i wouldn't worry this is a forum not every topic. Will be good for everyone. I think you'll find they'll struggle to get rid of calves and might have to rear themselves. Be interesting going forward would that break their arla membership or milk contract later on. But it does worry me BBx aren't so sort after this year. Do in need to go to limousin, AA or a more native breed going forward.
AHA Rents, DFRA “Farming is Changing” and "No Deal" Brexit
- Thread starter Austin7
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Well ? How often have you heard on here that the SFP schemes prevent new entrants from getting started ? Not half as big a threat as 80 year olds still farming on their AHA tenancies purely to get compo to get out. A lot would be an ideal size for starter farms for new entrants.
Agricultural bed blocking.
glasshouse
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The thread is about rent reviews, not bed blocking.
A farm tenant has the legal right to a rent review, and it can fall as well as rise.
Your reputation precedes you!!
Wise words I feel...The reality will arrive as soon as the glut of rubbish dairy bull calves hits the market... or is that... "what market"?
Years ago, I asked why cows cannot be triggered in lactation WITHOUT actually having a calf. I was told it was a stupid idea as the calves were a valuable by-product!!
I gather there was some work done on this using a cocktail of hormones to kickstart the cow's milk into production, but I am assuming nothing came of it? It would be the answer to a problem that comes to the fore every now and then... ie worthless dairy calves.
Then the public outcry of drug abuse to manipulate nature for farmers profit....animal exploitation at its worst!
Probably...
We saw what happend with BST a few years ago. It was more.. is it feasible/viable?
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- East Yorkshire
Interesting; but hormone treatment.......Really? Isn’t the lack of, one of our selling points over cheap imports? It’s certainly a headache ain’t it!
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- East Yorkshire
Oops: been covered already.
Spot on perhaps the dairy industry should return to British fresian only !?
gone up the hill
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- Devon
No doubt about it the dairy industry will have to move away from these NZ mongrels if the calves have to be reared for say a min of 12+ months until they go to slaughter as beef animals!
Only other option will be for the dairy industry to develop overseas veal markets for the meat from these calves!
Certainly the dairy industry's problem and not the beef sectors problem about what to do with these worthless calves!
Problem is that there is no profit in rearing even the good calves from the dairy industry at the moment with the current diabolical low prime beef price so im not sure how long people will be keen to rear even the better end of these calves if the low beef price carry's on for 12 months or more let along rearing these NZ mongrels!
Perleaaaase!!!
Used to be a local dairy chap, now dead, who had a super Fresian herd and used a Hereford bull on pretty well all the cows. The buyers used to line up for his calves in Market, bull or heifer!
Case solved ,ban the b----, Holstein !!?
glasshouse
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- lothians
What mongrels?
Bossfarmer
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- between Perth and Inverness
£1800 for 90 cattle??? do you have some figures for this? i see no reason why a decent beef x dairy calve shouldnt make money, feed barleys £110/t and you dont need as much grazing land/fert/shed space/silage/mucking out for 1 beef calf as opposed to a suckler cow and its calf
- Location
- somerset
you want some ? come down west in the spring, you could fill a lorry and drag @ about £ 10 each, or if you want the ones that are usually shot, for £0, but remember they are small and xbred
yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
Take out legal insurance for rent reviews before notice is served
Served a notice on a land lord when wheat was £60 a tonne and got an agreed rent reduction
For those that say rents only go up they are wrong
In the 1920s a farm near here was rented for a shilling an acre if the farmer took it for 20 years
After the purchasers went bust and the original owner had it back when the purchaser could not pay
Rents were higher in the 20 years prior to the 1920s
Served a notice on a land lord when wheat was £60 a tonne and got an agreed rent reduction
For those that say rents only go up they are wrong
In the 1920s a farm near here was rented for a shilling an acre if the farmer took it for 20 years
After the purchasers went bust and the original owner had it back when the purchaser could not pay
Rents were higher in the 20 years prior to the 1920s
- Location
- somerset
well, we have had a bit of excellent news this week, it would seem our landlords notice of rent review is invalid, totally there agents fault, I have suggested he asks them to pay up, and they were saying it had to double !!!!!!!!!!!!
So what did they do/not do to invalidate their notice? Is this fbt or aha agreement? Who discovered/exposed cockup?
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