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Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) has issued a crop management update, covering cereals and potatoes. Crops specialist, Leigh McClean, said: “Frustratingly, spring weather has limited opportunities to get spray and...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The 2024 spring planting and grass-cutting season is now well underway in the south Antrim area, according to one agricultural contractor. Darren Russell is part of the Russell Brothers team. The business works out of premises close to the village of...

I want to tidy up my silage fields , docks thistles ,, what do you recommend chem wise , docks will be the worst ..

1 block of land has a really good spot to film aeroplanes from. Never bothered me until these live streamers turned up. I guess the spotters just did it for there own use. Now almost every day there is someone there filming putting it on YouTube for over a thousand people to see live while I...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) has put together its management tips for farmers as slurry tanks on many farms “remain full” following the prolonged wet spell. According to CAFRE, farmers in zones 1 and 2 of Northern...

We are going to install a tank to provide pressurised water to our 100 dairy cows, youngstock and plate cooler. If possible we would like to feed about 5 troughs on a grazing block from the pump (600m of 32mm pipework already in place) what pump would people recommend? 3 phase is available of...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Fleming Agri Products Ltd. from Derry may not normally hit the headlines every five minutes with new product launches, yet that does not mean that this 160-year-old company has little to offer farming. Indeed, quite the opposite is the case, for what...

Our milking parlour reception pit currenty gets emptied with the slurry tanker. We have a under ground store which we put it in over the summer. A pump would be so much easier. 2.5m deep tank PTO pump at ground level (self priming) and a 4m lift 30m accross the yard. The issue is the tank...

Bit of a long shot. Got an old slurry pump that just pumps dirty water. Coupler on the bottom just died. Any idea what make it is TIA

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland The FSP (Farm Safety Partnership) has raised serious concerns over the recent decision by the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) to halt farm safety inspections. The FSP fears that the decision will pose significant risks to the health and safety of...

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Looking for a slurry stirrer at least 25ft, and ideally in the south west but could be from further away if the price is right. Thanks.

RABDF Down to Earth, the regenerative livestock farming event, will be hosted at a housed cow unit for the second year in a row; cows milked 3x per day, I understand it to be "high input, high output". Not knocking confinement systems, but can this system really be regenerative? I believe that...

I have 90acres of 1st cut silage to sell to a dairy farm about 2 miles up the road, i have no idea what to charge him for it, what is the going rate per acre for silage? Its very good quality 2yr old lay, he will do all the contracting work so that wont be in the price

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...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has said it welcomes the “long awaited” support from the Welsh government for on-farm investment. Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies today (Monday, April 29) announced a...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Welsh cabinet secretary for climate change and rural affairs has today (Monday, April 29) announced £20 million for two funding schemes to support investment on farm infrastructure. Huw Irranca-Davies said the funding will help build...

Lower Pertwood Farm near Warminster, a 2800 acre downland arable, sheep, and cattle unit is to be all reverted back to grassland, with trees planted and lightly grazed with cattle, sheep, horses and pigs. I can't do links, but perhaps somebody will, just google 'Lower Pertwood Farm rewilding'...

Every year at this time of year my grass plants have a purple tinge to them. It's all quite new grass and all levels are pretty good except for potash which I am working to rectify. Could that be the reason or some other stress. Once we go into the warmer times and the grass takes off it turns...

Looking to upgrade an 8000 hr JD 6320, main job is diet feeder and bedder but in the summer wanting to help out a 6130r with certain jobs. 6320 been a great tractor but underpowered for our 10 ton muck spreader, slurry tanker mower is etc. So needing 120 hp but buildings to small for new 6...