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    Wool Products Survey

    I know how you all hate a survey but if you do stuff with wool it would be really helpful if you completed this one. We started doing stuff with our own wool eight years ago, sending off 20kg of fleece and getting 8kg of hand knitting wool back in balls. This year we have sent off ten tonnes of...
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    Greenhouse Gas Emissions Article

    This is a very interesting and informative article from a NZ couple which makes a lot of sense My name is Amy. My husband Hamish and I farm sheep and beef near Clinton in Southland. We use regenerative farming methods following the advice of a Dr Christine Jones. We spent months researching...
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    Galway Sheep

    Just wondering if anyone in Northern Ireland keep Galway Sheep, just looking into possibly using wool OT
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    Westmorland Show

    Fabulous couple of days at what I think is one of the best shows in the country, plenty to see and some marvellous stock on view. Fabulous hospitality from many of our suppliers and a special mention for NWA for the party pack lunch and Wynstay for the bag of scones. Also bent the ears of the...
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    Sheep grazing wanted

    Not sure if I this is the right thread but my long term winter let has been sold so looking for wintering for 150 to 200 sheep this winter preferably mid October to Mid March in the NW of England but happy to go further if someone is looking after them. Posting in hope OT MODSmf this needs...
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    Small pto water pump

    Morning looking to build a watering set up for my cattle to use in the summer, landlord’s keen to fence of the rivers and the pasture pump trough won’t work as the distance Is to much. Looked a few solar set ups and they seem very fiddly and unreliable according to the farms using them. My plan...
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    Old Ifor Repair

    Does anyone know if you can put modern running gear on an old DP120, it’s one of those with the bobcat style tyres on that are illegal for road use now. Thanks in anticipation OT
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    Case IH 784 axle

    Got a friend in South Wales in need of track rod ends and power steering components for a CaseIH 784 or a replacement front axle. Any help much appreciated OT
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    Shearers Van Stolen

    My friend Rachel’s van was stolen last night in Warwick, it’s packed full of shearing gear, if anyone has seen it or is offered any gear please bet in touch
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    Feed silos

    Where do folk get feed silos from nowadays, emailed three firms and no reply, no prices on any adds either. Are there grants on them or something, May resort to another shipping container and be done with it
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    Dodded Sheep ?

    Any of you Yorkshire sheep men and women know what a Dodded Sheep is, not sure if it was a breed or a term
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    LIS for sheep movements

    Any one tried to get on the effin thing, dosent even recognise my holding number for funks sake, am I doing something wrong or is this yet another website designed to infuriate us all by being completely unusable 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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    Effin Tup

    You try your best and it still fu!!s up Boloused the ewes, ran teasers, sorted 200 Cheviots to run with 4 BFLs and 100 Cheviot Mules to run with two Suffulks and 50 of the best older Cheviots to run with my best Cheviot Tup. One of the effin Suffolks was determined to get in with the Cheviot...
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    Northern Ireland Farm Payments

    Any one here from NI, we at the RBST are worried that the NI government are keen to push the will of the slaughterhouses and tax animals over 24m at slaughter. Plus they are wanting to bring inventives for using high EBV bulls, when we all know most are not worth the paper they are written on...
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    Luton to J36 of M6

    Five 15’ hay racks and troughs, dismantled so easy to load
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    Radio 4 Today

    Any of the collective been listening to radio 4 today, ag based discussion, Rory Stuart, Minnette Batters et al giving a good analysis of the mess the government is making of our industry
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    Bluetooth Tractor Radio

    Hi looking for recommendations into fitting a Bluetooth capable radio into the tractor, be mostly for phone use and must have AM frequency no DAB round here so need the AM. Thanks OT
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    Malvern to J36 on M6

    Need a10ft Ifor trailer picking up from WR13 6NL delivered to LA12 8DB or can meet at NWA J36 phone 07584637490
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    Farmison

    Just wondering if anyone on here supplies them, they seem to be pushing the marketing hard and have opened a shop in Ripon. Says all the meat comes from smaller farms in Yorkshire on the blurb
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    Calling Scottish Sheep Farmers

    A theoretical question I know movement rules are different in Scotland but if one took a few sheep in a trailer to an event at which they were the sole livestock. Let them out into a pen for an hour, loaded them and returned to the original holding would said event need a holding number. The...
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