Coast to Coast UK

Bit of a tough couple of days. Grey day yesterday and rain today.
Walking through farmland that farmers don't want you to.
Lots of electric, barb and blackberry.
We are currently in Osmotherley. Lovely village and a nice meal.
So, I thought I would add some farming comments.
Sheep farming here is all about meat. Lots of black Fibre and raddle.
Lots of double muscle Beltex. Heaps of meat and really well fed but really poor structure.
At least 10% lame but guess it doesn't matter as everything set stocked.
Been trying to talk to a farmer but been told "good luck. Yorkshire farmers don't talk".
No stock trucks. Farmers use trailers and tractors.
Subsidies to farm are being reduced but more for planting trees. Sound familiar.
Farmers doing better than French farmers. Farms generally look well looked after but they don't look too busy but could be wrong.
They use baling twine to tie up gates as well😀
Very few earmarked. Mainly tags and raddle.
Tails left twice as long as NZ.
Not worried about gorse and blackberry. Nothing sprayed.
Less dags but very few crutched sheep... no Aussie fly.
Quite a bit of supplementary feeding... even when well fed.
Lots of salt/vitamin blocks. Could we learn something?
Utes scarce, but canopies pretty shit. Just tin riveted to steel frame. Very noisy. An opportunity?
Dry walls are actually two walls bound together by larger stones as per photo.
Balage stacked differently. And very little bulk silage in stacks.
Hopefully some better photos tomorrow. 3 days to go.Weiterlesen