selling cattle

  1. D

    Ideal time for all farmers with any common sense to tell farm assurance schemes to go to hell.

    As above, we are on the brink of worldwide food shortage, if not even worse. What better time can there ever be for all farmers with any common sense to tell Red Tractor and all other farm assurance rackets to go to hell? As ever of course there will be some who won’t, and they will take the...
  2. Clive

    Will Putin invade ?

    As the wheat prices seem almost completely dependant upon news about this right now which way does the crowd wisdom of TFF think things will go in the Ukraine ?
  3. Courier

    So much for Global Britain ..!

    How better to demonstrate our wish to trade with the world than reject universal S.I. Units ? Even the USA has a metric conversion act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act From the Times … “Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, …”
  4. D

    Luck

    I was always brought up being taught that only real farmers give luck. If I'm buying cattle/machinery.. I expect luck in return, my father has never sold an animal at the mart without crossing the buyers hand with silver. But it really is a thing that is dying out, I wonder will there be a time...
  5. Jackov Altraids

    Sustainable Westcountry Beef

    What does the title of this thread bring to your mind? I'm imagining native cattle on the moors, cows and calves on the clifftop's or sucklers in meadows. So I'd be interested in people's views on this; A brilliant piece of marketing for all the dairy calves that aren't now allowed to be...
  6. Hfd Cattle

    Why deadweight

    With the abattoirs currently trying to pull prices back and the live selling buoyant why do so many drive past a livestock market to go to an abattoir ? Is it due to costs or habit ......
  7. Henarar

    Extra costs for pedigree bulls

    Over the years on TFF extra costs for producing pedigree cattle has been discussed, I have made no secret of the fact that I didn't think the extra cost was that much over the cost for society membership and animal registration fees. I thought that over the years as we produced more pedigree...
  8. E

    Worcester Aberdeen Angus sale 3rd April.

    I know they aren't everybody's cup of tea on here (naming no names) but is anyone going this Saturday? We have 2 bulls entered and I'm sure there will be a lot of good cattle there.
  9. l'ordinary bonville

    Autumn manure banned

    I,ve heard down the grapevine that the EA are banning autumn slurry and solid muck applications as AHDB have told them there is no crop justification for applications of N or manur containing N apart from on osr This effectively means all and any livestock manures or digestate cannot be...
  10. Anymulewilldo

    Cattle for Leek

    12 month old 3/4 bred lim Bunch of 10-11 month old lim heifers 18-20 month old lim heifers
  11. F

    250,000 heifer

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  12. teslacoils

    Auctioneer Chant

    With the rapid demise of physical auctions, I wondered if there were still any good "singing" auctioneers? My us family in Nebraska often send videos of the cattle auctions, and auctioneering is actually competitive. Maybe ten years ago was my last trip to the brown & co / p&b auction at Brigg...
  13. ridger

    Fluke in cattle

    Got a report from aphis saying that out of the last 12 cattle i killed, 5 had liver fluke. What is a good dose, preferably a pour on with a short meat withdrawal?
  14. onthehoof

    Are shoots allowed in Tier 2

    Moving into tier 2 from 2 Dec, been told that shoots are exempt from rule of 6, is this correct?
  15. P

    Coming soon to a Barbeque near you............

    This was supposed to be our new stock bull, for our pedigree herd, purchased via H&H online sale for 5200 gns. Actually quite a decent bull, apart from the void between his ears, even after being here for 3 weeks, he was still nowhere near being safe to go in the pen with, certainly not on your...
  16. Celt83

    Carmarthen Mart

    It's not looking good for the market at the moment is an understatement! It's tough to see what was once arguably one of the best marts to take your stock to, to only having 16 store cattle in for a sale. I hope its not another market for the chop, but unless something drastically changes I...
  17. W

    Blood sucking ahdb

    68 million drained out of farming every year by the ahdb ,farmers must have plenty of spare cash
  18. Agriland RSS

    David McWilliams on the future of the global economy – and return of the ‘luck penny’

    Written by Agriland Team ONE20: The Alltech Ideas Conference took place last week as a ‘virtual experience’ with online interviews and presentations rather than a live conference, due to Covid-19. A key speaker who would have particularly peaked Irish interest was economist David McWilliams. A...
  19. P

    Milk down the drain - DIY direct action challenge

    Also being posted on Twitter (@PhilatRedRock) & emailed to agri-org VIPs, farming media & friends in the right places. Rather than wait (in vain?) for help from above, how about some DIY activism?
  20. Farm Business RSS

    VikingGenetics ́ female genomic testing now available in the UK

    Written by John Swire VikingGenetics is expanding its range of services with the launch of female genomic testing and corrective mating packages. The services promise to offer the United Kingdom (UK) dairy producers the benefits which have helped earn Nordic dairy cattle their reputation as...
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