If by that you mean fatten 100 expensive store cattle over the summer then thank god for your sfp. Sooner that shite is scraped the sooner the go getters can roll on.Sometimes you have to slow down to make more progress
Could be a new thread in Livestock or photos section entitled "How the fudge........."You would think so but I have seen cattle jump walls that a showjumping horse could not master, also staff not shutting gates correctly. Cows licking ropes etc. One thing for sure with livestock, you get lots of surprises, some of the shapes they get themselves into you have to ask "how the fudge?"
I'm not even 53 'til SaturdayThose 60 year old farmers are the biggest problem for professional fhinshers, they don't need to make a profit at the job as they have no intrest in improving their farm/ buildings/ machinery etc and also don't need to make a profit so they can live as they will be getting at least one pension to cover their living costs.
If by that you mean fatten 100 expensive store cattle over the summer then thank god for your sfp. Sooner that shite is scraped the sooner the go getters can roll on.
Ever thought those old boys may be making money from the job
Expand?Thats as sweeping a statement as is possible to make!
Surely the best option for @Clive would be a spring calving suckler herd with all progeny finished early? He could keep the cows on home straw and some urea during the winter, grow maize silage, crimped barley and some beans for a finishing ration and have grass leys for grazing during the summer?
Seems to tick all the boxes!
Couldn't agree more.What's so wrong with animals in a field. Grains worth F all, the soil structures gone and its saturated with weed killers from a losing fight with blackgrass. Why not grass a big swathe down, like I have this year and just run a few cattle on it extensively.
I find the cattle easier than the arable. Not much to do with them all summer, then a daily routine in winter. nothing arduous, quite relaxing. keep a few so you keep them friendly. There's no money in it of course, but never mind. We still get the BPS.
Better than pulling a sprayer out of sh*t hole in November, laden with a tank mix of five products costing x thousand pounds. Or having to rebuild your tractor engine after one days ploughing.
I really cant see grazing working, no fences, lots of houses and main roads (A5 / A38 type roads) no water and almost definite TB problem
This is what I was thinking.It would be worth doing serious number crunching. IMO sheep are a no go without fences.
Are there no grazing cattle in your area now Clive?
No your right, but it would open up opportunities when it's gone.People who claim the SFP can also be go-getters! They're not all stick in the muds who plod on through life and make nothing, but live off the SFP.
No I meant if the go getters as you put it stopped running round like headless chickens after everything and spending money like water then moaning that there is nart in the job slowed down a bit perhaps they would make some progress, nothing to do with sfp as that has nothing to do with the farming you doIf by that you mean fatten 100 expensive store cattle over the summer then thank god for your sfp. Sooner that shite is scraped the sooner the go getters can roll on.
What about an anaerobic digester?