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sidjon

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£2.90 flat rate. Doesn’t sound great at the moment but I was getting that when ABP were paying 3.20 for R grades not long since

Their prices were that 3 years ago when we stopped supplying them, good for budgeting, but our feed price had gone up £50/head and the money wasn't there.
Was that the whole group you purchased or just the best? Mate had some from blade and some poor doers in the group will eat the profits ?
 

Full of bull(s)

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Their prices were that 3 years ago when we stopped supplying them, good for budgeting, but our feed price had gone up £50/head and the money wasn't there.
Was that the whole group you purchased or just the best? Mate had some from blade and some poor doers in the group will eat the profits [emoji848]

Compare that to continentals with prices dropping £100+/head if feed prices did the same, it looked a good price all last summer and Winter. No offence intended but it’s not a budget if you haven’t covered the major input. Everything I feed is bought in, the majority barley. 80% of this is bought forward from merchants six months in front. Calves averaging 8.5 months on farm so when a calf arrives I know how much it will cost to feed through to finish post weaning. Forward bought barley over the last four years all under £139 delivered. I took cover from harvest until December this year in April at £130.
As for the bulls drawing out of 3 or more pens every load. Weigh regularly, target weight 470kg which is when they usually really slow up, if flying they get longer if stalling they go sooner at 450, I don’t carry passengers. None of these firms work to keep us in a living and I would rather know the sale price/kg when I buy it than face these modern grids and fluctuating base prices
 

RAF

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Christ your finishing them quick . Mine are 12 mths plus at that weight . I’m just feeding half wheat half barley home and dry treated and hay
 
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Full of bull(s)

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Tried every ration going . Everyone tells me some thing different.

Only my opinion but if you are feeding that right through from 140kg I would say you are losing early potential. If all your corn is pre treated with home and dry, buy either soya or a top end compound concentrate and lift/ increase the quality of the protein in the ration until they are about 250 kilos, but I would replace it altogether myself.Mine are doing 1.6-1.8kg day up to that weight, as much as when they are 440 kilos by doing this, but eating half the amount. That’s the most profitable stage, weaning to 350kg. Up the protein to 15-16% at that stage, it will pay hands down
 

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