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  1. C

    Land Rover Reliability - Oh Dear!

  2. Kevtherev

    1983

    Big farm weekly 1983
  3. puppet

    Public Education

    There is a constant feed of information that beef is bad for the planet. Is there any way that the tide can be turned to give a more balanced view. I see a report from Visual Capitalist on food carbon footprint with beef at 99 CO2 e/ kg and lamb 30. We are less than half that with no mitigation...
  4. Pringles

    Spraying in 21m tramlines with a 24m boom.

    What is the easiest way to shut the last three nozzles on a 24m boom to allow it to spray at 21m.
  5. Agriland RSS

    Tillage: It is feasible to undersow forage maize crops with grass?

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A trial carried out at Severn Trent’s biogas farm in Nottingham in the UK has confirmed that it is feasible to undersow forage maize crops with grass. Maize crops grown in this way will generate fresh weight yields of 50t/ha. This does not include any...
  6. willyorkshire

    Climate myths

    Watch this. Very interesting counter arguments to the CC monster.
  7. P

    John Deere 6800 Injection Pump Removal

    I want to take the injection pump off my JD 6800 so that I can get it serviced. I could do with knowing whether I can just unbolt it and take it off or whether I have to do something specific to maintain the timing? Has anyone done this before?
  8. radu

    Starfire 3000 keeps dropping SF1

    I have a tractor with a Starfire 3000 antenna and since a couple of months ago i started having problems with the GPS signal, it keeps dropping sf1 and going to egnos, wich i can't use for steering. The antenna has been on this tractor since new, we don't take it off except over winter. Also, it...
  9. charlie94

    Christ it's wet

    Anyone else normally drilled up by now and not started. Ditches are down and water is getting away but it's sitting on top and drains have been jetted last year etc so they should be fine. It's like it's sat on top but there must be 6 inch of water to plough in more in places West Lancashire...
  10. Agriland RSS

    Machinery Focus: Deutz Fahr demo day brings marque to its market

    Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland A tractor might impress with its appearance in a showroom and on the web, but to get the reality of how it actually works and performs, a big field and some implements are required and this is precisely what Deutz Fahr arranged recently. The company...
  11. H

    Questions from a non-farmer

    Hi - im new here. I'm currently researching the market for automated (parametric) climate insurance for a variety of businesses across the UK. i.e. if it hails with greater than X force/energy, you get paid out some % per £1 insured next day, simple. However, the more time i've spent reading...
  12. Hereward

    Spraying contractor charges

    I'm very out of touch with spray contractor charges, last time I had some done it was £4/acre imagine far more now. 200 litres per ha pre-ems and post em herbicides what's the going rate.
  13. haggard143

    AB9 Anyone had BTO bird survey

    As above, anyone else had an email from BTO asking to do a survey on the effectiveness of AB9 Winter Bird food
  14. Flintstone

    Thinning thick rape

    I’ve read various suggestions over the years, but wondering if there is a reliable way to thin out thick and forward rape. The forwardness doesn’t worry me so much, but it is quite thick. It’s conventional, and the seed rate was kept up to allow for CSFB/slug losses etc, but it ended up all...
  15. 4

    sfi you can now apply

    5.45 am this morning rec email from defra saying as youve registered your interest you can now start your application. ok thinks me will try . First thing to do will be go get some more ink and a couple of reams of printer paper as will have to download the 40 pages of the new guidance of how...
  16. P

    Removing warm air from grain store?

    How do you remove warm air from your grainstore/s that is being sucked out of stored grain by pedestal fans? Do you just have large vents at eaves height in say every other bay and at both ends? Or do you have large fans on the vents to suck /push the warm outside? Store size in question up to...
  17. daveydiesel1

    Planting a beech hegde using off cuts?

    Wanting to plant a beech hedge this winter hopefully, was talking to a local farmer that planted a bit of forestunder the grant scheme and he suggested going to existing beech hedge trees and cutting small branches and planting them. He said they did that to finish athe last bit and the plants...
  18. T

    John Deere 590 Baler issues

    Hi all, Having a few issues with a baler I just purchased. Its not done a lot of work so immaculate condition, but I have just tried to bale some barley straw and cant seem to get it right (its also my first time using a round baler). The first few bales were far too light and the string (its...
  19. M

    Wheat pre em

    Morning Presumably most are still planning on planting wheat in the next month or so. With current prices and profitability what’s everyone’s thoughts on pre em choices and rates ? cheers
  20. G

    Bps/sfi

    All this talk of no one taking up sfi how many can actually say they banked 100% of there bps and will be able to manage on zero sub going forward
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