smithy Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 After leaving home at 4-30am sunday morning to drive to Spalding toy fair to help Martyn and not getting home till 10-30pm its nice to be sitting down today as I am spraying my wheats and barleys the wind is picking up a bit at moment so might have to stop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 How is the shed is it ok can it be repaired ? She's a tad poorly , hell of a weight hitting it at speed , grand daughters a bit happier today , it really shocked her when I went down ,luckily on a nice big padded rear end, went running off crying shouting for her Nonna, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I have been spreading ash felt planning's down the cart-way that we messed up carting sugar beet of last November so far used about 30tonnes properly need about another 5ton to finish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 (edited) http://rs1015.pbsrc.com/albums/af275/ctcam/Mobile%20Uploads/20150408_151757_zpshhslsqrb.jpg~320x480 Edited April 10, 2015 by trigger82 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I have been helping my mates again today, because its half-term week we have hung new gates we made onto the posts we cemented in place last week , next job was to replace 3 wooden posts out of 6 which hold up this play area new posts are metal and in the ground 600mm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Still lambing here been some lovely weather this week and the grass is starting to grow. Got a bit of slurry out 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 ive posted pictures of me at work since 2009,rolling has started,2015,didnt see the two new 724 fendts,as they were out of the yard before i got there,will see if they are there tomorrow,70 acres done today,2 big fields,one 40 acres,and the other just over 30 acres 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 some more pictures,the company has finally got the jd signed up with the Cropmech decals and telephone numbers on the top of the door glass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Nice photos Paul. Today I got a bit of compound on the fields the milkers will be turned out onto. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Nice fleet of working classics you got there Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Thanks Paul. Much prefer them to modern laptops on wheels that you need an IT consultant to fix! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autoway Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 now that's what I call a fleet love the blues 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Nice photos Paul. Today I got a bit of compound on the fields the milkers will be turned out onto.image.jpg thanks Martin,love your classic fleet of fords Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 some more pictures of work today,before i went rolling i had to help the stockman,feeding the cattle at 2 of our yards and being loaded up with silage to take to a third yard, 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 and some of the tractors,one of the new two fendt 724's was at the yard,the other 724 the driver takes home,new holland not going anywhere today,hydraulic problems and our massey 135,still in use 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 and me parked up the jd and roller before i went home and some more pictures of the cattle and the mf 8450 and plough and fendt 820 on the rolland 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 any comments or questions please ask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Beef cattle inside like that must have really high cost structures hey Paul, lot of kit and work the cattle must fund+ profit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Getting this cleaned up for the sowining . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) Beef cattle inside like that must have really high cost structures hey Paul, lot of kit and work the cattle must fund+ profit? they will be turned out soon Ol,dont get the last question mate,thanks for looking Edited April 12, 2015 by paulali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.watson Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Beef cattle inside like that must have really high cost structures hey Paul, lot of kit and work the cattle must fund+ profit? beef herds have to come inside over here ol. If you left them outside there wouldn't be any grass growing and they would poach the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 and me parked up the jd and roller before i went home and some more pictures of the cattle and the mf 8450 and plough and fendt 820 on the rolland Good pics again Paul. Why does the fender on the muck spreader have the wheel centres covered? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 now that's what I call a fleet love the blues Thanks Dan. If only I could collect the real tractors like I can the models!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autoway Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 well of you are of to a good start 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Beef cattle inside like that must have really high cost structures hey Paul, lot of kit and work the cattle must fund+ profit? At home we rear bull beef which are a mix of pure bred beef animals from our suckler cows and Belgian/British Blue x holstein bulls. They are left entire and fed a ration of barley/protein pellets and silage in housing all year. We aim to finish them at 13-15 months of age and around 600-700kg. All sold through a market as we send around 3 per week, buyers are mostly butchers which buy the premium end of the market. Typically we would spend no more than roughly 5 hours a week on around 70 head of fattening bulls. Pro's of the system are: It uses hardly any extra machinery than we have for the other enterprises on the farm, the exception being an auger bucket for feeding the barley. Converting straw from the arable side into muck which is spread back on the arable fields, adding organic matter and nutrients. Improves cash flow as it provides an income when all the grain has been sold etc. All the cattle buildings are on farm from when we ran a dairy herd so very little alteration was needed for beef. The social aspect of markets/selling offers a good chance to catch up on news/put the world to rights/gossip. We've found that it leaves a decent profit margin and uses the machinery for a larger proportion of the year when otherwise it would be sat around depreciating. Other ways of fattening beef are to castrate bulls and feed them a largely forage based diet and graze over summer finishing them at any age up to 30 months. It is possible to out winter cattle although very few sites are suitable and we are subjected to greater regulations regarding pollution which makes outwintering a less viable option. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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