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  1. steveR

    Powdered Lamb milk?

    For the past couple of years, I was using an Irish origin lamb milk powder, whose brand name escapes me*, made with ewes milk. Super product on the lambs, mixed well and no brown crap settling out in minutes like the Volac stuff. How Volac can be used in an ad-lib situation escapes me, when it...
    • steveR
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    • downland ewes lambing lambs milk milk powder trouw volac
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  2. Y

    Lambing losses.

    Even after 7 or 8yrs, I still consider myself as a newcomer to sheep rearing. As my own lambing comes near an end and my mind starts to function somewhat nearer to usual, I'm wondering what others consider an acceptable or even inevitable level of lamb mortality at time of lambing itself and...
    • yoki
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    • Replies: 270
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  3. Giorma

    Why nobody using seeders like this?

    Hello, I have a question about why nobody is using seeders like this in Europe, the UK, or the US, I can't find any seeders like this in those countries, in my country we are using seeders like this a lot almost every seeder are like this with single disc and I'm curious why is nobody using it...
    • Giorma
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    • barley claas coulter coulters cultivate cultivating cultivation cultivator diesel direct drill disc downland drill drilling drills family fuel gps harrow hedge irrigation maize market mounted new holland plough ploughing rainfall seed seeder seeding sheep tractor vicon weather weaving wheat
    • Replies: 51
    • Forum: Machinery
  4. CPM RSS

    Grain maize: Take a chance on grain maize

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Maize is fast growing in popularity with increasing numbers of arable farmers believing it capable of delivering significant production, economic and even environmental benefits. CPM evaluates its potential. By Rob Jones With the...
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    • Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
  5. O

    Kit one used to see

    I thought I’d just start this off as something to think about during cold dark winter days, so please feel to add to the list: Lundell forage harvester Lundell seed drill Bamford Wuffler Cock Pheasant Tedder Kidd Rotaflail Taskers Fertispread
    • Oliveau
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    • ammonium anglian baling barley beans beet boom boots brother calf calves cattle cereals claas clamp combi coulter cows crusher cultivator dairy diesel disc disc mower docks downland drilling drills drought dual wheels ear tags family farmyard fastrac fertiliser fertilizer flail forage gate glyphosate gps grass grassland harrow harvest health health and safety hedge hilux honda jcb krone lambs land rover landrover loader massey massey ferguson milk milking mounted mower needle nettles nitram oats operator parts peas pickup pig plough potato potatoes pto repair round baler round bales seed self propelled sheep silage slug slug pellets slurry sprayer spraying stubble sulphate technology tedder thistles transport tups utv variety vicon wheat zetor
    • Replies: 434
    • Forum: Classic Machinery
  6. onesiedale

    best spray on black sheep

    Scanning 60 Gotland ewes next week. What will be the best spray to mark them up with?
  7. G

    The rewilding con

    • glasshouse
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    • amazone barley beans bedding beet buffer carbon cattle cereals children co2 dairy death defra direct drill downland drilling drills electricity establishment family finance financial flooding fuel gates grass grazing health herbal insurance maize malting management market natural capital nettles nitrogen nutrients nutrition oilseed organic organic matter osr pig plough pollinator pollution red tractor renewable energy repair security seed sequester sfi sheep soya sprayer spring beans sustainability thistles tillage trading variety weather wheat winter wheat woodland worms
    • Replies: 175
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  8. T

    SSSI grazing

    Just wondering how much people pay per year for SSSI grazing? It's downland ground in the south east. The grass is fairly good but there is a fair portion covered in trees and gorse. It's very steep ground, with a couple of quad bike tracks to get to the top. You cannot get a truck up there...
    • Tess1
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    • cattle downland ewes gate grass grazing lambs quad sheep transport
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  9. J

    Kidd Straw Chopper

    Hi, I'm looking for a kidd straw chopper similar to the 1 in the photo
    • jfobn
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    • downland pto
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Wanted
  10. paul&mandy

    Whole farm into SFI hedgerows

    I'm helping someone measure all the fields. There is about 130 fields to measure hedges. I'll be the 1 cutting and managing what and how it's cut. We have decided incremental trimming probably suites best so a light trim every year leaving 4inches every yr. Some might go every other yr. 1. When...
    • paul&mandy
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    • banking cows dairy defra downland flail gps grass grass leys harvesting hedge herbal hrw1 hrw2 hrw3 management mapping quad rpa satellite seed sfi sheep slurry soil testing woodland
    • Replies: 60
    • Forum: Tenant Farming, Subsidies, BPS & Legal Issues
  11. Ih885xl

    Cattle bolus

    Hi there we have 15 suckler cows and last year we had quite a few cows calving well over 12 months from last calf at first I put it down to the heat from the summer but realised they still hadn’t got back in calf. Had bull tested he was all good. Scanned cows again in October this time 4 weren’t...
    • Ih885xl
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    • bolus calf calves calving cattle cows dairy disease downland lifeline selenium
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  12. 500john

    Wynnstay

    AIM: WYN WYNNSTAY GROUP PLC ("Wynnstay" or "the Group") TRADING UPDATE The Board of Wynnstay, the agricultural supplies and specialist merchanting group, provides an update on trading for the financial year ended 31 October 2023 ("FY23"). The trading environment in the second half of the...
    • 500john
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    • analysis boots chickens children downland fertiliser finance financial gate grass harvest hedge market milk performance pickup seed trading weather
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  13. Red Fred

    Access to Open Access areas

    I watch a youtube channel filmed by a young couple who ramble round our corner of the country looking at hillforts, old railways, Roman roads, etc, and today they are having a gripe about the open access areas on the Wiltshire Downs that are shown on the map but they cannot legally access them...
  14. Exfarmer

    Insulating very old property

    Have friend renovating cottage dated as first constructed 1450 he is rather in thrall to the historic buildings experts tells me today that his new windows will be single glazed further they are stripping out the walls and they will be lime plastered over the original Lathe and plaster. I asked...
  15. muleman

    Drought

    This year isn't going to be one.
    • muleman
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    • beet calves cattle co2 cows downland drills drought electricity ewes flooding fodder fodder beet forage forecast grass grazing lambing lambs massey paddock quad rainfall sheep slurry storage stubble tup tups weather worms
    • Replies: 92
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  16. K

    Bolus

    What is your recommendation for a bolus for growing ewe lambs, containing cobalt etc? Do boluses work quickly, or is something else recommended (as well as bolus) for a quicker hit?
  17. T

    Molasses for sheep

    Thinking of using molasses for sheep during tupping until lambing time. What is the best type for sheep? United Molasses seem to be the main place to sell it here. thanks
    • TheRock
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    • analysis barley beet bolus cattle covexin crystalyx deere denis brinicombe downland ewes feed blocks fodder fodder beet forage genetic grass handling heptavac herbal lambing lambs lick loader maize market minerals nutrition oats quad rolled barley rumenco sheep silage tower tup tupping tups udder urea vitamins wheat wormers
    • Replies: 108
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  18. snipe

    What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed

    What % of your intended winter crop have not been planted or damaged by flood/slugs/ flee Beatle?
    • snipe
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    • Forum: Cropping
  19. Kingcustard

    Sheep High Energy Buckets

    OK, that time of year again when I am pricing up buckets. What is everyone getting priced for Crystalyx, Optilyx from Downland and Rumenco Maxx, and how did everyone get on with them last year. Hearing that Rumenco are a fair bit cheaper but are they as good and as hard as the other two...
    • Kingcustard
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    • crystalix crystalyx downland ewes flock grass lambing lambs lick lifeline maxx optilix organic rumenco sheep silage supalyx supplement
    • Replies: 36
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  20. Farmerpickle

    Ransomes 902 combine

    Ransomes 902 combine. Just wanted to know if anybody has or had or even seen one? Apart from the one in Gressenhall, Norfolk.
    • Farmerpickle
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    • avian barley claas downland harvest market massey massey ferguson viking wheat
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Classic Machinery
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