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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7904984" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>not ayr, but mid oct to mid dec, 3 summers we had to buy fodder, and winter, buying grub, to feed spr calvers, don't work, it basically cost us the profit, another dry summer, the lot would have gone. Milk contract wanted autumn, more than summer.</p><p> Quite adept at sourcing cattle, we had a few good offers, and some good deals, and did a swap. Labour is our big problem, no cottage, and the labour mkt locally, is in a serious shortage, 1 big estate, several big building projects, and a low unemployment area, basically we were not going to get anyone, last lad went straight out, £17 hr, concrete lorry.</p><p> We crunched the numbers, and basically gone back to autumn, less but better cows, which we can manage on our own, pointless trying to cope when you can only just manage to get the basics done, things slip.</p><p> Really didn't like the price of the last cows we bought in, made me grunt hard, but sometimes the best, work out cheaper in the longer run, than the 2nds and 3rds. Few bit's behind the scenes, made our minds up. So, back to what we always were, only calving mid oct, there will be about 30, to calve through the spring/summer, which may well sell fresh, or run round. Always reckon you have to be flexible, and adapt to circumstances, and probably never have another run of dry summers, in a row again, if we had had a dry one this year, cows would have had to go. We have made more fodder, this year, than the last 2, and some of a 3rd, combined.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7904984, member: 86168"] not ayr, but mid oct to mid dec, 3 summers we had to buy fodder, and winter, buying grub, to feed spr calvers, don't work, it basically cost us the profit, another dry summer, the lot would have gone. Milk contract wanted autumn, more than summer. Quite adept at sourcing cattle, we had a few good offers, and some good deals, and did a swap. Labour is our big problem, no cottage, and the labour mkt locally, is in a serious shortage, 1 big estate, several big building projects, and a low unemployment area, basically we were not going to get anyone, last lad went straight out, £17 hr, concrete lorry. We crunched the numbers, and basically gone back to autumn, less but better cows, which we can manage on our own, pointless trying to cope when you can only just manage to get the basics done, things slip. Really didn't like the price of the last cows we bought in, made me grunt hard, but sometimes the best, work out cheaper in the longer run, than the 2nds and 3rds. Few bit's behind the scenes, made our minds up. So, back to what we always were, only calving mid oct, there will be about 30, to calve through the spring/summer, which may well sell fresh, or run round. Always reckon you have to be flexible, and adapt to circumstances, and probably never have another run of dry summers, in a row again, if we had had a dry one this year, cows would have had to go. We have made more fodder, this year, than the last 2, and some of a 3rd, combined. [/QUOTE]
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