Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Skintagain]

I noticed lately a lot of folk buying sheep I’ve never seen before

Be plenty of sheep buying sheep this backend.....

 

[puntabrava]

I thought I had clicked on the wrong page

 

[Poorbuthappy]

I thought I had clicked on the wrong page

You sure you don't want to switch to keeping sheep?
It's easy money you know....

 

[puntabrava]

You sure you don't want to switch to keeping sheep?
It's easy money you know....

We used to have a few Suffolk’s to eat the banks, about 20, lambing time was always a depressing affair.
Sheep farmers deserve £150 a lamb and a lot more support payment than an arable farmer for the environmental gains of sheep on the landscape.

 

[Devil's advocate]

We used to have a few Suffolk’s to eat the banks, about 20, lambing time was always a depressing affair.
Sheep farmers deserve £150 a lamb and a lot more support payment than an arable farmer for the environmental gains of sheep on the landscape.

Give me that & all my land goes down to grass.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Give me that & all my land goes down to grass.

Problem is, so will a lot of others. Oversupply, and price crash follows, and everyone gets out again, leaving us who stick it out year in year out to weather the financial drought again.

 

[puntabrava]

Problem is, so will a lot of others. Oversupply, and price crash follows, and everyone gets out again, leaving us who stick it out year in year out to weather the financial drought again.

Are you talking about pigs

 

[Purli R]

Give me that & all my land goes down to grass.

Thought you"d be doing that anyway, seeing as arable farming is so hard.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Problem is, so will a lot of others. Oversupply, and price crash follows, and everyone gets out again, leaving us who stick it out year in year out to weather the financial drought again.

Yes of course which is why I shall persist with mixed farming.

We might be ok for a couple of years, sheep are not like pigs, all these ewe hoggs been sold will take a while to be replaced.

I still think Australlian drought & currently NZ drought are the main factor, once they are back in production the job will be poor.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Thought you"d be doing that anyway, seeing as arable farming is so hard.

Come and do a night shift harvesting sprouts next December or feel the stress of a wet cereal harvest or stacking 15,000 small bales when some scroat has stolen the flat eight sledge & grab..

Leaning on a gate watching ewes or a bit of worming/foot triming/dagging will seem more attractive to you.

I've worked with sheep for 40 years its just another job, like all ways of earning a living.

 

[Highland Mule]

Come and do a night shift harvesting sprouts next December or feel the stress of a wet cereal harvest or stacking 15,000 small bales when some scroat has stolen the flat eight sledge & grab..

Leaning on a gate watching ewes or a bit of worming/foot triming/dagging will seem more attractive to you.

Can you get prosecuted for failing to give proper care to your sprouts?

 

[Purli R]

Come and do a night shift harvesting sprouts next December or feel the stress of a wet cereal harvest or stacking 15,000 small bales when some scroat has stolen the flat eight sledge & grab..

Leaning on a gate watching ewes or a bit of worming/foot triming/dagging will seem more attractive to you.

I've worked with sheep for 40 years its just another job, like all ways of earning a living.

If your so hard done by,might need to retire,sounds like your getting a bit stressed there old lad,

 

[Devil's advocate]

Can you get prosecuted for failing to give proper care to your sprouts?

If your so hard done by,might need to retire,sounds like your getting a bit stressed there old lad,

I would but can't afford lost so much money growing cereals

Its really terrible, people don't understand just how bad it is.

 

[som farmer]

Can you get prosecuted for failing to give proper care to your sprouts?

that depends, you could get a medal for proper care, or, a medal for not, all depending on your taste

 

[7610 super q]

Could get interesting if we don't get rain in the next 3 weeks.

 

[bobk]

Can you get prosecuted for failing to give proper care to your sprouts?

Of course you can . Brussels will inform the ECJ .

 

[Northeastfarmer]

It’s nice to have a surplus carry over but I always find it gets used at some point...

This is the point in which it’s getting used.....

 

[BredRedHfd]

This is the point in which it’s getting used.....

Mines used!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Mines used!
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Oh dear

 

[7610 super q]

Could get interesting if we don't get rain in the next 3 weeks.

2 weeks.