Recent content by Wishful Thinker

Silage dry or mouldy? Could toxins be playing a part?

Automatic guns, tin of spray, can of red bull before you start and the wife if she's in a good mood. Split the house in half, go in afternoon when most lying down, gun in each hand and go like frig. Can get most jagged lying down, if quick enough they never move. Salmonella vaccine and tb...

You're getting lazy in your old age!! Getting to used to the handy life with them hens. Mine were sitting at 3.2% this morning, have culled 4 and sold 3 fresh in February. Too much hassle, want to sell more but projections showing me short on numbers come June. Hard getting the balance of...

I bought my first one new, second robot came couple years later and it was second hand but same model. If I was to do it again I'd have bought new. My advice, make sure you do thorough research. I bought from a dealer but I wish I had found out more about where the robot came from and how it...

Regular enough occurrence here, my dad works on the lucky dip theory when I'm not there. Can't complain though least they're in calf

New load of concentrate on Friday?

Half the country is striking over pay, is it unfair to ask for a decent return?

Cut the sheep man down this year, let the heifers eat more of it and give ground a longer break. Hoping they can last to December we've missed the worst of the rain

That's mad. 110mm more than us

Plenty of bog roll floating down the bann this evening. Us naughty farmers.

Thinking of ditching the wellies for full length waders after todays rain

Tributaries have been continuously tested for years. Farmers in ballinderry catchment have been getting grants recently to help

That should be 2023 complete for me. Bit long in being cut but least it’s dry and @MrA.G. engineering calculations haven’t been put to the test.

We’ve had over 70mm. I think the average for August is 90. Not exactly a dry month, especially given there was 175mm in July.

Happy on the outside? More ground, more conacre to pay, shed to hold the grain, need another tractor to work the ground plus whatever implements needed or more to pay the contractor and possibly extra help to cover the workload. Does a saving of £30? a ton pay for all that? Meal bill might look...