Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
They are not dear enough .Why are they so dear?
They are not dear enough .Why are they so dear?
Get yourself up to Carlisle weaners sale on a Wednesday.Plenty dairy bred sorts/rougher/plainer stirks.Mostly TB 4. Give them a pour on wormer and a bit of feed and they might still make a decent margin over the grazing season. Stay off the good shapely single suckers types.They will be very expensive and lose you money.What should i buy? Cull cows?
and me dad did , and his dad did , and his dad did !Oh yes they will.. because they always have
keep em then, and buy some barley!They are not dear enough .
They arent about and the supply chain is getting smaller and in fewer handsWhy are they so dear?
Fewer doing it over the last few years when they were cheaper!Oh yes they will.. because they always have
No, it’s the opposite. Instead of you owning/ leasing the stock, you rent the grazing to a farmer with their own stock on a short term basis. Exact responsibilities for checking, moving, fencing, water etc would all need to be agreed. You could offer some help, or just take the rent cheque and let him/ her crack on.Mi
would this be like loaning heifers over the summer?
Nobody has enough straw this year so they'll put off buying till the spring.Why are they so dear?
Because while your Spring buyer is sitting reading his Sunday paper today, livestock farmers are feeding and bedding cattle with expensive machinery. You are paying for the wintering -and quite rightlyWhy are they so dear?
That’s what im currently doing. But im going to have to be careful with inheritance tax. Aswell im leasing the land for £100per acer but if i farm it i can get £230 per acer through the welsh government and be able to apply for grantsNo, it’s the opposite. Instead of you owning/ leasing the stock, you rent the grazing to a farmer with their own stock on a short term basis. Exact responsibilities for checking, moving, fencing, water etc would all need to be agreed. You could offer some help, or just take the rent cheque and let him/ her crack on.
Which then means the cattle don't have to quite leave so muchThat’s what im currently doing. But im going to have to be careful with inheritance tax. Aswell im leasing the land for £100per acer but if i farm it i can get £230 per acer through the welsh government and be able to apply for grants
What sort of money are those hard sorts making there roughly?Get yourself up to Carlisle weaners sale on a Wednesday.Plenty dairy bred sorts/rougher/plainer stirks.Mostly TB 4. Give them a pour on wormer and a bit of feed and they might still make a decent margin over the grazing season. Stay off the good shapely single suckers types.They will be very expensive and lose you money.
Sounds like you need to buy a dairy farmers heifers graze them for summer then sell them back to him in autumn for a profit of about £100 acreThat’s what im currently doing. But im going to have to be careful with inheritance tax. Aswell im leasing the land for £100per acer but if i farm it i can get £230 per acer through the welsh government and be able to apply for grants
That’s what im currently doing. But im going to have to be careful with inheritance tax. Aswell im leasing the land for £100per acer but if i farm it i can get £230 per acer through the welsh government and be able to apply for grants
That’s what im currently doing. But im going to have to be careful with inheritance tax. Aswell im leasing the land for £100per acer but if i farm it i can get £230 per acer through the welsh government and be able to apply for grants
If you want to farm it for those reasons why can’t you buy sheep?? Buy hoggs in the autumn, or ewes an lambs in spring or.... possibilities endless with sheep an can be bought to leave a margin because of the numbers involved!! If you want to buy cattle in the spring get yourself a astronaut’s helmet because they’ll be stratospheric!!!That’s what im currently doing. But im going to have to be careful with inheritance tax. Aswell im leasing the land for £100per acer but if i farm it i can get £230 per acer through the welsh government and be able to apply for grants
You just need a contract rearing agreement drawn up, so that you are ‘farming’ the land, just using other people’s stock.
Out of interest, how do you get £230/ac from the Welsh Government? My (Welsh) BPS is less than £70/ac, and going to drop.
That’s good farming!
- The BPS element was £68.74 per eligible hectare
- The greening element was £53.42 per eligible hectare
- The redistributive element is paid on the first 54 eligible hectares at a rate of £114.89/ha.