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    Evolution Farming

    Word is, that is what has happened.
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    Are slow growing native breeds less susceptible to blackleg?

    Not a Beltie, but my brother-in-law has problems with Blackleg in his Welsh Blacks, on some of his ground, if they aren't vaccinated.
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    Jersey Thread - For all things Jersey

    Has anyone sold any barren heifers recently. Looking for a price, please?
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    Are Wagyu cattle any good?

    I am in no way casting any aspersions as to the high quality of Wagyu beef or products made from it. What I am doing is pointing out that it has its drawbacks and doesn't suit every butchery scenario.
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    Are Wagyu cattle any good?

    Yes, and then put up with customers, especially higher class caterers, pubs etc moaning like feck about the shrinkage and mad amount of fat that melts out of them during cooking.
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    Are Wagyu cattle any good?

    Eaten it and sold it too. Our main business is meat retailing. I know nothing about USA or Oz pure breeds though. My verdict on UK Wagyu crosses, (Wagyu xAngus x Jersey) is that the best cuts are fabulous, but the fores and flanks are unsaleably fat.
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    Who dumped the beaver?

    Same here. At our last Tb test, the East European Vet who conducted the test, gave me chapter and verse about the unsuitability of the netting covering the chicken pen here. I put it to him that it was far too small for any wild birds to get in through the net, but he insisted that he was...
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    Higher forces at Work.

    Jeez, Mindy was fit!:love:
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    The Pallet Business

    Maybe ten years ago I was doing some driving for a local fruit grower. At least once a week , a back load would be a full load of pallets from CHEP. Then, the deposit was £10 each, so just shy of £1700 for the load, ex VAT. We always insisted that supermarket RDC's gave us as many empty CHEP...
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    Buffalo Farm Goes Bust

    I don't know about cattle, either stores or otherwise. They buy sows out of the culls sometimes. We have an associate who does organic beef . They enquired in the Fordhall butchery about the organic status of the meat and was told that " they couldn't call it organic as they were unable to...
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    Buffalo Farm Goes Bust

    It clearly is. Not sure how the buying non organic stock out of the markets works though 🤔?
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    Large scale fraud and criminality on Pembrokeshire mega-herd farm.

    Am I correct in thinking that the stripeys themselves aren't protected, but their setts are?
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    Large scale fraud and criminality on Pembrokeshire mega-herd farm.

    On two out of three occasions that we have had animals taken as Tb reactors, commercials were more money than pedigrees. One was an All-Britain Honourable Mention , went as a freshly calved milk heifer,after going inconclusive twice:( .I got £1100. Bitter? Too feckin right I was.
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    Long forgotten Livestock Marts

    Yes. I think that is Ian Lawton selling the sheep.
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    Long forgotten Livestock Marts

    Around 1980? I don't think all the photos are from the same era,though. The picture taken on the sheep may be later and the one with the calf in the sack, a fair bit earlier.
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    Long forgotten Livestock Marts

    And to think that the fresh faced lad on the rostrum in the first photo is now Bagshaws senior partner!
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    Farmers fined for swapping ear tags on TB reactors

    Well I doubt that there's a farmer in England that considers that having themselves been financially disadvantaged by the tabular compensation system, whilst Wales ( and therefore the fraudsters/ thieves in the OP) were still on individual valuation, would agree with you. I certainly don't. :mad:
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    Down cow at Tb test

    We had one similar go down on the first day of the Tb test , last Autumn. She was still down on the reading day , but we had carried her into a building. No drama, just explained to the Vet what had happened and he read her test while she was down. She got up later the same day. We are...
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    Long forgotten Livestock Marts

    Some big 'uns there!
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    Jersey Thread - For all things Jersey

    Is anyone here in possession of, or currently using any Unique Ghost straws. I think I may be getting the runaround. :scratchhead:
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