flooding

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Between 55% and 60% of Northern Ireland’s 2023 potato crop is still in the ground, for the most part, rotting in the drills. This is the assessment of the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) presidential team, the members of which visited potato and...

Hi, I think I probably know the answer to this but thought it try the forum and see if I’m missing a trick, I’m trying to work out the most efficient and effective use of our FYM from the cows and calf s Cows run loose in a cubicle shed with their calves in a bedded creep pen. The cubicles are...

At 10am tomorrow, the UK livestock industry finds itself in the dock. Campaign group Feedback have secured a judicial review of the Government's failure to implement mandatory reductions in meat and dairy in order to meet climate change targets. Carina Millstone, Executive Director of...

After all this flooding and rain,has the above decided farm land is fair play for their failures .Houses flooding is terrible but if they build on flood pains what do they expect.Also building and building expecting the drainage system to cope without major expansion.IDB s who think rate payers...

Thinking is idea worth a look . Got a idea to use a forage wagon to pick up the straw in the swath and make a windrow on the headland and then put chicken muck on top and cattle muck on top of that them use a compost windrow row turner to mix it up . Am i making work or making a...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/banking/natwest-combs-customer-accounts-tells-them-go-vegan/ Here's some of the article: NatWest is telling customers to stop eating meat and to drive electric cars after combing their accounts to calculate their carbon footprint. A “Carbon Footprint Tracker”...

I am struggling to remember our land being this wet at this time of year. January to March perhaps but never the beginning of November. Seems all we get is extreme weather nowadays.

We recently had notice that EDF Energy are interested in acquiring our ground and the land of our neighbours. They want to change their planning permissions for the Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station and we have come into their line of fire. The land they want is prime farmland, well drained...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has said farmers are readying themselves for “further devastation” ahead of storm Ciaran. The president of the CLA, Mark Tufnell, has today (Thursday, November 2) called on the Environment Agency to...

Written by Rubina Freiberg from Agriland Red Tractor has announced that it will put new standards and additional modules on hold until an independent review of governance has been completed. Two reviews will be conducted by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) after its council questioned...

With controversy over flooding , ea debacle, red tractor debacle , British sugar, Nfu debacle most other workers would call a national strike . How long before there's a march on London and holding government protest about the complete mismanagement of matters

Written by Louise Hickey from Agriland Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) were called to the scene of a field flooding in Co. Down to save around 30 sheep. The firefighters were called to the scene on Drumantine Road at 12:21p.m. on Monday, October 30. Two appliances from Newry...

Thoughts? https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/flooding-sign-our-open-letter-calling-for-political-action/

Guardian article on English flood defences Written by Defra Press Office An article published in the Guardian yesterday covered England’s flood defences with analysis of Environment Agency data. At the end of 2022/23, 95% of Environment Agency-maintained flood assets in high consequence...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland Much of the country will experience unsettled weather this as Storm Ciarán approaches and is due to make landfall on Wednesday and Thursday. There is a Status Yellow weather warning for rain for Kerry which will be valid from 12:00p.m today (Tuesday...

We seem to get a storm ………. , something something or other once every 3 or 4 weeks these days. Are there really any more storms these days, or is it the media hyping the storms up now they have names. :scratchhead:

Anyone see her on olly blogs giving the reason why there was so much flooding last week

What % of your intended winter crop have not been planted or damaged by flood/slugs/ flee Beatle?

Do you calculate your farm's carbon footprint?

Has anyone here done any work to protect river banks from getting eroded? Got a river flowing along our boundary and it is starting to undermine a tree on the bank at a bend in the river. I'll not have access to get a digger in to do work - unless the contractor can get in upstream. I was...