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Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Glamorgan branch of the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has elected Charlotte Llewellyn, the daughter of FUW Glamorgan founding member John Llewellyn, as its new vice-chair. Charlotte farms 225ac at Cefn Colstyn Farm, Pentyrch, on the outskirts...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland The term ‘stockman’s tractor’ is often used to describe the Zetor range as well as other brands that are not generally considered to be in the mainstream. This somewhat dismissive attitude is not particularly fair to either the farmer, who often has...

So after taking on more land we are expanding our breeding cows with most of them being BB out of dairy cattle. My first thought was a salar bull to keep the heifers for breeding but after talking to multiple people all have said the salar bullocks won’t sell well in our area. what are people...

Been looking for a lim bull that throws milky daughters, and got me thinking, I’ve a few farmer friends who run Fresian x Lim cows, and puts lim bull over them, if I was to have one of the best shaped bull calves ( so 3/4lim 1/4 fresian) to put on my cows from them I was thinking that I’d be...

Are cattle now a numbers game with forklifts at 90k, tractors at 130k, contractor rates and repair costs now through the roof it strikes me that running a small herd or fattning number will struggle to pay for this let alone provide a profit, arent producers going to have to think bigger in...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The North Wales Police’s (NWP) Rural Crime Team is appealing for information regarding the theft of 18 cattle from Coxwood Farm in Rossett near Wrexham. In a post on North Wales community alerts, police constable Chris James said the thefts...

Neighbour has a beast that has ended up on its own outside and can't be gotten near without her charging you. I've already told him lead is the best option but he thinks if she could be doped someway to calm her down she maybe could be penned up as she comes to a bucket of feed everyday that he...

Watched an interesting programme this morning where the farmer was running Stabiliser cattle. I understand that they are a four way cross of Red Angus x Gelbvieh x Hereford x Simmental. So as a simple long retired suckler producer I ask what is wrong with a simple South Devon x Angus? Hybrid...

How do most folk think it will go this year??? Price come back a bit with folk reducing herd numbers or think bulls will stay strong?

Coming to that time when need to replace old limousin bull. Tempted to try a black lim this time, like the idea of polled too.I’d be putting on angus type cows so was thinking a black lim would throw a lot more black calves. I see alot of black bulls that got nowhere near the shape of the red...

Bit light hearted in all this mess but if you could have anyone in your goverment who would it be. Mr Clarkson for agriculture maybe, Lord Sugar for trade

We breed a few Shearling Rams for sale and recently we've been looking for a new stock ram.On our visits to the English Premier sale and the Builth main NSA I was staggered to see the amount of Texel lambs and Yearlings being offered with these huge ugly heads.Having bred Texels for nigh on 25...

I am interested in and know a lot of guys going down the embryo transplants route in limousins, What is Everyone's Preferred breed to use as a recipient, I see some use Fleckviehs ,Simmentals, I know of 1 guy using BB x Jerseys, I heard Salers have the largest pelvic area of all beef breeds and...

If feed barley heads up towards £300/tonne delivered will it become uneconomic for livestock producers to buy? PS Posted it on the cropping forum as I know that if was put on the Livestock page the answers would all be ‘yes’!

Livestock farming has an elephant in the room...... Static beef price, and lamb struggling to hold it's own, how do we afford fertiliser at £1000 a tonne??? I just cannot see how to cut inputs and still have enough income to cover feed, fuel and fertiliser increases??? Is everyone in the...

Not me but a relative with an even smaller farm. Any restrictions on taking £ money (7 figures) into Europe? It might be enough to buy a small round of beers? What if he waits until he's a German resident and sells UK farm then? Rollover from UK farm asset into German smallholding would be too...

I have an Angus bullock here about 15 month old that has went crackers . Fine out in the field will be about first to quad bike looking for a bite of feed but in a confined place a nutter. We had him in with a batch to get ready for going into a store sale but he managed to clear two high...

It looks like we will come to an end (for now at least) of cereal growing. Most of our cereal has been farm milled for fattening bulls heifers and older cows. All pure limousines. So, assuming I am sowing all the stubbles with “grass”, any advice welcomed on what to use/add for continuing...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Northern Ireland’s local agri show season for 2022 is now in the rear view mirror. And what a great year it has been. Everyone involved in all of the events can look back over recent months with a tremendous degree of satisfaction and pleasure. My...

Put my stock values up last year, do you insure full herd value or a percentage. Do not insure individual animals as closed herd and do purchase bulls breed my own with AI. If a claim had to go in would you only get a percentage back? No claim going in just seeing if I can risk reducing...