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If you were running a bath and the tap handle fell off, the first thing you'd do to prevent a flood would be to take out the plug as early as possible and let the 'early' water away. Change the scenario to catchment area hydrology, and clearing out the lower stretches of rivers has a similar...

There was a guy at Newcastle Uni C.1992 who made no bones of the fact he was financing his way through Uni by selling a lot of drugs to other students. And the course he was studying: BSC Agriculture. He was from an 'urban' background, but "wanted to study Ag" as his grandfather was a farmer.

Firstly, don’t use sandpaper. Use a machine polisher with a rotating mop, they’re not expensive and can be bought from the likes of Screwfix. Avoid the cheapest, as they’ll be utterly gutless. For a cutting compound use Farecla G4 or similar, buy it in litre bottles as a tractors worth of small...

35% propionic acid and a non ionic surfactant derived from soya oil. Seemed to give a quick and even kill in OSR, even in the late flowering patches where you’d normally cut it green as the rest of the field was ready.

Used to listen to the Armed Forces Network, LW radio for US forces stationed in West Germany. Looking back I can't really see the point of listening to (amongst many other things) live baseball coverage on the radio, but it seemed a good idea at the time. Over on MW in the mornings there was...

Less water, and before it was banned a bit of Li700 always speeded up the kill.

For those that think it's bad that the main stream Multi-Nationals are throwing their money around just to muscle in to the 're-gen' ag world, you should see the evil corporate giants who are sponsoring The Cereals Event 😱:

Undercutting the opposition, by the sounds of it 😉

Just the pretence that Brexit somehow made our politicians accountable, when they know they can get away with literal murder mass manslaughter in public office. FWIW, I don't really care about BREXIT, it hasn't really changed my life in any meaningful way, but it hasn't half given idiots on...

That may well be, but that doesn't mean that the votes of 10,000 farmers will be heard when this or the next government carry on pretending farming and domestic food supply don't matter in the slightest. The public aren't going to come to the rescue, they're just going to serve their own...

. PS - I'm winding you up.

I've phoned the number on the back of the van (2nd pic), and left a message that you're going to torch his vans if they do it again. I've grasped that nettle so you don't have to, you can thank me later.

is that '3750' or '8750' written on the oil filter?

And yet the Westminster government still enact new EU laws, like the silly law that means I can't install replacement back boiler woodturners in farm cottages because the EU says they're bad for the environment, and our arsehole politicians gold plate the legislation into 'our own'...

Define 'best farmers'? The local 'Crop and Grassland' competition is run by a guiding motto: "It's not what you have, it's what you do with what you have". Core farming activity has to stand on it's own, subsidising a farming loss with sideline is neither good farming or good business. In that...

that must be ‘protected’ at that price. I’ve been quoted £345-350 bagged, for granular and prilled.

Who'd have thought that when Ash Regan defected to Alba, and Humza Yousef said "No loss" (Ouch!), that she'd potentially be the casting vote in his downfall next week: "Et tu, Ashley?". And that her boss, the unelected "sex pest" Alec Salmond would demand that Humza ditch transgender legislation...

I bought a replacement MRL row crop, it lasted a little over a year before the sidewall went pop. You tend to get what you pay for... And speaking of which, are any of the OP's quoted tyres VF? They're the kind of investment that you can't see a return on, but it's definitely worth it in...

And yet there’s no visible effect in the crop across the boom width at any point in the growing season, be it in disease, weed kill, leaf area index / NDVI, standing power or yield. I’d suggest that having to spray at slow speed is the new ‘old wives tale’.

If you have a savings account it can receive money, but it can't be spent or have the money DD'd like a current A/c. As far as I know It needs to be transferred to another of your accounts before it can be moved out of your bank.