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  1. Jim Bullock

    Brexit machinery prices

    As the BREXIT negotiations flounder on, the pound will probably weaken further (last weeks interest rate rise was probably aimed at strengthening the pound) so I am afraid machinery prices will increase. Some products we import have gone up by 20% since the BREXIT vote and we have had to absorb...
  2. Jim Bullock

    Spring wheat

    We see it every year, and usually have to apply two insecticides so as to hit the larvae infecting the forming ear. It's a bit hit and miss but none of the seed treatments available can be used on spring wheat.
  3. Jim Bullock

    Spring wheat

    Nobody has mentioned gout fly. It can decimate a crop cutting the yield to less than 1 ton/ha. We have been growing Spring wheat for a number of years and the yield is very variable (from 7.5 tons/ha down to less than a ton) It always gets ergot no matter where it is grown in the rotation. We...
  4. Jim Bullock

    How late is acceptable?

    Very soon on their phones if they turn up in the yard and there is nobody there to load them....
  5. Jim Bullock

    LAMMA moving to NEC from 2019

    Excellent news, just what the industry needs post Brexit. I am sure the location will attract more visitors as it is far more accessible to a greater number of farmers. As an exhibitor I cannot see any negatives.
  6. Jim Bullock

    How about this for soil building

    I think we just about got away with ploughing up until the mid sixties because we were only turning over the soil to the depth of 4 -6 inches as that is all the MF 35/65's could manage. It's when we got tractors over 100 hp with four wheel drive that we could really start to do some damage...
  7. Jim Bullock

    is growing soya the way forward??

    It's a crop we are really interested in growing, but I am not convinced we get enough sunshine in Worcestershire to ripen them. There have been some quite successful crops grown in Herefordshire but they have been on grade 2 free-draining land where they can get on early...
  8. Jim Bullock

    country file

    It would be interesting to know what they yielded. If they were anything like our spring beans I would have thought about 5 cwt/acre...which would have just about covered the seed cost.
  9. Jim Bullock

    If you want glyphosate sprayed on the crops you eat.....ban glyphosate

    We used to plant our winter barley by mid September ( in the days before BG) it was a foot high by Christmas and it was cut by mid July at the latest, OSR last week in July and wheat first week in August, with the beans coming in at August bank holiday. Now it's all gone to pot due to changes in...
  10. Jim Bullock

    Latest drilling date for Mascani oats

    Planted them as late as March and they have been fine.
  11. Jim Bullock

    How is your 2017 linseed combining ?

    Got ours combined eventually, but came in at 12-13%mc. Tried to dry it with our CF dryer, but if we got sufficient air flow it was sucked off the laterals and went out through the fan. So it has ended up going to a local store where they will probably crucify us with drying costs. Linseed is a...
  12. Jim Bullock

    What will the no tillers do ?

    No fear York I have no plans to get the plough out at present... It's that I have got time on my hands as I am in bed with pneumonia and I have been looking for things to read up on...
  13. Jim Bullock

    What will the no tillers do ?

    I am just wondering if residual glyphosate on some of our field is the reason why we are seeing productivity falling away. I was attributing it to poor soil nutrient status after 5 years or more of intensive glyphosate usage to control BG....Just been looking at some second hand ploughs in...
  14. Jim Bullock

    Things that waste your time

    It's a good old country post office about three miles from Malvern
  15. Jim Bullock

    Things that waste your time

    Or getting behind the "eBay" trader with 16 parcels he wants a postage quotes for .... and he was behind the pensioner who has just been done for speeding and is going on a speed awareness course which requires paper work to be sent by special delivery and you have to hear all about his crime...
  16. Jim Bullock

    ZON Test

    Post Brexit if we are flooded with cheap imported grains ( If Liam Fox and Boris J get their "Trade Agreements " in place) I hope it will all be certified and tested for DON and ZON....!
  17. Jim Bullock

    Will

    Wife and I did one last year along with Enduring power of attorney and it cost circa £2100 which was a bit of a shock. Just wish I could get the previous generation to do the same before it's too late..
  18. Jim Bullock

    Stocks Turbo Jet i-con

    I suspect the "electrics" are made by RDS, they supply us with a similar unit for our small seeders.. If all else fails contact them as they will often be able sort you out over the phone..
  19. Jim Bullock

    allied 620 b grain dryer grain temperature gauge

    We use Devises Control Systems for all our dryer maintenance and repairs, they have usually got us sorted within 24 hours...
  20. Jim Bullock

    Who to follow on twitter?

    I like twitter as you are limited to the number of characters you put on each tweet so it filters out long winded rants Follow me on @JimbullockCA
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