Mouser
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- near Belfast
If everybody would just fudgin do this 
,save a whole lotta bother with more nonsense environmental schemes.
,save a whole lotta bother with more nonsense environmental schemes.
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No bo
I thought you didn't need a dribble bar until 2022?
If everybody would just fudgin do this
While the brown envelope keeps coming that is the way it will be.
Mouser
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- Location
- near Belfast
If that's what they want then give everyone an equal grant to buy dribble bar tanker. Why give a grant for a portable sheep crush or a yard brush or a apple box tipper?
- Location
- Co antrim
Mabe the man needin the sheep crush or apple tipper doesnt need a dribble bar
It's a farm business improvement scheme, slurry handling is only one aspect. Lots of farms with no slurry at all, they are just as entitled to a share of the pie.
it's not over
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- thunder rd co.antrim
Rem you have to spend 30k to get 12k. It's one of those scheme that can be slightly contradicting..... the more you spend the more you save.
Yeah, but the suits arnt making it illegal for me not to have a sheep crush or apple tipper.
Mouser
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- Location
- near Belfast
If they're going to make it law to have a dribble bar they should give everyone that needs one an equal share of a pot to buy dribble bars. Not lump it into a scheme to red up money left in some pot or other.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
It was a difficult month for grazing, and ground has suffered. Has to be one of the worst October's. 140mm falling on 25 of the 31 days. A poor back end to a middling season. Wondering if November will be better. After a poor start, forecast is looking better for this week.
it's not over
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- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
I find Late autumn grazing is paid for in spring
- Location
- Co. Antrim
An older farming neighbour always told me if your going to do some damage to ground do it in the spring as it’ll always be drying with you then found this to be quite good advice
dave6470
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- Location
- Coleraine Co.Londonderry NI
a dry Nov will be a godsend to me I've 3 acres of potatoes still to dig and a friend has over 100 acres to dig
Bogeyman
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- Location
- North Antrim
Know of a farmer of whom it was said that in frustration at his poor diy ai results he went gloveless. !!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Horses for courses I suppose. I find that damage in the spring time sets back grass production and fertilizer applications in the lead up to peak production. Fact is, damage at any time of the year isn't good, as recovery time in our climate is slow.
Must say, the gung-ho grazers have changed their tune.
A man from Greenmount who spent time studying ground compaction told us to forget about a big tanker and trailing shoe etc. He said big wheels might not cut in but compacted ground the width of the wheels down to 1 metre deep depending on soils.
Would a 1600 with dribble bar on 800's with a top hatch for distance work be a good option?
Would a 1600 with dribble bar on 800's with a top hatch for distance work be a good option?
- Location
- Co. Antrim
There’s a guy on Facebook farm theory think the page is called spreads all slurry with 1600 on big wheels says anything bigger is just compacting