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Does incorporating a farming business from a partnership to a limited company affect APR for the next generation? Assuming farming activities don't change and are still the nature of the business?

To try and push them on on a semi-intensive beef system... usually we would feed an ad-lib rearer nut, but this year it is crucifyingly expensive, would just feeding rolled barley and silage work ok though a wagon? Also, would ad-lib barley and hay be ok or is that too gung ho? What if barley...

What would you expect form the above for bulls, steers and heifers cheers

Hi, We are currently milking and thinking of packing up next year and just wondering how much we can expect our overheads to fall without the dairy herd. We are a 250 acre family farm and would look to keep some livestock, a bit of beef or some pigs alongside some arable. By fixed costs i...

Does anyone have experience of one of these? I assume you have to manually move the sprinkler around, would that mean there is a danger of saturating the ground and killing worms etc? It says 750 litres a minute is the output with 4 bar of pressure, would that be enough to power a travelling...

Hi everyone, I'm just wondering how much fertiliser you put on for the 1st round just to wake the grass up a bit? Thank you in advance for replies, Tom

Seems like a bad batch... when i take out of the AI flask and place in the thawer... every one out of five just seems to shatter/explode or the stopper pops out of the bottom of the straw... Does anyone know why this happens? Always had the odd one but this current batch seems to be doing it...

We've got a 10 year old ley that we just sprayed off with glysophate last Thursday, looking to get it into Winter Wheat but worried we may have left it abit too late. Would the best thing be to plough it, and immediately combi drill behind the plough? To avoid wire worm, slugs etc?

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a small to medium sized loading shovel? Something that can ideally lift around 2 tonne. I see JCB make a 409 and a 411... does anyone know how much roughly these are? and also if other manufacturers offer a similar product? I'm not...