Winter keep

[harperfarmer]

There would probably be plenty of keep if all of the folk running loss making sheep flocks sold up and rented out the grass and made some money

When's the sale then?

 

[CopperBeech]

When's the sale then?

my accounts are published on company house, you’re welcome to look

 

[neilo]

July 1mm,
August 4mm,
September 18mm.
Neighbour mowed straight RC a few weeks ago, 1 bale off 6 acre.

Plenty of decent 4/5th cuts been done 20 mile away though. You can’t say plenty of grass in west wales when a lot of people have near nothing and are on full winter rations.

According to the BBC forecast this morning, you look like getting 100mm this week!

 

[CopperBeech]

That's a good way to approach them

I was joking ffs but it is a mad system in the uk. A lot of folk who make a good profit end up going out the industry and a lot of folk who continually make a loss stay in.

Farming is sadly, very much not a meritocracy. But that’s life. Yes

 

[Al R]

According to the BBC forecast this morning, you look like getting 100mm this week!

30mm tops this week mine is showing, we missed several big downpours mid August, I got soaked at Pembs show even with waterproofs on, meanwhile my neighbour was outside in the sun all day fixing a machine and nothing at all there, very very localised. I could see torrential rain yesterday morning yet we were drilling rape

 

[Ffermer Bach]

July 1mm,
August 4mm,
September 18mm.
Neighbour mowed straight RC a few weeks ago, 1 bale off 6 acre.

Plenty of decent 4/5th cuts been done 20 mile away though. You can’t say plenty of grass in west wales when a lot of people have near nothing and are on full winter rations.

Pencader, but the coastal strip is always drier than here

 

[steveR]

30mm tops this week mine is showing, we missed several big downpours mid August, I got soaked at Pembs show even with waterproofs on, meanwhile my neighbour was outside in the sun all day fixing a machine and nothing at all there, very very localised. I could see torrential rain yesterday morning yet we were drilling rape

Seems to have been like that here all Summer... Showers and rainfall, hugely localised.

Beeb suggesting some rainfall here for around Midnight....

 

[TEB87]

Winter keep available in north Lincolnshire. 60 acres cover crop and 65 acres turnips. Electric fenced and shepherded daily. Sheep to be away at end of March. 07884241301

 

[neilo]

@CopperBeech