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Well you've blown any chance of talking to your l/lord about a rent reduction!

Now 60mm over past 6 days.

Thinking of changing an old GEM trailed sprayer. There is GM-R trailed sprayer at Agri-linc which might be suitable. Are GM-R sprayers OK? Spare parts? Reliability? Any other comments/advice. Limited budget, so not looking for all the most modern bells and whistles!

I submitted my TFF form to claim CPD points for NRoSO 2 hours ago, and just had an email from NRoSO confirming allocation to my account. Pleasantly surprised!

Heard from my BS fieldsman that seed ordered on the early pre-emptive offer remained in place. There was no BTS9485 weeks ago.

Keith Packer, MD of BS has said in an email today "...I am now looking forward to moving on and working on key projects around sustainability...and upholding a fair trade policy environment". That opens the door wide for any number of add ons and boxes to tick in future, and probably having to...

There have been 2 RTAs near here in past 10 days both involving a tractor and a car. The police recover the tractor (in one case undamaged) for "forensic checks". And then the owner/farmer is given no idea of how long the tractor will be impounded. But I don't think they do this if 2 cars are in...

Price for malting barley ex farm today??

I would only pay for one if it was me!!

Is it really that yellow?

It used to smell lovely!!

I expect that was a presentation by Hans Rosling. His book "Factfulness" is well worth reading.

Hah...now spoken to the Council surveyor. The developer's planning application was originally approved by a local authority in another part of the country! (apparently this is not unknown). My council were not impressed by the proposals. There were many conditions required by my council, not...

I contacted Building Control this morning and now awaiting a call from their surveyor.

Thank you all so much. Many valuable comments and much food for thought for me. I do think he is trying it on. The pipe(s) would actually be perforated and put in by proper agric drainage contractor. The developer is a local farmer who I have known for decades. Always found him friendly, but...

4 houses going up right next to one of my arable fields. House builder has asked if he can have 2 x 4 inch diameter drainage pipes put under my field to an IDB drain on the far side, to take rain water from the 4 new houses. My field is already under-drained, but 2 more drains would be a small...

Oh great....BS announces a generous offer applicable to the 23/24 crop. Growers can opt into Yield Protection, and enjoy a £1.50/t price reduction for 80% of CTE, paid by June 2024....wait for it....."at the discretion of BS".

I heard a proportion of Newark beet is being sampled then taken to the showground and tipped in a gurt big heap! True?

Today's plan was to start ploughing and combi drilling beet land lifted over the weekend. But minus 5C and a breeze overnight has frozen the ground solid. At 2pm it's still not ploughable. Think plan B now ...leave till decent conditions in Jan/Feb. Now where did we put the beet clamp sheets...

I'm thinking of having an accumulator tank fitted in my home system to overcome the problem of water flow dropping when more than one tap/shower being used at same time. Existing system is pressurised (i.e. no cold water tank in loft). Any advice...size, make etc? My usual local plumber doesn't...