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    New rules on manures

    Friend has just had the company which deals with a lot of Severn Trent sludge phone up to say that no more deliveries will be made this autumn
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    State of your crops?

    Thought I'd better report in, Valerie 2 row Winter Barley has greatly improved since early spring, a third of the acreage which was planted after fallow has good potential, the remaining two thirds planted after spring barley struggled from Nov to May, time will tell but shouldn't be...
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    Straw in the swath, auction results 2021

    And yet some of us have only seen prices of 30 to 40 per acre in our area
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    How late for linseed

    I think I need to try another variety, last couple of years my linseed has lost its get up and go, used to grow Juliet and had good yields but late harvests, changed to Batsman, easier harvests but yields have gone
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    Buying a tractor, or buying a dealer?

    Disagree😁🙄 I suppose having a very good relationship with our Case dealer helps a lot but when we came to add another smaller tractor back in the early spring my brother and nephew were very keen to try the blue version as they seemed cheaper than the red counterparts, they went of to have a...
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    Combine radiator expansion tank

    Thank you all , original cap rubber had disintegrated , took some time to find a replacement but that hasn't cured the problem , might still be a wrong cap if course , will try a new pipe between rad and expansion tank
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    Combine radiator expansion tank

    Just above the fins
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    Combine radiator expansion tank

    Good morning you clever lot During the day my combine fills the expansion tank to full but does not pull it back into the radiator as it cools,,,,,,, before we start ripping it apart is there something simple we have overlooked
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    Fund raiser for BYDV because I was told that it's a figment of my imagination

    As the title says ,,,,,.
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    Sumo trio 3 transport

    When our trio was delivered new many many years ago it was delivered in 2 parts,,,,,main frame and packer , very sensible. It's a true "triggers broom" with just about everything being changed, just been through the workshop so should be good for a few more years hopefully
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    How late for linseed

    Same here now, my linseed is just coming through but nothing I can do as ground is to wet to travel. Hey ho at least we made the effort
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    No fungicide 2021

    Agronomist I use wanted me to get a T0 on a fair while back, I was busy drilling and as it was dry and cold I thought that as no one else on TFF was putting T0 on then I will join the herd,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, huge mistake, yellow rust has been a nightmare especially in Ziatt
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    How late for linseed

    I pulled the plug on drilling linseed 10 days ago as there was no moisture in the ground, then we had 7 mm of rain which was just enough to get the cultivators and drill to produce excellent seedbed. Time will tell tho as the early drilled crops around here have been raveged by flea beetle as...
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    Claas Challenger

    Try Ian Houlgrave
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    Kuhn 30.1 electric to manual

    First thing I would do 😁 35 thousand acres and no down time bar one hyd hose which only lost me a couple of hours
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    Am I mad to be contemplating a new combi drill?

    This one has double disc coulter,,,,,,,,, in the end we wished we had a 3 m machine with a hopper up front Neighbours pottinger does a nice job but at the end of the day our Rapid got 480 acres planted in under 4 days and if I had more ground cultipressed he would of drilled more..
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    What cultivator (excluding Top Down types) do you use to "One Pass" cultivate Over wintered stubbles ready for drilling.

    We have a old vibroflex , okay on weathered ploughing but struggles on the marl TBH But it has been prepared for a bit of light action with a set of 4 inch points
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    Wreckers!!

    We used to have a old chap that used to drive around in a old Reliant Robin van many years ago , for a fair few years he used to swear by putting a couple of paving slab's in the back when we had some snow ,,,,,,,, always remember seeing his Robin after the front wheel had decided it was going...
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    Am I mad to be contemplating a new combi drill?

    We had ourselves a 4 M combi a few years back thinking it was the way forwards , nope ,,,,,, not for us it wasn't , packer puts the ground down to tight IMHO , the drill bit is sulking somewhere in the nettles , the power harrow is useful occasionally but changed the 4 m rapid for a 6 m one...
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    What cultivator (excluding Top Down types) do you use to "One Pass" cultivate Over wintered stubbles ready for drilling.

    I have all my stubbles to start to get ready now . stubble going into linseed then we will lightly trio , cultipress and then drill if conditions are favourable , if its a bit clatty then I might put the power harrow over instead of the cultipress . I also have ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, a acreage of...
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