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With escalating prices all round just wondered what (or if) measures are being taken by TFFers to reduce costs around the farm.?
Wondering about our sucklers too, but what value to put on the dung, especially in an organic system?Sucklers here and I’m not too sure how to mitigate these costs. The pressing one is fert……. Only ten tonne in store and won’t be sure if any is available let alone affordable. I’m wondering on cutting numbers and going more extensive but modernish grasses don’t do this well.
Personally I can’t see the beef trade improving enough to cover itself, it’s just getting too expensive.
we can do a bit . I've started leaving the pickup by the gate and walking around the track sheep.... healthier too !Can u farm on the cheap
In any system!Wondering about our sucklers too, but what value to put on the dung, especially in an organic system?
This prota plus just keeps growing only had muck under it more you Hammer it more it seems to grow even in this cold chill wind, the PP is just sitting there dormant the contrast is stark!Sucklers here and I’m not too sure how to mitigate these costs. The pressing one is fert……. Only ten tonne in store and won’t be sure if any is available let alone affordable. I’m wondering on cutting numbers and going more extensive but modernish grasses don’t do this well.
Personally I can’t see the beef trade improving enough to cover itself, it’s just getting too expensive.
Issues can be experienced with poultry muck on grazing land I have been told, botulism being one!As @Ted M , I can get chicken muck ( layers), and hopefully store it out on a dry end rig at the top of the farm. Either mix with the pig dung, or go neat. Never used before so we’ll see how it goes.
For the suckler lads, does the dung justify all the other costs ?
Dung is obviously useful, I shy away from calling it valuable. But we don’t feed our cattle much hard feed at all (costs, you know) so the dung isn’t that pokey. Getting it on where it needs to be when it needs to be has been a challenge for the last few years too.Wondering about our sucklers too, but what value to put on the dung, especially in an organic system?