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So I thought I'd post my adventures in pimping my Kuhn maize drill for the upcoming season. I use the drill for maize, pumpkins and OSR, where I run ahead with a subsoiler and follow down the lines with the drill. Sort of like strip-till but not quite. I'd like to use it in a truly no-till...

Spreading some urea the last week, at the end I found an empty fag packet and a nice stainless bolt. Anyone else seen any random stuff in their fert?

TFF on desktop has no HTTPS certificate, and if I try to log in, it complains cookies aren't accepted (but no prompt to accept them). Same behaviour on 3 browsers and 2 different OSes. Sporadically HTTPS comes back to life and I'm magically logged in again, but it doesn't last long. Works...

I've got 3ha of sunflowers in need of grazing off before drilling wheat. About 6ft high with maize, millet and phacelia in there too. Available immediately for free, between Taunton and Bridgwater. Grazier to fence. Would suit sheep or young cattle. I also have 30ha of OSR...

3 hectares of sunflower cover crop available for immediate grazing. The field was open to the public but now the flowers are over, a light grazing would be beneficial before drilling wheat in October. The field also contains maize, millet, buckwheat, phacelia and plenty of fat-hen. The crop...

Hi, I'm looking for a replacement Amados 2 box for my Primera drill. Anyone got one? Mine's being very stubborn and I don't think David King can fix it. Thanks!

So, if you had folpet in the shed, a nice evening tonight and at least a week of rain coming up in the forecast, would you paint it on leaf 2? Idea is to give a bit more flexibility for the T2 timing, or maybe even let me drop down from a Revystar to an Ascra type mix later on, if it comes dry...

Not sure where to put this, hopefully I'm in the right place! I'm planning on putting in about 35ac of rye and vetch this autumn, infront of maize next year, Taunton/Bridgwater area. Would anyone be interested in taking the crop? Looking for someone to cut it mid may, so the crop would be in...

Can it be done? Will be going in after OSR so could be drilled quite early. I'd like to get it off and put maize in immediately after. OK the grain won't be very filled out, if at all, but would it work if it was mown, wilted and picked up like a grass crop? Would anyone buy it? I'd like to do...

Got a friend with a Lexion 760 which keeps losing fix with the built in receiver, as the grain tank shades out half the sky, leaving only 3 or 4 GPS sats visible (no option for other constellations in this model) Is it possible to use a third party receiver with the GPS/CEMOS display in the cab...

Performance has been utterly pants on Sterile brome this year. Previous years it kills most of them, but always leaves a few stunted plants to return seed and continue the cycle. This year there are healthy plants all over the crop. Do I just put it down to the cold April allowing the brome to...

I'm after a graduated glass milk receiver. Specific size not important as long as it has accurate markings, preferably with some sort of mounting cradle. Ideally within the Somerset/Taunton area. Thanks.

Evening all, Drilling wheat today into a cover crop following OSR, I noticed this: (apologies for the blurry photos) This patch is where wheat was topped off in June 2019 due to excessive sterile brome. The following OSR didn't really establish, so the N applied to this area hasn't been used...

I'm looking for a maize drill, for a low-disturbance subsoiler drill conversion/experiment in direct drilled maize. The machine i'm looking for would need to have at least 5 working row units and fan, box etc. The toolbar and mounting is not important. (It could be a pile of units ripped off a...

Afternoon all, Due to circumstances we have decided to replace the tyres on our 20 year old MF6290. It was on Michelin XM108, 650/65/R38 rears and 540/65/R28 fronts. Great tyres in my opinion. Now our front-line tractor, an MF7480 is on identically sized Multibibs, 60% worn. Again decent tyres...

I've got a field of poor linseed + multi-resistant wild oats. I'll be taking the nuclear option soon with 3 litres of glyphosate. Of course it's a great opportunity to get a big cover crop in, but is there anything I can drill that might even come close to washing its face? Would it be worth a...

So the rats chewed the cable leading to the top sieve actuator on our 630 Montana. I made up a new cable, however the motor will not move. I can get a position reading but I am unable to adjust it or calibrate. The bottom sieve works fine. Whipped the actuator off and tested it on the bench and...

Probably mad to think this, but... Are C4 plants a good choice for summer established cover crops? Not necessarily maize, thinking more along the lines of millet/sorghum which would work better in a small seed mix. Very water efficient so should be able to get established in late July after...

So this winter I headed down with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to Rothera research station as a vehicle operator, for 6 months between October and March. The lesser known of the large BAS stations, it is situated on the western edge of the British Antarctic claim. It has capacity for up to...

Haven't had much to do at uni this past week, so I thought I'd make another video about what I did over summer. Hope you enjoy! (y)