Sheep keep/ stubble turnips
- Thread starter nelly55
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Pieces_of_Eight
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With or without fencing/water/shepherding?
Another popcorn thread
Another popcorn thread
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- Fife
I'll do the fencing and shepherding. I'll pay you 20p per head per week. Sheep and fences gone 28 Feb. Invoice paid within 30 days.
I do the same but I'm generous & pay 25p
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- Fife
You're in the rich south though. Us poor northern subsistence shepherds must make do...
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- Ceredigion
I've been offered a quid a head week for lambs for as much ground as I could find but can't see it covers the cost,
Who for Derrick, sheep man or lowland chap?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Local man to me , he's phoned twice now
Cost me £70 acre to grow them so doubt it would cover the cost
Cost me £70 acre to grow them so doubt it would cover the cost
Coximus
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well Ivve paid 50p head a week but sometimes in bad weather the crop gets wrekced,
Paying £10/ac from 1st aug to 1st feb this winter coming, I sow and graze - Win win as Im also feeding out on the land so a good dose of on and muckon the land plus they eat the margins and volunteers out saving a glyphosate spray - LL recons its worth £35-45/ac to him in OM, Saved N and saved spray. (this is fenced)
Unfenced needs to be good land to make it work - depends on the crop before, I like a good barley or wheat stubble as the volunteers add to the mix, plus a kale and oat mix, holds the soil together well so it stands up to wet weather better. I hate cultivated forage crops - one rainstorm and 30% of the crop goes in the mudd with the feet.
If your wanting to sell the field for the winter and benefit from the OM and weed eating of the sheep make your own mix with Black oats, tares and kales - good early keep mix and holds the ground well, Im in North yorks, where are you?
Paying £10/ac from 1st aug to 1st feb this winter coming, I sow and graze - Win win as Im also feeding out on the land so a good dose of on and muckon the land plus they eat the margins and volunteers out saving a glyphosate spray - LL recons its worth £35-45/ac to him in OM, Saved N and saved spray. (this is fenced)
Unfenced needs to be good land to make it work - depends on the crop before, I like a good barley or wheat stubble as the volunteers add to the mix, plus a kale and oat mix, holds the soil together well so it stands up to wet weather better. I hate cultivated forage crops - one rainstorm and 30% of the crop goes in the mudd with the feet.
If your wanting to sell the field for the winter and benefit from the OM and weed eating of the sheep make your own mix with Black oats, tares and kales - good early keep mix and holds the ground well, Im in North yorks, where are you?
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
You say this every year lol.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
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- Ceredigion
Spray £8
Drill £27
Firtilizer £30
Slug Pellets £6.50
Will put the seed in for free to keep you happy
sherg
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- Location
- shropshire
A good acre of turnips will keep 15 lambs for 12 weeks as long as your starting them Jan 1st not the middle of November
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- Ceredigion
Shall try him at £1.50 [emoji1787]
sherg
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- Location
- shropshire
Still £180 an acre at a pound a week easy money
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- Montgomeryshire
You may be underestimating Derek’s ‘40t swede’ ground
. But yes, a job to beat that return on a 6 month overwinter crop that leaves 90% of the nutrients behind for the next crop.
- Location
- Cheshire
Cheshire you’re on anything from 40-80p depending on fencing, crop, land type (sand worth more than clay) and location.
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- Fife
Why do the turnip rates increase month by month?
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- Cheshire
Too make up for not being off for an early spring cereal?
