drainage

  1. P

    Why is the Environment Agency so against cleaning, maintaining UK rivers??

    I ask the above as @Farmer dyke and @Gerbert, have explained in answer to my thread “River/dyke cleaning,Question for farmers in Holland/Netherlands, that the “Waterboards”, dictate how waterways must be “Cleaned”. So repeating my self, why is the UK Environment Agency so so opposed, hell bent...
  2. 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...
  3. Derrick Hughes

    Farmers Coop Sussex

    Where do you go to buy things , chicken feed , fencing all the normal stuff Hassocks area! Back in Wales there are 5 Farmers Stores in a 10 mile radius
  4. Boomerang

    Utilities and H and S

    Had a chat with 3 guys surveying an anglia water repair job. Decent blokes , but hell the rubbish they have to deal with to do a simple job is ridiculous. Air valve pissing water out . An engineer Lifting manager Another manager of some sort. These 3 were assessing job. I said easy...
  5. 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.
  6. nxy

    What happened to perennial wheat?

    Some twenty years ago I remember reading how we wouldn't need to plant wheat every year by about now, it would grow back every year they just needed to perfect the breeding. What happened?
  7. Panicnow

    Protest cancelled due to lack of interest

    Two weeks ago I asked for volunteers to help organise a farmers protest. To make the risk-reward of farming worthwhile. JUST ONE FARMER STEPPED FORWARD! In the face of this level of apathy I give up on trying to get (English) farmers to do anything. Indeed, the vast majority of comments on...
  8. Defra Farming

    Webinar follow up: the farming offer in 2024

    Webinar follow up: the farming offer in 2024 Written by Becky Briggs On Friday 26 January, we held a webinar for farmers. We went through the actions and payments available through our environmental land management schemes in 2024. This webinar was held in collaboration with the Farming...
  9. P

    Drainage law

    Can somebody give me the basics please. I vaguely remember something along the lines of you cannot stop your neighbours water running or something like that? I’ve got a field that is behind a house which sits in a cutaway into the field. The field is not drained as it’s a stoney light loam...
  10. muleman

    Tightening margins

    We are forever being told to price things and shop around to try and run our business more cost effectively but these salesmen don't seem to like it when people try something different and they might lose a sale. They will have to get back to their bosses and sharpen their pencil, but then I...
  11. Agriland RSS

    Somerset farm fined £16k for two pollution charges

    Written by Agriland Team from Agriland A Somerset farm has been fined a total of £16,000 and ordered to pay costs of £3,220 by Taunton Magistrates after admitting to two charges related to causing pollution. F.A.W Bakers Kingston Farm Ltd of Rushywood Farm, Haselbury, Plucknett, near...
  12. G

    Sewage treatment installation trespass.

    Looking for options and ideas on how to remove someone’s sewage treatment unit from my land. patch of field leased out for garden and kids pony back in 2012. Agreement was that when kids move on from pony then ground comes back. You can see where this is heading already unfortunately. ‘Can we...
  13. Agriland RSS

    Court: Farmer pleads guilty to water pollution causing fish kill

    Written by Aisling O'Brien from Agriland A Co. Down farmer has pleaded guilty in court to a water pollution incident which resulted in a fish kill in the River Lagan. Alan Wilson from Lurgan Road, Dromore was convicted yesterday (Tuesday, February 6) at Craigavon Magistrates’ Court for a water...
  14. Boomerang

    Walpole Grimsby pylon , survey access.

    Just had paperwork through national grid want access tor surveys , just bods on foot at this time. They want us to grant a license for them to survey will pay £500 plus £250 if license papers returned promptly. They also say they will access anyway under statutory papers if we refuse. Is the...
  15. jackrussell101

    Defra now looking at capping SFI

    https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories
  16. gone

    Gone's random pictures

  17. Bald Rick

    Protests: what do YOU want?

    I see there appears to be some momentum to protest but @delilah is right... what are YOU going to protest about? I suspect we all want something different as we are often divergent from each other even within each sector. If I was in Cardiff with a banner, it would be focused on the dash to net...
  18. daveydiesel1

    Slats and cubicle bed prices

    Ok so needing some 12 foot and 12.5 foot gang slats with some mixing points and 16 foot cubicle beds. Just wondering what prices to expect here in northern ireland?
  19. Kevtherev

    Do we need to alter the landscape of wales?

  20. Agriland RSS

    UK Govt launches new plan to boost ‘nature recovery’

    Written by Francess McDonnell from Agriland The UK Government has published new plans to boost “nature recovery” on land and at sea. The new plans – which come a year after the launch of the Environmental Improvement Plan – will encouraged landowners and farmers to support key targets set...
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