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Brookfield herd size.

• Message 1. 

  Posted by arealfarmer (U6473167) on Monday, 15th January 2007

  Mr Keri,please can you tell me how many dairy cows , beef suckler cows ,dairy youngstock,breeding ewes and beef cross cattle are at Brookfield ?

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  Posted by Keri Davies (U2219620) on Monday, 15th January 2007

  I haven't got quite that level of detail but the farm is listed in our Who's Who section as having:
  
  200 milkers (Friesians)
  80 followers (heifers/calves)
  90 beef cattle (Herefords)
  300 ewes
  Hens (small scale)
  
  

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  Posted by arealfarmer (U6473167) on Monday, 15th January 2007

  Thanks Keri
  I should have found that myself.
  Hmm, not sure about some of these facts and figures.
  1.Stocking rates ,rather tight i feel-not altered when the cows were increased? A cow(adult) to the acre for grazing and conservation is usually trotted out,but that is by "on paper farmers" and its never that easy. Plus you have the followers 300 ewes and the Herefords-90 ,is that 30 cows with calves plus their 30 yearlings from last year and 30 more 2 year olds?
  2.Dairy followers -doesnt seem many for 200 cows
  even 25% replacement(a bit low) would give you 50 calves,50 yearlings and 50 2 year olds.
  3. fodder beet. never mentioned
  4. Forage maize 17 acres for 200 cows ???? That must be a slight sniff each cow per day. I grow 30 acres for 50 cows.A neighbour grows 40 acres for 100. Most use it to buffer feed at grass-so even more needed then.
  
  

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  Posted by RosieT (U2224719) on Tuesday, 16th January 2007

  "Who's Who" by Keri also gives:
  
  CROPS:
  278 acres grassland
  100 acres cereals
  29acres oil seed rape
  15 acres potatoes
  12 acres beans
  10 acres fodder beet
  17 acres forage maize
  8 acres set-aside
  
  "Brookfield is a 469-acre mixed farm incorporating the old holdings of Marney's and Hollowtree."

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