This Farming Life

[Sonoftheheir]

Can't be good with all those drying costs at the current prices. But then again I suppose fuel is cheap for the dryer.

 

[Dave6170]

I was told the other. A caithness farm still holds the record yield for single low osr! Probably cause nobody grows it anymore??
Long days in the summer helps

 

[glasshouse]

why do you grow it then, take your wheat out of uk production and the rest could make money.

the whisky industry wants our grain, but they dont want to pay for it, so they import maize instead.

 

[Forever Fendt]

the whisky industry wants our grain, but they dont want to pay for it, so they import maize instead.

scotch whiskey made with imported grain i bet thats not on the label

 

[glasshouse]

scotch whiskey made with imported grain i bet thats not on the label

TOO RIGHT ITS NOT
That screws up the whole wheat market, as scottish wheat is forced south.

 

[glasshouse]

Time for a boston tea party!!

 

[nasher]

Brilliant programme and showing feet trimming. More and more people around my way are going back to foot inspections.

 

[its yourself]

presume it was undersown coz there was rather alot of grass or wickens surely...
Maybes too tight to use any Roundup... ! Enjoyed it all tho...

Drummuir is a bit prone to couch and annual meadowgrass.

Might be under sown though

 

[Philip Watkins]

Drummuir is a bit prone to couch and annual meadowgrass.

Might be under sown though

There was a few (wild?) oats in it as well.

 

[BlackieBob]

Thanks

check out www.farmstay-lochlomond.co.uk

 

[easyram1]

To answer a few of the questions above. I started recording Blackies for easy care traits in 1979, then started a nucleus flock of 400 ewes that was recorded by signet in the mid 80's, and was a founder member of the Blackface Sire Reference Group in 1990. The nucleus flock has been recorded ever since. The best recorded ewe lambs go into the nucleus flock and the remainder go into my unrecorded flock. I uually keep 15 to 20 of the best Ram Lambs. The best 5 or 6 Ram lambs are used in the recorded flock and after seeing their progeny, the best 2 or maybe 3 will be used as shearlings in the recorded flock. I usually sell 5 or 6 shearlings usually to outwith the group to other breeders who are trying to improve their flocks, the remaining Shearlings then go to the 1100 non recorded ewes.

Can you tell us what the flock improvement you have achieved in terms of output etc since you started Signet recording? If I recall correctly the achievements of your flock and the flocks of other members of your group were pretty mind blowing

 

[Surgery]

check out www.farmstay-lochlomond.co.uk

There would not be a bit of advertising going on here would there by any chance

Am tempted a bit later in the year.

 

[its yourself]

There was a few (wild?) oats in it as well.

Very wild oats. Drummuir is not exactly an arable heartland. Some not at all bad mixed stock farms though.

 

[CrevisbigX]

My godparents business up in Scotland after pack up farming down here.
https://m.facebook.com/coopercottages/
www.coopercottages.com

 

[CrevisbigX]

Great program looking forward tonights.

 

[BlackieBob]

There would not be a bit of advertising going on here would there by any chance

Am tempted a bit later in the year.

Nothing like that, just more views of the farm and surrounding area

 

[Philip Watkins]

Loved the "2 pumps and a squirt" and "where there's a willy there's a way" comments when they put the rams out.

 

[J 1177]

Loved the "2 pumps and a squirt" and "where there's a willy there's a way" comments when they put the rams out.

My wife turned round and said thats just like you............ i think she meant the way he said the comment not what he said.

 

[Philip Watkins]

My wife turned round and said thats just like you............ i think she meant the way he said the comment not what he said.

You hope that's what she meant.

 

[J 1177]

A bar at the mart. Dont get that at darlo