Today at work

[grainboy]

Gone to a pig farm. Height not an issue.

 

[Chae1]

Bedding up this morning.

Backend calves enjoying there vip area.

Some store cattle to be sold in February.

 

[KennyO]

Bedding up this morning.

Backend calves enjoying there vip area.

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Some store cattle to be sold in February.

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Market toppers this year?

 

[Chae1]

Haven't topped it for a few years. Sometimes think it's a good thing. Those topping the market probably have bigger losses and more problems.

Not sure how it all stacks up feeding them barley I could sell for £250/t.

Won't be worth anymore as stores or fat for the finisher. Those grazing them putting fert on @£630/t. Making silage etc.

Something needs to change or it will be a race to the bottom.

 

[Adeptandy]

Care home for elderly I believe,

It won’t be quiet then that close to the railway station

 

[JCfarmer]

Grow, my pretties, grow. Bit nippy for them this morning. Five weeks after drilling. But neat little rows everywhere. Will get those clods rolled flat come April.

What drill did you use?

 

[deere 6600]

Haven't topped it for a few years. Sometimes think it's a good thing. Those topping the market probably have bigger losses and more problems.

Not sure how it all stacks up feeding them barley I could sell for £250/t.

Won't be worth anymore as stores or fat for the finisher. Those grazing them putting fert on @£630/t. Making silage etc.

Something needs to change or it will be a race to the bottom.

Inputs double end product needs to do the same fantasy land . ????

 

[JCfarmer]

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Put this one in April - didn't make it to 6 months

One of the last of a bundle bought in 2011

New gate posts here are recycled telegraph poles

 

[Pan mixer]

Went for a walk.

Found all these on the roadsides.

 

[Speedstar]

Just back in from night shift snow Ploughing

 

[Fendt516profi]

Just back in from night shift snow PloughingView attachment 1005363

Looks like you've done a good job no snow left there.

 

[Nearly]

special plough that melts it all?

 

[Jerry]

Moving fences.

Very wet underfoot but at least the sun is out now. And warm with it.

 

[teslacoils]

What drill did you use?

Rapid.

Ex 3yr silage grass. Not compacted but so, so hard and dry. Had to wait for it to soften. Ploughed, power harrowed. With hindsight weather would have let us power Harrow again. But currently so much rain that it would have been horrid now.

Was nicely in the row on Christmas day.

 

[nick...]

Moving fences.

Very wet underfoot but at least the sun is out now. And warm with it.
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Nice and sunny for you.it’s bloody miserable cloudy and overcast and raining here.
nick…

 

[Jerry]

Nice and sunny for you.it’s bloody miserable cloudy and overcast and raining here.
nick…

Not looked in gauge but a fair drop last night

 

[Getnthair]

I never quite get this Today at Work malarkey correct - these pictures are from Today Nobody is at Work - and they weren't here yesterday either.....

Surprising to look back and see how much progress we are making but I'm pretty sure we will need every last minute up until the first heifer calves.

Most of the parlour is fitted and busy fitting vacuum pumps, water heaters, washdown pumps etc. Feeders are being fitted between Christmas and New Year. Builders have a lot of concrete to lay yet but it is surprising how much of the underground stuff is all done - drains, ducts, posts installed, etc.

This has been a huge nightmare. Contractor estimated it would take 2-3 weeks to construct the lagoon - I didn't believe him but hoped 4-5 weeks would be "doable". It has taken 9 weeks, site wetter than the test digs showed and shifted 30,000 tonnes of gravel. It was lined a couple of days before Christmas and we still have mixing points to install and the safety fence to erect.

Always enjoy reading this thread and seeing how busy everybody is. A belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Getnthair - really struggling to get there on this project..........

 

[Beames]

Heifers and small boy stand off today moving the electric fence.

 

[Muddyroads]

Moist:

Just over 40mm of rain yesterday.

 

[2wheels]

Just back in from night shift snow PloughingView attachment 1005363

a68?