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  1. Gander

    Yard Space Lease

    We have a Community Interest Company (of which Mrs Gander and I are 2 of 6 directors) operating in a corner of the yard. Providing craft and garden therapy groups for children and adults in the community. We set it up during lockdown, putting a 40’ portacabin on the site. We have now added a...
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    Chain Harrows

    Does anyone have experience of this type of Polish chain Harrow? Are they more or less aggressive than usual Parmiter type harrows? Do beds wear quick? Can replacements be bought? Look to be a few selling them on FB and the like at not too ridiculous a price. Don’t know of any round here to...
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    Allotment diversification?

    Have been thinking lately about food security nationally, and also about growing more food for ourselves etc. With the current situation I imagine a lot more people will be thinking the same. Mrs Goose would like to offer an outside activity for the community (assuming such things would meet...
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    Milk at 21ppl in 1994

    Saw this magazine on a farm this week. How many other products are sold today for the same price as 22 years ago?! (apart from Wheat!)
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    Sheep movement regs for owner of sheep keep

    Wasn't sure how to title this..or where to put it, thought here would be best in case some non livestock farmers might have an idea. If I were to have sheep in for keep over the winter, simply providing the grass NOT the every day looking after them, I presume I do not become a sheep keeper...
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    CTS Online help - File Uploads

    I've just spent an hour trying to create a file of movements to upload to CTS...I could nearly have done them all individually by now! I followed the instructions on making the right type of .csv file, but now I'm getting an error when I try to upload it saying 'The file contains no detail...
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    Comeback on a machine sold 15 months ago?!

    There I was, merrily wandering home from the pub after a nice last days shooting of the season and I get a phone call...... "Hi, I bought a John Deere 545 baler off (so and so machinery dealer), just wondering how you got on with it?" What the flip?! I sold a good baler to a dealer 15 months...
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    S/h New Holland TM or Case MXM Front Linkage

    Looking for a genuine NH front linkage. Its got to be the original TM one that bolts up underneath the chassis with 6? bolts. Ie no brackets to side of chassis (loader brackets in the way) If anybody has one or knows of one for sale please pm me Thanks Dan
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    Web based customer database

    Can anyone recommend a good web based customer database...preferably free! I'm looking for a way of storing customer information, ie. names, addresses, contact info along with space to record notes of visits and their purchases/orders etc. It would be great if I could add maps and maybe even...
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    Cutting grass after roundup

    I wasn't sure if this was 'cropping' or 'livestock' so put it here...feel free to move it. I've got to burn some grass off prior to ploughing for wheat. How soon after putting roundup on can I mow it for silage, or graze it? Im in a bit of a hurry. Thanks.
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    TB - What would you do?

    Last week we had our whole herd test. We tested 70 odd calves and 2 fat bullocks. The last animal through the crush on friday turned out to be an IR. The animal in question was due to go to the abattoir this week. which option would you choose? 1. Send it for slaughter but risk it having...
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    JD 545 tearing net

    Hi, My JD 545 baler has started to tear the net off one side of the bale...probably 1 in 4 bales are affected. its usually on the same side, but not always. Any ideas what is causing this? TIA
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    Sprayer Help Please

    Can anybody identify this Hardi sprayer? I've borrowed it from Dad, he bought it second hand a few years ago and has no book for it. I just did the first round of the first field after waiting ages for the right conditions. I hit a rut and the connector for the main feed pipe from the pump...
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    How would George Henderson get on today?

    I'm currently re-reading George Henderson's books; 'The Farming Ladder' and 'Farmers Progress'. For those who don't know, George Henderson was a very successful farmer on 85 acres in the Cotswolds. He and his brother Frank 'devised' or adapted a system of highly intensive mixed farming on...
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    Grass keep or headage payment?

    Last year I spent a lot of time working away for various reasons. It means that I am now understocked at home whilst having a large supply of silage to see me through next winter. I havent got the capital to go buying cattle but intend to rear more calves than usual this summer. To help...
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