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Well personally I wouldn't touch anything that had seen a bull but plenty doOr....... you buy a load of barren cows and try your luck
Well personally I wouldn't touch anything that had seen a bull but plenty doOr....... you buy a load of barren cows and try your luck
I'm not fussy.Well personally I wouldn't touch anything that had seen a bull but plenty do
In the short term yes but what could happen by the time those calves are sold, if May sells us all own the river for cheap food then we could be flooded with cheap beef as well as lamb
I can't see folk going from sheep back to beef in a area like the SW unless there is a serious income in balance (in favour of beef)
Or the ground nesting pigs are gotten under control
Honestly farming under tb restrictions is a complete nightmare and it really does knock your confidence to keep any (more) cattle
Any suckler calves being sold now should be long gone before brexit has an effect!
Two risks to the beef job are people quitting sheep for cattle ( which will happen if lamb drops thru the floor regardless of TB etc ) and American/ Argentina etc beef imports post brexit, the latter will be a disaster for UK producers, if it happens there is no way we can compete with hormone beef lot feed beef cattle.
yes but when they look at what store cattle are making at the moment, surely some will think its worth more than putting the plough in, thats if they have ground suitable for ploughing in the first place
I assume he was talking baby calves @gone up the hill so in 18/20 m things could be a lot different
That was a good buy.A one off buy admittedly but bought a heifer pd in calf with 4 m.o steer e/u grade, probably e, at 1325 last oct,
Isn't wheat nudging 150/t at the minute...better return than cows for only 8 weeks work a year
ReallyIf you are farming cattle in the SW then you have to be set up to fhinsh them, how people can farm sucklers selling store cattle in this part of the UK is beyond me.
There's probably a lot of people keeping sheep at break even at times...you just crack on with itWill cost you £350 acre to grow, average wheat yield is about 3.27t acre so about £450 acre, fine for two years but then you will need a break crop that will break even at best!
As I said a one off! Honestly nearly had her at 1150, as always happens when your waiting for hammer to come down, it never does. I calve all year round, guess fact she calved md summer didn't help herThat was a good buy.
There's probably a lot of people keeping sheep at break even at times...you just crack on with it
There's more money in cattle than sheep at the minuteMore money in sheep than anything else at the moment.
Trouble is it takes a lot of lambs at £75 head to get 10k but it only takes 7/8 cattle to make 10k.
Really