Farmers Weekly Awards 2007

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Questions

Business. Please give an overview of your business plan for your sheep enterprise, outlining your future aims and aspirations, together with details of how your business has grown. Where possible please explain cost management and fixed and variable costs. Please also give details of how your flock fits into your whole-farm system.

Technical. Please outline your breeding, rearing and finishing policies, providing evidence of health management, breeding and feeding programmes and grassland and forage management. Please make reference to use of technologies such as performance recording or flock recording systems where appropriate.

Marketing. Please explain your marketing policy, providing, where possible, information on prices achieved, carcass weights and grades, abattoir/auctioneer cooperation and evidence of adding value and marketing vision.

Social responsibilities. Farming is increasingly being called to account over its role in environmental management. Please outline how your sheep enterprise works within its natural environment, including evidence of protecting natural resources, aiding biodiversity, meeting legislative requirements and engaging with the local community.

Leadership. Farming needs leaders and visionaries. You may be involved with discussion groups, steering bodies, industry organisations or breed societies. Can you and your sheep enterprise deliver something for the future of the industry?

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