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dazza b

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Dad used to milk pures (mri) and crosses a few with Holsteins milked Fairley well and bull calves were cracking, very placid as well these were imported from Holland
 

jondear

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Devon
The old man was into this sort of stuff: MRI, montbelliarde and rotebund (rotebunte?). My opinion was that if you’re going to milk a cow then get a milking cow. Those breeds didn’t do anything particularly well.
Depends a bit on the type of farming system your trying to run .
 
We had about half a dozen back in the 70's just after I left school, think the AI bull was called Gerrit. Was just an experiment really on our Fresian cows before we moved over to pedigree Holsteins. I seem to recall some came red and white ,some black.
They were nothing special and with regard to beefing quality I remember them being not much different to the fat dumpy Dutch bred fresians that we had at the time.
I think a few people persevered with them for a few years.
 
My best ever cow was an mrix Holstein
Weighed around 550kg and produced 700kgs of solids per season. Lasted 7-8 lactations no health issues. Her only “issue” was stopping on the tracks and not letting any others get by her. I used to keep her in and let her out last!
 

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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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