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I have joined the ACRES environmental scheme and one of the options that I have picked is arable fallow in which I have to establish a cover crop, that I can graze after 1st January. This area is fixed to the same area for 5 years. So would it be a problem if I grew continuous brassicas or what...

After my lica mini mojo gave up the ghost i am looking for a basic GPS for mainly spreading fert, spraying, mowing etc. What is the patchwork like to use,does it have a virtual section control like the trimble, is the screen/ light bar easy to follow. Thanks

I normally bed my sheep on barley straw spread through a straw chopper, however I am thinking of drilling winter oats this year as a break crop, therefore just wondering what the straw would be for bedding. Thanks

Does anyone know how to reset the bale counter on auto plus - pilotbox control box. It's of Deutz Fahr FM235 baler similar to a vicon, kuhn 2135.

I have a deutz FM235 baler ( the same as vicon and kuhn 2135). It has the Auto Plus - Pilotbox control box . Does anyone know how to zero the bale count. It has 3 different bale counts and a total but I cannot see anything in the manual on how to zero them. I'm nearly sure that it also used to...

When spreading urea on spring barley at 150kg/ha I did a field with the border deflector on left down. Kuhn axis spreader at 18m. What can I do anything to rectify this?

I normally buy my Nitrogen with sulphur, but with the issues of availability this year I have ended up buying urea. What products would you recommend to put a bit of S in my winter and spring barley.

I have just changed my TM135 for a T6070 range command. I am struggling to get a manual for it. I ordered one from agri manuals but it is for the sidewinder model. I want to find out how you work the auto PTO and the headland management (button on rhs of joystick).Has anyone on here one spare or...

Most of my ewes are in fairly good condition except for about 15 but they are all suffolk crosses all my white faced ewes except 1 are in a good condition. They all get the same treatments, what could they be lacking? The 2 suffolk ewes pictured would be condition score 2 and they are being fed...

I normally buy some small square bales of barley straw for the lambing pens but my supplier doesn't have any this year. I have plenty of 4×4 rounds but not keen on using them as they are not chopped and ewes just make them into a rope in the pens. I am just wondering what the collective use . As...

I won this yara bag cutter in a cereal competition, but I broke the blade by wacking some hard yara fert trying to get it out of the bag. Does anyone know where I might get a replacement blade? Thanks

We have had quite a lot of quads and triplets this year and a few to many ewes with just one side therfore we have been tubing quite a few with Survivor artifical colostrum. I was looking on the side of the container and it doesn't seem that much different to Lamlac milk. So could you just use...

The ewes are about 5 weeks from lambing and the bales they are getting now are wetter about 21% dm, 69d value, but the pH is 3.48. The ewes don't seem very keen on it, is there anything I can do to make it more palatable or just give them bit of extra ration ?

Can some one on here tell me where I could find how much my barley needs of a certain nutrient eg my analysis comes back showing low in mg and zn, but how much do I put on, it gets 5kg/ha of combitop, is this too little or too much. I can also buy two different Mn sprays one contains 500g/L and...

The ewes are 6 weeks out from lambing now so time to start meal feeding. The ewes are all housed and being fed ad-lib 70-73 dmd(D value 67-69, 11-12% protein) silage. I have always fed them on the stepped method gradually building them up over the weeks so that they are on 0.7-0.8 kg/hd before...

I recently bought a new to me Sulky compact drill to be mounted on an Amazon ke303 power harrow I have the A frame for mounting, but reading through the manual last night it says that with an Amazon ph it should be mounted onto the packer roller. So the question is will it be ok to mount it...

What herbicide do the agronamists on here recommend for w barley followed by forage rape. With products containing flufenacet and dff the label says to plough before establishing a brassica. Looking to control AMG and broad leafed weeds , some fumitory. TIA

I toxovaxed my ewe lambs at the weekend, but they are also due their second shot of Hep P this week. How long should I leave between the two vaccinations? I would also like to footvax them sometime this autumn, Is this to many vaccinations in short period? They will be going to the ram in late...

Can anybody tell me if WH Rea near Antrim is still in business. I was looking at lamb weighbridges and mobile footbath on his website. I have tried emailing and phoning him, but no response. TIA

I have a few ewes that have prolapsed a couple of weeks after lambing. Why? Is it too much grass, mineral imbalance? It's a PIA trying to catch ewes out in the field to put a harness on them