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I wonder what they do with all the crap that’s left over at the end of it all?Especially when they realise that they die before they’re suppose to!!
I wonder what they do with all the crap that’s left over at the end of it all?Especially when they realise that they die before they’re suppose to!!
Data is power though. They will know which ones to buy next year just like any other finisher does if he studies his kill sheets. They might have a learning curve first year mindYes I understand exactly what you have explained very well
What I’m thinking is that it’s not for everyone and I can’t see retailers looking at bits of paper with data provided for hoggs getting finished at variable times with variable weights and grades with variable losses
I could see some head scratching going on
Think you might be wrong , my arable landlord is very keen and new scheme he went to a meeting about will pay them to put a green crop in over winter going forward , will drop the OSR in favour of other crops .There will either be an abundance of winter keep about in about 5 years or they will pile into sheep and price will fall through the floor in about 10 years .I cant see too many big arable farmers who
grow OSR wanting to plant hundreds of acres of turnips.
Between increasing flea beetle numbers and club root you
dont need Deborah Meadan to say 'I'm out'.
and where to buy them from direct next year !Data is power though. They will know which ones to buy next year just like any other finisher does if he studies his kill sheets. They might have a learning curve first year mind
Dig a deep holeI wonder what they do with all the crap that’s left over at the end of it all?
I hadn’t considered they were that cleverData is power though. They will know which ones to buy next year just like any other finisher does if he studies his kill sheets. They might have a learning curve first year mind
In ten years there will be that much land taken up for other uses that many extra people living here they will need to have four back legsThink you might be wrong , my arable landlord is very keen and new scheme he went to a meeting about will pay them to put a green crop in over winter going forward , will drop the OSR in favour of other crops .There will either be an abundance of winter keep about in about 5 years or they will pile into sheep and price will fall through the floor in about 10 years .
They probably don’t buy my type of lamb… they’ll be buying nice crossbred lambs.I wonder what they do with all the crap that’s left over at the end of it all?
Money talks and OSR is trading at more than £500t plus bonus .Think you might be wrong , my arable landlord is very keen and new scheme he went to a meeting about will pay them to put a green crop in over winter going forward , will drop the OSR in favour of other crops .There will either be an abundance of winter keep about in about 5 years or they will pile into sheep and price will fall through the floor in about 10 years .
Experts from the south old boy, don’t do yourself down!!They probably don’t buy my type of lamb… they’ll be buying nice crossbred lambs.
The mustard corded adviser will ring his red corded wearing chum who went too university with him. He’s now estate manager/agent for two or three 10000 acre estates up north somewhere.
“Yes Piers, of course I’ll sell you 2000 lambs old boy. All very neat and keeps my paperwork too a minimum don’t cha know”
“Ahh that’s wonderful Tristan. Cut me a good deal and we’ll have you down on for a day on the pheasant”
“Ahh that’s grand Piers old boy. But we want none of those scotch blackface lambs. They just don’t fit the aesthetic we are going for”
“My dear boy, that’s not a problem. I can have the shepherd dump those into one of the local auction markets. They tell me there are some fools from the south who go mad for them. Anyway, I’m free the first two Saturdays in December. Toodle pip”
You are very polite on the phone Piers@AnymulewilldoThey probably don’t buy my type of lamb… they’ll be buying nice crossbred lambs.
The mustard corded adviser will ring his red corded wearing chum who went too university with him. He’s now estate manager/agent for two or three 10000 acre estates up north somewhere.
“Yes Piers, of course I’ll sell you 2000 lambs old boy. All very neat and keeps my paperwork too a minimum don’t cha know”
“Ahh that’s wonderful Tristan. Cut me a good deal and we’ll have you down on for a day on the pheasant”
“Ahh that’s grand Piers old boy. But we want none of those scotch blackface lambs. They just don’t fit the aesthetic we are going for”
“My dear boy, that’s not a problem. I can have the shepherd dump those into one of the local auction markets. They tell me there are some fools from the south who go mad for them. Anyway, I’m free the first two Saturdays in December. Toodle pip”
They are very clever. That’s why they make so much money. They soon find someone who understands our job intimately that will work for them. Once they get good men working at our level away they go. If it wasn’t for our long memories and deep mistrust of them they’d have us all signed up and done!I hadn’t considered they were that clever
I meant each year is different and sheep are very much dependent and subject to the weather
Not like things that live in sheds
Will these supermarket boffins digest this ??
Feed costs and fluctuations in end values
Or sell them at Sedge and i buy them...Dig a deep hole
Plenty had quite big losses around us.be our worst year for the sheep for various reasons so far.You do realise that lambs are produced outside the South West too?
I haven't heard any particular horror stories from lambing time, as usually do the rounds pretty quickly. I would venture most found lambing, and the preceding winter, not fantastic, but also not disastrous. Anyone hold a differing view?
I hear lots of stories from farmers round here about how the lambs have done better this summer, as they always do in a dry time, when grass is tighter/shorter. Those in the grim North haven't had such a dismal, wet time of it as usual either.
Pretty bad winter here too with some lossesPlenty had quite big losses around us.be our worst year for the sheep for various reasons so far.
I wonder what they do with all the crap that’s left over at the end of it all?
There’s been a hell of a lot of new folks buying sheep of any sort I noticed it start in February they are still at it nowSell them as organic perhaps?
There’s only a certain number of idiots that want too lamb the f**kers though so I don’t think we need too worry about it too soon yetThere’s been a hell of a lot of new folks buying sheep of any sort I noticed it start in February they are still at it now
Makes me wonder why they didn’t buy some when they were cheap for all them years before??
Speaking to one of the Stirling auctioneers today,he reckoned folk have been selling stores much quicker this year and that they had about a fortnights sales with numbers and then they would dry up.Ahhh, now I haven’t seen the numbers for that yet. Numbers have certainly been well up at the Marts I use. wether that means there are more about or people are selling faster this year I don’t know. I was talking too a BIG livestock haulage man the other week and he was saying how many thousand more lambs than normal had come south of the border from Scotland for the time of year.