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We had a small heap of linseed (4 or 5 tonnes) in the corner of the shed over winter and have just drilled some over the weekend, straight from the heap as it looked very clean (we like to take a scientific approach). Denny the drill-man said he had at least ten dead and mummified mice blocking...

Does anyone know whether having copious amounts of lead shot lying around is harmful to worms? I've eaten plenty of shot embedded in game and vermin in my time, but my guts are rather less abrasive than a worm's. Just pondering this as I wandered over our pastures this pm, in places the...

Tickets have gone on sale for this year's Groundswell. We have, even more so than usual, got a fantastic line-up of speakers who'll give you great ideas, advice and stimulation. Nicole Masters and Joel Williams will both be giving talks from first principles for those thinking of moving to a...

We have been collaborating with our friends in Falkland in Fife, to put together a smaller version of Groundswell on July 1st 2023. There won't be rows of shiny drills working, but there will be lots of talks and panel discussions, many with a uniquely Scottish focus...

Next Friday (3rd Feb) there's a new one day farming conference at the Exeter Showground, featuring various farmers and academics who may well be familiar to readers of this section of the forum. For details of the event and how to access tickets, follow this link...

With the spiraling cost of new drills and various threads on here about people building their own drills, or pimping wrecks to make state of the art custom drills, we thought it'd be good to have an area at Groundswell to show off a home-made drill or two and let the constructors tell their...

We are excited to support the launch of EA Sustain, a new festival about Environment, Culture and Entrepreneurship, with a major focus on Food & Farming. The festival takes place on 14/15 January in Colchester. After attending Groundswell 2022, EA Sustain founder, Joanne Ooi, got in touch with...

The Understanding Ag team are over in the UK next month for an event up North organised by RAM and 3LM (the UK Savory Hub). They have a spare day (Saturday, October 15th) so they're coming here to the Groundswell farm to run an all day workshop for 300 attendees. This is by way of a heads up to...

There's a lot of muttering about how rubbish standard Agriculture courses are at Universities and Colleges, which may be unfair but it got me wondering whether it would be possible to design a course that actually taught students to farm regeneratively. I imagine a small farm run by the...

It's a bit early really, but we've just started selling tickets to this years show (22/23rd June 2022). Every year I tell everyone that they shouldn't hang about too long as we're going to sell out and this years no different. We've got room this year for a few more (post covid), but there's a...

We all like to have a moan about the yellow peril, but I've been really impressed in the last few months how its coverage is changing from advising farmers to spend a fortune on inputs and machines to actually farm better. The current edition (11th Feb) even starts off with a puff for the BASE...

5 year old, good EBVs etc only selling him to stop him covering retained daughter in the herd. Good temperament, hasn't been indoors for three years, 100% pasture fed, works well. £1800 TB free, 4 year testing zone

Has anyone tried to fix some kind of arrangement to the front of a mole plough beam to deflect chopped straw away, to stop it balling up under the beam and lifting the mole? Ours is dragged round by an old crawler, so no front linkage to fix an acrobat wheel to (which I guess would be an option).

We've just put tickets on sale for this years show, which will be on 23rd/24th June, just after Boris's end of restrictions day, 21st June. So we are planning to go ahead as normal. Except nothing is normal now, not even farming. There are some really interesting things going on,on farms around...

Interesting piece on C4 news last night...it's only a matter of time before it turns into cash for farmers https://www.channel4.com/news/is-there-a-more-climate-friendly-way-to-assess-the-state-of-our-economies

Good conference so far...enjoyed Clive's contribution on living clover mulches and some good stuff coming up. Anyone else involved?

Reading various posts on TFF, you get the impression that a lot of farmers are a bit frightened of their agronomists, or/and they don't like the advice they give, not least because many advisors seem to have convinced themselves that no-till won't work on your farm, or could it be that they...

Just been having a great Christmas read of this book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. I can't recommend it highly enough to anybody who is remotely interested in the soil (which should be everyone on here). It is all about fungi and how little we know about them, as mainstream science tends...

You'll all be familiar with Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751): The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness and to me (and so on for another thirty odd...

https://on.ft.com/3gbtmIm In this morning's paper. You never know what you're going to find