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Saw it on here somewhere so thought I'd better look into it. All fixed Scottish Power tarrifs only have the unit rate fixed. The standing charge can go up or down. My broker insists that's not true but conversations with 2 separate Scottish Power advisors have confirmed it. And it's in the...

Have you got some kind of micro climate where you are, and sandy soil? Too wet here to even get the muck tipped on the fields. If it stopped raining today we'd need 2 drying weeks before we could think about starting. So much land work stacking up. Its going to be hectic if does ever dry up.

I've heard of some ground that has already been drilled 3 times since August. The third 'crop' has now been sprayed off.

I wonder how many folks failed to get their ww drilled so are having to carry it over to next season, then ordered expensive spring barley seed and are now faced with the possibility of falling to get that in too.

Just signed a 3 year single rate with Scottish Power. 65000kw pa. 21.78 ppkw, 208p sc so your deal looks pretty good. B Gas, who I've been with for years were 25ppkw and 65p sc. Worked out around £1400/ year saving. Still painful though as I'm coming to the end of a 13.65 ppkw contract. Pure...

Remember the first year I grew oats and vetch as a cheap and cheerful cover crop. Grew like stink. I sprayed a small area off in late Jan to tip muck on. The rest of the field was left until late March. I looked at the biomass and thought it would be doing the soil structure the world of good...

Guess the main thing is to keep it greased so the bushes don't wear. Do swivel rings travel better. Guess it's safer for the tractor if the trailer tips over.

Looking at a new 14 t grain trailer. Which is the best type of ring to have?... The swivel type or one that is welded to the drawbar?

At the end of January they all the forecasts were predicting a cold dry blocking high from mid Feb onwards. I lost count of the number of times the 10 day forecasts were wrong last year. So I take any long range forecasts with a pinch of salt these days.

Has anyone told the birds it's a leap year this year. Don't want them thinking its 1st march tomorrow and starting to build their nests a day early!

I cannot for the life of me understand why they have to have such a high minimum spend for some of the grants. Once again they penalise the small guy whilst the big can get bigger. 60k of panels would be something near 100kw which is more than the average farm would need.Surely its better to...

Last time we failed to drill our ww was autumn 2019. We drilled it the following Feb (around now) in good conditions and it preceeded to pee down for the following 2 weeks giving us poor establishment. The weather can turn very quickly at this time of year. Ironically, last Feb would have been...

I was tempted to redrill a failed field earlier this week. Glad I didn't now. Think all this rain onto cold ground may have caused another failure.

Bolts came out easy ish. Did the same as you and cranked engine to rotate pulley a big. Threads just look coarser in the holes. Probably fooked them totally now trying to get a different bolt in there! I'll screw something in if that's the way to get it off. Just didn't want to be screwing...

Definitely should be enough movement but that coupler hasn't been moved since the day it was put together 17 years ago! Thought I'd sussed it with the threaded holes. They must be there for a reason.

How big a job is that? The 4 bolts on the pulley seemed the logical and simplest way but it doesn't seem to want to come apart.

Need a new fan belt on the TM. On our one TM it's a doddle but on the other one there is the front pto shaft to negotiate. Am I right in thinking I need to undo the 4 bolts on the pulley and slide the female coupler up over the male spline? There are also 2 threaded holes. Are they there to...

Standing charges like this are the nearest thing to leagalised robbery. How the Ombudsman can sit back and watch the companies charge these extortionate amounts is beyond me. You're basically coughing up £3.5k a year before you even flick a switch. I thought the standing charge was to cover the...

Carpet farming is a bit different in our house to my day. Eldest son has moved on to farming simulator now and it looks like the youngest will ditch the Britons and go straight to technology. I know I'm a dinosaur but I'm absolutely spell bound by how realistic the graphics are (although the...

Plenty of land has been bought by folks who made their money in the stock market so go figure. Guess the losses from farming offset the profits from the city.