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    Up Horn/Down Corn

    A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley) A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley). Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Concreting and tax relief

    How would the taxman ( or your Accountant) view tax relief on concreting: 1. Just around the steading 2. For an outside pad, maybe for cattle handling or bale storage. 3. To replace or repair a dilapidated floor in a shed. 4. A new floor in a new shed. 5. The contractor who lays the...
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    Is Farm Assurance stressful

    Please only take part in the poll if your farm is subject to or could be subject to any sort of Farm Assurance scheme, including Red Tractor or QMS.
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Passport control at Hollyhead et al.

    If immigrants can enter the ROI, and then travel freely to NI, how long will it be before all passengers travelling to GB from all parts of Ireland will need to show passports at all GB ports and airports?
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    Who knew about this?

    https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/government-sues-eu-first-time-163148494.html
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    Kelso sale averages

    This gives guide as to the relative demand for various breeds. Just look at the average for Texel tup shearlings and Blue faced Leicesters. And Lleyns!!! https://borderunion.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Results-Summary-for-Shearlings-2023_v2.pdf
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Baling costs

    There was a thread a few weeks ago about the costs per bale of baling and wrapping haylage or silage. Can anyone find it?
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    Hedge trimming

    What is best for the hedge and for wildlife, particularly nesting birds, 1. A gentle trim each year. or 2. A major cut back every two, or as some recommendations go, every three years.
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Directors' Meeting

    If a committee of Directors in a large PLC meet to consider a Formal Complaint made jointly by three Shareholders, it seems that under Company Law, they must record and keep a Minute of the Meeting. The meeting was attended by three Directors and the Company Sec., but not by the complainants...
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    Tenant versus Owner Occupier

    There is a vast difference between the two, even if the owner/occupier is paying a rent in terms of a mortgage repayment. 1. The Owner/Occupier had no Landlord or agent to answer to. 2. There is every incentive to improve the farm in the long term. 3. There is opportunity to implement...
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    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Johne's Disease in dairy cattle

    Do any of you who know about Johne's have any guidance on how it is spread among dairy cattle? In other words, at what age is infection most likely to occur. I know that most infection occurs from a positive cow to her infant calf, and to a lesser extent to an infant calf from an adjacent...
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    Johne's Disease spread

    Do any of you who know about Johne's have any guidance on how it is spread among beef cattle? In other words, at what age is infection most likely to occur. I know that most infection occurs from a positive cow to her infant calf, and to a lesser extent to an infant calf from an adjacent...
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Carlisle Beltex sale

    Did anyone go to the sale on Thursday and Friday? It was tremendous. I touched the 50,000 Gns Shearling, and still haven't washed my hand. :notworthy:
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Unfairness of AHDB Levies

    When we sell fat stock, we all pay the same AHDB levy, whether or not we are Farm Assured. The levy is supposed to cover promotion costs, yet almost all promotions by all the Meat Bodies concentrate on meat from Assured Farms, and discriminate against meat from non-assured farms. Can anyone...
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    Keith Dawson in today's Scottish farmer

    If this doesn't work, can someone else provide access to pages 20-21. In the last 3.5 columns, he questions some of the ''myths'' regarding climate change, wildfires. coral reefs etc.
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    The Russians are coming

    A repeat of a recent Andre Rieu concert in Maasterick, Holland, was shown on Sky Arts last night. It was held and first broadcast well before the possibility that Russian forces might soon appear near the Polish Border. The huge audience consisted of about 80 Nationalities. At the beginning...
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    Global warming, an alternative view

    Scroll down a bit. What do you think?
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    The Beltex is supreme.

    Carlisle today - about 700 shearling rams averaged £1500, with a top price of 30,000 gns. I can't remember being at a sale with as much buzz and enthusiasm. And the same will happen next year after about a third of the purchases have died. :banghead:
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    British Politics - a History

    Labour make a mess. The Tories clear it up. Labour make a mess. The Tories clear it up. The end.
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    Democracy in Scotland

    The Greens obtained about 3% of the constituency vote in Scotland, and didn't win a single constituency. But whether they form a formal alliance or not with the SNP, they will now be the most powerful group in Holyrood - more powerful even than the SNP. The Lib/dems, Conservatives and Labour...
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