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I have done this, though still do some liquid. Tbh I massively miss the ability to go in the wind and rain, particularly this yr. Also I'd be lying if I said I had no stripes. Urea has been miles cheaper tho. Can't really argue with that. You can get free fibreglass tanks off one of the...

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So... My friend went to look at cows today. Apparently this traditionally involves taking a cattle float. Anyway the long and short of it is that he's currently looking out of his kitchen window at A group of black and brown things. I'm wishing him luck!

Blimey. I had no idea they were quite so reasonably priced.. 🙄🙄

Am I going mad, or was there a grant for a mobile cattle handling facility this time around? I can't see reference to it anywhere. Many thanks

First loss is the best loss and all that. That said, I'm currently drilling organic spring oats into a sub-optimal seedbed that will undoubtedly be both late to harvest and cr@p to boot!

Yes, my friend is, organic, in mid tier and sfi. His pp is fenced and watered, mostly.

Thanks, I'll tell him! Know what you mean about disease. Arable is no better... "how about that cultivator?" Etc etc

My friend tells me this is fairly accurate. He and his wife are going to look at cows next week....

Probably knows the ley is being done to get rid of it, and is sticking two fingers up. Clever old weed.

Same here. Whole fields look black!

The thing is my friends wife wants to buy the cows herself... I doubt my friend will be able to persuade his wife to take this option. I suppose he could suggest it, which might have the same end result!

A bit of both I suspect. Her husband, who won't be buying them, Is very much in the former camp, but if they can fulfill both roles then I suspect my friend, snd his wife, will be happy...

But obviously isn't going to use all the ground...

Ok, lets say my friend has 500ac of PP, which generally has other peoples sheep or sucklers on. But his wife really really wants some cows of her own.....

Be gentle... ignorant arable farmer asking for a friend on this one... Let's say you had £25k, and wanted to get into livestock. You have access to low imput permanent pasture (heavy land), and occasionally some rotational leys. You have access to a loader, You have an old shed, potential...

Very few of my friends are farmers. They do everything from soldiers, bankers, stock brokers, commercial property, lawyers etc. I reckon they almost all work harder than I do (though i dont tell them this), and they all think farming is a fairly terrible job, albeit with fun toys!

The bit that's inside the husk- ie the bit that actually gets used. It's called a groat once de-hulled.

Drilled on Friday and not hanging about...

High tgw, nasty ground, a month late. I've got at 270-290kgs of home saved.