spin cycle
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dairy ewes...turn into ice cream and sold to tourists....only way i can see it working
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They want sheep. And will specify breed of sheep as well.
spin cycle
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llyen would do the job....bit of history with them being dairy sort.....also saw some sucklers so may be ok to have couple of jerseys or summat....anyhow cattle graze differently so could be a management tool
exmoor dave
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In the article I read today, the successful applicant will be "given" a flock of sheep from some conservation charity.
So the tenant doesn't even get to choose the breed of sheep!
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Dairy Lleyns? Now there's a though...
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- Fife
It looks a lovely place to live, but with my problems with authority would not cope well with the restrictions.
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Cowabunga
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Pay me £65,000 a year and I'm up for it. Otherwise they can stuff it.
£1 a year rent indeed! They can spin on this…
spin cycle
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roots of the breed were in selling the lambs early and the milking the ewes....not that the breed society makes much play of it
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roots of the breed were in selling the lambs early and the milking the ewes....not that the breed society makes much play of it
I never knew. More research required I believe...
spin cycle
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Pay me £65,000 a year and I'm up for it. Otherwise they can stuff it.
£1 a year rent indeed! They can spin on this…
is that what you're earning out of milk
...TBF you're not the most 'environmentally friendly' farmer are you
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
you'll have to hurry ....their 'dairying history' seems to be being expunged from records.....first time i googled 'llyen' i found that out quite easily.....this time i had to search a bit....google 'guycliffefarm'
llyen breeders don't want you to know their secret of prolificacy and milkiness?
More to life
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- Somerset
I think you need to approach the interview like Jim from the vicar of dibley just say yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes then move in and say NO
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
british milksheep were developed NOT as a dairy ewe but as a crossing breed onto other breeds to produce a prolific/milky maternal ewe....just catching you up
brynseiri
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- Conwy, North Wales
Well all ill say is its criminal how the national trust operate, that farm, its infrastructure, its wildlife and its stone walls have never been so well looked after or improved, good farmers likely leaving the place to be replaced by puppets to run round on another national trust folly. Its the great Ormes loss.
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
No, but that's what I'd want for managing a loss-making £1 million estate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What would you say such a responsible position was worth. Its no more than a footballer living a few miles up the road earns in a week. Probably substantially less than some of them.is that what you're earning out of milk
brynseiri
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- Conwy, North Wales
Funny you should say that.... Part of the job will likely involve getting sheep back from Neville Southall's garden!
gone up the hill
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- Devon
I think you will have to move the stock at a set time of the day!
The NT may well say the famer cannot hold an off farm job!
RushesToo
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- Fingringhoe
Well I favour George Monbiot farming this, he will be so out of puff that he will be pushed to write anything of an evening, It might also change his mind.
As far as the overall deal - I think that you have to take the long view on this, someone young will be able to make this a stepping stone, it reduces a lot of fixed costs as they cab ignore long term maintenance costs. You cannot get away from the fact that the landlord is making this decision and they are the owners of the land - so good luck to anyone that can make a go of it as the first rung on the farming ladder at the landlords expense.
I might still favour it going to George however . . . .
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- Northumberland
I guess the only way to make it pay would be to attatch an NT label to the few lambs you are allowed to fatten on the better ground, then sell them for absolute top dollar. I've been in an NT gift shop before - stick on that green label and you'll have middle class twits queueing up to buy your goods for several times the going rate.