Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Anymulewilldo]

I’d be interested too know how much living material comes through those digesters? It gets fair cooked in there, would kill of most things. Not like the old days when they used too come and inject pretty much pure sewage into the ground. Although our stock never took any harm from it…

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

We have silaged the ground and then added muck + slurry, then ploughed + lime. Then waited till first week of June and power harrow drilled,50 spacing. Those feilds in maize last year now all in spring barley.

We would never get away with that as by the first week of June all the moisture is normally gone.
You must be on some good land as well as getting more regular rainfall.

 

[ritchiekirkland]

Will it be palatable though?

Stock certainly hang round the edges of the field until it’s had a good few showers of rain to wash the liquid stuff in anyway .

 

[Martyn]

We would never get away with that as by the first week of June all the moisture is normally gone.
You must be on some good land as well as getting more regular rainfall.

All owned by the royals, so good deep fertile ground. Yes.

 

[unlacedgecko]

It's why fish aren't breeding in the rivers any more.

Yeah I've seen reports that the amount of women on hormonal contraception in London means the male fish in the Thames are changing sex.

 

[unlacedgecko]

By the sounds of it, if you live close by you don't.

The sewage company should be bearing all costs associated with transport and spreading.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

The sewage company should be bearing all costs associated with transport and spreading.

We should all refuse to take it unless they pay us handsomely, test the soil before and after and spread it at their expense. Another example of big business screwing us over. We are crackers

 

[Full of bull(s)]

That way if the the sh!t hits the fan and there are contamination issues in time to come, they were responsible for every part of the operation they will be liable for damages/compensation

 

[Welshram]

It’s cooked apparently rather than just digested. Kills nearly all the bacteria present. Just what I’ve been told. I’ve mates that use hundreds and hundreds of tonnes of the stuff. Payment only comes into it if I want it spreading. Got the kit will do it ourselves. Plus I don’t trust contractors on some of our banks!

Yes that’s right it’s cooked and sterile brilliant stuff for grazing ground I’ve been having it for over 10 years slow to break down so every time it rains you get a boost of grass no problems with sheep or cows on it. Don’t put it on cutting ground until you’ve taken your last cut it’s supposed to be grazed at least twice before cutting otherwise lay won’t touch it. Lay come and do a full soil test every year and say how much you can spread its hi in p and k so when lay get to around 3 you can’t spread on those fields till it comes back down ( human sh!t not the ad plant stuff)

 

[Top Tip.]

Yes that’s right it’s cooked and sterile brilliant stuff for grazing ground I’ve been having it for over 10 years slow to break down so every time it rains you get a boost of grass no problems with sheep or cows on it. Don’t put it on cutting ground until you’ve taken your last cut it’s supposed to be grazed at least twice before cutting otherwise lay won’t touch it. Lay come and do a full soil test every year and say how much you can spread its hi in p and k so when lay get to around 3 you can’t spread on those fields till it comes back down ( human sh!t not the ad plant stuff)

Is it Red Tractor approved?

 

[Sir loin]

Can you direct me to that had terrible black bag in ewes but not in cows. All cows receive 2 cosecure bolus before turn out

ERL has pm'd me

 

[lloyd]

Any ideas on hoggs this next week ?

 

[Mc115reed]

I’d be interested too know how much living material comes through those digesters? It gets fair cooked in there, would kill of most things. Not like the old days when they used too come and inject pretty much pure sewage into the ground. Although our stock never took any harm from it…

I spread a lot of digest slurry and used too have a lot on my sheep ground… docks and thistles survive very well through the cooking process!! And so do the microplastics! Tankers screen it when loading and there’s still tiny bits of plastic all up the sides of lagoons we pump it out of… that is biffa digest though where anything and every thing goes into it !

 

[Welshram]

Is it Red Tractor approved?

I’m not sure but it’s organised by the water board and the environment agency so I would think so

 

[jendan]

Whats it enhanced with ?

Oestrogen,Progestrogen,and heavy metals. Yum yum.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

We should all refuse to take it unless they pay us handsomely, test the soil before and after and spread it at their expense. Another example of big business screwing us over. We are crackers

They’ve just done full soil analysis here before they start supplying?

 

[livestock 1]

Can you direct me to that had terrible black bag in ewes but not in cows. All cows receive 2 cosecure bolus before turn out

Look back on here im guessing early April

 

[livestock 1]

Any ideas on hoggs this next week ?

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[BELOWAVERAGE]

Booked our first total forage reared cattle in for end of June, had them walked by co-op feildsman, will be 21-23 months old, really pleased how well they have done, they have moved grassing paddock every 7 days & out wintered, with maize in feeders. View attachment 1036115View attachment 1036116

If they'd of had maize in a trough, along with haylage in a ring feeder I take it they wouldn't have qualified as 100 percent forage reared, but as they had it harvested with the roughage it doesn't count.

 

[Martyn]

If they'd of had maize in a trough, along with haylage in a ring feeder I take it they wouldn't have qualified as 100 percent forage reared, but as they had it harvested with the roughage it doesn't count.

No idea, all I'm basing my system on is growing as much home grown DM as I can and rearing beef as cheep as I can off it. Will be sold as normal organic beef, but quite satisfieing that I haven't had to purchase lorry loads of cake ect..