48 LOW HOUSE FARM DEC / JAN 2018 • farmers-mart . co . uk
48 LOW HOUSE FARM DEC / JAN 2018 • farmers-mart . co . uk
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‘ We all know the result that counts is when the consumer goes into a supermarket or restaurant and buys the meat , takes it home , tastes it and then makes a decision on whether they want to come back for more . If it ’ s not a good eating experience , they are loathe to return . I was in America last year and over there , farmers are incentivised to produce cattle with marbling – as a result their national eating satisfaction experience of beef is over 80 per cent . In the UK it is around 60 per cent .’
‘ It ’ s really refreshing to see a group of people
in the cattle world all settled on one agenda ’
John ’ s calving schedule is from mid- March to mid-May . He utilises AI as well as natural bulling and has 17 stock bulls including young first timers . Bulls are bought-in . His beef cattle are ready to go at 14 months .
Lleyn breeding ewes are John ’ s preferred sheep breed . He runs a flock of 1200 ewes with 300 ewe lambs that were set to go to the tup as this issue was going to press .
‘ We lamb from late February to early May so it ’ s a hectic time with both calving and lambing . I ’ d had Mules and Suffolk X in Northumberland but when we went
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