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sidjon

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needs to be more, but then, we have said that for yrs, this time, prices are into new territory, and 50p is certainly getting closer.
But, what is enough ? £1 a litre ? these higher prices, are dictated by 2 things, the first is a shortage, the second, is how much do they need, to bribe us, to increase production, with the aim of reducing it, asop.

@coomoo lorry driver told us, unloaded culls at abattoir, next pens, were decent looking cows, straight out of a dispersal. Its an unusual thing to see milkers, from the lower half - not culls, going to kill. @as Beef farmer pointed out, young cows yesterday, -ve rwb or nw+ve, looked dear to me, at £1500 but as milk and kill, cows, probably he is correct, and some would be i/c. We all have to adapt to the 'new normal'
Did you buy anything at exeter yesterday?
 

som farmer

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Did you buy anything at exeter yesterday?
3, sold as 3rd calvers, checking birth dates, 1 x1st, 1x2nd 1x3rd, so bonus, also bred on a farm, we have bought a lot from, all turned out very satisfying, plenty of milk, good f+p, but from the organic dispersal, av £887, really cheap, bit plain, but worming, mineral, and good grass, should improve, and all 3 pd+ve oct.
always have a look at herd number, to see if we have either bought/sold any, interesting to see how they have done, when sold, or how they have turned out here. Yesterday, that paid off, or at least, we hope it will !
 
Going to be a bit of a sh!t show loading these two in the morning 😔
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We've had 20 ml now in the last 10 days but if you dug a hole you would struggle to find a trace of moisture in the soil. Need another 50 to really get going again
Similar story here. Needs 100mm to soak in, loads of 5mm showers followed by 30mph wind and 20⁰ heat.
Over 300 to dry off on Thursday. If it could rain on the spring farm and wall wall wall sun for the next 4 weeks on the autumns I'd be happy enough
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 78 42.9%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.6%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.5%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 5 2.7%

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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