John Elliot Farm View: Farmers asked to sacrifice profit, manage land for public good
A total of seven million new trees, including oak, hazel, dogwood, and holly, are scheduled for planting.
John Elliot farms in partnership with his wife,Joan,and son,John Jr at Roxburgh Mains near Kelso.The farm specialises in the production of performance recorded Aberdeen Angus, Limousin and Beef Shorthorn cattle and performance recorded Suffolk and Texel sheep. The farm is tenanted from The Roxburghe Estate. It grows spring barley, spring Oats, rotational grass and permanent pasture with the objective of self sufficiency. John has won the Sir William Young Award for services to livestock breeding in Scotland, and is a FRAgs, an Nuffield Scholar and an agricultural valuer.
John Elliot farms in partnership with his wife,Joan,and son,John Jr at Roxburgh Mains near Kelso.The farm specialises in the production of performance recorded Aberdeen Angus, Limousin and Beef Shorthorn cattle and performance recorded Suffolk and Texel sheep. The farm is tenanted from The Roxburghe Estate. It grows spring barley, spring Oats, rotational grass and permanent pasture with the objective of self sufficiency. John has won the Sir William Young Award for services to livestock breeding in Scotland, and is a FRAgs, an Nuffield Scholar and an agricultural valuer.
A total of seven million new trees, including oak, hazel, dogwood, and holly, are scheduled for planting.
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The foundation of my agricultural education began in childhood, standing by a gate in the sheep folds.
In reminiscing about these two remarkable shepherds, Jimmy Stobo and Davie Jappy, whose lifespans overlapped almost perfectly with mine, I discovered interesting facets of their lives.
He writes about, how to balance grass and clover using fertiliser and stocking rates. Plenty of stock in the spring, plenty of clovers later on; too much nitrogen, and naething but gress.
A Borders farmer from yesteryear was asked to address The Teviotdale Farmers Club on the subject of “Blackface Sheep”. He was a temperate man so only reluctantly agreed to a glass of sherry with the meal before his speech. As nerves took a hold, he had another and another after that. His talk began, “Blackface sheep should be fed on heather and hay, heather and hay, heather and hay. If you want them really good give them plenty heather and hay, heather and hay, heather and hay.” Thereupo
Last month, on the 30th anniversary of my becoming a low ground farmer, I wrote about the changeover and gave a brief history of our tenure at Roxburgh Mains since 1993.
Most people have significant milestones in their lives – one of the most significant in mine took place 30 years ago this week when we moved from the hill farm of Rawburn, to Roxburgh Mains, near Kelso.
It is time breeders recognised that glossing over difficult calvings when they provide calving data to their society, might help sell a bull, but at the same time it affects every aspect of the beef and dairy industry adversely'
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