ste stuart
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its been mentioned on several threads lately about the soil being raped, lack of stock and less than ideal rotations.
It's also been said more than once that a livestock enterprise not run really well can end up losing money.
I'm just wondering how much of this loss can be offset due to the reduced (hopefully completely) use of bagged fertiliser. Isn't it worth having stock costing a few quid rather than spending of fert? Surely it can't take up too much time to look after some hardy stock? Maybe less than doing everything involved with buying/moving/spreading fert and less weather dependent?
Taking this a step further do these livestock actually have to produce anything taking into account their benefit to the farms biggest asset? So could one just have stock for the sake of it and not necessarily animals for food? If the powers that be want farmers to be park keepers could they keep alpacas/horses/zebras whatever for the same effect and also give joe public something nice to look at.
Has there been any difinitive research done into which animal is most beneficial to the soil from a fertiliser point of view?
Just something I've been thinking about and I'd be interested in others views.
TIA Ste
It's also been said more than once that a livestock enterprise not run really well can end up losing money.
I'm just wondering how much of this loss can be offset due to the reduced (hopefully completely) use of bagged fertiliser. Isn't it worth having stock costing a few quid rather than spending of fert? Surely it can't take up too much time to look after some hardy stock? Maybe less than doing everything involved with buying/moving/spreading fert and less weather dependent?
Taking this a step further do these livestock actually have to produce anything taking into account their benefit to the farms biggest asset? So could one just have stock for the sake of it and not necessarily animals for food? If the powers that be want farmers to be park keepers could they keep alpacas/horses/zebras whatever for the same effect and also give joe public something nice to look at.
Has there been any difinitive research done into which animal is most beneficial to the soil from a fertiliser point of view?
Just something I've been thinking about and I'd be interested in others views.
TIA Ste