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Is anyone in beef and sheep willing to invest money?
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<blockquote data-quote="Al R" data-source="post: 6734479" data-attributes="member: 7565"><p>Buying assets which depreciate the least is safer, ie livestock box or alloy yards etc - secondhands arnt much less than new. </p><p>this is all farm/person/area specific. There’s so many roads/cars around here you can’t move anything half a mile just up the road you need loads of people involved, buying the livestock box has made that easier. Hurdles did ok as a stop gap but more land/more animal’s and future proofing meant the alloy yard arrived. </p><p>changing sheep’s winter diets from cereals/concentrates to root crops/green crop now means they are building fertility in the soil and having far less health issues with no negative impact, labour has reduced from 4/5 hours a day feeding cereals/bales and having stressed ewes running for the cereals to ewes happily grazing spending most of the day laying down eating green crop and now taking an average of 2hr’s a day with double the number of ewes compared to when feeding cereals. I have small fields so loads of small mobs but putting more ewes per mob would make it quicker moving/checking fences.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day it’s about what works for you though and what you want to do/achieve plus a bit of age?- doing big projects/investments or big changes when the higher side of 50 with no followers may not be wise financially but on the lower side of 50 there’s still scope to do a big investment if needed and possibly rectify it if it does go pear shaped?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al R, post: 6734479, member: 7565"] Buying assets which depreciate the least is safer, ie livestock box or alloy yards etc - secondhands arnt much less than new. this is all farm/person/area specific. There’s so many roads/cars around here you can’t move anything half a mile just up the road you need loads of people involved, buying the livestock box has made that easier. Hurdles did ok as a stop gap but more land/more animal’s and future proofing meant the alloy yard arrived. changing sheep’s winter diets from cereals/concentrates to root crops/green crop now means they are building fertility in the soil and having far less health issues with no negative impact, labour has reduced from 4/5 hours a day feeding cereals/bales and having stressed ewes running for the cereals to ewes happily grazing spending most of the day laying down eating green crop and now taking an average of 2hr’s a day with double the number of ewes compared to when feeding cereals. I have small fields so loads of small mobs but putting more ewes per mob would make it quicker moving/checking fences. At the end of the day it’s about what works for you though and what you want to do/achieve plus a bit of age?- doing big projects/investments or big changes when the higher side of 50 with no followers may not be wise financially but on the lower side of 50 there’s still scope to do a big investment if needed and possibly rectify it if it does go pear shaped? [/QUOTE]
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