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Good Afternoon all, I am looking for some more land to farm in the new year and wondered if anyone had any advice. To give you a little background, I am a farmers son, however my father is still the farmer on our family farm. As I am sure you can appreciate the opportunity to farm my fathers...

Good Afternoon, I am looking for more contract spraying work across Kent, Sussex and Surrey. Price per acre of £4 Our JCB Fastrac Mounted, Raven Hawkeye enabled precision crop sprayer coupled with our Smartrax RTK enabled tractor will offer the complete precision spraying service. Saving you...

Afternoon Everyone, Right! So does anyone have some expert knowledge?! From what I understand we can now run with a combination weight of 31 tons but only with 18.29 tons on the trailer (including the trailer?) and we can only run at 25 mph. However, I thought I read somewhere that there is...

Afternoon everyone, Ok so I'm after some advice. Ive got my set up with a system that will zero till or work tilled soils. I run a stubble rake over everything after the combines to get a staleseed bed, then where appropriate get everything drilled direct. The zero till system started because...

Hello, Need some advice please! So I've sprayed some good crops this season that where pressed first before they were rolled, so I've had an idea!!! But I'm not sure whether its worth it. I've done some research on guttler Crosskill and heard some good things about it. The idea would be to run...

We have recently take up a new service for customers in Winter Bean seeding. With pulse crops becoming ever more important within modern day British agriculture since changes in environmental legislation have come in as well as renewed focus on soil health and productivity, farmers and landlords...

Hello, Some advice please! So, I like Barley, historically the old man has favoured Winter Barley over a second wheat to get the OSR in nice and early and away from the pigeons and his hobby partridges, I can also get a staleseed pass in and we then have a longer growing period for the OSR...

Good Morning all, I've started up a woodland management system, running a Komastsu tree harvester and tigercat forwarder. I can cut and forward for yourself for any personally use you have, I can cut post lengths straight off the machine. I'm charging between £12-15 a ton depending of if its...

Morning everyone, I'm offering my timber harvester for hire, cutting standing timber for biomass or wood fuel. I have some biomass contracts if you have too much woodland and I can buy by the ton for any excess. Charging £12-15 per ton depending on if we are clearfelling or thinning, all...

Good Afternoon Everyone, Sorry to shameless utilise the farming forum for marketing reasons and if the administrator wants to delete this then I won't feel sad! Anyway, milk price is tight, maize is going in soon (hopefully) and I am offering a maize spraying service in Kent and Sussex and a...

Good Afternoon all, I am offering a 'Harvest Special' contracting service across Kent and Sussex however I would considering further afield depending on the size of the work. In short, labour is expensive, espically at harvest time and very often an employee cannot be justified on smaller...

Good Afternoon all, If anyone in the direct drilling community is interested I am offering a 'Harvest Special' contracting service across Kent and Sussex however I would considering further afield depending on the size of the work. In short, labour is expensive, espically at harvest time and...

Evening, Looking for some advice, I've been offered 100 acres of ground 3 hours drive in a tractor from the main farm, good soil, sensible landlord, good rent, keep the greening payment, but its 3 hours from the farm! They have a grain store with 3 partions, water tank, chem locker. I would...

Good Evening everyone, I wondered if you might be able to help. I am investigating the idea of bed and breakfast cattle rearing on the farm, I am not bothered about being beef or dairy just seems a shame to have the cattle yards with no cattle! So the story goes that my father scaled back our...

Good Morning, So I have been approach by two clients to strip till maize, I short I have the strip till cultivators ready for another project in the Autumn which I have spoken to both of them about and this opportunity has now presented itself. The long and short of it is that I am pitching a...

Good Morning, So I have been approach by two clients to strip till maize, I short I have the strip till cultivators ready for another project in the Autumn which I have spoken to both of them about and this opportunity has now presented itself. The long and short of it is that I am pitching a...

Good Evening Farming Forum, So my neighbours gone off on holiday. I've been drafted in to help with the daily jobs, my duties include feeding young stock, bedding etc. I've started helping the cow man earlier in the morning with some milking and now I've had an upgrade to feeding dry cows and...

Good Evening, Ok so the new website has taken me all day to build, http://www.fmeagri.co.uk, if you wouldn't mind having a look at what I have on offer I might be able to help you out or you may like to see what we have to offer. As ever if you need me the contact details are on the website...

Good Evening, Happy November, I know don't hate me but I have a combining question and over winter seems just as good a time as any to organise a machine. So the big idea, or rather little idea, is to have a little combine, only to cover sort of 400-600 acres. My idea is simply that our local...

Good morning everybody, So I have finished drilling, or will have by the end of the week and as such I am available for hire with my tractor if anyone needs. She's a 2155 JCB fastrac, although it has a chip to 170 hp. I can do really anything at this point, carting compost or digestate etc...