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Fantasy Farmer 2

The Fantasy Farming League for Yorkshire beef and dairy farmers is once again being hosted by Askham Bryan College and is supported by Asda and Anglo Beef Processors (ABP) with financial assistance from LandSkills (Lantra).


The Fantasy Farming Beef League has similar rules to fantasy football, but instead of managing players, ten teams of farmers are managing a pen of dairy bull calves. The teams of three, each comprising two beef farmers and one dairy farmer, have been given eight calves to manage from twelve weeks old to finishing. The calves will be kept at the National Beef Training Unit based on the York campus of Askham Bryan College.  Update meetings will be held monthly during which guest speakers will cover topics such as nutrition, health and the supply chain.  After attending the meetings, teams can use the information to alter different aspects of the cattle’s management, especially the composition of the feed rations. The winning team will be the one who produces the best product and makes the most profit.

The focus of the second Fantasy Farmer competition continues to be the development of skills that apply to the management of supply chains and the connection between Beef and the dairy industry which has again had a very difficult year.

As a consequence of introducing breed types from outside of the traditionally accepted bulls into the beef supply chain, we are interested in a trial which involves comparing differing types of specialist dairy bulls, the results from which would inform future local supply chain planning and also the dairy sector in terms of breed selection generally.

Competition guidelines can be seen Here
Diary of events Here
Feed prices January

The teams: Click here

The bulls:
    By breed
    By pen

The Rations:
     February

Read Oly's micro blog on how the project is going.

Click here for the 2009 Fantasy Farmer competition results and details

If that's not enough contact Oly White 01904 772223 omw@askham-bryan.ac.uk