Do you all do different things every year or stick to same routines?
Christmas Eve get all ready, pub, Church Services??, telly, local village or town events etc etc ??
Christmas Day.
Race round get stock checked and done and back in?
Inaws,outlaws round or go to theirs for Dinner ?
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I have an old dairy farm.i run as beef in the south of oz, winters are wet not quite freezing but wind that will cut you in half.
I do have some handy cyprus tree lines where the cattle stay dry under...but they getting old and some are buggered.
I am putting 5 15 x 20m feed pads this summer...
We've just sent our first pigs on the one way ticket, but they did a mighty good job of trashing their penned areas.
We want to get more weaners in spring but need to try and sort out the mess and re-seed.
We're looking at a rotovator to turn over and sort the ground, but as small holders, we...
Thinking of keeping my bull calves whole this year instead of castrating and taking them right through to fat. Is there much to consider when doing this? I’m going to have plenty barley this next year to feed them on and I know they need to be gone by 16 months old.
what’s the best way to make...
Written by Agriland Team from Agriland
A farming business has been fined after a woman was killed after being butted several times by a cow.
61-year-old Marian Clode was on a family walk in April of 2016 with the attack occurred on a public bridleway in Northumberland. Clode died in hospital...
I have about 30 x 4 and half month old cattle in a barn. Healthy enough but the last 3 days beginning to get some niggles. Increase in coughing.
They were due to be mucked out this week as imo they have more muck underneath them than I'd like.
They are in 3 different pens and the 4th empty...
Have worn out our mensch tyre scraper, just wondering before I order another if gets on well with the adjustable width type scrapers..
This sort of thing, also made by Hambrook and mensch?
We have 400 cows to scrape out on sand bedding, using a small jcb loadall?
Coming at this as very new to building my own cattle house so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am in Northern Ireland so if anyone has any recent steer on prices it would be appreciated.
is there much of a difference in price to have a cattle house with slates and a pit underneath as...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
A new slurry inoculant containing specialised strains of bacteria and fungi has been found to reduce crust formation on slurry stores by almost a third.
It aims to help farmers to improve slurry management and reduce the need for bought-in...
If you had a blank canvas and you wanted to put up a shed or possibly two for holding 200-240 beef head what designs would people think off.
We are thinking locking yokes, 18ft scrap passage, concrete panels dividing scrape passage off straw yards.
Interest in how you access the straw yards to...
We are seeking a hard-working, trustworthy and positive person to join our progressive arable and finishing cattle business in the Scottish Borders.
Farming 1800 arable acres, main shared responsibilities will include:
Primary cultivation
Drilling with 6m Horsch KR and Sprinter
Spraying...
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Iv small batch of bucket reared calves all of milking. Oldest is 20 weeks and youngest is 15 weeks. They are Belgian blue heifers. They are on few kgs nuts a day each and straw. Soon to be moved to cubicles and continue on straw to eat just not for bedding. What level meal should I be looking to...
Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland
Having the time to effectively use the information gathered from weighing cattle can be a challenge for farmers in Scotland, according to Lorna MacPherson, consultant at SAC Consulting, part of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
However, she said that it...
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