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Is this a good time to tell you ‘I told you so’?

Zach Bush knows his stuff.

What video would that be? It is interesting what you say about fungi ( mould). I haven’t been well since the lightning strike 2 years ago and then Long Covid. All the tests come back’ normal’ but two separate alternative medical practitioners have said that I have a mould problem in my system...

Didn’t get much done yesterday. Was watching the sky all afternoon. 3:26pmm EDST yesterday afternoon:

Do you have a solid perimeter fence around your calving area or are you relying on electric fence?My worry would be the newborns wandering out onto the road.

Pete, did you calve using this system ( moving cattle multiple times a day in tight blocks)? If not, at what age did you introduce cows with their new calves?

It’s back to you @Wooly As an aside, @Hfd Cattle and his photographs of his delicious dinnersinspired my choice of image;):

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same in all industries and markets. You seem to only hear of amazingly profitable stocks as they reach their apex and are about to tumble.Doesn’t seem to disuade people from buying at the high end of the market and getting crushed.

My vet insited on an abortion for a heifer of mine that got bred at 10 months. Were you worried that she would have diffficulty calving or did you not know till it happened?

The comments in the article you posted are interesting. Basically, even if your calves are discounted for being smaller than average, but you are still making a profit because the mother cows are so efficient, it is only your pride that is affected, not your bottom line. Kit’s main theme is put...

I read somewhere that it cost 0.82$/lb in Argentina,0.52$/lb in Australia and 4+$/lb US to produce beef. It is more here in Eastern Canada( everything costs more here for some reason). However, if you are willing to direct market there is sufficient demand for locally grown meat. That is my...

And yet…Top photo, left, is my 11 year old Jersey/ milking shorthorn. She calved in June and fostered a calf as well ( she often had 3 nursing ). she’s due in September. She’s the last to get up to feed and always looks relaxed.Her daughter in the photo below , crossed with Red Angus,is as good...

forget about feeding. You have to harvest it first. That would be ajob and a half.

Sad how readily we ignore benefits and blessings - how many years do you think it will take the new owners to compact and impoverish the soil? I think I remember that you said they were keeping horses. In that case it shouldn’t take any time at all.Not that I have anything against horses, quite...

We are having equally odd weather:

Exciting stuff- you’ll be putting on a French ‘groundswell’ soon!

An excellent summary of the benfits of ‘do less’ farming.