How outwintering cut suckler farm costs to 243p/kg

摘要

Outwintering youngstock and stores has been the final piece in the profitability jigsaw for a first-generation Scottish tenant farmer.jj Former Farmer Focus writer Giles Henry, of Oakwood Mill, Selkirk, has managed to stop jhousing cattle and - after all household draw-ings - is seeing a slim margin before subsidy. His pure Luing cows have been farmed organically since 2000 and rotationally grazed since 2010. Cows have been outwintered on S a rough hill adjacent to the farm since the o Henry family started on the Buccleuch Estate S tenancy in 1996.