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Interested in how people hang the side sheets on concrete walls, first year away from earth banks last year and it was an awful job, 4 meter high walls don’t help, up and down the ladder I was pig sick by the time it was done, so much so I’m thinking of going without this time. The buckrake man...

Same old story when you need it everybody’s short and when you’ve plenty there’s loads for sale.

Won’t be an issue this time there’s hundreds of tons left in clamp and we’ve stopped feeding on Wednesday. Two dry years back to back would test the job but then if that became the norm our stocking rate is all wrong. The biggest of them are normally off to fatten so tend to be going off to...

It’s all well and good saying make more silage but some years the option just isn’t there, I’ve only sold silage once in the spring of 2018 and was told I was a fool for doing so, “a heap of fodder is better than money in the bank” by August 2018 that statement had been proven to be true...

Been chopping a few monsters out already, they don’t seem to of minded the warm wet winter here.

That’s a shame, probably be to spray, I had a reseed come full of scotch ones a few years back and just went with a sharp spade and some headphones and chopped them out. Worked a treat. Spray wasn’t an option though as I had plantain and clover in the mix.

What type of thistle?

It’s a young man’s game as that’s minimum wage stuff unfortunately, you’d not get a contractor paying much over around here.

Slippery slope once we start using bovair as far as I’m concerned, very difficult to argue it’s not an issue if we’re all feeding an additive to combat it. Should we even be trailing it?

Is it even licensed in the UK yet?

Sulphur was the issue up here.

There’s been a few horror stories up here after liquid fert on dairy ground, not going to say anymore than that really as it’s all pub talk but there won’t be many around here making the switch.

Just when you thought you’d seen all the kinks…

Where are you at? It’s absolutely flying here, went to pick up some mole traps that had been down a week on Monday night and I could barely find them it’s grown that much. Ground conditions still very tricky, cows came back at lunchtime yesterday as we had 55mm of rain here, we are getting...

Good idea, I sometimes hear and read comments about dribble bars marking and just think some application rates are just too high for grass.

We had this made up when we got the dribble bar as we couldn’t get the application rate below 2500g/acre without driving at 8-10mph. Not used it for the spring application as the slurry has been really watery this time but it will certainly be back in next time it thickens up. Really if it’s...

🤣 I realise what I say is easier said than done!

So the guys working off the back of a feed lorry have a significant problem? You really need to take those ha in house and grow your own feed to overcome the stocking rate issue?

60p pays for a lot of infrastructure, has it been over a sustained period of time though or is it a flash in the pan?

Do we even care? Commodity markets are driven by supply and demand, government intervention that tightens supply and pays those not supplying to do so is a win win for all farmers, it’s far better that way from a farmers perspective than being payed to produce food that people may or may not...