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    Volume of water through a pipe - one for the mathematicians?

    As per title - 12inch (250mm) pipe, 8inch (200mm) head of water, running free flow. Just wondering how much water per hour would run through this Pipe length is maybe 5 metres. Thanks in advance.
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    Oolitic Limestone and Gateways.

    I've a gateway in a corner of a field that leads to some 40% of grazing. We're on peat, and in an SSSI. This gateway takes a fair bit of cow traffic, and very occasional tractor and fert spreader. It's now getting a pounding with this wet weather, and bodging up with woodchip no longer appeals...
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    Brexit - Effects on UK Dairy Farming?

    This is not intending to be an Arla v Muller debate. With at least half of British Dairy farms linked to Europe either partly or wholly, just wondering what others fellow dairyists perceived the likely impacts are going to be. My thoughts are it'll be a case of carry on as we were. Or will...
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    Iphone5s or android?

    Going for a new phone, and undecided what to go for. Iphone 5s has a reasonably good reputation and has a nice "feel" to it. Currently have a Samsung S4 mini that, out if it's case is like handling a slippery pig. Mrs Moors has a Sony M4 Aqua - at least 2 day battery life, good camera but a bit...
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    NFU Subsciption.....

    .........is up for renewal. As a dairy farmer, I don't feel the NFU work particularly hard for me. In fact, I think I get considerably better value for money from the FFA (at a fraction of the cost). Without wishing to start an argument, or criticise the NFU, why should I renew?
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