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To turn a profit from sucklers means spending as little as possible on them while selling a calf once a year that its self has cost the minimum to produce. Obvious isn’t it? So what are the essentials? Spring calving so enough grub to see the through the winter but they probably need to lose...

Hi all, new member here. I’ve been rearing 300 head a year from calves and selling as well grown stores and have a good established customer base, have been going around 15 years this way but the price of rearing keeps going up, and the healthy demand for strong suckled stores has finally...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland The Blackwater Tractor Run is an annual event with a different charity being chosen to benefit from the proceeds each year, yet the most notable feature of this year’s gathering was the delightful weather that chose to appear on the day. The starting...

Looking to change our 3.2 Ranger and someone said the 10 speed isn’t good towing as it spends its whole time hunting for gears. Anyone know if this is the case?

Hi all, hoping for some advice please. We keep around 100 continental store cattle on the farm, bought in in autumn and over-wintered in barns, turned out in April and sold the following autumn. To try something different we’ve just bought some in-calf cows with calves at foot. One cow has twin...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A ProCam agronomist has said the key to reliable blight control is to adapt programmes according to weather conditions and using forecasting tools to determine when the threat of blight is at its highest. The agronomy and crop protection business...

Managing a small herd of longhorns here.Lovely quiet cows untill they have a calf, then it's as if a switch has been flicked and they suddenly become possessed by the devil. This of course then becomes exacerbated when you have calves that don't suck; big traffic cone tits to latch onto; tagging...

I need a set of rear tyres for one of my 2WD Case DB 1394. It is currently on an old set of 16.9 R34 which are rotten I have been looking around at new and used tyres and there seems to be a big variation. I can buy something like an Alliance 324 (8 ply) new in a 16.9 R34 for around £320 or a...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland French tractors are rare machines at Irish vintage events, despite France putting a great deal of effort into creating a post-war tractor industry to serve a new generation of farmers. Indeed, so enthusiastic was the government of France of the time...

Looking to change our pickup,we currently have a manual l200 but the gearing is quite high especially when starting on a hill with 60 spring lambs in a Gamic tri axle livestock trailer.So we are considering an Auto and I was wondering what the pros and cons are.We are looking at a Ranger,Hi Lux...

After a new bull, going back to Charolais on Angus cows after a few years out, wondering what sort of Charolais would be best, as there a lot of different types these days, can you get the shapey ones that are still easy calving ? Or do the shapey ones still have the growth of the classic types.

I think most will agree that last winter was pretty hard on sheep, and overall the grass growth this spring is well behind where it should be. Thankfully the sheep trade has remained buoyant with tight numbers, and overall the feed bills haven’t been so high due to carry over from good yields...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Case IH is intending to return to Cereals 2024 on June 11-12 with a new stand that will showcase not only its latest machinery, but also its connected services. The stand will incorporate one of the largest working demonstration plots on the Cereals...

Hello! Thanks for letting me be a part of this community! I am able to buy a Fransgard mower from a neigbour that just quit. This is a Fransgard K-240 mower that has only been used for a season. He says he will sell it to me for half the price of a new one (new one in Norway is £7300 and he’s...

Frost on the ground in parts this morning and we have 45 acres of maize going in today. I'll let you know in a fortnight wether it was the right call. Hope to get a photo up later.

Any opinions on this cross, considering BSH heifers to try to the Lim Bull, for a harder cow than BB cross.

Be gentle... ignorant arable farmer asking for a friend on this one... Let's say you had £25k, and wanted to get into livestock. You have access to low imput permanent pasture (heavy land), and occasionally some rotational leys. You have access to a loader, You have an old shed, potential...

Not sure if this is interesting content "off topic" for a farming forum or not ? (please let me know if not and I will stop boring you all). Next week I set of on a bit of an adventure through Morocco via Barcelona in a Puma engined series 1969 2a landrover with my friend Alan The route...

Row crop wheels 320 90 R50 and 12.4 (320) R32 Advert added by: Paul Alcock @sodbuster2 Machinery Details Category: Parts and Maintenance Wheels Price: £1500 Condition: Used Description Sam Moreton heavy duty wheels Continental centres to suit 5100 CaseIH...

Continental Advert added by: Machinery Details Category: Tractors Tractor Parts Price: £2250 Condition: Good Description Full set of tyres and rims 8 stud. They came off a Renault bought from a sale as a spare set but never used. No longer needed. Yo17...