It was half the £150 last year!£200 an acre for one place up her
Yes that’s right how old were they? Older than me?Top price steer and heifer at darlo both Angus today. @livestock 1 will be buying an angus bull soon.
That will please a few. Pigs been poor for a while nowPigs on the up? Best gilts to £2.38/kilo today in Market Drayton!
They’ll be virtually extinct in 10 years timeHexham has a lot of dispersals part dispersal s , unreal how many are jacking sucklers in Northumberland .
Take away the BPS,or diminish it on some of these tenanted farms and the suckler job does not stack up.Add to that an ageing farmer with sons or daughters not interested in carrying on.The TB tests(even 4 year ones) with Limousin x cows,and also the calf tagging rules with Lim x calving out on the hill.Its easy to see why some are giving up sucklers.Hexham has a lot of dispersals part dispersal s , unreal how many are jacking sucklers in Northumberland .
Aye this job is buggerd , things trading at record highs but profits still pee poor in regard to investment etc bloody shame we have served the public well keeping them in good beef for long time but I see the end of the road now .They’ll be virtually extinct in 10 years time
I know, shame . Think tb has crept in as well some on a lot more than 4 year I’m hearing !!Take away the BPS,or diminish it on some of these tenanted farms and the suckler job does not stack up.Add to that an ageing farmer with sons or daughters not interested in carrying on.The TB tests(even 4 year ones) with Limousin x cows,and also the calf tagging rules with Lim x calving out on the hill.Its easy to see why some are giving up sucklers.
Will people just put land into schemes. Surely they all won’t want more sheep.I know, shame . Think tb has crept in as well some on a lot more than 4 year I’m hearing !!
Full of optimism this morning [emoji23] .we might go the other way and cut back the sheep,keep a few more cows.Aye this job is buggerd , things trading at record highs but profits still pee poor in regard to investment etc bloody shame we have served the public well keeping them in good beef for long time but I see the end of the road now .
Get to Hexham dispersals their will be some good cows on offer at them dispersals .Full of optimism this morning [emoji23] .we might go the other way and cut back the sheep,keep a few more cows.
Everyone says that at lambing time...me included...Full of optimism this morning [emoji23] .we might go the other way and cut back the sheep,keep a few more cows.
I don’t know but as said above they all getting older done all their life and probably feel not enough to show for it , the younger generation don’t want to be tied to either end of a cow 365 days year who can blame them then TB is creeping north .Will people just put land into schemes. Surely they all won’t want more sheep.
I breed my own.too big a risk of bringing something in.Get to Hexham dispersals their will be some good cows on offer at them dispersals .
I know but genuinely do have too many.will sell some gimmers in the autumn. Try make a £out of them.Everyone says that at lambing time...me included...
You do right !I breed my own.too big a risk of bringing something in.