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    Help wydale milk trolley repair

    Hi, my milk trolley has developed an electrical fault. I would like to detach the electric motor to get it repaired or replaced. Anyone know if/how to remove the plastic mixing paddle from the motor shaft? Is it just press fitted on?
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    Solar power water pump drinkers maintenance cost experience

    Hi, anyone already have one of these fixed installation solar powered water pumps? How do you find its reliability? How long do the batteries last, does the inlet bung up with weeds? Pump parts need replacing? I'm spending about 1k on mains water during the grazing season for beef cattle, I see...
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    Management payment increase announced

    Prime Minister just announced at nfu conference that they are increasing the management payment from £20 to £40 a Ha for first 50ha. not very exciting but better than a poke in the eye. Can't be out of money yet.
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    end of cross compliance hedges 2024

    just checking, now that cross compliance has ended, we can cut hedges at anytime of year so long as we check for nesting birds and havent signed up for hrw2? also when planting spring crops i can plough as tight to the hedge as i want?
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    • fire grass grazing hedge hrw2 ipm2 landowners management plough rpa sfi sheep
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Consultation to convert cross compliance hedge rules into law.

    As expected, once bps ends you won't actually get to manage your hedges as you want. Government planning on converting the cross compliance rules on hedge width and cutting date into law. Follow the link to have your say, maybe we can get the cutting date moved to end of July...
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    • barley biodiversity carbon chainsaw children co2 dairy defra elms environmental establishment financial grass hedge hrw3 levy liability maintenance nettles osr pesticides ploughing pto red tractor roots rpa sfi wheat
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    T0 thoughts septoria control 2022

    What are peoples thoughts on what to use for septoria control at t0 this year? Didn't do a t0 for septoria last year, only teb on yellow rust susceptible varieties, but had too much septoria in may/june for my liking. What is there? Folpet? Can you get mancozeb this year? Triazole for the...
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    • adexar amistar ascra azoxystrobin beans beef biostimulant biostimulants disease foliar folpet fungicide fungicides inatreq manganese osr pgr revystar rust sdhi septoria spraying stress sulphur t0 t1 t2 t3 teb tebuconazole triazole univoq urea varieties variety wheat yellow rust
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    • Forum: Cropping
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    rspb hedge campaign

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rspb-english-government-england-defra-b968384.html looks like the rspb is going to start campaigning to convert bps cross compliance rules into legislation. so much for opting out of elms and being able to do what you think is best. not a suprise though.
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    • boom cattle chainsaw cultivating death defra drainage elms flail flock grazing harvesting injury lambing loader loader tractor maintenance maize mounted oats operator pig roots sandy sheep storm teagle vigour worms
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Agriculture bill amendment prohibiting application of pesticides near human habitation

    I see this amendment has been added to the agricultural bill. Will have to wait for a directive from the government on what the distance will be. Could affect quite a bit of land. Would this impact footpaths?, pony paddocks, ect 221: After Clause 34, insert the following new Clause—“Application...
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    • buffer cover crop gps herbicide nettles nozzle operator pesticide pre em rpa sprayer spraying thistles
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    • Forum: Cropping
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    land agent recommendations devon?

    hi i think we will be in the need of a good land agent to deal with east devon district council. Any one have any positive or negative feedback on agents in devon? currently considering kivells, greenslade talyor hunt, or sheamus Machin thanks
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    Crediton Milling Fire

    Looks bad news for a local feed mill. https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/firefighters-still-scene-morning-after-2982088 Anyone local know how bad the damage is? We normally sell all our wheat and barley to CMC
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    controlling umbelliferous weeds in oilseed rape? help

    basis trained doing my own agronomy here. This year i had to rouge out a few patches of helmock/ cow parsley from my OSR. Hedges are full of the dam stuff. Whats the best herbicide strategy in OSR for umbelliferuous weeds? i cant find much info online. last/this year i went Centium pre-em...
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    Runaway tractor!

    https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/drivers-amazing-escape-runaway-tractor-1493857
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    Broken sprayer pump, what to do with part load?

    The pump on our small sprayer (12m x 1000l) siezed this morning whilst spraying herbicides. Will be taking the pump to dealers in the morning for them to fix. Question: How long will tank contentce sit before its no good. Not likely to get spraying tommorow. Obviously cant agitate it anymore...
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    More water quality regulations

    More regulations, doesnt look to bad if you are all ready in an nvz. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/farming-rules-for-water-from-april-2018/farming-rules-for-water-overview
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    Bi-croping wholecrop regulations?

    Hi How are the regulations such as nvz and pesticide lables applied to bi-cropping such as spring barley +peas grown for whole crop? Can you apply nitrogen if in an nvz? Do the ratios peas to barley matter? Do both crops have to appear on pesticide lable or just the dominant crop? I can't...
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