Recent content by Feldspar

How often do you mole?

Nice. It's nice now to have a year where you're very glad of the land out of production after the giddy heights of £300+/t for wheat.

What did you do in the end?!

Map your boundaries with RTK and record curved AB lines as you go. Topcon has a boundary guidance feature given a recorded boundary that automatically generates guidance paths. I can do pre-ems in the dark like this with no markers on the drill. You trust the screen more than what you can see...

Does anyone within 30 miles of Cambridge have any Skyfall or Crusoe that's in the 11.5-11.9% protein bracket that they want to sell? I know of a decent premium on offer for this. Message me for more info.

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Is it just recommended? Can't remember for sure.

Hi Simon! Hope all is well. None that come to mind immediately, but it's a very good mode of inquiry. I will ask around and see if I discover someone I know in this situation.

We know that as BPS goes and we increasingly compete at export parity without the laxer regulation / 1000ac fields of some of our competitors, consistently delivering profitable crops has become all the more important. We are quite a small number of people and so the new person really will have...

Are there any lessons you can pass on for trying to see these problems at the selection stage, or is it usually impossible? I have been told that it is much more normal now for the younger generation to swap jobs more frequently than in days gone by, but would not staying a job for that long be...

Not necessarily that. I won't put all the options on here, but one could be using more outside contractors as an example.

Sure. Main jobs machinery wise would be driving the sprayer, one of the drills, cultivations and doing relief combine driving. They wouldn't need to manage anyone else and would report directly to me. We have cut down the area of the farm that is cropped by a lot from 7-8 years ago, so we're...

This is the thing, having not been in the world of recruiting for ever basically (the last job we had to advertise for was 37 years ago, anyone in since then we inherited someone with a farm we bought or a neighbour came to work for us after the old foreman died), I am entirely unfamiliar with...

Blooming hell! That wasn't a problem I had imagined!

Not put the word out yet. But knew I had a lot of preparatory thinking / question asking to do, so that was main point of this thread. One problem that has occurred to me is that have no website, no real social media presence attached to the business. We don't do any contract work / contract...