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    State of Land drainage in the UK - Questionnaire for all farmers.

    I remember those days of drainage Grants. I fully agree, It was funny how the cost of drainage came down when grants were removed. So did the capital building grants, The cost of Building came down when they removed Grants.
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    Spring Beans

    Get them in ,and dont roll!
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    Sencrop accuracy

    Ours Is the same. We have had it since June The tab inside says 0.01" increments. I notice that for some years the Davis 0nes sent to uk are calibrated at 0.2mm according to my chart 0.01" =0.225mm that would not make up the difference. From the 12 /15 Jan our sencrop registered 21.6mm our...
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    Harvest/Yields 2020

    Cambs, Essex, Herts Boarders
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    Harvest/Yields 2020

    Our oats had already got roots on before the wind due to the previous wet and humid week, and had lost weight they are now only 42 kg hl now and look weathered ,what is left of them.
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    Is this the first round baler

    We used to have an Ann Arbour wire tie baler,we pulled it with an Alice U tractor it had a Continental engine. It needed five people to operate it . The Driver, The man that put boards in to separate the bales ,next was the man that threaded the wire through the boards, the chap sitting...
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    Barley combine settings for a Dommy 86

    As I remember our Dominator 86 had no disawner plates it had extra rasp bars which you had to bolt in the front two sections of the concave .It was a pig of a job to fit as you had to pull the preparing pan out slightly to get underneath so we never used them much.
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    Do you use a drone for detecting,poor, drainage/crop nutrient deficiency etc?

    I find that google earth is useful. Take a drone photo or drainage map. put them on your computer, layer them on google earth, use the opaque slide, you can then measure or take grid ref from there.
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    moving fans on grain

    The best way to move fans about on grain is on a childs plastic sledge!
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    Is there any point in cultivating now?

    A lot of the blackgrass seed has gone down the cracks anyway!
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