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Just wondering what others lamb numbers wise and how many staff they have on the job.

Not selling fat cattle ourselves, how clean do the reactors have to be? hauliers said make sure they are clean, compensation reduced to 50% if are deemed too dirty at slaughter. Anyone had an issue with this, the compensation isn’t particularly great for the young bulls as it is

Anyone else being forecast heavy snow next Wednesday, nearly 2 foot forecast for us in south Shropshire with very cold weather after as well hope they are wrong but yr, xc, bbc all predicting the same. @METJEFFUK @Simon Keeling any input?

Wife has nagged me for a few years to do something with the drive and was thinking along the lines of the picture above sandstone sets, question is can I cut my own out of a big pile of stone we dug out from a site we put a shed on or will it erode away is there anything special about the stone...

Anyone have any idea what make hubs are on Marshall bale trailers

Is the weather that hard to predict? I can understand the storms we had a week or so ago can be very unpredictable with floods in one place but dry a mile down the road. however this week they can’t seem to get it right forecast dry (today) last night when I looked but it’s certainly not dry...

Anybody clued up on any of this? Are there any websites/ companys actively selling credits at the moment and what are their value? what does a carbon credit equate to in tree numbers? Are the credits traded on an annual basis or longer term? Could you plant up an area of woodland sell the...

Is there any reason not to do away with the doughnuts and make the drive from central gearbox solid. Pto is shearbolted will this provide enough protection for the gearboxes always shear bolt that goes when you ground out so what exactly are the doughnuts doing

Anyone know roughly the turnaround from putting claim in for concrete work put down under capital grant scheme to having the money in your bank at the moment? Planning on putting down a fair area over the next month and just want an idea of how long to budget for the money being out of the bank...

had a grazing heifer get into the neighbours who’s bull served her kept her as she will make a nice cow. She has just calved only issue is the only stock bull we have on the place is her father what do others put when apply for passport with bcms?

We have grown fodder beet for the first time here lifted and fed out on grass and stubbles. The ewes have done very well and was planning on putting quite a bit more in this time around. however following the snow and rain we have had in the last week the areas I have put it out on Recently...

Anyone in Shropshire, Herefordshire area sells tups off of farm looking for Texel, few suffolks as well, obviously not needed till the autumn but planning ahead. Want animals that haven’t been stuffed full of cake, veg. Sick to death of buying tups out of market that look a million dollars when...

Anybody on here have a good sheepdog for sale or know of one? Looking for one that will drive sheep as well as bring them to you ( probably not the technical term), one you can send after 3 ewes on the road and they will bring them all back not just one or chase the lot two miles down the road...

Not so long ago cows and livestock in general were being blamed for the supposed climate crisis. Now supposedly farm yard manure is the answer to save the planet do the powers that be even realise where muck comes from I wonder. Ideal scenario for them would be genetically modified trees that...

Anyone putting in a claim for capital items with the deadline of 31/3 get it done tomorrow/today the rpa system is going to be down on Wednesday the 30 and Thursday 31st very inconvenient

Going round feeding the stock this morning spotted someone with the dog off the lead in with sheep going through a gate a long way off any footpath, so went for a chat. Asked him what he was doing and why he wasn’t on the footpath said he had just had a phone call from his wife who was having a...

Just a thought have the prices of fert and fuel gone up in other areas as they have here. Was thinking New zealand, Australia and USA and South America have they seen hikes as we have, is this rise worldwide? Or do these areas have there own supply of both and are not exporting?

Anyone know the details of taking someone on as an apprentice doing one day a week at college and the rest on farm please. non farming family close by have asked if we would be interested in taking the son on when he leaves school in the summer. he seems interested and I have suggested he...

Starting to see a lot of adverts in various places for nitrogen fixing bacteria they are obviously pushing it more as an alternative with the jump in fert prices. Does anybody have any experience using it? What does it cost how much n can be fixed using this and when is available? Is it...

Bit of a spin off from the famous dead horse in stable thread. we have some sort of vermin in the house floor and wall space that is active at night suspect it may be a rat. It is contained in that area at the moment but sounds like it’s trying to scrape/ chew it’s way out newish house 10 years...