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Some scrote nicked our quad bike couple weeks back. Thinking of replacing with a gator this time. Anyone made that switch? Pros & cons? For day to day checks, move mobs & trailering ewes at foot. Usual jobs. Cheers.

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After a meeting with an advisor it reads as though you could establish AHL2 winter bird feed after harvest, it then has to be in place for the winter months, nov, dec, jan and feb. After this could you then follow with a spring crop? If you were to do this and add the no insecticide payment you...

It's gone through this batch of lambs like a hot curry and ten pints of cheap larger on a Friday night. Hoping that the ewes don't get it on their tits. We never had off until we had that drought 2 yrs back and they went foraging all through the hedge rows for something to eat. Is there anything...

My friend and I are looking for a 2 week dairy placement between 1st to 21st April, 2024. Accommodation is preferred as we do not have driving licenses. No dairy experience yet but we have passed our cow handling exams and are very happy to work with the cows and calves. Will require at least...

Looking for constructive critiques for a general farm design for a renovated site. We are looking at starting a micro dairy of 40 milking Guernseys keeping calf at foot (I know I know eyes will be rolling). We have demolish an existing site as it will cost more to renovate. This what I've come...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd.), the Indian company that claims to be the third largest tractor manufacturer in the world, by volume, is another organisation looking at alternative fuels. In this case it is hydrogen, along with the now requisite...

Sorry quite a few questions . Due to whole farm reversion from arable to HLS , I will be running store cattle from the spring on the herbal leys and existing pp grass . I am in a level 1 area for TB and so will be running the risk of going down with TB on a pre movement test ( although hopefully...

Losing 100 acres of silage ground to our landlord, flipping our cow grazing acres and a bit more grazing ground into silage ground, keeping them in 365 tho, what silage replacers could I use? I’m thinking fodder beet, crush it on farm and buy cleaned, 7kgs a day would save roughly 300 ton of...

We bought a piece of ex-demo machinery 12 months ago off a dealer we do a fair bit of business with and after realising we aren't getting the use out of it we thought we would and looking to put funds elsewhere in the business now so I asked our rep if they'd want to buy it back at what ever he...

According to radio 4, due to lack of council funding farmers are routinly blocking rights of way at least 33,000 cases of this. Personally I'm finding the opposite that my walls, fences, gates & ditches are often vandalised & that tresspassing is endemic. Thankfully I'm in a posh area in some...

Asbestos roof is now 50 years old and starting to fail. Been patching it for a few years but needs better repair. I expected to get a company in to strip the old sheets off and replace them, but a couple of companies have suggest overcladding it with steel cladding sheets as a significantly...

1. Are they really that qualified to do this RT governance consultancy? 2.Is there anything in the remit of what they have been asked to do and the quality of their survey that they are remotely capable of producing a truly independent report? 3. Would such a company (going on the quality of...

Hi guys! New here, and hoping to pick the brains of your collective expertise, if I may? I have inherited a few acres of land, that hasn't had any stock on it for over two decades. Or anything done to it for that matter! My two horses have been put on there, and I acquired 5 Shetland ewes to...

Looking for a cattle crush , and wondering what one to go for, It will be going to the outer Hebrides so needs to be well galvanised, These are the 3 I'm looking at obviously the Bateman one is far higher spec hence more expensive, but what is folks opinions on these Or is there another...

Im toying with upgrading current static sheep yards as they are pretty much end of life and where they are is a wet spot so currently the holding pens are a bog. I will leave them in situ as they will be useful at times for smaller groups. So once I decide on location Im looking for ideas...

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Have a John Deere 3800 which is getting a bit long in the tooth What is a good replacement? JCB 320?

Thinking of outsourcing bookkeeping having done it in family for years. It just seems to take longer and longer as we add different elements to the business. I am interested to hear what systems others have in place and if outsourcing bookkeeping is it any less time-consuming than doing it...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland This month will once again see LAMMA being held at the NEC in Birmingham on Wednesday, 17 and Thursday, 18 of this month, where it is expected that the halls will be crowded as farmers come to see the latest machinery on offer. Many manufacturers will...