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Hopefully you can get something achieved with the campaign but I doubt it as if we had access to the names of the owners of these cfu killing large numbers of cattle I'm fairly certain that many of these herds are factory owned and I know a man very well who'd be on 3k plus per year who was buying non qa cattle fat cattle every week with the last 5 months and slaughtered within 7 days in a main stream factory and being paid full price on these by mixing them in with qa cattle with the factories consent while other lads were being told their is poor demand for beef etc, as he told me many times the factories can put any label they want on beef when they sell it

I know another finisher approx 5k per year who will have cattle grazing a few paddocks near the yard to cover himself that he is a grass fed herd even in the winter he'll put a lame animal out in a sacrifice paddock

I'm getting the opposite from them.

I don't see why Media and ordinary farmers are so interested in them.

Most are owned by ordinary farmers ok they are usually larger farmers but still farmers that chose to run a restricted herd.

Can anyone explain the difference in them and a normal herd the same size except for the twice yearly testing, no penelty and compensation for reactors?

It probably is better for cull cows and buying cattle that regular farmers wouldn't or couldn't touch but the real power in them is in the volume of turnover I reckon, is it about 60 now above 2k cattle a year and they control 30% of the kill per year, when they reach 100 like that it will probably be over 50% of the kill, they are designed for super scale production, not Jimmy with 500 bullocks a year.

If you have 500 cattle on a 2 or 3 month finishing, you need to keep the bank certain no reactor will upset turnover

To answer and not answer your question.

Is there a reason a normal herd can't go to same scale?

Reactor on normal farm means you just need permit to buy(I have one for few months most years)

Neither reason explains the obsession with them.

I'm presuming that it is because you could have 500k Euros to a million plus at any one finishing period in the shed , replicated across the year. Additional financial security needed for banks etc.

They can also buy from herds other farmers cannot and finish reactors with non TB cattle who are going to slaughter within 30 days,

i think in my opinion some feedlots are usually large farmers with enormous single farm payments

What is see is some of these CFU are just buying up old cull cows and are probably helping spread TB around. They are "buying" cull cows from restricted herd and then these cows are infecting the wildlife on the CFU lands which then spreads to adjoining land owners...

What nitrates exemptions exist for CFU? My research says it's the same exemption/alterations apply to any restricted herd.

Forming a company is usually for tax, funding or succession reasons most bigger operations let them be dairy,tillage,beef or CFU are now companies we have discussed the pros and cons on farming fourm more than once.

I have several friends/frienemeies farming as cfu and companies separate and together some have I have chatted and have given me various valid reasons for trading it n that manner but I am still struggling to see the the obsession with them and talking like they are the devil's work.

Nope rule doesn't apply to CFUs. It's a reason why some don't opt to become CFUs