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What’s with the current trend of forward backward spray nozzles? I was always of the thinking that backwards spray just goes upwards and so therefore pointless! It seems that most of these only offer corse spray patterns to get around this. Is there are nozzle that people know of that does...

We have a 6m Joker and it starts bouncing occasionally particularly on light and fluffy patches, have to stop and crawl through these areas. Anyone got any tips to stop it bouncing?

Got a 5 furrow plough and can’t get the tractor to pull straight, the tractor pulls down the furrow but take the 4 wheel drive off and it pulls onto ploughed land. Acts like this however long or short I make optiquick turnbuckle. The landslides seem to point a long way to unploughed land as you...

How do people push up on beet heeps. saw a video of someone pushing up beet with a grain pusher, anyone on here tried that? how much stress does it put on the pusher? Currently use a beet bucket to push up atm but wondering if a pusher would give us more room and how much reinforcement our...

I got told that ground is best for testing grain that’s still standing in the field and whole grain is best for testing grain that’s settled in store after a couple of days. Not found much difference with our meters however the major advantage of ground is you need to lot less grain when...

What wheel slip is recommended when doing general tillage work such as discing or subsoiling. I aim to run at as little as possible ~1-3%, should a bit more be allowed for, or is it just a waste of fuel?

Not hard to find aphids in beet here, where the flea beetle have left any leaf! Could do with a few more of these, seem to only be on the vol spuds atm

Before ramularia wasn’t resistant to azoles. Now it is

Frontier about 170, Gleadells 163

Issue is we don’t want to disturb the soil, encouraging BG and breaking the pre-em seal

Our worst fields were ploughed after beet, wether that’s coincidence or not?

A few farmers locally are struggling after beet this year, and even after beans in one field. AHDBs forecast was for a low pressure year, so just wondering if other areas were seeing the same issues

All lands different, but round here everyone just ploughs deeply 12-14” mainly in winter. Have tried subsoiling before ploughing but didn’t make any difference as was subsoiling shallower then the plough

Surely you’d be better of ploughing and not sumoing?

Austral plus treatment has worked in one field, headlands weren’t drilled with it and have been redrilled. Don’t think this will make much of a crop

Anyone else finding large amount of wheat bulb fly damage this spring. This field is following sugar beet, based in north Lincs

Anyone else finding BASIS points going on the system really slow atm, went to several meetings in early feb and no points on yet? Just hoping it’s not me and I put my number wrong

We find bird kites are good, can be bought keep on Amazon

Hydraulics are terrible, slow and cut out far too early. The boom suspensions to stupid system I could go on

Never buying another manitou, one we’ve got atm is an absolute pig to drive