Mike designed the shed with a 20ft passage to allow easy access when feeding I m down to 13 suckler cows. I do like them, but I d say in the next few years I will be out of them. I just don t have time to be watching them calving. You have to be there. It s only potluck really that they are calving ok. It s all about keeping the system simple here, he says.
Mike buys in about 80 store heifers between March and August, finishing them to beef, as well as finishing about 60-70 bulls.
He buys mostly Charolais and Limousin bred cattle, explaining that while he doesn t buy “the real fancy ones”, he likes “something that will go on”.