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    Farm fertilizer

    Hi just been pricing fert after a wet miserable lambing ... normally buy 25.5.5.... 20.8.11 was mentioned in conversation, never used it and it'd obviosly higher in p an k ....on a mixed livestock farm that makes round baled hay and silage and puts muck on thru winter would a 20,8,11 be a good...
    • Alan young
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    • analysis beef beef cattle cattle fertiliser fertilizer forage grass health herbicide lambing loader loader tractor management npk organic overdraft potash quicke quicke loader savings sheep silage soil sampling soil test sulphur testing weather yields
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Massey 246 mower

    Hello guys I have been slowly updating my tractors and machinery over the past few years too be able too run a reliable fleet for a small family farm and be able too have the gear too get on when the weather allows without having too rely on contractors who have bigger customers than...
    • Alan young
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    • family grass kuhn massey mower round bales silage weather
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Machinery
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    In these days of reduced antibiotics... what are people doing to sort out watery mouth in lambs??

    • Alan young
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    • antibiotic bedding colostrum dairy ewes heptavac lambing lambs lifeline liming microbial nutrition sheep silage soya supplement tmr vaccinate vigour
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Tractor insurance

    Hello all just a quick question I have everything insured here with the nfu and they are OK too deal with but not necessarily cheap anybody moved from nfu to anybody they would recommend... secondly I'm looking at a fresh tractor 08 plate loader 2900 hrs £16800... anybody have any similar aged...
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    Tractor sat nav/ gps

    Hello folks just wondering for the farmers who aren't huge into arable and simply want too keep parallel when spraying grass weeds for example what's a good system you are employing ... are the GPS systems becoming more affordable for the basic systems ect any way too keep track of your lines on...
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    Financing a secondhand tractor

    Hello all hope your all well through your respective harvests.... just picking some brains... I'm v old school always brought up on if you can't afford it then do without ect and save till you can afford it ect... no money borrowed..no debt just make do and mend ....around 3 yrs ago I bought a...
    • Alan young
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    • barclays barley buffer cattle claas finance harvest interest rate jcb lloyds loader massey oxbury pickup repairs savings stress turbine
    • Replies: 94
    • Forum: Machinery
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    Conor side spreader muck spreader

    Hi folks I have an aged marshall 60 muck spreader that could be due for replacement...possibly could get another or iv seen a tidy conor 750 ....anybody had 1 ...know what they last like?... also a hi spec 800 is another option...don't want too get into the rear discharge being better...
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    Veg weeds

    hello folks.... up in cumbria here ....my farms always grown veg to sell off the farm steading and like so many others I have been thwarted by the removal of so many herbicide products to control weeds .... so just a quick question as up here theres no too much info around as to sprays due too...
    • Alan young
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    • carrots clomazone dow herbicide pre-em
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    • Forum: Cropping
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    Same dorado 85

    Hello folks hope your all having as good a new year as the current covid allows.... I have a same Dorado 85 ...had it just over a yr got it with just 1150 hrs on it ..good clean tidy tractor really pleased with it....everything works except the heater...it blows cold air but not hot....being an...
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