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A friend who does feasibility studies for the automotive industry helped me to do a grant application for Rural Enterprise 20 years ago. He couldn’t believe the margins in ag then. Kept thinking we must have done the figures for cropping wrong as no one would work on such returns compared to...

Thankyou all for the advice. We are looking at machines about 10 years old so hopefully ok

Do people find the levelling system reliable or does it give trouble (£££?) once they get to 10/15 years. Quite a few second hand combines about with it now.

Have used Thomas Higgins a few times and always been very efficient and not expensive. Small amount of up front cost but most of it gets added into the debtors amount. We did it all online but they were very helpful when I phoned them the first time for them to explain how it all works. Letter...

Nick Clegg Lewis Hamilton Ed Davey A knighthood isn’t much of a club to be in anymore.

Thankyou Steve and all the others who have worked on this

Ive often thought that the most important thing we should have been taught at college (but weren’t) was how to manage / motivate and deal with employees. It’s the most difficult part of the job whatever industry you are in

Russia's Agriculture Ministry has proposed to increase the grain export quota up until the end of June 2024 to 28Mt, increasing the current quota of 24 Mt (Interfax)

Quote from the video “we need the public to support us” no disagreement with that, but no recognition of getting shafted by the union that is supposed to support us either

You can’t get a much simpler, quicker system than what we have now. its fixing a problem that doesn’t exist for someone else’s benefit

Thank for the replies. I'd never heard of oversheeting until a company suggested it but i think we will give it a miss

Asbestos roof is now 50 years old and starting to fail. Been patching it for a few years but needs better repair. I expected to get a company in to strip the old sheets off and replace them, but a couple of companies have suggest overcladding it with steel cladding sheets as a significantly...

We’ve used this stuff along with a primer to make it stick...

Anyone know who is organising these protests. Some sort of national union or a more grass roots / BFU type rebellion?

Our CO4 has a pressure sensor on the lift ram which sends a signal to the control box when the coulters are lifted out of work. I have known the wire to break to this. Agtron boxes can be very temperamental as well

Minette wants farmers to produce cheap food so she should be very pleased with a job well done. You cant get much cheaper than this

Change from within? How many years have I been hearing that and f‘all has changed for the better

Local land agent reckoned we were safe in fallow / legume type schemes as part of a rotation up to 50% of cropped area. 100% bird seed mix possibly a lot more difficult to argue for IHT relief but until HMRC make a decision or there is a precedent set, no one knows

I asked a solicitor this about 2 months ago and he said that a group of solicitors were already trying to get an answer out of HMRC but getting nowhere.

Very good editorial from Andrew Meredith in FW today. Clearly illustrates what a shambles the review is