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They’ve not had any serious issues with blue so no. You could say they were unlucky I guess but two very bad fendt on one farm isn’t a great advert is it.

I asked for a quote on a new telescopic with my current machine as a trade in. When the price came I couldn’t get my head around it as it was far far more than I’d envisaged. So I went back to the dealer and said I want a straight buy price of the new machine as I’d decided to keep it as backup...

A close friend is an independent dealer operating from one depot. He’s so busy on the mechanics side he can’t get staff. There’s 8 full time on the spanner’s and he could do with 16 for the sheer quantity of work. He charges half the rate to the main dealers yet has all the current software...

Does anybody offer this service? I’m scheduled for a knee replacement so won’t be in a position to do it this year so thinking of getting somebody in. The shed would be empty so its underfloor tunnel covers up and hoover the laterals, then hoover the fan tunnel, blow down walls, then blow...

Cutting back on the farming and pushing none farming diversifications here but we’ve stripped them out of the farm accounts and running them as separate business’s. I think for us the farm will tread water with a mix of cropping cereals, stewardship and renting land out for root crops or energy...

Been offered £115/tonne for barn stored wheat straw today. Think there’s a bit of panic buying going on because it’s going to be very short next winter by the looks of things.

Starting a new thread because the other one has got too long to find any information within it. So this AHL2 option in SFI looks ok initially but not so sure when you dig deeper. The aim is copied below and in the ‘how to do it’ section it says ‘It’s up to you how you complete this action, as...

My neighbour hasn’t had much luck with Fendt’s. First issue was a 724 that had a front axle issue at 100hrs. He battled for weeks to get that done on warranty. Then at 1500hrs the gearbox had to be replaced. It had an ongoing power issue where it dynoed at 190hp. He got rid at 2500hrs at a...

If a new one is £120,000 vs a used one at £60,000 how does 0% compete? The last quote I had £60,000 over 3 years would be £8,400 in interest so £68,400 which is still £51,600 less coming out of your cash flow over the same period of time. That’s an awful lot of services and breakdowns and don’t...

If you start looking at some of these big dealer groups accounts the amount they owe is frightening. Couple that with high stock figures on manufacturer loans and then look at the money they are owed then it doesn’t bode well for the machinery trade. These mammoth dealer groups the manufacturers...

Hi, does anybody know anything about legal obligations of a scheduled monument. We’ve got one and some local dogooders are trying to find out about it. At this stage they’ve had it on local social media, taken pictures with a drone and then trespassed on foot to it as there’s no public footpath...

Lost 35% of winter wheat here at the minute. Add in the 15% not drilled yet and I’m not going to, as spring cropping doesn’t stack up. We’ll leave it bare and get a few grass weed chits or maybe put it in SFI for 3 years. What it means is that my fertiliser stock will last two cropping years if...

Defintely is as I’ve had machinery and input sales people asking if we need anything whilst normally it’s the other way around. I was going to change a tractor and buy another used loader but shelved those for at least 12 months. I will be changing a pickup though as the current one has become...

We left a few years ago and the only way I would rejoin would be if they dropped all of the non farming members and we had only farmers running it. I don’t think any of them should be full time positions and they shouldn’t get paid a salary. They should have any costs reimbursed though. it’s...

Had a proper look at it now and if we put all our current leraps and game covers into the wild bird option, did all the management plans, all the hedge row things and the no insecticide it’s tempting. Basically the existing leraps and game covers are 5% of the cropable land so we aren’t taking...