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    Timber for cowshed

    Need to repair a timber cowshed. Some will be at ground level i.e. close to the muck, although shouldn't be submerged. From what I have read, larch or Douglas fir is what I should be looking for. Is this correct? I guess I'm not going to get this from the local jewsons, in 4'x5' 6m lengths, so...
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    Andersons Seminars - Thoughts?

    There will be an article about it in the press before long anyway. There's nothing special about Andersons, except how rude they can be.
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    Cow intakes on self locking yokes

    Our nutritionist told me it's only a five minute job. I pointed out that my whole day is made up of fecking five minute jobs, and I'm trying to reduce them. And it's a five minute job that needs doing several times a day, so now it's not five minutes, it's half an hour. Troughs for me, but...
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    Evolution Farming

    I still wouldn't want everyone talking about it though
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    Evolution Farming

    This is the bizarre thing, there's no money in sick calves. What is more, I've seen a couple of times, mention of them having calving training so that supposedly everyone is up to speed. None of it makes sense. On top of that, the apparent lack of overall financial success of the business over...
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    Cow intakes on self locking yokes

    Because the flipping things flick silage over your little barrier, and then it's wasted.
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    Evolution Farming

    A look at Charlie Crottys LinkedIn suggests he is not a stockman.
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    Evolution Farming

    Some staff may be part time. Have to say though, I feel a lot better about my achievements, or lack of.
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    Evolution Farming

    It would be acceptable to a milk buyer to shoot those calves in the video if a vet gave their say so. It's a welfare issue, the state of them, not forgetting the evident risk of a publicity problem. You would also have to prove a good plan not to let it happen again.
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    All things Dairy

    You can kill them with the two way red top stuff if it goes in too fast.
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    50:50 maize palm kernel

    Are you going to feed his blend then?
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    50:50 maize palm kernel

    THIS Those expensive cows don't want fecking about with. All the 'simple' cheap tricks you read about on here are for cheap cows.
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    Too fat to farm?

    My Mrs says she has put on weight because she's had two children. When she borrowed my truck for a week, it was very enlightening to see the array of wrappers and cans that collected there! As someone up thread said, it's the snacks. And the normality of it now.
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    Diane Abbott.

    Given Diane Abbotts poor performance under pressure, speaker Hoyle may have avoided her to protect her.
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    Potash

    So 50t/ha muck (individual application limit) gives 250kg N and 150kg k. Why would you want it out of a bag?
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    Large scale fraud and criminality on Pembrokeshire mega-herd farm.

    Think that's why they are lenient on people doing this stuff, don't want anything like that again. Soon after there was a similar case, in that area, where the chap got off very lightly. The judge mentioned his previous good character, I was told it wasn't a good character.
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    All things Dairy

    Don't think tax is going to be quite the same problem this year.
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    All things Dairy

    https://electricfencerepairs.co.uk/ He's not over quick, mind.
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    Brewers Grains

    Our nutritionist reckons no more than 10kg/day or you get butterfat depression. However I have overfilled a trough before now, so they were in effect adlib and appeared to self regulate. They will probably be wetter than what comes from an industrial brewery, so you can feed a higher rate...
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    Removing green algae from paving slabs?

    What effect does this have on the environment?
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