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1500ac has just been taken off a contract farmer locally. It’s all going into green schemes and they’ve put all the maintenance of it out to tender. Looking at the tender pack and options chosen the income will be around £750,000 a year with very little costs. I’ve also been told that big...

Not on his own. We dropped greenstar in favour of Trimble. We had SF1, SF2 and RTK from JD and it forever needed tweaking and dropping signal, especially the RTK system. As soon as the initial warranty ran out and they started charging us for telephone calls to their greenstar guru we had...

Just been charged £27/acre on their fuel for a 6250r and 6 furrow mounted besson. Did 40 ac over 2 days as he was doing it between other jobs.

Friend runs two of the blue versions. They are worked very hard with multiple drivers so not looked after like a one man band would. Always serviced on the dot though. In 4 years and a 5000 hours one has been no trouble but the other has had lots of trouble with the biggest issue being the...

Yes caught a chap in his 60's stealing wood we have logged up a few days ago. Up a private drive away from the road and he was there in his brand new discovery with a ifor williams trailer helping himself, saying he thought it was free. I blocked him in until he removed every piece. Very verbal...

I know 2 long term storage farmers who are jacking it in due to payment rates not being anywhere near enough for what you need to do. You've got to have the infrastructure obviously but then also need a full time weighbridge person for the season. They need to be able to load the stores properly...

Thats got self storage written all over it. Make it two tiered with a lift and small individual units from 100 sqft upto 250sqft upstairs and 250sqft unto 500sqft downstairs.

None of them are paying enough now though to make it viable. The increases in fuel, insurance,labour costs, electric etc means you are storing it for free for them. The rate per tonne needs to double and why so many farmers are jacking it in which is why the merchants are looking for new sites.

I'd be going with 50% water just to be safe. So assuming a 4000l tank then 50% water 50% fert and an application rate of 200l/ha. Also try to do it in lower temps.

100 litres per ha of 30% N so 100 x 30% = 30kg/ha 30kg/ha x 1.305 SG = 39.15kg/ha

Yes but I dont need to worry about total area covered. It was merely an example.

Did the tenant sublet (for cash probably) as DIY horse livery? If so then you are in a quagmire I am afraid. This happened to a friend and basically all the individual DIY'ers claimed they had a right to be there. None of them wanted to take it on as a whole and because the tenant was using the...

Only did the 2nd fungicide 10 days ago and theres no rain on the forecast so I am hoping we are done to be honest.

I dont see how. Nothing simpler than having a delivery of 23,000 litres and then applying it at say 300l/ha meaning you cover 76ha. That 23,000 litres is 29 tonnes at £350/tonne so £10,150 or £133/ha. 300l/ha application is 90kg/ha N and 28kg/ha So3

It easier to buy it by the tonne. EG N24 So37.5 has a SG of 1.26. So a tanker load of 29 tonnes is about 23,000 litres. Omex just sell it to you by the tonne.

Anybody had prices for straight P and straight K?

I plan around it now so whilst I know its happening I haven't been really that affected. The worst one is the school run at 8 am which is a 16 mile round trip but its doable. The 3pm return one is fine. Anything else you plan. If I am away for the day I'll book in early appointments and leave at...

Been looking to add another tractor to make life a bit easier and keep the hours down on the others. Budget is £40,000 and you pretty much dont get much for that kind of money. I have spoken to numerous used tractor dealers and they said I need to be looking at another £20,000 to get into...

Local salesperson for a big brand has admitted to me sales have really slowed down across the board for agriculture and construction. They are doing ok with groundscare and pickup franchise though. He thinks its only going to get worse and it seems the penny has dropped about the governments...

Is this possible at all? I’m sick and tired of it correcting words I don’t want correcting. It doesn’t understand agricultural speak and it’s doing my head in. I generally use an iPhone 90% of the time and an iPad the rest. Can I turn it off for all apps, texts etc?