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Climate the movie: the cold truth. A new documentary from 'alternative' documentary film maker Martin Durkin.

Saw this whilst dropping a friend off at Land rover where he works.

We have two 9/10 month old calves that we bought a few months ago that look pretty horrendous skinny and boney but not looking depressed or anything. They were tested for bvd when they came in and aren't pi's I don't think and I wormed them a month or so ago and I thought I saw a slight...

Thought the US and Oz would be beef, UK doesn't surprise me, the rest of europe does however with their piggy appetites.

This long term weather report turned out relatively useful it would appear then have things settled down over the pond now? Its been positively balmy over here 12C during the day and almost the same at night. A threat of snow for the midlands mid week otherwise a relatively normal winter for us...

No longer with us but Patch threw us a healthy calves every year and never had any medical issues and two years in a row had twins (not good in everyone's book I know) and one set of twins was a bull and heifer calf and we kept the heifer calf (so not a free martin) and now that cow is probably...

I'm looking to invest in one as well after last years pink eye outbreak our worst yet, will start fly por pour on sooner but I need a gun for easy treatment. I think we already had a case of pink eye last week which i couldn't believe. Unless it was something else?

Wheat, maize (corn), barley and miscanthus for a biomass boiler and we have some pullets (chickens) raised for egg layers on another site, dad wants to keep on doing indoor pigs as well which I'm against, the manure from both is good for crops and grass but the government keeps hitting us with...

It's a small herd, about 80 head/ 30 cows beef isn't even our farms main enterprise and we only have pasture on land not suitable for crops about 65 acres, father is of the old school belief that it's good to do a bit of everything and let everyone do the juggling whereas I would like to...

I would say 90% of my cows (hereford x's) calve between midnight and 6am, but then theres been no predators in England for the past few centuries... so I guess the cows haven't got that memo yet :unsure:

Naughty pup! well that may change soon.

I would say nearly all my cows hum months before their due date, usually while they are lying down I assumed its something to do with the pregnancy some sort of mild discomfort or something.