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Thank you all for your kind messages of support! just making ready for scanning sheep tomorrow, anything to do with sheep was dads least favourite job so for sure he wont be missing out! Regards Nathan

With a heavy heart I am informing you of the passing of my dad Gavin Elrick (North East Crofter) He suddenly passed away on Wednesday the 18th November I knew he was a keen member of the farming forum and made a lot of friends on here, even met up with some over the years. The funeral will be...

Keep them well fed, we have two one I found dumped on the farm as a kitten and now won't leave the house unless it has it's bodyguard with it and another which was the result of a teenage pregnancy and is a proper c**t unless it gets outside for most of the day but still sleeps on the end of our...

have it in the green manure mixes fantastic stuff, lasts over winter if mild, but as said above only really 1 year mix 2 at a push

Would use the Sassy instead of Westminster as the peas were ready before the barley and we use the Sassy in the main barley crop for malting.

a bit mucky but at the edge of a field so if I do it again will do a stale seed bed and the spray off before sowing, Also dint help that I had thought I had cleaned out the drill from sowing bird crop prior to the mix but should have blown it out as the first couple of rows have Phacelia and oil...

combined it Barley 18.3% and peas 19.8% moisture content, dried down to under 15%

This years experiment grew a mix of Barley 150 kg/ha (Westminster) and peas 80 kg/ha (Zero4) as a potential high protein feed for the sheep, worked quite well, need to have a clean seed bed before starting and no sprays that will do both barley and peas, 15 tonne/ha sheep muck pre ploughing...

what is the infection

Pretty much closed hedges round the field in question, other fields have partial or no hedges

Just interested as I have fields with similar differences, was wondering if it was just me being mean with the fert spreader

what is the seed mix and varieties of these two options?

@JP1 keep posting the Galloways always nice to see them :)

Used to remember that when I was in WA that couch was the preferred grass and PRG was the weed!!

@carbonfibre farmer many thanks. :)

Check below the gear leaver there is a connector for the wires there that sometimes pops apart, we have cabled tied ours shut after I got stuck on the loading ramp at the abattoir!!!

looks about what we are looking for, how long is it from loader to bucket?

Thanks Kenny, will have a look :)

thanks for the hints, will have a look

Trima, hitch