Re: Cattle prices


"Derry Argue" <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jim Webster" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> More good advice. Yes, I can probably get draff locally and an 8'x5' >
ready for next time!

so long as it as a plastic *** over it to keep the air out it should keep
well enough

>
> The problem over the years is to find a tenant who understands this, but
> trailer load would keep me going. I don't want the cover mown down like a
> bowling green as I train the pointers on bob white quail which home like
> pigeons after the dog training session and enter their pen by a funnel

> stock owners are usually intent on removing grass to ground level as
> quickly as possible -- even myself when I had the sheep! Currently,
trained
> dogs are quite profitable so a new approach is called for.
>

your 'problem' is that you are rather 'cutting edge' in your management
demands. Any farming tenant is going to want the maximum of grass converted
into the maximum of livestock. You on the other hand might be regarded more
like a Sculptor who is using livestock to achieve the effect he is after.
It is interesting to turn things on their heads to look at it. I would
suggest that you want too few cattle, plus perhaps a handful of sheep. The
cattle will smash things up a bit and eat down a lot, but still leave some,
while the sheep will nibble right down the areas the cattle have taken down,
so you will get a wide variety of heights. Obviously you could dispense with
the sheep, but I'd be tempted to just have a handful for your own freezer
etc.Perhaps stubbsy could be convinced to smoke them? Macon, which is
Herdwick 'bacon' is quite fashionable again.
I suspect you want to avoid genuine scrub?

Jim Webster


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