The herbal ley option maybe isn't the best paying arable SFI but we've put some more grass on arable for lambing using it which we probably wouldn't have done before
Good sheep farmers have a lifetime's knowledge about how they have attempted (not always succeeded) in improving breeding to suit the system on their farms. Some farmers like to keep them intensive, some like extensive. Sheep, like crops aren't easy to keep alive, but if all your doing is...
We lamb outside middle of April. Last year we had a few cases of gangenous mastitis which I remember my father telling me we had in a wet spring in 1987 or 88. Wet, muddy, cold conditions underfoot, bacteria on bigger udders exposed to unseasonably cold weather. It's a bloody sorry thing to...
Ran a Claas Ares 656 a while back. Nice simple trouble free tractor, better than the MF 6160 it replaced - controls were very similar. It's very basic & was cheap to buy in the first place, so I can't see them appreciating a lot. John Deere engine, Massey back end. It's on my list of tractors I...
I've got a horrible feeling that @Greedy is right. There was I thinking the second payment would be in February & managed my cashflow under the impression it would be :mad:
One of my father's favourite expressions was KBI, so I did. There was so many other problems demanding my time I didn't have much time to think about myself, but it seems everyone else had time to think about themselves🤦♂️
I'm afraid my father was one of the very few people in my life I really trusted from being a little boy & it's been very hard to come to terms with him having taken advantage of that trust. My parents managed to live a good life off my work, having not worked since the mid 90s & until now I...
Yes, a few times, but my father wasn't a well man before he died. He was being put under a lot of emotional pressure by my mother, who has always been put under a lot of emotional pressure by my siblings. I spoke with him numerous times about moving things forward, certainly in the last 5 years...
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