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Cow2000

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Livestock Farmer
Great for carrying silage round yard or handling maize as you drop nothing, but hard to get a full bucket with grass as they take a lot more to push in to face. We only have a 90 hp telehandler may be different with a bigger machine.
Thanks, would save some time swapping from bucket to grab, but would want to try one for a few days first ideally
 
Location
West Wales
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Feels like real spring has finally sprung here today.
Last whiffing of n being dribbled onto silage ground to eak out the growth today
Foliar feeding and dock spray some later silage ground tomorrow.
 

In the pit

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembrokeshire
You can put your best semen on your best cows but it doesn’t mean your calf will be any good
Milked for a bloke along time ago who used test bulls of of Somerset cattle breeders ,paid £5/6 a straw and had a better herd than his brother in law who picked and chose different bulls for each cows and paid big money for the semen to do it
 
SG Herefords are available here as Shimpton Hill, but calves are poor quality and not that much shorter, calves in NZ would be going as Bobby's, don't think many people still use them here now.
We used shrimpton hill on the tail ender generally calved between 5-7 days early and calves sold for between 300-350 at 6wks old, very easy calving as well. Just shows everyone’s cows are different I spose.
 

sidjon

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Location
EXMOOR
We used shrimpton hill on the tail ender generally calved between 5-7 days early and calves sold for between 300-350 at 6wks old, very easy calving as well. Just shows everyone’s cows are different I spose.
We've used Netherhall bulls for five year (flying herd here) calves 10 days earlier, calf easy best bulls £400 at sedgemoor and all heifers sold off farm, unfortunately down with tb and having to start a waiting list for when we go clear in June, as we're supplying hill farms with replacements were shrimpton hill aren't for breeding.
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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