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Mole catcher in the cheshire area looking for more clients, any size of acreage with good results, Hundreds of traps and quad bike available. Taking bookings now. stephen 07518 955185

evening all
I have just finished a harvest vacancy and looking for my next vacancy, experience of ploughing, primary and secondary cultivation.hedge cutting ,trailer.work, Heston bailing and relief combine operator. Based on Cambridge Bedfordshire Hertfordshire border

41 years old family man , shotgun instructor and keen shooter and ex part time gamekeeper

Thanks all

Looking for a relief milker, we milk 500 cows in tilston, Malpas, Cheshire, through a simple to use 33/33 herringbow parlour. we need someone that can commit to every other weekend 5.30am till 8.30am them 2.30pm till 5.30pm, every Wednesday if required but not essential. Thanks

Hi, is there anyone near Bishop Burton or the surrounding area who might like a 16yr old to help for a day or two a week whilst he is at college? he has tractor licence and has some experience of powerharrowing, rolling, drilling, ploughing and carting. He is also mad keen on any livestock except Pigs. will muck in with any Dairy, Sheep or Beef jobs. Can arrange transport to and from your farm. Please ring 07768708922 or send a message to get in touch. Thanks

We are looking for a young recent agricultural graduate to help with the day to day management of a 1200 care intensive vegetable farm in Kenya. We grow a mix of crops including beans and peas for export and potatoes for local market.This is family run farm and as such you would live and work as family. Ideally this would be for the winter period, Financially this probably won't make anyone rich but it would be an excellent experience If interested e-mail [email protected] to see what we do www.lowlandvegkenya.net

Written by Jamie Day

Adama Agricultural Solutions UK is developing a new range of herbicides specifically aimed at controlling blackgrass in cereals crops. It says the new Alomax range will comprise of three formulations, each of which will contain three active ingredients and three modes of action. “Black-grass remains one of the most problematic weeds within UK arable production,” […]

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This productive run of arable land extends in all to 83.29 acres (33.70 Hectares) comprising productive Grade 2 easy working, free draining, fertile arable land suitable for growing a wide variety of crops. The land has been farmed in a rotation of maize, swedes, cereal crops, grass ley and green cover crops. The soil type is described as well drained, gritty, reddish, loamy soils. The land is offered for sale as a whole or in two lots.

The land is situated between the villages of Bow and Copplestone in Mid Devon, with direct access onto the A3072. The A377 is within 1.8 miles at Copplestone and links Barnstaple to the north and Crediton to the south. To the west the A3072 links to the A3124 which provides access to the A30 at Whiddon Down.

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I'm 22 years old, from North Norfolk, currently working for a family farm on spuds but due to finish end of October, early November.

I have plenty of experience with lots of different brands of machinery, full driving licence, and keen to start ASAP.

Contact Jake on 07470993218

Tractor driver from Norfolk looking for work starting from November 2019. Ideally full time, got a decent amount of experience and I'm a hard working person. Need work arranged ASAP

Written by Agriland Team

Pictures are circulating online, which depict the latest-generation 8R and 7R Series tractors from John Deere.

The shots were apparently taken at a recent dealer meeting in Valencia, Spain.

Also Read: New driver-less ‘concept’ tractor from John Deere breaks cover
Models from the new 8R line-up (including a shot of a mocked-up interior) are pictured (above and below).

Meanwhile, a slightly less powerful model from the new 7R Series is depicted in these shots (below)...

Natural England joint study into enhancing road verges for nature

Written by Defra Press Office

Natural England joint study into enhancing road verges for nature



There is widespread positive national coverage this morning including in The Daily Telegraph...

Written by Charlotte Cunningham

Growers with yield mapping equipped Claas combines can now analyse their yield maps instantly during or after harvest thanks to a link up between MySOYL and Claas’s Telematics system. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Yield mapping is set to become even easier thanks to a new partnership between Claas and MySOYL — part of MyFarm, Frontier’s farm management platform. As each field is harvested yield and position data is uploaded to the Claas Telematics website. In order for this data to be analysed in third party precision data management tools traditionally the data had to be downloaded from the Telematics website. Typically this would be done after harvest...

Written by Jamie Day

The British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) has added five new first choice varieties to its 2020 Forage Maize Descriptive Lists (DL) Favourable Sites, which was published this week. New to the Favourable Sites DL are the varieties Smoothi CS and Abrisse from Caussade Semences, Prospect from Limagrain, LiRoyal from DSV and KWS Calvini from […]

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91: Why is it important we work with small-scale pig keepers?

Written by AHDB

The pig industry is made up of a variety of systems, with herds ranging from a handful of sows to thousands. In this episode, we hear from Luchia Gregson, about the work we’re doing with small-scale pig keepers and why it’s so important. We also get an update on the pork market from Bethan Wilkins, one of our analysts.

Small-scale producer meetings

Information for small-scale pig keepers

New pig keepers...

Written by FB reporters

Sheep farmers are being encouraged to make more use of the CT scanning of live lambs, technology which researchers at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) have been using successfully for more than two decades.

“These scans, together with growth and ultrasound images taken on farms, allow pedigree breeders to identify the best animals in a flock for breeding,” said SRUC, adding that CT (computer tomography) technology enables farmers to look at the total fat and muscle in live animals, with the ultimate goal of being able to improve lean meat yield.

“Following research analysing spine length and the number of vertebrae across and within different breeds of sheep...

GB planted potato area by variety and sector 2019

Written by JamesTaylor

The 2019 GB planted potato area is one of the lowest on record even though there is a 1% year-on-year increase. What is driving this change?

Release Date:
Thu, 09/26/2019

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Written by Matt Hopkins

A young inventor and entrepreneur from northwest Indiana thinks the future of farm tractors is smaller, lighter, and […]

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