Recent content by AlfM

As said above cattle aren’t dying. They get over it fine. Not heard anything about abortions etc. The local vet is saying they are seeing some sheep in a bad way and some are dying. Still very random who is getting it and it’s only the odd new case you hear about.

Which bits of AF do you prefer?

Presumably at this stage with 12 months to get options sorted even if we do get permission to apply we can still put down extended over winter stubble and start them after next harvest?

Ours is now definitely not over winter stubble as it’s been ripped up to drill with something

We ended up needing a new display unit - £574

Have filled in the early expression of interest and not heard back yet. The plan was extended over winter stubbles so these are currently left bare. Feels like there is a risk they will be left and no agreement will be offered before it is too late to winter crop?

Are they saying anything is actually dying? Other than the first 2 rams which they culled I’m not hearing much. Rather quickly just become normality round here.

Not that bad the ones I’ve heard of. Given the APHA aren’t testing other animals on farm or neighbours or taking animals away I guess they just letting them get over it and monitoring the situation now? One farm very close reported having one cow with high temperature, one gone lame and one with...

Everything I’ve heard of is being reported to APHA based on animals showing signs and all coming back positive. They are only testing animals the animals that are showing signs now. Hearing of new suspect cases being reported basically daily so I think it’s spreading well unfortunately.

There’s quite a few cattle round here testing positive. I know of one place where cows are positive and the sheep seem fine currently. They aren’t doing anything with the cattle now just stopping movement on/off.

The website for licences has a 'page not found' 404 type error

I hope the midges respect county boundaries as all of Norfolk and Suffolk in now.

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If they are the original tracks they won't have long left. The wires go well before the tread is gone. Usually see it on the underside of the track there might be splits or patches of the rubber gone and you can see wire corroding. They are the best thing going for the soil but need deep...

I'd be more concerned as to which type of track it has. There have been maybe 2 or 3 different efforts at improving them by the track manufacturer. The first tracks were useless and wires break and come out from 2000 hours onwards and you get a large bill for new tracks. The newer ones are...