We normally feed ours just good silage once they’ve calved in the spring, having been on hay pre-calving. Good chance we’ll be short of silage in the new year. Assuming I can’t get hold of more silage any suggestions what I could add to good barley straw (which I have plenty of) to replace the...
Looking at choices for knocking down ploughing in the spring on easy worked chalk. Fair few years ago we had a Vaderstad NZ which did a great job. Unfortunately we wore it out. I’m not keen on it’s replacement so won’t mention the make but looking for opinions on the following for the job...
Any suggestions for an abattoir in the south for a non assured cull cow please? She needs to go on welfare grounds so can’t send her live. Only the one to go so it would be helpful if they had a ‘round’ collecting up ones and twos
Our current farm plastics recycler is proposing to increase their prices by nearly 50% for the coming year, and whilst their collections are convenient I keen to not be paying over £700pa for the pleasure!
I doubt the quantity of what we send would fit in £700 worth of skips, and I don't want...
Whilst we haven’t finished calving yet, we currently have 15% twins. Seems a lot to me. Wondering if others were seeing more twins than usual or just us, or what might explain an increase?
Want to get some iodine to pour on the autumn calvers backs but not sure where to get it? Any suggestions please?
I’ve had some from Wynstay in the past but they have now shut my local branch. Mole Valley Countrystore aren’t any help as it’s not for horses! Mole Valley Farmer looked at me as if...
Can someone give me the basics of applying for a grid connection in your own name rather than allowing a developer to do it for you? Is it feasible, how do you apply, what are the costs and timescales? Coming at it from complete ignorance
As above, thinking of changing a grain bucket and muck grab. Are JCB's own good, and do they make them themselves or are they a JCB sticker on someone else's product?
Has anyone recommendations for a mix for the above? We’ve some to establish soon and am after suggestions for the most productive seed mix that still satisfies the Stewardship requirements. It’s really unlikely to ever be grazed, so all for silage
What age do people recommend starting to use a bull? For a couple of reasons we ended up using one last year at about 15-16 months old on up to 24 cows depending on how many the previous bull had served before being swapped. 22 pd’d positive, one empty, one freemartin.
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I think our straw chopper could do with new knife sections as it isn’t grabbing the straw very well- is there an alternative to replacing with Lucas ones? They would be over £300
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