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Hilly

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Tagging calves at birth costs lots of money and lots of lives
Passports have cost some farmers their entire herd
About £4 per beast , hardly going to make us competitive on the world stage ditching that , the £4 tagg and passport is worth every penny cuts out the lies about ages told , well to an extent some still lie , but it’s cut most of the fraud out, good system imo .
 

JCfarmer

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Mixed Farmer
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Wife's cousin (NZ) used to shoot ewes having difficulty lambing, then when times got tougher he carried a sharp knife to save the cost of a bullet - Nowadays his son just lets them die.

That approach doesn't really square with "Kate Humble and Springtime Lambing Live" does it ?
Yes been there seen that in NZ, lambing time outside was the easiest time of year just went round and picked the dead ones up. I suppose you could argue natural selection takes place to a certain extent.
 
As a livestock farmer I’m struggling to think of anything that costs me money under rules regs , maybe Qms , but that’s low hundreds hardly break the bank .

Your time. Form filling for the famous, so that you can market your product. Hours and hours of time, all of which must match other records or identities. One strike and it’s a fine - or worse.
Too many non productive parasites riding on our livestock’s backs.
 

Hilly

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Your time. Form filling for the famous, so that you can market your product. Hours and hours of time, all of which must match other records or identities. One strike and it’s a fine - or worse.
Too many non productive parasites riding on our livestock’s backs.
Cost me 200 to fill in bps application , 5 mins to apply for calf passports , we get off lightly !!
Scrap the lot is not going to make us anymore competitive like what that guy said the savings bunk g rules regs for me would be about 1k it’s nothing , I do t understand anyone who says de regulate agg and we can compete , we already compete and would save small money and loose provenance etc etc etc.
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
About £4 per beast , hardly going to make us competitive on the world stage ditching that , the £4 tagg and passport is worth every penny cuts out the lies about ages told , well to an extent some still lie , but it’s cut most of the fraud out, good system imo .
Its a shyte system
I have not kept cattle since it was introduced, it put the sfp at risk.
Who cares what age a beast is? Do you give them a cake and a party?
 
Wife's cousin (NZ) used to shoot ewes having difficulty lambing, then when times got tougher he carried a sharp knife to save the cost of a bullet - Nowadays his son just lets them die.

That approach doesn't really square with "Kate Humble and Springtime Lambing Live" does it ?
Don’t know anyone who can afford to just let sheep die. I got $250 a head for my old ewes last year.
 
I remember saying in 1986 we should sell our 2000 sheep for £100 each and buy 40,000 in nz as they were only making a dollar
That was in the days here when people sent sheep to sale and never got a bid. Agents went looking for people to take them for free. Ewe prices are through the roof now, as we are getting $200 to $300 for lambs. Decent young ewes are at least $300 now and sheep have never been looked after so well.
 

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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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