Flying herds

Do you see yourself as being a flying herd in 2-5 years time?


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the price of young stock in Exeter yesterday was awful, bullers £250-£400, some went home. but baby calves, looking good, and some well bres £100-£160. I can't understand that, with bullers at that money someone has done all the work, youv'all the risk with calves. but makes flying herds look attractive!
The bull is in with the bullers already.
 
Everyone will be serving everything to beef and buy in. A blue bull would buy a buller, at the moment
Presumably bullers are cheap at the moment because there isn’t a lot of spare fodder about, do those bullers look so cheap If you have to buy in all the feed and bedding to keep them through to next spring? There’s plenty out there who are going to struggle to feed what they’ve got without buying more.

I wouldn’t base long term decisions on the current market place , a bottom in market price at the moment is likely to be followed by a peak some time next year when hopefully the fodder situation will be more normal and some will find themselves under stocked.
There’s almost certainly a decent profit to be had if you’re in a situation where you can carry these cheap heifers over the winter.
 
the price of young stock in Exeter yesterday was awful, bullers £250-£400, some went home. but baby calves, looking good, and some well bres £100-£160. I can't understand that, with bullers at that money someone has done all the work, youv'all the risk with calves. but makes flying herds look attractive!
What money were milkers?
 
I sold some 10/12 month old fleck x heifers yesterday privately from home @£575 to a farmer who's dispersed his herd. Lokks like i did well.
I was looking at £12.50 a week in feed and bedding too feed them for the winter and they were still going too push me trying too feed them next summer as well. I'd have been out scouting for grass keep at @£120 a acre.
Best gone and good luck too the man. Hope he does well out of them. He has silage, barley, cubicles and straw. They will be for sale again 8 weeks before calving and there only half hour in the tractor and box away if i want them back.
 

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

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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/
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