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As we were weighing some bulls in our remodelled cattle crush — more of that later — a couple of questions crossed my mind: why is there such a spread in their performance? And how do we go about producing more of the high performers and fewer of the poorer ones?
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. This summed up my day last week when I arrived back at the clinic after a couple of hours’ work.
Last Tuesday morning we loaded the last of the grass-fed heifers for this year. There was no need to get up extra early to load the lorry, as the factory were processing China-eligible cattle first thing in the morning.
Two week ago, I sent off the last of my finished cattle to the factory, and I was relieved to see them go as I had never seen my land so wet in early November.
At this stage everybody is growing weary of listening about the Covid-19 vaccination programme, but at this time of year on a suckler farm vaccination is a hot topic.