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  1. T

    I need john deere buying advice.

    Hello from finland. Im starting small tractor contracting business. I need 100-180hp front loader tractor with tsl and 50kmh transmission would be ideal. I been driving lots of different brands mostly john deere tractors, but bigger and new ones. Now buying own, so big and new is not realistic...
  2. A

    Up Horn/Down Corn

    A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley) A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley). Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?
  3. Wood field

    How do you …. Get out of farming?

    Mulling things over … now I love farming ( mostly) and as some of you know, I’ve said it’s all I ever wanted to do . But times are changing and with the weather on top of poor ground plus my age and aches and pains, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to say enough Part of me feels guilty as if I...
  4. K

    Should you buy a new tractor?

    I’m a new farmer, been farming in my own right for 10 years now. Successfully grown a good business through contracting and growing our sheep flock. The time has come that I have paid my current tractor off. I have never like the idea of buying a new tractor as they depreciate so much! I have...
  5. Derrick Hughes

    Land Drainage

    Think this has been covered before ,but I have some land drainage to do and may struggle to get drainage stone on site ,are there any other options for backfill that will last other than stone , not done any test holes yet so unsure but it seems to be deep loamy topsoil over Clay for what I've...
  6. Wood field

    Sheepy musings

    Just wondering, one block of farm with main buildings and sheep yard . Normally bale the 15 acres ( 12+3 )and also a 4 acre field of the bit marked 16. We get nice short cut sweet green hay but not so much of it , so you wise sheep men and women … to buy in fodder and rotate the sheep or to make...
  7. mackinder77

    Looking For Work Farm worker

    would anyone be looking for a general farm worker ideally on in cambs beds or herts areas but relocation is an option .. I am Mid 40s and looking to make a full time job from a more recent harvest role.. currently taking my pa’s and keen to gain more experience . Trailer work . Secondary and...
  8. A

    MF 1840 baler

    Anyone had any experience how these handle baling haylage ?
  9. Marmite Mac

    Which conventional small bale baler?

    I am sure this thread will have been done to death but if it has then I am not finding it. What's the opinion on the best make and model to choose for making up to / around 2,000 small conventional hay bales per year, within a price of around £5-6k second hand?
  10. B

    Outwintering in the floods

    How's everyone getting on keeping sheep and cattle outside. Pretty biblical round here. Thinking will have to house the multiples for a month to give us half a chance of getting through to spring.
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