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    Farmer Keith replied to the thread silage sheets.
    Interested in how people hang the side sheets on concrete walls, first year away from earth banks last year and it was an awful job, 4...
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    Farmer Keith replied to the thread Resilience.
    Same old story when you need it everybody’s short and when you’ve plenty there’s loads for sale.
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    Farmer Keith replied to the thread Resilience.
    Won’t be an issue this time there’s hundreds of tons left in clamp and we’ve stopped feeding on Wednesday. Two dry years back to back...
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    Farmer Keith replied to the thread Resilience.
    It’s all well and good saying make more silage but some years the option just isn’t there, I’ve only sold silage once in the spring of...
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    Farmer Keith reacted to neilo's post in the thread Thistles with Like Like.
    Only legal in a ‘boom sprayer’. You could cable tie the hand lance to the bike rack if anyone saw you though.🤐 I was told the reason...
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    Sounds like a fairly mean- spirited family and reinforces the need to both have a watertight will AND communicate it’s contents to all...
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    Farmer Keith reacted to Tonka's post in the thread Evolution Farming with Like Like.
    Very few people are "man" managers. Farmers are no different. Most of the ones I know, I'd never choose to work for them. Staff...
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    Farmer Keith reacted to steveR's post in the thread Thistles with Like Like.
    If it's creeping thistle, spot spraying is a thankless and often pointless exercise in my experience... Thistlex overall when it's...
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    Farmer Keith replied to the thread Thistles.
    Been chopping a few monsters out already, they don’t seem to of minded the warm wet winter here.
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    Farmer Keith reacted to crashbox's post in the thread Thistles with Like Like.
    I whack a dozen a day getting the cows in... That'll be a couple thousand by the end of the grazing season!
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    Farmer Keith reacted to yin ewe's post in the thread All things Dairy with Like Like.
    That is the problem not the solution, anyone can have an accident but to purposely put slurry down the river is giving all farmers a bad...
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    Farmer Keith reacted to ollie989898's post in the thread Net Zero - its over. with Like Like.
    Net zero for just electricity generation is a pipedream as it stands. Never mind the millions of BTUs of natural gas the UK burns or the...
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    Farmer Keith reacted to bobk's post in the thread Thistles with Like Like.
    Thistlex is the best imo , it will kill most
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    Farmer Keith replied to the thread Thistles.
    That’s a shame, probably be to spray, I had a reseed come full of scotch ones a few years back and just went with a sharp spade and some...
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    Farmer Keith replied to the thread Thistles.
    What type of thistle?
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