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“It was a purely economic decision. My wife Lynne and I have always been more concerned with livestock rather than buying machinery and going organic has worked for us.“Because we are organic we can’t push anything too much, but we are self-sufficient. We don’t buy anything in. All of our stock is fed on homegrown oats and clover silage.
Mark said he is constantly working at how his returns can be improved, whether in lambing percentage, lambs finishing earlier and achieving a better meat animal for processing. “The AHDB, through Signet recording and ram specialist Sam Boon, are trying to encourage sheep breeders to be more interested in terminal sires and their estimated breeding values .
“I went in with a preconceived idea that Texel and Charollais would be the best breed of ram, but what Sam hammers home is that you are not to be influenced by the breed but by the result. “Until we get the details back from the processors, when they go, I can’t give a full analysis, but it shows what Ram Compare can do.”
“We don’t feed any concentrates, everything is fed on home produced forage and our 17 mile distance between theMark said his herd starts calving around the same time as lambing starts.
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