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marco

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She'd have been long gone out of here, and we are far from pedigree. What kind of message does it give to potential customers? My father was watching the calving and said, I think we'll stick with the stabilisers. I don't think he misses messing with big calves
 

fermerboy

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Location
Banffshire
The Irvines (limousin) farm about 4 miles up the road from here. We were on the same estate as them till we bought.
They keep good Limousins and do well with them.
I did wonder for a minute if the calving was being "built up" for the camera, but it did seem real when they were at it.
Drummuir isn't really a grain area, most folk have some barley in the rotation to renew grass Leys, provide some feed and straw and sell any surplus. I would just about guarantee that grain was undersown, that would be the most common way of establishing grass here abouts.

I thought all the farms have come over very well and as said it's nice to see some realism farming.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
The Irvines (limousin) farm about 4 miles up the road from here. We were on the same estate as them till we bought.
They keep good Limousins and do well with them.
I did wonder for a minute if the calving was being "built up" for the camera, but it did seem real when they were at it.
Drummuir isn't really a grain area, most folk have some barley in the rotation to renew grass Leys, provide some feed and straw and sell any surplus. I would just about guarantee that grain was undersown, that would be the most common way of establishing grass here abouts.

I thought all the farms have come over very well and as said it's nice to see some realism farming.
Its a good programme, you can clearly see the grain was undersown, hence the hurry to get it cut.
Good to see a £20k combine at work rather than £200k.
 

bumkin

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
pembrokeshire
She'd have been long gone out of here, and we are far from pedigree. What kind of message does it give to potential customers? My father was watching the calving and said, I think we'll stick with the stabilisers. I don't think he misses messing with big calves
the message is she is an old girl thats reared a lot of calves and had hell knocked out of her udder over the years and she has obviously produced some good calves in the past or they would not have kept her so long i think it is brave and commendable that they let them film there, would you like the cameras filming ?
 

marco

Member
the message is she is an old girl thats reared a lot of calves and had hell knocked out of her udder over the years and she has obviously produced some good calves in the past or they would not have kept her so long i think it is brave and commendable that they let them film there, would you like the cameras filming ?
It's also an advert for his cattle, which look on the most part very good. If I had a cow with a bag like that that had a dead calf she would be gone. That's what I'm saying. And as a commercial farmer I wouldn't want to breed out of that bull. But yes fair play for showing it as it is to all the farmers.

And no I don't think I'd have a film crew here, not enough drama I'd think.
 
....... And as a commercial farmer I wouldn't want to breed out of that bull......
And no I don't think I'd have a film crew here, not enough drama I'd think.
I don't think the size of calf was all the bull's fault. The cow wasn't suckling a calf all summer and was done too well. She got fat and put a lot into the next calf.

As regards a camera crew, no, some jobs are stressful enough without worrying about them getting in the way.
 

Lazy Eric

Member
Really well done to everyone involved. The farmers appearing in it are coming across really well , I couldn't do it I'm to self aware, thinking " oh I sound like a dick" or " Christ what a shite hole the place looks". The farming businesses featured are a credit to those involved.
And also well done to the production company for making an unbiased well rounded program. The narrator is good , just explaining what's happening in an intelligent way, not in an Adam Henson knoddy goes farming way.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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