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With potential £229/Ha on the table for s barley under sfi, are we about to see the return of the barley baron. Been looking at sfi, i guess like many farmers, weigh up all the options, ipm1, sam1,2,3, num 1,2,3 …..hrw…..ahl… so on and so on , a bit of this and a bit of that, and it all starts...

What sort if levels of wilt are you finding in rape this year ? i’ve only cut 4 passes across the first field and it’s a bit grim. Never seen it before, but this year 😱

'Why o why' do tractor manufacturers continue to fit weezie little oil pumps and have such poor oil capacity as standard. Just mated my newly purchased, previous enjoy tractor to one of our 16 ton trailers and even with the oil beyond the extra max on the sight gauge, it was still unable to...

The reason i ask is I'm looking for a pre enjoyed tractor to take on a few tasks, headge cutting, rolling and a wee bit of hauling with 16 grain trailer ( private roads) no draft work. This tractor would probably have north of 6000/7000+hr, good or very bad idea, or should I look else where ...

I thought I'd show a few photos of our latest project, which is to convert this old co to dd, to convert the fan to hydraulic drive and at the same time replace the head stock with an updated one + we may try and fit a dry fert tank. So far we have remove the markers and fix all the worn out...

while drilling 20 acres of barley this afternoon, I have gone round 4 nests, + there were three other pairs which didn't seem to have nests yet. Tomorrow moving to another field where we have all ready marked four nest sites each with 3 to 4 eggs. Seems to be quite a number of lapwings nesting...

Anyone else seeing this sort of build up. Almost every head, in a 100m run on a 24m headland.

Anyone recognise their nh tractor heading for a second life in the cane and rice fields.

Spotted these two today while spraying, Two ex jack pike, must have been wetter than I thought.

Sweet

I've often read on here that muck deters slugs, someone better tell these feckers they shouldn't be there.

Had this tractor on demo for a few days (145 cvx), went ok. How are other people getting on with the cvx ? Regards every day use, is it easy to use. Any problems ?

Having decided that I need a straw harrow, and having looked at some of the harrows at Cereals, we have decided to build our own. The reasons for this are two fold, first, price, think of a number, double it and add 20% come to mind. Second, we think some of the harrows are just not strong...

Is RTX Range point any good for fixed tramlines ? Or will it drift over time.

Now spring rape is starting to flower and it looks like it will be wet for the next few days, will it be worth spraying for Sclerotinia ?