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Yes remember local dairy farmer met kids at school gate at that time with their tea and then straight to milking These kids children still milking, lots of fancy machinery, more expensive rented land which they outbid everybody to get and for what. I have always thought you have to add a bit...

Meandering jet stream is mainly the result of a lesser thermal gradient between the Arctic and the Equator .Much less arctic ice than say 60 years ago being the main cause of a weaker jet stream. Main cause of ice loss being a warming world atmosphere for whatever reason. The North Atlantic was...

Some dryer days forecast and generally higher pressure https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/uk/7-day/8729~Dingwall

Same tractor in 1969 £800

Family know I suffer from P.H.T. (Pre Harvest Tension) for about a month before harvest and understand not to ask me to spend money on anything except harvest needs. Grow spring barley on top of a very exposed hill where we always have a wind blowing.

Actually for the weather nerds amongst us there have now been been two easterly wind/rain storms this month a most unusual wind direction for October. East winds are more normal feature in late winter/ spring. The first easterly originated in Kazakhstan crossed Scandinavia (Where winter has...

Always am irritated by the targeting of cattle and their methane production contributing to carbon in the atmosphere (Where is the carbon cycle that I learnt about in school mentioned) when the energy needed by an aircraft to escape the earths gravitational field is colossal and results in...

Maybe not the correct place feel free to delete or move Some personal opinions . When farm assurance began in Scotland I hoped we could obtain a pricr premium like if you shopped at Harrods you would pay extra for the best but was told by one of its proponents that it was to prove that we were...

According to my barley buyer three weeks ago they will need every seed of malting grain they can get. Still hearing that there are odd pockets of spring barley in Aberdeenshire but rain last weekend must have battered it a bit. Odd bits of straw round here higher up and at least one area of...

Just wondering if anyone on here knows of a Tomas Powell selling second hand farm machines in Dartford Kent and if they did do they have any contact details for them. If i have broken any rules on the forum please delete.

Stories of local estate discing in 100 acres of spring barley that was flat and sprouted badly in an LFA area

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Thats a year will always remember. Cut a bit of regrowth in October just left stayed dry and baled 200 small bales Very nice soft green hay but not totally dry so put over a duct in floor dryer and finished curing it there. About the only super produce we had all winter.

Some experts are pointing to Hunga Tonga sub sea volcano in the South Pacific in February 22 I think blasted 43 billion tonnes of water into atmosphere 5 billion tonnes of which was shot into space to be lost forever No nearby human settlements so not newsworthy but produced the largest...

Had a great week of weather some days at beginning of week had a strong southerly wind clear blue skies and 21c. Have baled the best colour of hay this season and it smells great. Up to 27c this afternoon

Go for remedial massage to unlock lower back muscle spasm once a month . All started with toddler son on 60mg of prednesolone/day for kidney disease giving hour long tantrums no reasoning with him so just picked him up in shops and back to car.. Obviously excess body water and squirming like...

Something like 25% less fatalities and serious injuries to pedestrians at 20mph as compared to 30mph so benefits to nhs.

50% rest still OK if weather will just settle a bit.

I am a member of Highland Grain with a small acreage of malting barley. Had an on the floor dryer back in the eighties .!985 was the year that finished this dryer for me .Had to empty and reload it to get the top of the heap dry and it took till Christmas 1985. Now we cut it all and it is taken...

Wrote an article along with my daughter in 2013 for the Scottish tenant farmers magazine after a spell of colder winters which were probably caused by less activity on the sun.