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Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland Co. Louth farmer Niall Matthews has been re-elected as chairperson of Lakeland Dairies. Niall Matthews was first elected to his role February 2021. He farms at Tully, Co. Louth, in partnership with his wife Juana, with their son and two daughters. He...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Despite all the tales of uncertainty and falling tractor sales, 9% down for January in Ireland, Krone remains bullish about the prospects for 2024. In the latest report on its financial position the company kicks off by noting that “revenue rose by 12.2%...

Hey. So I’ve just got a start up loan for a business to get into farming I’ve got a loan of £10,000 would that be enough to get started I know the cost of land and so on but I’m looking at contracting like horse haddock’s, land clearing/ grading, livestock services and so on I’ve had plenty of...

Anyone that's started down the road of using some land for BNG unit creation? The initial selling price of the units looks attractive but I'm trying to get some idea on what the ongoing costs and management restrictions are? Putting in a mixture of Other Neutral Grassland and Lowland Meadow...

Do baileys make their own sheets or do they use a UK company? Does anyone know? need a sheet repaired and Bailey will only supply a new kit. Not a hole in the actual sheet otherwise that would be easy. Have tried a lorry tarpaulin company but they are so busy and as it wasn’t their sheet they...

So to get our heads around how useful this support offered by Rishi yesterday, who plans to take advantage of the FETF capital grants this year ...

Hi all, We are a high school research team looking into potential ways of improving farm run-off treatments and we were wondering about the runoff systems on your farms, where does it lead and how does waste water get transported around? PS. Hypothetically speaking, in the stream coming from...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The importance of red clover in silage swards has been highlighted by AgriSearch general manager, Jason Rankin. “Grassland farmers are under pressure to reduce fertiliser costs, while still maintaining optimal levels of output from forage,” he said...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Mole Valley Farmers has launched a Soil-to-Silage service with the aim of helping livestock farmers get the most nutritional value from their grassland. The Soil-to-Silage is available to Mole Valley Farmers members, shareholders and customers...

I'm way behind on the current threads on SFI and protests etc so if this is more suitable for one of them mods please move. Had an interesting conversation with a guy from my village over the weekend and it's got me thinking how the public understand the scale of whats happening. Conversation...

As above would a set of grass harrows with a seeder on it do the job? follow with the rollers when rain is in the forecast Would be the plan.

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...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A fully-equipped Cumbrian dairy farm with a five-bedroom farmhouse has been brought to the market by GSC Grays for £4.9 million. Low Abbey Farm, located in Eden Valley near Penrith, has Grade 3 arable land, permanent grassland and woodland...

Come on you farm engineers if you were to build one from scratch what features would be an absolute must. Would you choose discs or more of a knife like coulter? How would you go about designing a drill which would cope with a mixture of cropping from Cereal,rotational grass ,into cover crops...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland A webinar with advice on how to successfully establish red clover silage swards will take place later this month. It has been organised by AgriSearch as part of the ZeroNsile project and will take place on Wednesday, February 28 at 8:00p.m. Dr. David...

After an introductory talk last week and Janet Hughes' webinar ,I'm looking at our options and pondering where to go with it, how it will affect rents and also fulfil the requirements of my tenancy. I have 160 acres on an AHA tenancy, half is tillable but half is flower rich floodplain which...

From some conversations I’ve had recently, I’m getting the feeling there’s some panick in businesses that rely on farming customers that large scale SFI options could become very popular. For instance, suggesting that it wouldn’t be moral, or that you wouldn’t be a real “farmer” if you take...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland More than 10,000 farmers have now applied for the latest round of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). As of today (Wednesday, February 14), one in eight farmers have submitted an...

I’m really hoping someone can help me out. I’m looking to purchase a property with land after an elderly couple passed away. The property comes with woodland and also grazing land but the boundaries to the grazing land aren’t fenced off and have not been for years and years.neighbouring farms...

Thinking I'd like to reseed some permanent pasture with Sam3 herbal ley, but assume that I will need an EIA, was arable until 2002 when it went into arable reversion