Farm Exercise Sheet

Farm exercise Lynford Farm Equipment: Item

Purchase cost

Year purchased

Replacement year

New Holland combine

£82,000

1991

2001

John Deere 7710

£33,250

2000

JCB

£29,300

1993

Ford 8360 tractor

£25,000

1996

2001

Grimme Variant potato harvester

£22,000

1995

2005

Ford 8240 4WD tractor

£15,913

1996

2000

Cousins rolls

£12,000

1996

Rootmaster trailers (2)

£10,000

1996

4 metre Kuhn power harrow

£5,000

1999

Lely Centreliner Supabowl fertiliser spreader

£2,850

1999

Garford 4 row beet harvester

£37,000

1999

Flail mower

£5,600

1999

200 new potato boxes

£8,200

1999

Outputs: Annual yield (in tonnes)

1999

1998

1996 1995

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Feed wheat

2252

1812

1497

Grain co-operative

Seed wheat

0

150

465

4900

4500

4370

3453 British Sugar

Potatoes

0

3675

3000

2166 UK consumption and export to Ireland

Vining peas

0

0

400

Winter linseed

0

75

0

Sugar beet

1207

465 Seed merchant, on contract

400

Hillsdown - canning, Albert Fisher Group - freezing

0 Contract for seed

Bradley House Farmer’s year:

April

August

December

Lambing (1 st April) 6 weeks Calving (beginning of march) Cows coming out of sheds, one cattle shed becomes lambing shed. Worm Ewes

Wean the Lambs Sell the Lambs Dose Lambs Fetch straw from Arable farms in the East.

Sell the Lambs House Cattle 2nd Clostridial vaccination for Hogs Winter feeding twice a day, bedding once a day Feed lambs

May Lambing Remove stock from certain fields to conserve fields for silage Fertilize fields and pastures that aren't in stewardship Muck out sheds, for use in spreading later in year Lambs get first worm dose (6 - 8 weeks old) Yearlings Cattle worm bolous (6 month protection) June School visits Hay and Silage cut Spraying for thistles in pastures Fly control for lambs and Ewes Clip the hogs and tups (Rams) July Making silage and hay Clip Ewes Muck spread on hay fields (cleared)

September Sell the Lambs Dip all sheep (Ewes and Rams) against sheep scab Buy Rams October Sell the Lambs Buy Rams Sort the Ewes out (for ones they don't want) Vaccinate for foot rot and give worm dose Sort out all Ewes (breeding stock) Sell ones to Market or as draft Ewes 1st Clostridial vaccination for Hogs

November Sell the Lambs Rams go out House cattle & Wean calves (separate sheds to cows) Worm cattle Winter feeding twice a day, bedding once a day House lambs Feed lambs

January Sell the Lambs Feed the Ewes Copper injection Ewes to prevent swayback in lambs Scan sheep Slip Ewes into twin bearing and single bearing (for feeding purposes) Febuary Sell the Lambs Clostridial annual booster for Ewes so that it passes in milk to new born lambs Perth Bull Sales (Aberdeen Angus) every 2 or 3 years a new stock bull is purchased. March Calving Year Round Tasks Selling Cattle General Health Checks Mastitis Sheep and Cows Foot care for Sheep and Cattle

Equipment (Machinery) Tractor x2 Mower, Haybob (puts grass into rows) Landrover Muckspreader Endloaders Bale unwinder Various Trailers Big bale trailer Grain Trailer (big container) 3 quad bikes & Trailers & snacker & spayer & weed wiper

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Outputs

  Crop

00/01

01/02

02/03

03/04

Finished Lambs

620 (av £34)

0

0

950 (av £45)

Store/breeding lambs

350 (av £30)

0

0

0

Draft ewes/breeding ewes

167 (av £18)

0

600 (av £60)

0

Wool

1626kg (£337)

0

2996kg (£830)

3400kg (£1200)

Cattle - youngstock

41 (av £300)

0

7 (av £540)

25 (av £450)

Cast cows

3 (av £270)

0

0

3 (av £300)

Silage (bales)

700

700

700

700

Hay (big bales)

200

400

500

300

Sitio Batol Farm January

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May



Cut grass for cows



September



Harvest rice

Spray pesticide

Weeding June

October

February

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

Cut grass for cows



Land preparation

Harvest rice

Weeding November

March

July

 

Spray pesticides



Harvest rice

Land preparation December

April

August

 

Harvest rice



Land preparation

Cut grass for cows

Livestock Type

Breed

1998

1999

2000

2004

Sheep

Suffolks & homebred continental crosses

1190

740

710

120

Suckler cows

Cross breeds

17

4

3

-

4

0

0

1

0

4

4

-

Yearling cattle

Highland

Pigs

Large White sows

2

1

5

-

Berkshire sows

3

1

0

-

Gloucester Old Spot boar

1

0

1

9

Berkshire boar

0

1

0

2

approx. 30

approx. 30

approx. 30

80

Simmental crosses

Hens

Warren, Light Sussex

Chickens

Cobb (for meat)

40

40

40

120

Goats

Saanen billies (for goat racing and entertainment!)

20

10

20

30

Outputs Crop

Rice (0.5 ha)

Yield

40 cavans of palay per crop = 1280kg milled rice

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kept for home consumption except for 9 cavans for rent and 8 cavans for hire of thresher

2 crops per year annual total = 80 cavans Brahman cattle

1 calf sold per year

local market