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I went from 24m to 30m 2 years ago on a 4000l sp chafer. Now work on achieving 160ha in 10hr day as opposed to 120ha. 30m is a great size, find it rides as well as 24m, not a massive boom, can keep forward speeds up, works with our 6m drills and fert spreads to it easily. I look at some smaller...

Thanks for the replies, looks wet this week so I'll just hassle him directly. If nothing has happened we'll instruct Thomas Higgins. I'd love to cover the place in slurry though!

Yes and sadly thats just like this chap, he knows the system, doesn't owe any assets outright, tenant farmer, boils my blood!

As contractors we have a couple of small debts £3.5kish with a couple of customers we no longer work for going back 4 years now. I should not have let them get this far but repeated chasing, call, emails are now going un-answered. My 2 debters are renowned bad payers, my bad I was keen for work...

We managed some fert on early feb and a few days this week so most cereals now had n. Surprisingly travelled mostly ok. The fields that need it are too wet still. The arable job is the easy bit, its the full muck and slurry stores with no suitable ground to spread on causing us the most stress now

It will be interesting to see if these big estates do put big areas into sfi. I can't see why they wont looking at the wheat price. I just wonder if they will have to repay the grant money on the direct drills they have all brought over the last few years?

Its not just about selling your outputs, you also need to buy inputs, the web is closing in so you have no choice really. In my opinion I'd be happy for an inspection annually, its not that difficult to pass if your doing things right. Farming in England is fairly well supported at the moment...

We've been asked to do some repairs and fabricating of stock gates. It will fit in well as can do as and when along with plenty to go at. They will provide all materials, we'll supply labour and tools inc welder, most will be done in our workshop. Whats a fair hourly rate?

After a meeting with an advisor it reads as though you could establish AHL2 winter bird feed after harvest, it then has to be in place for the winter months, nov, dec, jan and feb. After this could you then follow with a spring crop? If you were to do this and add the no insecticide payment you...

Its all about knowing your costs, providing the residual value keeps pace with the new value the cost of ownership is not to bad. The one thing i have tried to do is match the tractor to the job, big hp tractors on muck cart or hedgecutters is expensive. 20 yrs ago 140hp tractor on 16t trailer...

I don't think £200acre is sustainable esp if your not getting any subsidy on it

Yes, my orginal thoughts were for the landowner to put 1/3rd in SFI then we farm the better 2/3rds. I think with current returns on wheat SFI is a better bet. Offering contracting on SFI is great but it makes our big ticket machonery look very expensive if its not doing the acres

As a young(ish) farmer and agricultural contractor the new SFI schemes are making me feel like new oppertunties for farming land will not be there. Land agents will advise farmers close to retirement to enter these schemes as opposed to letting someone else have a go and looking at the increased...

As a contractor a few customers are asking us if we can combine and store there grain as the older stores are unsuitable for large trailers and quick tipping. Does anyone do this and how would you charge it?

Dutch openers i'd be keen to speak to you direct. I like the points but lots trying to a copy. Might just be me but they seemed to last longer a few years back

Yes I have had that thought but we contract drill 500ha a season as well as our own 500ha's so dont always get the choice on points. We'll have a demo in the spring on some direct heavy slopes and see what happens. I agree 250 will be more versatile and cheaper to run hence the thinking but we...

Weighing up our options, currently running a 7310r as our prime mover but we only really need the power for 3 months of the year. Thinking a 6250r with the new hyd boost may be a more versatile option? Needs to be able to pull a 6m horsch sprinter on 5"dutch coulters well which is about as hard...

For the price of a new 728 you could run 2 or 3 older tractors and put up with downtime and a few repair bills. In my opinion fendts were years ahead of others but to try stay ahead they have put alot of things on a tractor you don't need and will cause problems

He farms near us, does a great job and makes it look easy. Fair play to him imo