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With huge apologies to all farmers for the massively naive nature of this post, my wife and I are exploring buying (and farming) a livestock farm. I have the financial resources but no experience and I don't know any farmers. Any suggestions of where to go to get experience or any good courses...

They say a candle burns bright before it flickers out lol But i realy am having the time of my life Finding all this 50 B Digger Stuff hiding in the back of farmers yards and putting it to good use, on my patch of evil clay as my mate calls it. Those realy were the Glory days of farming ...

Morning All we are looking to put in a substantial planning application for a new milking parlour, collecting yard and handling facilities. What makes the application strong? Its a large building that for cow flow juts out of our site which will make it quite noticeable. I've read through the...

Landscape Recovery: The Waveney and Little Ouse Recovery Project Written by Dr. Daniel Wade The River Waveney Floodplain near Bressingham as of 11 December 2023. Can you spot the river? Credit: Ali Moseley and Will Everson at the Environment Agency. Sitting on both sides of the...

Hi, Been struggeling a little with my crop establishment since i started my farming journey 3 years ago - quite a newbie so be nice :D Only doing cereals for now, so crop rotation is wheat, oats and barley. Tillage is done with a Carrier, and drilling with a Rapid. pH is from 5.9 -> 6.5 on all...

I think we all know that if we want to make money I mean a sensible amount farming is no longer the way, farming is becoming a sideline paid for by the other enterprises. One day people may wake up and smell the coffee but untill then farmers(anything but) will have to rely on other things to...

How many dd guys have gone cultivating? Out next door neighbours practices a full range of cultivating and has 95% crop cover after a hard winter we dd a majority of ours and a currently re drilling 50% .cultivating a fair bit as the top is solid from rain. Any one else feal like abandoning...

Interesting To know what inventions people have turned their plastic drums into. we just have a sledge for moving a fresh calve but I bet theres more creative things to do with them

Looking for a Pipe Drainage Bucket for 50 B Digger ,no more than 6 inch Thanks D

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.

Coverage of the UK-wide ban on wet wipes containing plastic Written by Defra Press Office There has been coverage, including in the Telegraph, Sky News, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Times and The Mirror of the publication of the government response to our consultation on a ban on...

Apply now for a water screening study Written by Andy Turner Climate change affects the amount and timing of water availability, as well as demand. We want to support farmers and growers to plan for and secure a more resilient water supply. So, from today, small groups of farmers in England...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A £1.6 million fund has been announced for farmers to investigate different methods to manage water in their area. The fund was announced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) today (Monday, April 22), and is now open...

Several fields of hybrid rye where the crop has only really survived on top of drains. Maybe 20% of field areas actually growing, so no point patching. No spring fert or autumn herbicide at all. What to do? Ground/soil is sadder than I’ve ever known it, and we’ve had some sad springs. Possible...

Herring bone System with 2inch clay pipes on chalky boulder clay all hand dug over 120 years ago, Photo taken last weekend

What would be a good price to excavate trench, supply and lay pipe and backfill trench to 1000mm with 80mm plastic pipe 1100mm with 100mm plastic pipe £ Per metre please ?

Ok, putting the Winter/Spring rainfall aside for a minute, is anyone else finding this a strange Spring? The local Reading University soil and air temperatures (link below) have been well above seasonal average, but I’m finding everything to be so slow to get away this year. We are now into the...

This guy speaks so much sense. Follow him on instagram real food not this processed sh!t, and he attracts people we don’t necessarily connect with I.e townies p.s. this is ag related so before any teaches pets report it to be moved, stop being so Anal retentive dogooders 😂

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With wet weather and flooding commonplace during the past few months, clubroot zoospores are at high risk of migration. CPM looks at the importance of crop husbandry and on-farm hygiene in preventing the spread of the disease and how this...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The UK is seeing fewer and fewer ‘perfect’ spray days, so being ready to utilise any weather window that comes along is increasingly important. CPM speaks to a farm manager whose investment in a new self-propelled sprayer with pulse width...