Baling Hay
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The cow part is believable, if those wee cows are fleshed they'll go into £700 ok, I do share your suspicion on the progeny, although we had a few of them years ago, put them to a big rough Simmental bull and their calves were freakishly big and shapely, when finished one wouldn't fit up the crush he was so wide. 850kg is a big beast at 14mth though.
I could never understand farmers attitudes towards presenting their financial details to papers. All it takes is Mr Tesco to read a few articles and think "Mmm, these farmers are getting rich because of me! Maybe I shouldn't pay so much!"
It's not as bad as those idiot dairy farmers who supply their accounts direct to the supermarkets as part of their contract to get paid break even milk price! What other business does this? If I went into Tesco to buy a pint of milk for lets say 55p and then said at checkout that your costs have gone down 2p since my last purchase so i am only paying 53p and walked out I would be arrested! Ridiculous.