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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7432205" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>used to lamb in feb, as usually quite a benign month, but i think we would have been caught out this year ! About sheep, our keep sheep still here, should have gone monday, 2 ewes on their backs, both with their eyes pecked out by ravens, barstewards.</p><p> Lets hope that feb fill dyke, has done it's job, we certainly have a lot of small springs that have come back to life, and the aquifers are renewed. Having fully geared up for another dry summer, no doubt it will be a growthy one, and we will manage to get a reserve of fodder, again.</p><p> Straights and grain prices are looking very strong, going forwards, and the more production all of us can get from grass, could be summed up as profit. Its a sobering thought that not so many years ago, there were grain mountains, wine lakes, free distribution of butter, and in the EU, food was in abundance, enough to limit production, and then, as now, millions of people were starving, around the world, they still are, but there are no massive stockpiles of food, in the EU. I follow mkt prices here, and i find it rather surreal to see the high prices of all livestock, except pigs, and their doesn't seem to be a reason for them, there is either a big bubble about to pop, or food is genuinely short, if the latter, great for us, and we deserve it. Looking forward to the summer, and next winter, unless that 'bubble' bursts, we are looking at an extra 1.5pence per litre increased concentrate cost, which sharpens the mind somewhat, and we have to find way's to absorb that cost, better use of forage is the obvious choice, and the reason regen ag is coming to the front. I find it somewhat disgusting that firms encouraging us to buy more concentrate, fert etc, are now preaching from a 'reduce' cost hymn book. This year can be seen as a new start, for us here in the UK, brexit and covid have changed our lives forever, and we really have no idea of how those changes will affect us, will cheap food imports flood in, will the sheep trade find new countries to export to, will are products fill shelves in different countries, or will our guv simply sell us out, in it's desire fore cheap food. We have no idea, but we do know, climate change, whether true or not, will affect us, and the best way forward for us, as farmers, is to maximise what we can produce on farm, and the 'things' we have debated on here, will help us to achieve, and preserve our little patches of ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7432205, member: 86168"] used to lamb in feb, as usually quite a benign month, but i think we would have been caught out this year ! About sheep, our keep sheep still here, should have gone monday, 2 ewes on their backs, both with their eyes pecked out by ravens, barstewards. Lets hope that feb fill dyke, has done it's job, we certainly have a lot of small springs that have come back to life, and the aquifers are renewed. Having fully geared up for another dry summer, no doubt it will be a growthy one, and we will manage to get a reserve of fodder, again. Straights and grain prices are looking very strong, going forwards, and the more production all of us can get from grass, could be summed up as profit. Its a sobering thought that not so many years ago, there were grain mountains, wine lakes, free distribution of butter, and in the EU, food was in abundance, enough to limit production, and then, as now, millions of people were starving, around the world, they still are, but there are no massive stockpiles of food, in the EU. I follow mkt prices here, and i find it rather surreal to see the high prices of all livestock, except pigs, and their doesn't seem to be a reason for them, there is either a big bubble about to pop, or food is genuinely short, if the latter, great for us, and we deserve it. Looking forward to the summer, and next winter, unless that 'bubble' bursts, we are looking at an extra 1.5pence per litre increased concentrate cost, which sharpens the mind somewhat, and we have to find way's to absorb that cost, better use of forage is the obvious choice, and the reason regen ag is coming to the front. I find it somewhat disgusting that firms encouraging us to buy more concentrate, fert etc, are now preaching from a 'reduce' cost hymn book. This year can be seen as a new start, for us here in the UK, brexit and covid have changed our lives forever, and we really have no idea of how those changes will affect us, will cheap food imports flood in, will the sheep trade find new countries to export to, will are products fill shelves in different countries, or will our guv simply sell us out, in it's desire fore cheap food. We have no idea, but we do know, climate change, whether true or not, will affect us, and the best way forward for us, as farmers, is to maximise what we can produce on farm, and the 'things' we have debated on here, will help us to achieve, and preserve our little patches of ground. [/QUOTE]
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