Jonathan89
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I have 16 acres of land and I'm looking to challenge my self and buy some bullocks to make the field pay. What justifies being a farmer and how do you apply to get started etc?
How to start selling livestock and what justifies you being a farmer?
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Pieces_of_Eight
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You will need a holding number (if you don't already have one) from the RPA.
Then you will also need a herd number from your local animal health department.
Once you have these you can do the BCMS cattle movement paperwork with the animals' passports when they move on and off your holding.
Have you done some rough costings?
Then you will also need a herd number from your local animal health department.
Once you have these you can do the BCMS cattle movement paperwork with the animals' passports when they move on and off your holding.
Have you done some rough costings?
Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
have you kept any livestock, ever? cattle are big, and perhaps not the best animal to start with in just 'a field'.
(how will you load them, how will you TB test them, etc....)
(how will you load them, how will you TB test them, etc....)
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Sussex Martin
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- Location
- Burham Kent
Ahhhww, you're spoiling it now
, buy field, buy cows, chuck in field, six months later load them up, send to market, count your £millions what could possibly go wrong . Here you are just trying to put the guy off from joining the ranks of millionaire Range Rover driving farmers.Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
Ahhhww, you're spoiling it now
Look, just give me a week to sign the deal on a new range rover with 'good porker' sign written on the rear window then everyone can start up their farms and drive up the range rover prices
Ahhhww, you're spoiling it now
Wibble, Wibble, Wibble!
Ahhhww, you're spoiling it now
But just before loading up....he tb tests......and finds a reactor.......cattle stuck all winter no sheds, no fodder......and then its a slippery slope!!!
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
And don't forget your welfare code, medicine book and movement records!
Jonathan89
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I have one horse one end up but I'm looking into the option of having livestock on a small scale for a year say 6 to start off. Is it very hard to start off doing? Obviously I'm not rushing into this blind, I'll want to learn all I can before hand. Not done any rough costs as yet.
- Location
- Cornwall
Many of those posting here have done so light heartedly, but they weren't joking!
Cattle are not an easy starting point. What do you want to do with them? What's your market? Pedigree or any old store bullock you can find? Where are you? Will you need to house and feed them in winter? Is your grass good enough for cattle? You'll be feeding them all year round if it isn't. Are you in a TB area? Do you have any experience with livestock?
I would think a few in lamb ewes might be a better place to start. Find someone to help you lamb them and teach you the ins and outs and get your eye in. Slightly quicker return, easier to handle and, assuming the field is well fenced, slightly lower investment.
Plus, when they start dying for no apparent reason, you'll learn that nature has a sense of humour and doesn't care if you have 16 acres or 1600!
Most ag colleges do basic livestock management courses, might be worth getting yourself on one.
Oh, and get rid of the bloody horse!
Cattle are not an easy starting point. What do you want to do with them? What's your market? Pedigree or any old store bullock you can find? Where are you? Will you need to house and feed them in winter? Is your grass good enough for cattle? You'll be feeding them all year round if it isn't. Are you in a TB area? Do you have any experience with livestock?
I would think a few in lamb ewes might be a better place to start. Find someone to help you lamb them and teach you the ins and outs and get your eye in. Slightly quicker return, easier to handle and, assuming the field is well fenced, slightly lower investment.
Plus, when they start dying for no apparent reason, you'll learn that nature has a sense of humour and doesn't care if you have 16 acres or 1600!
Most ag colleges do basic livestock management courses, might be worth getting yourself on one.
Oh, and get rid of the bloody horse!
Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
And a water supplied to said field
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Has nobody mentioned insurance? There's Public Liability, Employers' Liability, insurance for the various vehicles and equipment....
I've only 30 acres and mine is £1,000pa+.
I've only 30 acres and mine is £1,000pa+.
Pieces_of_Eight
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And then farm assurance would give more flexibility for selling live/dead
- Location
- South Wales UK
Don't over stock too ?
Looks good in summer but as said if you need hay or feed and poached too hell etc.you will have to sell them and no one wants them for winter all skin and bones .
Your 10k be worth 2k if your lucky then.
Get 6 maybe -growers and NOT bobby or narrow dairy types .
Good luck you'll need it but maybe you have retired young with a massive pension too ?
Looks good in summer but as said if you need hay or feed and poached too hell etc.you will have to sell them and no one wants them for winter all skin and bones .
Your 10k be worth 2k if your lucky then.
Get 6 maybe -growers and NOT bobby or narrow dairy types .
Good luck you'll need it but maybe you have retired young with a massive pension too ?
I'm on 40ac and won't do cattle yet purely as I don't have a shed suitable for them yet. It's bad enough when youve got chickens over a wet winter, I can't imagine what state you would get into with too many cows, especially if you are locked down. You would have to shoot them probably.
Greenbeast
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- Location
- East Sussex
indeed i had to erect something for our two adult sussex cows and they are not the wussiest.