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Don't hill farmers make hay or silage off their in bye land?
I've no idea. I'm not a hill farmer.
There's some land near me thats too steep for machines. Does that make it hill ground?
Don't hill farmers make hay or silage off their in bye land?
If you need to ask that question perhaps you are not cut out to run a business, have you considered going into full time employment? You would then be able to get a 2019 wage.OK, I give up, what is it that we should be doing to rake in the money then.....
Bit vague so far with " options ", and " change of mindset ".
So what is it then ?
If you need to ask that question perhaps you are not cut out to run a business, have you considered going into full time employment? You would then be able to get a 2019 wage.
Do the Gloucestershire steep bits count as LFA though?
I spent many years in my youth strip grazing our dairy cows on Italian,starting beginning April.It was great! and shortened the Winter up here by about 3 weeks.After that i strip grazed around the farm through the day,and set stocked at night.It was considered fairy intensive in those days,and i think many of the suckler men further up the valley were just a little bit jealous.Happy days!aren’t you even the littlest bit curious?
Not necessarilyDon't hill farmers make hay or silage off their in bye land?
Churning it up with their feet and chewing off the rough stuff.How are the cows doing that, loosening the soil with their horns and kicking it back down the hill with their feet?
Surely, in bye land has to be level enough to carry machinery?
It was a genuine reply to your "genuine question" There are several suggestions on this thread and others to potential improvements that can be made to increase income. The clip put up earlier with Lockwood Smith was an indicator of what can be achieved, the majority of comments posted on that clip were negative, why?It was a genuine question, which so far has only had one answer. My suspicions have been confirmed that some only post to wind folks up, and don't contribute anything to the forum.
Not seen the clip, nor commented on it. The opinion of some on here is that we should be ashamed to ask more for our produce, nobody owes us a living, and that we're " commies ", and should get a job elsewhere.....It was a genuine reply to your "genuine question" There are several suggestions on this thread and others to potential improvements that can be made to increase income. The clip put up earlier with Lockwood Smith was an indicator of what can be achieved, the majority of comments posted on that clip were negative, why?
I've no idea. I'm not a hill farmer.
There's some land near me thats too steep for machines. Does that make it hill ground?
Probably because we are all sick of know it all smartarses from other countries who spout of at dickheads conventions. Especially thosewho have sir as a first name.It was a genuine reply to your "genuine question" There are several suggestions on this thread and others to potential improvements that can be made to increase income. The clip put up earlier with Lockwood Smith was an indicator of what can be achieved, the majority of comments posted on that clip were negative, why?
I think our Public relations has hit an all time low, Vegans have never been short of food if they had they wouldn't be vegan very long etc etc etc we are hated by a huge % of public, victims of our success id say , a good starving of the public would us alot of good, sad to say.We would all like to farm without subs but is it really feasible when most other countries are supporting their farmer indirectly/ directly.
I would love to be paid probably for what I produce! Food has never been so cheap and the general public thinks it will always be that way, but with out subs they will be in for a big shock ! First of all we won’t be able to do it and secondly won’t want to do it !!!!
we are not talking about strip grazing which is a skill you already have.I spent many years in my youth strip grazing our dairy cows on Italian,starting beginning April.It was great! and shortened the Winter up here by about 3 weeks.After that i strip grazed around the farm through the day,and set stocked at night.It was considered fairy intensive in those days,and i think many of the suckler men further up the valley were just a little bit jealous.Happy days!
Strip grazing is exactly what we are talking about. Thats one way of achieving the necessary weight of livestock per acre to churn it upWell as long as it makes you happy you think
we are not talking about strip grazing which is a skill you already have.
No matter its slowly going now anyway, seems a hatred for hill farmers at the moment for some reason.Do the Gloucestershire steep bits count as LFA though?
It's a "mindset" thing, much easier to be like herd of sheep following the leader than to analysise the content in the context that it was submitted and to make a rational conclusion.It was a genuine reply to your "genuine question" There are several suggestions on this thread and others to potential improvements that can be made to increase income. The clip put up earlier with Lockwood Smith was an indicator of what can be achieved, the majority of comments posted on that clip were negative, why?