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Written by Agriland Team from Agriland The latest figures show that for the week ending May 28, the average Irish R3 steer price was 7c/kg ahead of the UK beef price. According to Bord Bia’s Cattle Price Dashboard, the last time Irish beef price surpassed UK price was in April 2011, when the...

Am I the only one considering keeping more suckler cows?

Going back to doing the spraying myself with my own equipment. My Berthoud Standard 12 needs work to pass it’s MOT, hopefully nothing too major, but should I bother with it, or just buy a new cheap brand? It has hydraulic boom height, and boom levelling, and quad nozzle holders, all of which I...

Hi With current glyphosate prices high and static what sensible rates does everyone use of a generic 360 to get control. When it was £50 a tub it was ok to put a ‘bit’ in for good measure but at £150 a tub it’s adding possibly £15-20 acre if you add in a wetter! Thoughts on everyones rates...

Cornwall County Council will vote on the principal of Compulsory Purchase of Farm land near Truro for Housing. Good or Bad?!

Boris Johnson unveils ‘grow for Britain’ plan British farmers urged to put more resources into producing fruit and vegetables to help ease cost of living and food threat from Ukraine war ByTony Diver, WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT10 June 2022 • 8:50pm Boris Johnson gets in touch with the locals at...

Thinking of doing this. I am assured Facebook is the answer. Anyone do it? I've visions of my fields strewn with small bales, rain threatening, and lots of promises that don't materialise! Cash up front? On collection? What do you do?

Written by William Kellett from Agriland A rare opportunity to own a fully equipped modern dairy farm with an exceptional farmhouse along with two cottages in the beautiful Eden River valley has come to market with a guide price of £7 million. Lowthian Gill Farm is a first class and fully...

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Had my first IR today with my Tb test after 4 years clear. Vet was saying I’ve got a lot of cows with significant lumps from the avian jab. He said that could indicate there is a good chance there’s a strong background level of infection??

I have a bit of vetch in the old pastures we make some haylage on. My wife wanted to know what it was, so I said it's fine, nothing to worry about. As she uses the haylage for her horses, and being paranoid about poisonous plants she looked it up, and apparently horses are susceptible, but...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Due to the key role of both sulphur and nitrogen in the synthesis of proteins, the supply of these plant nutrients is highly inter-related. Studies have shown that one nutrient will accumulate in plants when the other is deficient. But when this...

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Or are there too many other things to spend on than there were back in the days when food cost was a much bigger proportion of household expenditure? What are these other things that compete with food?

2nd cut coming off next week. With the dry conditions, am I better to dribble bar or splash plate the slurry on? About 1 tanker/acre. Very dry here with typically very little rain in June/July. Reasonably thick stuff. Plan will be to graze aftermaths about 5 to 6 weeks after cutting. TIA

We’ve got bog standard concreted in straight leg mushrooms here for our 500kg spring calvers. I’d like to try to keep the cubicles a bit cleaner mainly for cow cleanliness and mastitis reasons, as the dry/early lactation period is where our mastitis is coming from, it’s not massive but I think...

What's the collectives thoughts on fertz / slurry application on silage aftermath to get maximum efficiency from applied N ? slurry straight away & fertz after a week once grass has a bit leaf or just lash it on ? Not putting on many units of bagged N to have to worry about it being used up...

The last few years we have reseeded grass land, but didn’t put clover in the mix as we knew it would need sprayed, what’s the best way to sow it now when we take the silage off?

I have been approached by a neighbour who wants to makes some hay from some of our fields, and we will receive some bales as payment what rough percentage would be reasonable for use to get? As they will be doing all of the work making it.

any ideas whats best machine to move a wert swath of straw, just thinking ahead in case it ge'st a bit damp !!!