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Farmers do not take in to account Natives live cheaper than Continentals.
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<blockquote data-quote="DrDunc" data-source="post: 8063781" data-attributes="member: 615"><p>Cheaper inside if they're on slats. You also get "free" fertiliser in the slurry tank. Bedded courts need straw, and I'm not about to stick out my neck and predict the price of golden bricks this autumn</p><p></p><p>Out wintering used to be the norm here 50 years ago. Climate change has seen a very wet end to that practice, no matter what breed </p><p></p><p>I have mostly Angus and Shorthorn cows, with crosses thereof. Put to Shorthorn and recently a simental bull. They graze grass in the summer, and are fed haylage in the winter. Quality is progressively increased as they near calving. Calves sold as yearlings are fed grass and straw only, with the analysis this year ME11.8 mJ/kgDM and crude protein 18.2%. No cereals......</p><p></p><p>This summer I'm using rough hill grazing on which to bull simental cross Shorthorn heifers using a luing bull. Can't get much cheaper grazing than that, the idea was to increase sale margin by reducing input costs</p><p></p><p></p><p>This was all thought about years before the world and it's input cost prices went mad</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Anytime want to tell me how to produce beef, or even the grass to feed them any cheaper????</p><p></p><p>Because currently I don't see how I can afford to keep cattle here in the hills, no matter what breed.</p><p></p><p>Edit</p><p>And it's Fu**ing depressing</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrDunc, post: 8063781, member: 615"] Cheaper inside if they're on slats. You also get "free" fertiliser in the slurry tank. Bedded courts need straw, and I'm not about to stick out my neck and predict the price of golden bricks this autumn Out wintering used to be the norm here 50 years ago. Climate change has seen a very wet end to that practice, no matter what breed I have mostly Angus and Shorthorn cows, with crosses thereof. Put to Shorthorn and recently a simental bull. They graze grass in the summer, and are fed haylage in the winter. Quality is progressively increased as they near calving. Calves sold as yearlings are fed grass and straw only, with the analysis this year ME11.8 mJ/kgDM and crude protein 18.2%. No cereals...... This summer I'm using rough hill grazing on which to bull simental cross Shorthorn heifers using a luing bull. Can't get much cheaper grazing than that, the idea was to increase sale margin by reducing input costs This was all thought about years before the world and it's input cost prices went mad Anytime want to tell me how to produce beef, or even the grass to feed them any cheaper???? Because currently I don't see how I can afford to keep cattle here in the hills, no matter what breed. Edit And it's Fu**ing depressing [/QUOTE]
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