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After years of running Lexions we changed to John deere a couple of years ago. Have been dissapointed with output and losses particularly in damp conditions . Issue is thrashing capacity and rotor losses not sieve losses ( we cut with fairly wide open sieves and take rubbish out of sample...

My old wooden Lainchbury conveyor has finally chewed up its drive end so looking for a replacement lying in someones nettles maybe? Dont need the motor or gearbox just the sprocket and shaft and wooden section.

E.g. NH MC35 or similar. Can be well used but need something that isnt on its last legs.

Still not found one yet .:cry: The one with the wheels that slide from the middle to the back or failing that one with hydraulic wheels on back.

Looking for some corner posts to join some critall panels together .( Have plenty of panels )

The one with the wheels that slide from middle of trailer to back to allow bed to drop on to ground.

Horrified this morning to read reports in media that government supposedly considering trashing ELMs etc and returning to area based subsidy payments. Seems to be a misguided notion out there that Food production and care for the environment are mutually exclusive !.............. Just thinking...

Most people seemed to have agreed that Regen. Ag. is underpinned by four main pillars : -No -till, -Continuous soil cover via cover cropping etc, -Building diversity through wide rotations ,companion cropping etc, -livestock integration. How about adding a fifth pillar of aiming to reduce...

Am aware of alleopathic effects of oats but hoped that using spring oats in our multi species cover crops would not cause too many issues with emergence of following spring barley crops ( compared with using 100 % oat cover crops for example ) Had only approx. 50% emergence with spring barley...

Historically have used high N inputs and comprehensive growth regulator programmes in winter Barley , targeting 10 t/ha malting barley crops. In last few seasons gut feel is that i am getting significant yield hits from the last terpal application ( last couple of seasons has coincided with hot...

Just wondering if any users can comment on how well the dale drill will handle ungrazed cover crops, either with or without the disc kit?

Have had a fuel drop last week and am struggling like mad to get it out of the tank at a sensible flowrate. Apparently biodiesel inclusion rate has gone up from 5% to 7.5% since the start of October. It is an absolute nightmare . New filters are only lasting one day . Am trying to source a...

Have always been very on top of hydraulic oil change intervals ( often shorten change periods on machines to ensure long service life of components ) Always use best quality 46 grade oil even if machine spec. is for lower quality. Always assumed over time oil gradually breaks down ,especially if...

In Conjunction with Marek Nowakowski and Richard Pywell from CEH we are going to trial a field with a clover understorey and see how long we can maintain this through the rotation. I appreciate that this is not a new concept and has been tried by numerous individuals and organizations over the...

( Not sure this thread is in the right place , I tend to see the Direct drilling section as the sustainable /conservation ag section rather than pure direct drilling ) Just wanted to share my thoughts on shallow straw incorporation to see what people think. I think it is fair to say that...

Grappling with False Barley grass spreading all over the farm and concluded that the only way to get rid of it is to try wiping it with glyphosate. Has anyone got a view on the best weedwiper to buy? Like the look of the C-Dax eliminator with wings which has a half sensible working width. Anyone...

Have thought up a new environmentally friendly farming system ,similar to Agroforestry but using hedges instead of trees. Plant lines of hedges in arable fields parallel to the tramlines and single or multiple tramline widths apart. E.g. In my 30m tramline system hedges would start and...

At the risk of being boring just wanted to re-visit the argument for voluntary withdrawal of pre-Harvest use. I know we are all lobbying everyone to argue that the chemical is safe and should be re-registered but I fear that the head of steam building up supporting the fact that the general...

The Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit ( FCCT ) have just started a crowdfunding appeal to help fund trials to help measure and quantify benefits of carbon friendly farming systems. Worth a look on their website.

Just chillaxing on a Sunday evening with a glass of wine and got to thinking that last 3 or 4 decades of yield improvements probably caused as much by increased atmospheric CO2 levels and the borrowing of fertility from the future through the wholesale oxidation of soil organic matter as by our...