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    Repairing farm track

    we used this firm last year, would happily recommend them, and will get them to do another section of the lane when the milk price improves. Triple six will have driven on some of the lane they did when he picked the muck spreader up last year.
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    Quad sprayer with boom wanted Yorkshire area but would travel

    what size are you after? got a logic double axle honda engine trailed unit currently got an 80 gal 24 foot alman sprayer on. not been used for several years
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    Tractor in slurry store - North Yorkshire

    was taken back to dealers for repair
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    Out to pasture: A better way to produce milk

    what a load of rubbish, 'conventional' systems being run down as the embodyment of evil again. plenty of people produce milk from grass and have high welfare without jumping on latest band wagon. Our cows produce about 9500 litre at 4.25 %bf are grazing in a normal year from march till...
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    Fertiliser Price Tracker

    lithan £173 nitram £190 - both june deliver july pay for 15 ton lots urea £180 del oct-dec pay jan
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    BPS 15 payments England

    some money in the bank yesterday, awaiting some paperwork to see how they have worked it out, was less than expected, by rough calculations they have paid about £150/ha
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    Pickstocks Telford Ltd?

    i got over £900 for a 13year old holstein cow last week sold through the ring at local mart. Think I'll stay with live selling thanks
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    Kerb. Anyone started?

    some agronomists are there own worst enemy too, got a call to do some spraying for a customer 1st of oct, this year said couldnt go for few days because i was drilling. it was about 14th of oct when i actually got there due to drilling and lack of spaying weather. Went to chemical store to find...
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    First milk

    arla transport at leeds are looking to take on another 30-40 drivers and will be picking up arla milk and by the sound of it fm milk right up to your part of the world
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    Morrisons poll.

    But the point is fresh milk is not traded globally, fresh milk accounts for around half of the milk produced in the uk, The supermarkets would struggle to replace even part of that volume with imported product (even if they could get over the consumer resistance to it.) Yet the super markets...
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    Mobile dryer value

    I bought an 11 ton master drier last year. Admittedly lot older than yours but it had been factory refurbed and came with a seasons parts warrenty. That was 15k. I did think you were being a little optimistic asking 22k
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    Pig Muck Lucky dip

    Unfortunately, I agreed to take this spring, wasn't keen cos I knew about the net wrap, But they said they'd deliver it to the field and I was trying to keep in with them as I was trying to buy their farm. But the person of unknown parentage, then tried to screw us over on that, but that is a...
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    Pig Muck Lucky dip

    Spent the afternoon trying spread pig muck from a neighbouring farm. From the first 5 loads i removed the following; some plywood sheeting, some timber that might have been yorkshire boarding, a couple of lengths of blue water pipe(with fittings on end), 7 breeze blocks (filled), a few bits of...
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    Lely preventing the manual attach trick

    Have you just had this update? ours has always switched pulsation off when you press reattach, but as you have found there is a way round it. ;-)
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    can you identify this loader??

    Dragon and ETC trailer were both on the market at the same time, they did have a look of each other, so not sure if they came out of same factory. We still have an 8 ton and a 7 ton dragon trailers, been good trailers still regular use must be nearly 30 years old now
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    can you identify this loader??

    looks like a MIL marquis 500, think bomford took on the rights to the loaders, I know we got some brackets for ours when it moved off a MF35x on to a case in the late 80's
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    Combinables Price Tracker

    yes not too far from Darlington, price is just for feed spec alchemy, I could have sold it for a biscuit contract at £163 last Monday. The grain trader did say today that the biscuit premium has now gone.
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    Combinables Price Tracker

    Been bid £168 for feed wheat march14 movement, think I'll start selling, not sold any of 2013 harvest yet.
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    Machinery shopping list

    New loader tractor should be here this month (valtra N163 direct/vario) been on order since end of November. Looking for a 2nd hand mobile grain drier. Going on how the cows are milking a bigger milk tank and 2nd robot maybe required sooner than anticipated. If I could be sure I'd get as much or...
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    yams what you think

    comments about it on this thread http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/yorkshire-agriculture-machinery-show.16507/
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