Recent content by Gourlaw

Remember you will have to charge VAT if it is part of the main farming business (assuming your business is VAT registered.

Two of us from Scotland going!

Colour not too bad. Need to dry slowly on drying floor to stop splitting. Not on A68. More south West of Edinburgh. Still 40 acres to cut if Storm Jonas or the pigeons don't get them. Neighbour has 180 still to cut.

Cutting Beans today. 40 acres cut over last 2 days. Not sure if we can claim the record for the earliest harvest this year or the latest from last year! MC off the meter but yielding circa 1.5 t per acre (dry)

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My accountant is recommending the Irish Company. It is called Farmflo. I moved my accounting package from Sage to Xero. I cannot put into words how good it is and how user friendly. Farmflo apparently integrates into Xero and updates Stock etc on an on-going basis..

The book was written in the early eighties, but most of it is still relevant. It costs 1 p, but £2.80 postage. Sent from my Hudl HT7S3 using TFF mobile app

My son bought it a week ago and it is very good, apart from recommending burning. It confirms the two Simons theory from scientific research and advises coating seed in chalk. Also confirms what Frederick is saying about early and additional N when converting to No Till. Sent from my Hudl HT7S3...

Stopped renting land out two years ago. Fifteen years ago my rent was £300 per acre. 13 years later rent still the same but land price up nearly400 per cent. Meanwhile, the ploughing, destoning and wet harvest ruined soil structure and drainage in many of the fields. The machines are getting...

If you move some soil to get help the crop going a much faster for cover crops, why not the same approach for establishing the commercial crop? (from a Horsch no tiller)

Having read the Forum for a while now, I put all the advice into practice. Have a good rotation you said, so I now grow Winter Linseed, Beans, OSR, Ahiflower and all first wheats and had record wheat yields this year, but my neighbours said that last year was a good year for no-till. Use...

Remember this is a waste product and must have Pass 100 status to be spread.

Check it has not been treated with Lime as a stabiliser as it is then not suitable for feeding to animals apparently.

We use a lot of it. It is high in Phosphate and Sulphur and very high carbon content. Nitrogen is negligible. We spread it through the winter on growing crop. Warning - It smells very bad after about a week and can upset neighbours! We apply circa 17 tonne per hectare which is the maximum...

The theory has three parts to it 1- Identified the problem, which most of us all agree 2- Identify the cause 3- Identify the solution, which seems to be gaining a consensus ie apply lime to increase local ph (although this may increase potential take-all) , sow earlier in drier conditions, place...