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I thought I’d just start this off as something to think about during cold dark winter days, so please feel to add to the list: Lundell forage harvester Lundell seed drill Bamford Wuffler Cock Pheasant Tedder Kidd Rotaflail Taskers Fertispread

The tenant of my let property has reported that they have “A possible rat problem.” Nothing in the house and no signs of entry. The managing agent has called in a pest controller who has invoiced £70. If there are no rats in the house is this a tenant’s issue or a landlord issue? My feelings...

Mrs O uses Fentanyl patches plus morphine tablets to try to relieve her back and knee pain. She also has ‘Camptocormia’ which is an incurable condition where the back muscles waste away resulting in her case to a bend from the waist of at least 45 degrees. In addition to the above medication she...

FW report on new top end Case Tractors: "Their 11.5t baseline weight can be increased to a maximum of 16.8t with implements and ballast." For God's sake! and still young drivers can take these things on the public highway on a tractor licence. So the baseline tractor hauling a trailer with 14t...

I've been away from farming and herbicides for too long now to be up to date. When the Roundup ban came in here I bought 5 L while it was still available , which I use to treat our gravel yard - it's s a big area! I'm down to the last litre now & want to keep the last litre for nasties in the...

Just talking to eldest son, now almost semi-retired, and he told me that they have just bought a new tractor - £177k. It’s green with yellow wheels and he said “To be quite honest I can’t drive it.” He told me that you can’t see out of one side because it’s cluttered up with screens. I reminded...

Broadlands Estate Harvest 1970 - DB 990 with IH baler and Farmhand flat 8 accumulator. A very young version of myself on the MH. Young chap in the blue shirt is now a very well respected farmer aged 68!

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Has anybody had an op to resolve spinal stenosis? Benefits/drawback please. I’m getting to the stage that my legs ache like hell, I’m very unsteady on my feet, and I get bad back ache if I stand up for more than a few minutes. It’s getting me down. Specialist in UK said he could operate but I...

On reading this post you may perhaps think that it belongs on the Ooooh section, or is one of Bald Rick's jokes, but this is a serious question. As a bit of an addict to Air Ambulance TV programmes I have often watched CPR being carried out, and indeed did a short course some years ago on the...

Earlier in the week the Telegraph gave readers the opportunity of sorting out the black hole with various options. I selected - Scrap HS2, reduce overseas aid to earlier levels, link pensions and benefits to wages. Bingo, I had saved over £50 bn. So why can’t the politicians do it? Being...

Watched an interesting programme this morning where the farmer was running Stabiliser cattle. I understand that they are a four way cross of Red Angus x Gelbvieh x Hereford x Simmental. So as a simple long retired suckler producer I ask what is wrong with a simple South Devon x Angus? Hybrid...

I have just read that NT and Devon Wildlife Trust [and others] plan to reintroduce Pine Martens. How bonkers can you get? Pine Martens are destructive and killers . Anybody who has gone to check on their hens and found dead bodies lying there with their heads bitten off, will know why this is...

Its a long time since I did any arable farming or crop spraying, so please excuse my ignorance. It has become quite apparent here in France that my neighbour - a good tidy farmer - is getting a BG problem. He doesn't plough but on our argilo calcaire land [chalky clay is the nearest...

This is quite popular in our region: Take an old combine, play about with the drive system to get it to go faster, build in some 'Safety Features' then go racing

We live just off a local D road. My farmer neighbour has a council road off the D road about 400 m long going to the farm - nothing else, just the farm. This morning the council turned up to re-surface it. Not tar and chippings, but a proper Barbour Greene laid tarmac surface, about 40 t in...

All this canter about electronics, powershift transmissions, computer control etc just makes me smile when I cast my mind back to 1966 when a new Nuffield 10/60 arrived to boost a fleet of 460's. My Gosh - 10 gears instead of 5 just with another lever! Whatever will they think of next?