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Sparstones

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Livestock Farmer
Treecreeper said:
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Decided it was time to get something a bit newer
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Good looking set up. You can't beat the backup from the dealer. Keeping Zetors seems to run in the family.
 
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Durry cows

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Location
Derbyshire
Lowland1 said:
My Landlord has about 6000 cattle running about the place so we clear the corrals we provide grazing on finished crops and get manure in return which we compost.
There are no rules re application but we don’t put any on our export veg.
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Out of interest are there many/any dairy herds near you and on what sort of scale?
 
Lowland1

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
Location
LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Durry cows said:
Out of interest are there many/any dairy herds near you and on what sort of scale?
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Everybody seems to have a cow or two and some will have 10-15 zero grazed not very well looked after or fed. My landlord might have a couple of hundred Fresians all hand milked and yielding 5-6 litres a day. When we started we had a cross bred herd of dairy cows of about 100 cattle. The problem is selling any quantity of milk.
 
Jerry

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Durry cows said:
Out of interest are there many/any dairy herds near you and on what sort of scale?
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When I worked out there a good few years ago we milked about 500 Holstein on a zero graze system. With modern herringbone parlour. Milk went ever other day to Nairobi.

There was also a Swiss chap who farmed about 30 miles away. Milking Swiss Brown cows with zero infrastructure. About 300 cows milked once a day by hand out in the bush.

Herdsman would go out with cows and then shout. Cows would find them to be milked standing unchained. Amazing to watch.
 
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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

Aug 27
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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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