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<blockquote data-quote="P.O.T" data-source="post: 3500734" data-attributes="member: 12098"><p>We costed our first cut out last year and reckoned it cost us £20 a ton to make. So for 3 cuts all costs would be the same apart from the wagon would be lifting 4tons an acre instead of 5 so would add an extra £1 to the cost of a ton. So at £21 our ration for our suckler calves would be 20kg silage so would cost 42p a day to feed them instead of 40p but might be gaining 0.1kg or 0.2 kg extra a day if im right so at £2 kg liveweight at market would be putting on extra 20p or 40p worth of weight a day extra!</p><p></p><p>Not sure exact cost of feed barley but even if £100 a ton a kg a day would be extra 10p per animal.</p><p></p><p>Plus my other thing was i would free up 40-50 acres of better land for my lambs after weaning.</p><p></p><p>[USER=638]@wellingtonfarmer[/USER] on your ration sheet it says it costs you 71p a day to feed cows. But ours are costing 50p a day to feed. Yours might be lower as its your own straw.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="P.O.T, post: 3500734, member: 12098"] We costed our first cut out last year and reckoned it cost us £20 a ton to make. So for 3 cuts all costs would be the same apart from the wagon would be lifting 4tons an acre instead of 5 so would add an extra £1 to the cost of a ton. So at £21 our ration for our suckler calves would be 20kg silage so would cost 42p a day to feed them instead of 40p but might be gaining 0.1kg or 0.2 kg extra a day if im right so at £2 kg liveweight at market would be putting on extra 20p or 40p worth of weight a day extra! Not sure exact cost of feed barley but even if £100 a ton a kg a day would be extra 10p per animal. Plus my other thing was i would free up 40-50 acres of better land for my lambs after weaning. [USER=638]@wellingtonfarmer[/USER] on your ration sheet it says it costs you 71p a day to feed cows. But ours are costing 50p a day to feed. Yours might be lower as its your own straw. [/QUOTE]
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