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Nice. It's nice now to have a year where you're very glad of the land out of production after the giddy heights of £300+/t for wheat.

What did you do in the end?!

Map your boundaries with RTK and record curved AB lines as you go. Topcon has a boundary guidance feature given a recorded boundary that automatically generates guidance paths. I can do pre-ems in the dark like this with no markers on the drill. You trust the screen more than what you can see...

Does anyone within 30 miles of Cambridge have any Skyfall or Crusoe that's in the 11.5-11.9% protein bracket that they want to sell? I know of a decent premium on offer for this. Message me for more info.

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Is it just recommended? Can't remember for sure.

Hi Simon! Hope all is well. None that come to mind immediately, but it's a very good mode of inquiry. I will ask around and see if I discover someone I know in this situation.

We know that as BPS goes and we increasingly compete at export parity without the laxer regulation / 1000ac fields of some of our competitors, consistently delivering profitable crops has become all the more important. We are quite a small number of people and so the new person really will have...

Are there any lessons you can pass on for trying to see these problems at the selection stage, or is it usually impossible? I have been told that it is much more normal now for the younger generation to swap jobs more frequently than in days gone by, but would not staying a job for that long be...

Not necessarily that. I won't put all the options on here, but one could be using more outside contractors as an example.

Sure. Main jobs machinery wise would be driving the sprayer, one of the drills, cultivations and doing relief combine driving. They wouldn't need to manage anyone else and would report directly to me. We have cut down the area of the farm that is cropped by a lot from 7-8 years ago, so we're...

This is the thing, having not been in the world of recruiting for ever basically (the last job we had to advertise for was 37 years ago, anyone in since then we inherited someone with a farm we bought or a neighbour came to work for us after the old foreman died), I am entirely unfamiliar with...

Blooming hell! That wasn't a problem I had imagined!

Not put the word out yet. But knew I had a lot of preparatory thinking / question asking to do, so that was main point of this thread. One problem that has occurred to me is that have no website, no real social media presence attached to the business. We don't do any contract work / contract...

I think we are going to have to select someone who doesn't really bat an eyelid at something like that. In fact, I really want someone now, having had to battle on this front quite a lot over the last few years, who really gets the reality of H&S law. We have parts of the farm owned by trusts...

I have been organising starting doing occupational health monitoring. I think we will definitely do it for anyone new. Test lung function, eyesight, hearing and hand vibration I think were the ones ELAS, the company I've gone with, suggested doing for ag as a basic.

Similar to the post above out scoring answers on questions, the drive to make interview performance more standardised has driven these tests. I suppose we would be looking for someone with things like a bias towards action rather than inaction (or don't put off until tomorrow what can be done...

This raises a really interesting point which I'm quite unsure about. Do you go for what is, by design, quite a scripted / formulaic interview that allows less chance for a freewheeling direction of travel? What were your pros and cons when you thought about this? I can imagine the scripted...

Definitely on the spraying front I would like to quite quickly get to the stage where the person driving the sprayer can have a good level of agronomy knowledge and ability to make their plans under uncertainty which they then keep under review as the forecast / conditions change and do this...