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    Soonaxed.

    These aren't Conservatives - they're swindlers in cahoots with the Banks, the FOS, the BoE & the BBRS. They're offshoring Briton's assets.
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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    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
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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    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...
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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    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...
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    Claas/Renault Ares?

    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...
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    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    I second that after getting soaked to the skin again this afternoon...
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    Your current weather.

    1100mm for the last 12 months, another 12mm today & we're apparently the drier side of the country :X3:
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    no till

    I've left this exact same point with the SFI team at DEFRA, specifically where cover crop destruction is concerned & I'm awaiting a response
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    SFI second quarterly payment

    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:
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    Hay and Straw for sale and Wanted open to all

    Threshed ryegrass straw - barn stored, North Lincolnshire Rounds - £15 ex-farm Quadrants - £25 ex-farm
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    Working all your life at home on the farm with that old "It will be yours one day"

    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🤦‍♂️
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    Working all your life at home on the farm with that old "It will be yours one day"

    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...
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    Working all your life at home on the farm with that old "It will be yours one day"

    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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    Working all your life at home on the farm with that old "It will be yours one day"

    There's some very sick people out there & the love of money is indeed to root of all evil
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