About time!
Try buying someBeen a long time coming ..
you obviously havnt been lambing in the last few weeks.Cheap to feed valuable stock, what’s not to like if you have livestock on the farm.
Yes , pretty sure it was in the 90,s. Bloke i used to work for who had built up his dairy from milking a handful of cows on a few acres and running a lorry to milking 140 cows and finishing everything on some 400 acres. He used to rub his hands with glee when the corn price was on the floor and say "About time they [ the Arable boys) caught a cold.A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley)
A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley).
Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?
More into selling, try breeding them …Try buying some
Didn't mean thatMore into selling, try breeding them …
Was watching Harry’s farm on YouTube the other day about him making a loss this year on arable started me thinking that on a mixed farm like ours the profit varies very little year to year having a few fingers in several piesA biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley)
A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley).
Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?
Best way for sure , diverse .Was watching Harry’s farm on YouTube the other day about him making a loss this year on arable started me thinking that on a mixed farm like ours the profit varies very little year to year having a few fingers in several pies
What did you mean ?Didn't mean that
Was watching Harry’s farm on YouTube the other day about him making a loss this year on arable started me thinking that on a mixed farm like ours the profit varies very little year to year having a few fingers in several pies
sorry there both on a par for me, barley in the breeze in june, wheat in full ear before it start's turning , a pen of bullocks ready for the off it's all a plesureMakes it a bit easier to sleep at night I guess, steadier/more consistent workload, plus having stock on a farm always puts a bit of joy in your heart. Nothing like seeing a load of good looking cattle on the place. Crops standing there in front of you just don't look the same.
I hope not because we’ve sold a few stores and I wish the buyers well that they make their wedge on them.Beefs been shyt since bse , need a good twenty year , bet they crash by may loli
Complete guess but £70-80 this was about the time I left school and thinking about a career in farming when everyone was discouraging their kids out of farming because the job was so bad. A lot of these big farming partnerships were on the back of £60/ton wheat in the late 90sI remember the farm manager doing the sums on barley vs bull beef. Would have been around 2000. Used to grow a fair bit of barley and mostly chuck it at limousin bull beef. Would be interesting to compared the numbers back then to what they are now. What would barley have been worth in autumn 2000?