pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
FlecX......as good as ...... ?
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
What you going to do with them as the calve? Milk them for a month?
Parlour has gone so suckling them. I had done that with some of the spring IC heifers and as 3 yr olds sold well so there is that option.
Or wean the calves and sell them as bullers again or put them through the ring. I dont know. All I know is that I would like them gone as they're reminding of a time I dont need to dwell on.
If you dont clear them up, il sort ya right
I'll keep it mind, thanks.
I've already bumped into cows I've sold in the past on another of my farms so I'm over that weirdness!
Friesianfan
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- Location
- Cornwall
Looking good
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
You will if you buy them [emoji6]
- Location
- somerset
why are the milkers so dear ? Having sold a few, i'm not complaining, but the future does look a bit 'iffy', is it the bounce back loan, pushing the price ? Or do farmers think the price will rise ? Lot of sales coming up, a good time to get out, which will put more onto the market, or just confidence ?
Had a good one today, EA man, came out with his measuring wheel, to measure our lagoons internal dimensions ! I honestly think he thought it would be empty, and clean, just walk down the ramp, and measure. Luckily, his 'boss' came with him, told him, not to get hung up, with trivial things !!!! He banned us from using our outside clamp, as a pit, no effluent tank, rung up to see, if we had put 1st cut in there !!!!! No, just bales !
Had a good one today, EA man, came out with his measuring wheel, to measure our lagoons internal dimensions ! I honestly think he thought it would be empty, and clean, just walk down the ramp, and measure. Luckily, his 'boss' came with him, told him, not to get hung up, with trivial things !!!! He banned us from using our outside clamp, as a pit, no effluent tank, rung up to see, if we had put 1st cut in there !!!!! No, just bales !
How old is outside clamp?
I didn’t think they could do anything about exempt structures unless there’s a pollution incident
rusty
Member
- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
Cheaper to buy a Tedder than build an effluent tank!
- Location
- somerset
1986, all written communication, from him, quoted straight from the 'rule book'. Didn't know anything, practical, re farming, just thankful he brought his boss out, because, if we went by 'the rule book', an awful lot of farmers, would be closed down ! Few years back, there was 'talk' of inspecting silage clamps, to see if they met 'modern' legislation, thankfully, not enacted, except a lot of 'recommendations' made there way into EA books. The basics are, they can do whatever they like, think, and there's not a lot we can do. Just like, i want to measure your lagoon, from the inside, his boss said, 'well, its about 35 m long, 25 m wide x depth, its about this - 5 m2 less than we said ! Laughable, but the chap had measured the lagoon, from aerial photo's , the silage pit was altered in 2012, aerial photo, stone floored pit beside it, banned from using it, replaced an old tin barn, aereal photo's, has to have concrete base, and effluent tank.
Just pleased the inside pits, had cattle in them, or ? And he was one, that wasn't going to accept anything less, than the rule book, or give up, his boss, was sensible, thankfully.
- Location
- somerset
you answered the question, here, council drains blocked, water across road, bit of mud, from roadside, anti farming bitch, there's your pollution, nothing we had done whatsoever, just got blamed !!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
So if your clamp doesn't have an effluent tank, then where is the effluent channelled to?
Silage +27dm no effluent
- Location
- Northern Ireland
No, but seriously. Rain runs down the inside of the walls and out beneath the silage, falls on the silage on the floor (unless you actually sweep it up every day right to the face), and runs off the face, and sometimes off the cover onto the face etc.
to be fair you can still have a field heap, so the rules on infrastructure only apply if you have it.
farmeronecow
Member
- Location
- Dorset
I’m in the market for 60-70 bulling heifers to go to bull this October. New Zealand or Irish Friesian preferred but any high solids grazing cows considered.