drainage

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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?

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...

Looking for a plough, 200 acres mainly arable and the odd bit of grass for reseeding. Tractors available Fendt 718 and TM190 both on 650 tyres Mixture of land types - 50/50 between flat reclaimed silty soils and steeper ground on medium to heavy clays with plenty of big stones. High rainfall...

I had previously been overlooking SAM2 mutlispecies cover. Is it really as simple as we drill autumn cereal crop as usual, give it a light sprinkle of some other species and claim it as Sam2? Seems to have the potentially to be the most reward for least cost/effort option of all SFI...

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:

We are planning to build quite a large sheep handling system in the centre of a 250 acre block away from home. The sheep pens will be heavily used. What would people recommend as the most suitable stone/other material to use. The pens are being designed to hold around 1000 ewes so concrete...

Brighton Council, that bastion of the Green movement and all things trendy thought it would be a good idea that they should ban the use of glyphosate on the city streets to help the environment. Roll on four years and having tried all the green alternatives the place is a jungle and they have...

We have a typical old school silage clamp setup which we want to improve. It’s earth bank at the back with occasional springs then free standing pre-cast panels dividing the clamps. The option we’re looking at is to put a sealed wall against the earth bank (drainage stone and drain to catch...

Around five years on from this thread, what is the going rate for hedge cutting nowadays? I know it will depend on location, supply/demand, etc etc, but it would be interesting to hear what everyone thinks. And how much more a heavy duty hedge cutter (for some thicker/taller stuff) vs a...

Personally I think the agricultural industry in the uk and other western countries is being run by an academic led doomsday cult. The brainwashed individuals in positions of power everywhere are being led by anti meat eating and climate change snake oil salesmen that have no business deciding...

I have been quoted to mole under a small B road and run about 340m of 32mm mdpe through a field. The cost seems extortionate it has come at over £14k. Anyone else have any experience with what the costs are for this work or had any quotes for something similar This is in the Devon area.

Not farming, but railways crop up on here quite often. The above film shows lots of history & the fields are in the back ground. I remember as a boy sleeping over at Grandma's house, counting the coal trains going to Manchester all night long. Its all ripped up now & a busy footpath, The...

I’m hoping to find out a little of peoples experience of moving from claiming tax credits to claiming universal credit. We’ve been informed that later this year we will get notice and a deadline to move to universal credit. A quick search on the internet comes up with a couple of stories from...