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I’ve just slackened off the spring that tensions the conditioner drive belt on my JD 530 mower. Something in my head told me to measure the length of the spring before I undid it but because I had the Operator’s manual only a few days ago and knew it was in there I ignored my instincts. Having...

With the recent escalation of Nitrogen prices it has occurred to me that growers are going to consider alternative sources of N. Having been involved with some initial work on N fixing bacteria I thought it might be useful to have a thread on here so that farmers can ask questions about some of...

A friend of mine @ccp contracting has just drained his dyna 6 transmission and got this bit of metal out of the suction filter. He has no idea what it might be from or whether it’s the start of something serious that’s about to occur. There’s no sign of anything being wrong with the tractor and...

Actually really it’s one woman I have a particular issue with. We farm in a fairly well built up area and I’m very used to people walking around fields, most we tolerate as they keep to the edge ad those that don’t normally, after a polite word, see my point and that’s the last time we have an...

I’ve had quite a bit of interest over the last few weeks following the article in the Direct Driller magazine for some more drill courses. At the moment we have two planned, one on the 23rd Jan in Wolverhampton c/o @parker and another on the 20th of Feb in Coventry c/o @Big Al ( he didn’t pay...

@Clive , @parker , @Great In Grass , Following on from a discussion on one of the direct drilling threads that had followed forum rules and gone seriously off topic I thought I'd start a new thread here as it might be more appropriate. Here is the trial work presentation by Jamie from...

I suppose now that most of you are all drilled up your thoughts are switching to how you are going to occupy those long winter months, after all there is only a certain amount of shooting and skiing before even they get boring. Richard Harding has informed me about this...

A few months ago I had a pair of 7ft wide ( new, only been put in a few weeks beforehand) galvanised gates nicked despite the usual mounting hinges opposite ways and welding the nuts on the hinges. Instead of replacing them I dumped a 2.5 tonne tree stump in the gap, around here if you stick a...

Another interesting conference from Richard Harding. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conservation-agriculture-conference-tickets-28682843156?aff=es2 @martian has promised to buy the first three rounds in the pub afterwards.

Whilst going through a filing cabinet in my office I found a sales brochure for AN, here is an extract from one of the pages.

I have a neighbour who has a couple of stiles on his land that need repairing. I thought they were the responsibility of the council but when he contacted them they told him that he was responsible. Is this right or are they just hoping he'll fix them?

Here is a link to the survey being conducted by the NAAC, it is for everyone not just contractors, to help make the right decisions in Phase 2 of the increase in Trailer weight limits. We need as many as possible to fill it in. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2TRLZY2 Thanks.

Does anyone know if I can take a 10 amp supply from one of the control boxes for a micro granular applicator on an Accord drill. The drill has electric metering and only one metering unit but the control box is wired for two. I would like the supply power for the applicator to stop when the...

A few years ago the farm around my house was split up and sold. My neighbour bought most of the land, except the field and barn by my house and a house.He then immediately split up the land to several of his, and my neighbours. When he sold the land behind my house he put a covenant on it saying...

At the request of another forum member ( BSH ) I am going to run a 750 operators course at his farm ( in Hampshire ) about the end of Feb. Anyone else wishing to attend please pm me your phone no. and I'll phone you so that we can discuss details.

I have a customer who's late husband put a field ( about 10 years ago ) into the farm woodland premium scheme. What do we have to do to maintain this? Some of the planted trees have grown OK but others haven't and we have a lot of volunteer trees growing ( mainly willow ) in their place. Is it...

Nothing definite yet this is just to test the idea. I am thinking about having another open day probably around the last week in May. As I haven't actually planted any of these yet it's still not definite but the crops that you could come and see would probably be Vetch ( for seed ), Soya...

This Winter, because of too much rain and time on our hands, @Simon C and I came up with a theory that we think explains all sorts of things. When we talked about it we found that he had one half of the jigsaw and I the other. Since then I have discussed it with other members of this forum and...

Has anybody grown and harvested Phacelia? I'm contemplating growing 5 acres for seed so that I would then have enough seed for some cover crops.

Richard Harding has put together another interesting program about soils and nutrition to be held at Plumpton College on Tuesday 28th Jan '14. Anybody going? I just wish all agronomists would be this switched on!