Drying out, again!

Location
Devon
What new blood tests are these?

Gamma tests, just about to be or has just been introduced that if you go down in the cull area then they will do a whole herd blood test, throws up a LOT of false positives on most farms and numbers that get taken after this test are normally very high, especially in older cattle like cows for example.
 
Gamma tests, just about to be or has just been introduced that if you go down in the cull area then they will do a whole herd blood test, throws up a LOT of false positives on most farms and numbers that get taken after this test are normally very high, especially in older cattle like cows for example.

Theres nothing new about gamma, I've already done one and lost 23 out of 800+ tested and I'll have to do another if I don't get a clear test in a couple of weeks time. Some of my near neighbors are about to do their third gamma test now. Most of my failures were yearlings, only two had VL and they were older cows.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Hopefully tonight before it's to late!:( 2 mm so far in September.!

About 2.5 mm here overnight. Had hoped fir a bit more but it’s still trying to drizzle.

IMG_0661.JPG
 
Tags
maize

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.1%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 67 35.3%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

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

  • 1,294
  • 1
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/
Top