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  1. mikep

    Spring Wheat Results

    Yep zero tolerance in a 2kg sample out of 29,000kg. All the mills I've been to put it over colour sorters anyway so what's the problem except to add charges.
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    Spring Wheat Results

    Ergot can be cleaned out gout fly more of a worry here.
  3. mikep

    Glyphosate, retreat of the antis pt1

    I wonder who will be the next to retreat?
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    Glyphosate, retreat of the antis pt1

    Brighton Council, that bastion of the Green movement and all things trendy thought it would be a good idea that they should ban the use of glyphosate on the city streets to help the environment. Roll on four years and having tried all the green alternatives the place is a jungle and they have...
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    FFS

    I'm not going to go in to full details of the sh,tfest that is the programming behind this but suffice to say the RPA have agreed to me applying online but emailing the corrections necessary for them to fill in. The final straw is when I hit print all I get is the summary not the agreement. Do...
  6. mikep

    Track Marshall 135

    They look like Ransomes discs which were always a bugger to set up and were very sensitive to changes in conditions. Well made but obviously more for an eye on the export market with their mainly bolted construction.
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    Direct/Min Till

    Depends how much straw or trash but the best leveling tool is a Dutch harrow. Much maligned by people who don't know how to use them but nothing better if set up properly.
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    Fumitory in carrots.

    TVO on a hot day. May not still be legal though😱😱
  9. mikep

    Cereal seed prices….

    D You can treat against bunt yourself with vinegar seed treatment. Sounds daft but it works and a hell of a lot cheaper and diy with an auger and knapsack.
  10. mikep

    A question about JD 750 discs

    Hi thanks but I am looking for a 17" plain flat disc for another application and can't find any so I will try resharpening the worn JD ones unless you can supply those?
  11. mikep

    A question about JD 750 discs

    Thanks for the replies has anyone got 20 x 17" worn discs kicking around?
  12. mikep

    A question about JD 750 discs

    Hi. Are the JD 750 discs hardened all the way through and what diameter are they usually when replaced? The reason I ask is my drill discs are unavailable so I need to find a disc about 17" which I can then modify either the disc or hub to fit? Tia
  13. mikep

    Can Haricot/Navy beans been grown in the UK?

    And these
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    Can Haricot/Navy beans been grown in the UK?

    Hodmedods started these a couple of years ago.
  15. mikep

    The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

    Just to put another point about RT. I was dead against it and have already told them I'm going but.....Last year I got a contract to supply heritage wheat to a bakery, they want a lot and I cannot mill that quantity so they are contracting the milling out to one of the larger independent mills...
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    Weeder harrows

    Hello. I have just bought a S/H set of opico grass harrows aka weeder harrows. They are fitted with 8mm tines whereas the weeder usually comes with 6 or 7mm. We are on very heavy land so the question is will the 8mm knacker winter wheat? Tia.
  17. mikep

    Permanent clover understory

    Has anyone any idea how much N a living mulch would 'leak' into the soil available for the cash crop. Looking to try this with heritage wheat but worried about too much N especially in the spring.
  18. mikep

    Claas/Renault Ares 656rz

    Thanks for the replies. After much testing and hair pulling it was a faulty joint on the pump solenoid wire which we found by accident! It had tested OK for continuity but in the fixed position was open. Could find no visual fault with it or the wire, no corrosion and sound crimp! Anyway trimmed...
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    Claas/Renault Ares 656rz

    Can you check the ecu output from the pump leads or is the pulse too weak?
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    Claas/Renault Ares 656rz

    After the first episode mine was twice low powered and struggling when cold but if you nursed it for 5 mins it came back fine but did flash brake fluid warning light!!. Then it was fine until today.
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