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Suckler cow future?
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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 7824853" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>We started with a small suckler herd of pure Sussex cattle, due mainly to the additional payments of the NBAR (National Breed At Risk) on CS.</p><p></p><p>However we have found them to be profitable, but the main reason is that they stay outside, except for a short time over calving.</p><p>We started with 12 and this year will calve 40 and hope to get up to 60 or even a few more but would have to think about Autumn calving as well if we did so there might be some housing costs.</p><p></p><p>We are also lucky in that at the moment all of these we finish ourselves on grass with a small amount of concentrate at this time of the year and sell to local outlets.</p><p></p><p>We are however keeping these to close to 30 months as we have plenty of poor and cheap winter grazing and loads of Hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 7824853, member: 699"] We started with a small suckler herd of pure Sussex cattle, due mainly to the additional payments of the NBAR (National Breed At Risk) on CS. However we have found them to be profitable, but the main reason is that they stay outside, except for a short time over calving. We started with 12 and this year will calve 40 and hope to get up to 60 or even a few more but would have to think about Autumn calving as well if we did so there might be some housing costs. We are also lucky in that at the moment all of these we finish ourselves on grass with a small amount of concentrate at this time of the year and sell to local outlets. We are however keeping these to close to 30 months as we have plenty of poor and cheap winter grazing and loads of Hay. [/QUOTE]
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