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This is a similar system I saw on a visit to Holland last year. The unroller was powered by a hydraulic motor connected to a tractor spool valve. I think the unroller was about 30k. The tubes on the cover were filled by pumping water out of the dyke into them.

Try https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/farming-equipment-and-technology-fund-2024/apply-for-the-farming-equipment-and-technology-fund-fetf-2024#how-to-apply-

I was a ginger, more grey now!

That’s the productivity and slurry sections. The closing date for the animal health options is the end of this month.

Teat spraying robot? They have one at Grosvenor farms on their rotary.

I put a 50m3 EB bin in for parlour cake so we can take an artic load with room to spare. Cost saving over an 8 wheeler load I was quoted £4/t . Only issue with our bin is knowing how much is in it. Due to the size the fibre glass is quite thick so you can’t see the level until it gets into the...

It’s like comparing apples and pears. One is a starch source with some extra rumen degradable protein from urea. The other is a moist feed with good digestible fibre and about 24% protein on a drymatter basis of which a reasonable amount will be undegradeable bypass protein. The comparison table...

I put a claim in Tuesday last week for a AQ2 air quality capital grant and got the money showing in the bank Saturday morning . I did have to represent my bank statements and invoices twice before this as you can’t send anything with account details on them now because they will delete them...

Yes we did get it sorted. The tractor had had a replacement number plate put on it but with one of the numbers missing. By going on the DVLA reg checker I managed to narrow it down to 3 or 4 possibilities. Spoke to a very helpful lady at DVLA and sent photos of the partially worn out IDplate on...

I seem to remember last backend on the kite podcast that they thought milk could be short this spring leading to rapidly rising prices. Prices are better than they were but not by much.

My Aug22 Wildtrack was 27.5k + vat but it was ordered May 21 through a buying group. Price includes the hardtop which was about £1500

I had the same with a capital grant on low emission flooring. Fortunately we happened to have enough in the bank account at the time to cover the full cost. I emailed them a copy of the bank statement to show them. I also pointed out asking my accountant was pointless as he only sees the figures...

I knew we could use AFI as standalone heat detection but we have uniform as well and wanted to avoid too many standalone programs to have to flick between. We also have track a cow pedometers on the bulling heifers which is a more modern and reads every 5 minutes. If we were to upgrade I think...

I have had them for 22 years since we installed the parlour. I did investigate moving to AFI software and pedometers but it would not link to our existing AFI milk meters without ripping out a load of controllers and costing a fortune .

My vet headed up the local Westpoint branch. Got fed up with them and set up on his own and took the other vets and receptionist with him. His wife has done something similar in Cheshire with Sandstone vets. Even the founder of Westpoint has now set up a new practice since selling out.