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British compare farming
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markets for them. Lamb and
beef, in particular, are
selling on the Continent at
record prices. Milk sales in
the United Kingdom (U.K.)
are also very profitable.
Two-week-old Holstein
calves bring up to $2OO, while
crossbred Holstein/Charol
ais calves of the same age
have been known to go for
between $240-$260. (In
Delaware right now the
going price for two-week-old
calves runs between $67 and
$144, according to a
spokesman for Carroll’s
Livestock Sales in Felton.)
A yearling steer sells for the
equivalent of $4OO-$420 in
Scotland, compared to $3OO
in Delaware. “Fat lambs”
are also bringing record
prices.
A lot of British fanners
are dairymen who raise beef
as a by-product, as well as
sheep. Most of their milk
cows are Holstein-Friesians,
but of a more all-purpose
type than you’ll find in that
breed as it’s been developed
in the U.S. It is also common
on many British dairy farms
to cross breed these
Holsteins with a Hereford,
Charolais or Simmental bull
to get a meatier calf, when
replacement heifers aren’t
needed. By the way, calves
destined for the veal or beef
market are known as
“store” cattle in the U.K.
The visitors were very
impressed by the King Cole
feedlot operation, which
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manages to produce a lot of
choice beef on the vegetable
wastes from a cannery. But
much as the British admire
efficient land use, feedlot
production of “store” cattle
is out of the question for
them. Most of their stock
must be grass-fed, because
of the expense of imported
feed grains.
“Our grass-fed beef is
different from yours,
though,” pointed out a
farmer who operates a
successful dairy/beef
operation on 175 acres in
Cheshire. In part this may be
due to differences in grass
varieties. But the main
difference is in their
nutritional value, explains
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Extension Dairy Specialist
Dr. George Haenlein, a
world-recognized authority
on dairy nutrition. Ac
cording to him, British dairy
farmers fertilize then- forage
and pasture grasses heavily,
which makes them much
higher in protein than often
neglected U.S. pasture
grasses.
Though feedlot production
of beef may be out of the
picture in the British Isles,
confinement rearing of pork
is definitely in. As a couple of
hog farmers pointed out,
they and their countrymen
have been perfecting the art
of confinement production of
pigs for a long time. So they
feel justifiably ahead of U.S.
efforts in this direction. It
doesn’t surprise them one
bit, however, to see
American farmers starting
to respond to the pressure on
land use in this and other
ways.
The business of land use
came up frequently during
conversations with farmers
on the tour. In fact, Stewart
Seton sees it as the principle
difference between
American and British
agriculture. “Because
we’re a small country and
operate m small units, we
have to be more intensive,”
he explains. “So we
generally find that our yields
in terms of livestock units or
cropping are higher per acre
than yours are. But this is
because they have to be. It
might not pay you to push
yields as high as we have to,
because you’ve so much
extra land - you work on so
much bigger scale.”
This may be basically
true, but a chance to sit down
and chat with a few
Delaware corn farmers
about the rising costs of
production and their current
efforts to boost yields to 200
bushels an acre might have
convinced him that this
particular difference isn’t as
great as it once was.
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