farmerfrank Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 what sort of farm do you own/work on just wondering as im from northern ireland and have a mixed farm with 150 head of cattle (beef and sucklers) and also have a busy vegitable buiseness growing spuds, carrots, parsley, celery, broccoli, savoy cabbage, hard head cabbage, coldslaw cabbage. the vegitables take circa 200 acre's but we only own 40 odd. we rent ground all abouts the place and most of it is comber clay. comber is known for its heavy clay and rock's. but the valtra that we bought still charges on with 5 furs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Well we farm about 500 acres of heavy clay in Yorkshire. We own about 300 of that, it's spilt 350/150 arable to grass. We run JD tractors with one lonely international. We have 30 sucklers and rear all progencey onto beef and also have around 100 black an White bulls of various ages also around 20,000 ducks. We have a small contracting operation mainly big baling and combining as well as poultry shed clearing etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmermilkin82.050 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Not as impressive, we farm 120 acres we have 32 cows, mainly charolais pbrs or limousin pbrs and 3 store bulls We rear the best batch of weanlings which usually are the purebred calves . No crops round here soil is too soft around here Would hope to get herd number up to 40 or 50 and have an elite herd of belgium blues Are you francis from moira model club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmerfrank Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Not as impressive, we farm 120 acres we have 32 cows, mainly charolais pbrs or limousin pbrs and 3 store bulls We rear the best batch of weanlings which usually are the purebred calves . No crops round here soil is too soft around here Would hope to get herd number up to 40 or 50 and have an elite herd of belgium blues Are you francis from moira model club? would be do you know me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryh141 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 No cattle on our farm, 1500 acres of arable crop split up into 400 acres of wheat, 450 acres of barley, 300 acres of oilseed rape and the rest has been put down to schemes of wild flowers and grassland for 10 years which isnt the best put it pays more so we cant complain. Run two jd's and a case with the main highlight of the farm being the bateman sprayer thats now 2 years old. In summer we hire out two new hollands from the local dealer, one for the sumo and another for carting and ploughing duties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I work on a 850 acre mixed farm, 2012 cropping (around these figures every year) is made up of : 208 acres of Winter Wheat 64 acres of Winter Barley 89 acres of Spring Barley 87 acres of Oilseed Rape 34 acres of Maize 116 acres of Sugarbeet 116 acres of Potatoes 5.5 acres of grass 17 acres in ELS 7 acres in HLS The remainder is made up of rough grazing, game covers and woodland. There is a further 100 acres that we contract farm locally, the bulk of which is grass/clover leys with approx 20 acres of Spring Barley annually. In the past two years we have also had carrots on the farm but we have said no for next year as it overstretched our irrigation capacity this year. 50 acres of the potato land is rented off our neighbour every year. We have just under 100 cows on the farm, mostly Limousin crosses but these are being replaced with farm raised Stabiliser crosses on an annual basis, the Limousin in our current lot is making them too hard to handle, calves are sold for fattening at 12 months old as we have no capacity to do this ourselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manor Farm Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 We farm 350 dairy and next spring it will be upto 400.300 young stock . 650 acres and own 600 of it. Have 2 fords and 2 newholland plus 1 Fendt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 until 1999 when sold, just short of 1200 acres split over 3 farms in Suffolk, pigs as main animals with chickens as a sideline land was all primarily arable and occasionally some root like spuds , did do beetmixed in to until the late 80s too. very occasionally pea crops for birds eye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 work in cheshire ,milking 400 at moment going up to 500 by next july also got about 300 young stock(heifers 900 acres in cheshire 400 milking cows 300 youngstock ,going up to 500 milkers by july, building new farm at moment (big invesment ) 4 ford /new hollands ,1 manitou 1 new holland loadall, 120 acres of maize,100 acres of wheat ,100 acres of barley.. lots of bought in feeds ..brewers grains ,protien blend,energy blend ,megalac etc.. all cows on full pace tmr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 We are arable contractors on farm contracts with just over 3300 acres but also just taken operations over a local 600 acre farm! This year we have 1800 acres of Wheat 850 acres of OSR 650 acres of Spring Barley 50 acres of Linseed But depending on year we have can also have peas and beans in the mix. We also handle the contract farms setaside, various schemes and game covers etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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