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<blockquote data-quote="The Agrarian" data-source="post: 6302738" data-attributes="member: 3656"><p>Yep. I wouldn't disagree with that. It just shows that there many more imperfect places to farm than perfect ones. There are costs everywhere you turn. Most of them are down to the location and challenges of the farm. For sure, cattle production without massive human intervention here just wouldn't happen. It's a reasonably productive place for six months of the year, and a disaster for the other six. </p><p></p><p>Honestly, what could we do without massive intervention? Very little. No out wintering of cattle possible, so if not allowed housing, then basically no cattle. Winter barley on only the lightest land, and there will be problems with that in a wet winter. We can grow wheat like stink, but too hard to get ripened, costly to keep disease off it in the damp August weather, and uneconomic drying cost. That leaves winter corn as the only crop that is economic and reliable. And sheep production to eat the grass. And Brexit would stuff that. Perhaps beefy should be growing maize and winter barley and potatoes than milking cows?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Agrarian, post: 6302738, member: 3656"] Yep. I wouldn't disagree with that. It just shows that there many more imperfect places to farm than perfect ones. There are costs everywhere you turn. Most of them are down to the location and challenges of the farm. For sure, cattle production without massive human intervention here just wouldn't happen. It's a reasonably productive place for six months of the year, and a disaster for the other six. Honestly, what could we do without massive intervention? Very little. No out wintering of cattle possible, so if not allowed housing, then basically no cattle. Winter barley on only the lightest land, and there will be problems with that in a wet winter. We can grow wheat like stink, but too hard to get ripened, costly to keep disease off it in the damp August weather, and uneconomic drying cost. That leaves winter corn as the only crop that is economic and reliable. And sheep production to eat the grass. And Brexit would stuff that. Perhaps beefy should be growing maize and winter barley and potatoes than milking cows? [/QUOTE]
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