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I seem to remember I had pressure on brakes. The symptom I had was poor/slow operation of link arms/spools.

I had a fair amount of trouble with the trailor brake valve on mine. Leaky seal was causing the flow to get dumped back into the rear axle. I could prove that was the problem in my case by using a piece of pipe to bypass the tbv.

I'd wondered if a legume fallow, but add in yellow rattle would be a good plan. Being an annual it would be reasonably easy to top it in the final year before setting seed.

With the dry weather at the end of last year - I chickened out and left the seed in the bag. Waiting for it to dry up (a little) next few weeks hopefully.

My field records are kept using Google forms. You can make a record form easily, and the data is posted to a spreadsheet on the Google drive. I use my phone to post the information when ever I need to. You can attach photos (depending on what you need) . Best of all it costs me nothing. I have...

We have a field that is adjacent to a static caravan site. I've noted for about the last year (maybe even longer) that we seem to have a significant wet patch (present even during the dry spell) that seems to be attributable to the neighbouring caravan site. From the caravan site our field has...

I bought an aitchison seedmatic drill over the summer. It has the latest t-slot boots First job is to stitch a grass seed mix into a fairly thin short term ley. I've grazed the existing sward down hard. Any tips on settings for this - particularly depth? I'm assuming as shallow as possible...

There was a story about a river in Germany where low river levels are carved into a substantial piece of bed rock - this summer surpassed previous low levels. Stones referred to as hunger stones, as generally when the carvings are visible a famine will ensue.

There's a insects that depend on ragwort. Whilst it's not what you want in a hay meadow,. it has its place.

If you didn;t sell it, I'm in Worcestershire and looking for a Moore.

Of course on the flip side, if you were into such things, if you did have archeological features you may well find that you could receive a grant to protect them.

If you look on the Defra Magic map, there's are area marked where the dig took place (which was in the 1960s I understand). There's no restrictions per-se, but I have noticed that certain country side stewardship options would not be supported on the area in question. In summary, no grant for...

Some pieces found on the farm here are in the British Museum. I'd not hesitate to have the opportunity to learn about the history of the ground under our feet.

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I leave as much as possible, often until end of Feb. Its always tempting to flail it off to tidy things up, but I've found the barn owls love the longer/un-cut areas, so leave it for them.