Big breeding sheep sale at ua, Stirling.

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Blackface hoggs, summered with their mothers on the hill, but then wintered away on good lowgound grazing, will invariably perform better as gimmers than their counterparts wintered at home.

They are better grown and have been replenished by all the factors (trace elements etc) that are lacking at home.

And getting the hoggs away means that the gimmers and older stock remaining at home do better.

Hill farming is for shepherds who know what they are doing and who have benefited from generations of experience - its not for folk who ''think' they know what they are doing.
 

Hilly

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Blackface hoggs, summered with their mothers on the hill, but then wintered away on good lowgound grazing, will invariably perform better as gimmers than their counterparts wintered at home.

They are better grown and have been replenished by all the factors (trace elements etc) that are lacking at home.

And getting the hoggs away means that the gimmers and older stock remaining at home do better.

Hill farming is for shepherds who know what they are doing and who have benefited from generations of experience - its not for folk who ''think' they know what they are doing.
Do you produce a lot yourself ?
 
The reality if a hill farm is stocked to keep a number of sheep during the grazing season it will struggle to keep the same stock all winter, so it's a choice of conserving forage, buying in feed or wintering sheep away from home.
Away wintering often makes more sense.
I don't see the problem with that policy, however I do take exception to those who say their sheep are wintered on a hill when they are kept on another farm on grass.

It's like the guys at the bull and ram sales who say their farm sits at a thousand feet, what difference does that make to an animal that lives at a trough or hopper.
 
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Hilly

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The reality if a hill farm is stocked to keep a number of number of sheep during the grazing season it will struggle to keep the same stock all winter, so it's a choice of conserving forage, buying in feed or wintering sheep away from home.
Away wintering often makes more sense.
I don't see the problem with that policy, however I do take exception to those who say their sheep are wintered on a hill when they are kept on another farm on grass.

It's like the guys at the bull and ram sales who say their farm sits at a thousand feet, what difference does that make to an animal that lives at a trough or hopper.
Daft ain’t it , vein attempt at marketing but we all know anyway so dosent really matter.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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