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Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.

It’s been a hell of a wet time. We have some seriously slumped soils. What are people planning to do to alleviate the damage? Leave it to natural processes? Deep rooted cover crop? Deeper loosening tine? Plough? A lot will depend on the weather this summer but just wondered what general...

It’s been very noticeable this year that later drilled wheat is much better than earlier drilled wheat for spring die off even though conditions were appalling all round. We always thought it was manganese deficiency that caused the problems but I think that’s secondary. Two identical very light...

Is there one? All we want to do is divert a public footpath round instead of it going the middle of our farmyard. Everybody thinks it’s a good idea for health and safety and to provide a pleasanter walk. The problem is the council want £3125 plus a bit and we can’t really afford it esiecially as...

One for combinable crop growers.

Trying to export some kit. Not done it before. What do I need? EORI number. What’s that? Phytosanitary certificate. What does that entail? Anything else? VAT?

Fits behind Grey Ferguson or other smallish tractor for hoeing rows of beet etc. Has seat for hoe operator. Good order. Has extension to make it 6 row presently set to 20” rows. Extension easily cut off to make it original 5 row. Seat is not original but again easiky replaced as was. Stored...

As above fits JD 1085 combine. It’s the type (100 series?) before the 800 series. I put a new floor in it not that long ago. It’s useable, stored undercover and oiled. It comes on a trolley with iffy aircraft tyres but would go up a ramp. With dividers. Open to offers. PM in first instance.

It’s like the typical old Parmiter grain elevator loaders but it’s twice the size. Built by Parmiter. I think the conveyor floor is worn out and picking up. It has dual chains instead of just one and a massive hopper that can self feed into a heap to load a lorry or receive from a grain bucket...

I’m next door to a rewetting project that’s a combined effort or “non effort” between the Forestry Commission, Natural England and the Wolds Chalk Stream project or something like that. And I’m fairly angry about it as fetid stinking water is sometimes pouring across their plantations onto the...

About ten days ago I woke in the night with a very sharp pain in my brain/head. Ever since then I’ve had this feeling if dull pressure in my head which is worse when I lie down and it also wakes me in the night. I’ve had on going neck pain annd stiffness before and during all of this. I’d...

Against U.K. Agriculture? Make standards and regulations for home production so high that we can’t possibly compete with imports as there’s no identifiable premium for home production. Allow imports in that don’t meet our standards so are inherently cheaper to produce. Apply tighter and more...

I’ve noticed far fewer small birds about the sheds and garden this winter. So I just wondered if anybody else had noticed the same. ( Started off in the holly berry thread but thought it might be worth a poll.)

Well isn’t it? If you can grow 4t per acre of wheat then isn’t the carbon footprint per ton less by virtue of the fact you’ve spread the fixed part of the carbon cost in growing the crop over more tons. This fact begs the question of what to do with marginal land. It would suggest it should be...

Well isn’t it?

Sensible or not? I’ve quite a few jobs where I could use a cherry picker such as chimneys and roof sheets but it would need to go about 30 ft up and reach 3m in from the roof edge. Plenty advertised at about 6000 hours with a LOLER around the £10k mark. I could hire but looks like £400 a week...

As title I seem to have developed an allergy to anything with vinegar in it. It produces a fairly immediate and widespread face rash with blisters. This has only started over the last couple of years or so and I think finally I’ve identified that vinegar is the trigger. Why the heck should such...

Manitou MLT626. Perkins engine. I haven’t investigated closely but there appears to be water leaking out of the engine timing gears cover possibly at the crankshaft seal. How can this happen? Initially I thought it was the water pump but it appears OK. Not a lot but getting worse.

What’s the craic with these ploughs?What’s the D2 mean? I swore I’d never have another DP7 after changing to a LB85 ….. until prices for worn out old kit went silly. But now I’m looking for another plough for 135hp and DP7 look affordable. And with Diwdeswell MA100, 120 etc what’s the number...

Anybody else feel the above? We aren’t to be problem solvers or wealth creators any more. No, sit back and let nature take back control. Let it rewild essentially. Wait for some mystical beneficial force of nature to right all the worlds wrongs. Wait for “beneficial” insects etc to reduce pests...