op, you can never be too careful. I signed an agreement with a woman once, and she is now currently living in my house. To my horror I've found she's currently confining what seems to be like a little human in a cage approx,5x3 at nights...

What was so bad about his attitude if you don't mind me asking? As much as it is very annoying to lose a lamb because of it, and in an ideal world it shouldn't happen, sheep can get to a bad state very quickly at times with it.

So sorry to hear of the hassle your getting at this time, its just all so unnecessary. It's so maddening that you'll be distracted by all this at a time when you're under enough pressure. It's ironic that the time and effort needed to pass thier impractical standards, eats into the time you...

Would the perfectly reasonable and responsible thing to do, not be to appreciate that their presence on farm would be the last of the ops concerns and cause unnecessary stress and hassle, and back to f**k out of it.

Just, out of curiosity, If your going block calving would would autumn not be the way forward? Couldn't think of anything worse than calving all the cows and relying on the weather and ground conditions to play ball in this country..

Honestly I'm not sure the constant push to be "big" is sustainable in the long term, especially with current Interest rates. Its ever so sad driving past the large number of former small working farms that once raised a family over generations. However with regards to dairying in my area, alot...

Do you go back to the hols, or pure money all the time?

I'd be asking whoever you bought it off how the the cows were milked without it, if its not part of the parlour?

Can't do a link but there's a lad from NI that does pretty detailed videos on dairying (farmtheoryni), that has created a bull tracker app to help farmers analyse a bulls figures over time. Have never been that big into breeding, but it honestly never occurred to me that such large variations...

There's a nice depressing post Christmas, pre new year thread. To widen it out further, we all know buying land solely for financial reasons, doesn't make sense at all, but Its better not to think too much, or we might all actually catch on to the fact that the financial return on the business...

Easy to forget the help a family/kids give when getting work red up.... it all takes time as one man band. The simple things AI a cow or two, feed a new born calve pen it up and put a cow in a calving pen etc etc all after milking and the time slips away.... Cows looking a real credit to you...

Is it the start of the impact of higher interest rates beginning to show. Combined with less for milk, my local contractor has said its impossible to get money in at all this back end, and was very concerned for next year.