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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.

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...

I believe this has been previously mentioned in other threads, but has anyone actually had anything in writing from HMRC or similar to clarify the position. We are looking at NUM3 Legume Fallow which appears to be eligible for APR. However, with 2 parents / farm partners in their mid 80s and not...

Can this be done by an independent company? Currently with EDF and getting them to do anything is impossible

Winter project finally finished

Well according to David Richardson anyway. Never mind their support of RT, once the NFU start pulling their finger out and working in farmers interests rather than big business then I might reconsider my lack of membership. Hopefully enough people are leaving to make NFU take note so they have...

Jeremy Clarkson leads farmers’ demands to scrap ‘bureaucratic bulldozer’ red tape Letter signed by almost 5,000 rural voters sent to Liz Truss amid attacks from conservation charities on environmental policies ByHayley Dixon, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT26 September 2022 • 9:30pm The letter, led by...

Liz Truss must ditch the anti-farming lobby British farming cannot be seen as a nostalgic cottage-industry, in a countryside treated like a theme park. It should be ambitious JAMES DYSON25 September 2022 • 8:00pm It may surprise some to learn that Britain has lower levels of food security than...

BBC takes stock of Countryfile amid complaints about impartiality Show faces accusations of pro-Remainer bias and has received criticism over its coverage of issues including hunting and the environment ByAnita Singh, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR1 July 2022 • 8:02pm The review of...

Does anyone know where to hire one of these? A few years of min / zerotill has left a few patches with a lot of stone on top

Never mind that the technology must be years away but : The production of gene-edited crops is to be sped up to help guarantee British food supplies in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine. Russian blockades are preventing the export of key goods such as wheat from the country, leading to rising...

The only person that understands farmers these days is Jeremy Clarkson Now a National Farmers’ Union prize winner, the presenter could be the only person to sort the UK's farming issues MARK HIX6 January 2022 • 5:00am 'If we want to eat local and support the farmers who produce meat, we need to...

‘Chaff-burgers’ made from wheat waste ‘could be on the shelves within five years’ The boss of Quorn hopes to develop a way to ferment the leftovers and turn them into a protein to be forged into food products ByJoe Pinkstone20 June 2021 • 7:00pm Eight billion tonnes of chaff are made globally...

Grain store is 40 years old and starting to get a few small holes in it. Its not really bad enough to replace the whole thing just yet but needs attention. We have replaced a few sheets over the years but it’s not a job Im happy doing anymore. Has anyone found any good roofing compounds /...

Can anyone recommend a supplier for a bucket for the jcb. We have a decent grain bucket but need a second smaller one for stone, rubble, concrete etc. Been waiting to see one in a farm sale, but at the moment that isnt happening so might be forced to buy new. Places like Bucket warehouse , Pro...

Mobile signal here is poor and non existent inside the house / office. Mobile works fine through WiFi calling but doesn’t do texts through this. Many of the banks etc seem to want to send a text code for logins these days which we don’t get. Is there any simple system to install that would...

Antibiotics banned in UK but fed to US animals ‘may undermine drugs for cancer, Covid and infections’ Jane Dalton 42 mins ago Antibiotics banned in UK but fed to US animals ‘may undermine drugs for cancer, Covid and infections’ US-reared animals whose meat is set to be imported under...

Has anyone tried this and if so was it any good? https://www.agrovista.co.uk/voltek

Seed £505 /t. Must be debatable if a cover crop would be a better investment

Writing in the Telegraph today: I won't let the bleeding heart eco-woke ride roughshod over our countryside My mission in the House of Lords is to stand up for ordinary rural folk like me IAN BOTHAM14 November 2020 • 6:00am When I heard I was to be proposed to sit in the House of Lords, I was...