Got the chance of an arable farmer to put some stubble turnips kale drilled in once fascila been topped around august time, just after thoughts regarding payment if I should pay by acre or per head I fear it may not come to much with being planted in back end just wanting to put some fertility back in to the ground
Winter forage
- Thread starter Jambo99
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kfpben
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- Mid Hampshire
Pay per lamb/ewe per week. Fair for both parties
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- Fife
20p if you're doing all the fencing and shepherding
- Location
- Cheshire
kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Completely area dependent. Here it’s about 60p/head
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- Ceredigion
If he's an arable farmer he may be better putting some mixes cover crops in that can be grazed , that way it makes it more attractive
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- Fife
Just graze the phacelia 
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
Phacelia has f*ck all nutritional value
Turnips - depending on the deal, either pay for seed etx or 25-45p a head / week
Turnips - depending on the deal, either pay for seed etx or 25-45p a head / week
Try 60 p starting October to 80 for March
That’s lambs
You supply seed
Shepherding
We Fert it and apply seed and spray if need be
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- Fife
No thanks.
You're already getting all the sheep sh!t free, soil improvement, increased organic matter etc
If I'm supplying seed I'm not paying you anything. Typical arable farmer, wanting it all their own way...
Thst is what the grazier payed
Must know what’s the job is about been doing it for 50 years and has around 35000 lambs down from the borders yearly
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- Fife
Good for him. His calculator must work differently to mine.
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- Montgomeryshire
It will of worked out for him this year, but very expensive keep normally. I expect he doesn’t have any problems getting keep at those rates though!
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- Ceredigion
I got £ 1 head on rape , good crop but expense was all mine , to be fair a lot get that for grass
Just shows how area related it is . I could let mine a 100 times over
Just shows how area related it is . I could let mine a 100 times over
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- Fife
It's not accidental they I moved from Gloucestershire to Lincolnshire.
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- Ceredigion
I haul a lot of silage to Lincolnshire [emoji23]
I bet I know who that is. And he would definitely know his costs and how to do a good job out of a lot of store lambs.
He knows what he is doing ,
Have another mate who buys the best Beltec and tex lambs and go on slats and fed pellets
Clips them etc , just get pellets and water , blended to his spec and those lambs fly and weigh like lead , no gut on them , he another sharp operator 6000 through system a yearc
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
Numbers game. 35,000 lambs at a couple quid profit isn’t bad. But numbers aren’t the whole story.