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In the Lifestyle File

  • The 'soil fertility bank'

    soilIt’s an easy concept to think of the soil as a bank.  If you remove nutrients in products sold off the farm, then you need to replace them to keep a state of ‘nutrient balance’ in the bank.
    Clearly on a highly stocked dairy farm with milk going off the farm every day, more nutrients are being removed than on a beef and sheep farm with only lamb and wool sales removing nutrients a few times a year.

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  • The Code of Welfare for Goats: Part One - Tethering, cold goats and thin goats

    tethered goatGoats now have good legal protection against any treatment that causes unnecessary or unreasonable suffering – it’s enshrined in the recently released Code of Welfare for Goats. We all know there can be some real welfare problems associated with goats – especially tethered goats, goats that suffer cold stress after shearing and thin goats.

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  • Farming Diary for May

    May farming diaryIn May autumn is on its way out and we are on winter’s doorstep.  And you even have to think further ahead as animals are well into their pregnancy so you need to build up a bank of feed for spring.
     The way to do this is to shorten the rotation and use feed supplements to meet the shortfall.  This should not be a problem this year with so much surplus silage made in spring. 

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  • Building on a Sloping Site

    pole houseBuilding on a sloping building site can be fraught with challenges. It is always more expensive than building on a dead flat site and so it pays to take an 'eyes wide open' approach and learn as much as you can as early as you can to find the most appropriate solution.

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  • Finding the perfect lifestyle block

    the perfect lifestyle blockLifestyle blocks come in all shapes and sizes and before you start looking for the perfect block you need to know what you're looking for. The first thing you need to consider is what you want to do with your block.

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