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  1. W

    Australian Whites

    Anyone know if these are available yet in the UK? I heard rumours someone had imported embryos in 2022? Vowed i would never touch sheep but having seen them delivering superb results in Albury Wodonga when visiting if i can get my hands on some here ill swap some of my cattle for sheep. They...
  2. Chae1

    Higher forces at Work.

    Sainsbury's and Tesco's online deliveries been stopped with software problems. people are now going to have to leave the house to go shopping! Not accepting card payments either. Cash is king imo. Is someone reminding us of our reliance on technology and supermarkets, and how vulnerable we are...
  3. McD

    Balgownie Ltd inverurie in administration

    Most of the staff asked to empty there vans this afternoon. A big shame for all the good staff they had.
  4. Cowabunga

    Large scale fraud and criminality on Pembrokeshire mega-herd farm.

    https://newsroom.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/news/substantial-fines-for-farmers-who-knowingly-kept-cattle-with-bovine-tb-reactors-on-farm Read the article. It brings the dairy industry into disrepute and in my opinion they should have substantial jail time as well as confiscation of assets on top of...
  5. Agriland RSS

    Scottish Texel breeder wins award for his contribution to the breed

    Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland A Scottish Texel breeder has won an award recognising his “outstanding contribution” to the sheep breed. Solway and Tyne Club member Ewan MacTaggart, Castle Douglas, has been named as the winner of the 2024 Texel Sheep Society Spotlight Award. The...
  6. Henery

    Farmer protest in London, read the comments !

    Read the comments if nothing else.
  7. D

    Sheep being shot

    In the last two nights there has been four attacks around the village. Ewes and even fornight old lambs have been shot and left in the fields. A couple at each farm, but the same each time with some being shot in the head and some being the body. Spoke to the police about it today and there is...
  8. Agriland RSS

    Pigs killed in a fire on a farm in Co. Tyrone

    Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland A fire in a Co. Tyrone farm resulted in the death of a number of pigs, despite the best efforts of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) in putting out the blaze. The fire happened in a farmyard shed on a pig farm on the Gorey Road in...
  9. D

    Can a bad tooth cause flu symptoms to vice versa.

    I developed tooth ache on Tuesday (little warnings for a couple of years.) Got worse & worse all week & now aching eyes & blocked ears. Can a tooth cause this. Or Have I had a bug which has weaked my immune system letting the tooth decay develop quickly.
  10. melted welly

    Fair play George

    https://www.farminguk.com/news/government-to-be-taken-to-court-over-axing-of-farmland-sewage-sludge-pledge_64313.html Never used the stuff. However, in the UK retailers “WWF Basket” commitments is a pledge to ensure suppliers use 50% recycled phosphate by 2030. So that’s via sewage cake is it...
  11. Agriland RSS

    Spring budget: Government extends scope of Agricultural Property Relief

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland As part of the 2024 spring budget, the UK government has announced an extension to the existing scope of Agricultural Property Relief (APR). This will include all environmental land management schemes, covering the Sustainable Farming Incentive...
  12. Y

    Salmon 'farming'!

    Imagine if these sort of losses and "death events" were occurring in commercial pig or poultry units, the public outcry would be horrendous. But then, the middle class urbanites just love their smoked salmon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68502267
  13. Ffermer Bach

    Yellowstone TV series

    Just watched an episode, the cattle died because someone threw clover bales out of an aeroplane, and the cattle got bloat. John Dutton said, we will have to burn the field to stop the clover seeding. Is clover so bad in the USA? I try to encourage clover on my fields, and feel a bit miffed if...
  14. W

    Are we a communist state through the back door

    Listening to general public interviewed yesterday after the budget, all the younger (well they sounded it) were saying taxes should go up to pay for services etc. one older Irish guy said let people decide what they spend their money on. Made me think the younger generation would rather have...
  15. Tim G

    Brewers Grains

    I've been offered a smallish quantity of brewers Grains from a local brewer. Somewhere between 1 and 1.5t per week. I'd like to feed them to our jerseys. Is there a maximum rate they should be feed at and is it possible to clamp them through the summer? Or would I be better feeding them to...
  16. Macsky

    Is the time right for dripping-cooked crisps?

    With: 1 veganism on the wane, 2 decreasing health concerns surrounding saturated fat and, 3 increasing concerns around the health effects of ‘industrial seed oils’, is it time someone produced some crisps cooked in beef dripping? I don’t think there are any available, correct me if I’m...
  17. Bald Rick

    Church of England £1bn slavery reparations

    £100m not enough so x10 to £1bn Do they have this sum to hand? Poor old vicars up & down the country are going to go short I reckon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrjv9r1jyko
  18. Agriland RSS

    Suffolk: 1,700ac Glemham Hall Estate enters the market

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Glemham Hall Estate in Suffolk, which sites on 1,763ac, has entered the market through Strutt & Parker’s estates and farms department. The site includes sporting and farming estate, as well as almost 200ac of Grade II listed parkland. The...
  19. A

    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?
  20. Wood field

    How do you …. Get out of farming?

    Mulling things over … now I love farming ( mostly) and as some of you know, I’ve said it’s all I ever wanted to do . But times are changing and with the weather on top of poor ground plus my age and aches and pains, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to say enough Part of me feels guilty as if I...
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