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Hi, I’m really interested in showing my Pedigree Jacob sheep. We’ve tried it before but can’t seem to compete with everyone else. We have smaller less conditioned sheep that the giant show sheep we see. We now lamb them in January and have winter sheared a few in the hope to have a better...

So, it’s another wet weekend (I’m bored 😂) and another thread got me thinking about N production especially with the current high (extortionate) prices! I got wondering why we don’t just extract N from water which would kill two birds with one stone, given it seen as nitrate levels are a major...

I've got a few small sawfly caterpillars appeared on the leaves of my maincrop turnips yesterday. I've never seen them before there were masses of them, and obviously more are to hatch yet. I have Hallmark in the store ready to spray, but no point before they've all hatched. Does anyone know...

On floor grain seems very popular, but silos offer advantages such as safe from vermin & er um If you have silos how do you fill them, especially the large 250 ton plus ones. Certainly more popular in North America.

Interesting piece in the Guardian that we all may appreciate...

Mods move if not in the right place!! How far will beetles, bees and insects migrate if I build bug hotels out of old broken pallets, old logs ect and place in places in among my arable areas? WB

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland The parts and service arm of any manufacturing business is often considered rather unglamorous and something of a backwater in a company’s operations. Despite this ‘worthy but dull’ image, Wolfgang Jung, retiring head of the aftersales operation at...

Anyone else read the ad in the FW for a Agriculture regulatory inspection officer.I find the ad reads like bully boys needed,

Does such a programme exist here yet? I’m after something that I can input bought in nutrients, carbon sequestration in soil organic matter, grassland, hedges and trees then work out what leaves the farm as grain, straw, meat, milk etc as well as an attempt at NPK leaching etc. The NZ...

What's best to grow after a spring barley?wheats not ideal I don't think

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has taken to the BBC airwaves in order to defend the validity of badger culling as part of a strategy to eradicate bovine TB (bTB) in Northern Ireland. Earlier this week he took part in a debate...

Help me out please. Particularly those native Scots. I have spent half my life north of the border, but was born in the south. 20 plus years here. I am now after that time able to consider buying a small chunk for ourselves. However........ When I came north my lineage was not of much...

This is way left of field, but I would really welcome your thoughts. I will also try to keep this as short as possible !! In my daily job I work with Doctors in ICU using inhaled anaesthetics to keep patients in their "induced coma". All sedation is bad for the environment in someway. The...

@Clive can you tell us some more about it? How does it work?

Calved first 20 of 100 fine no problems then had couple scour really bad. Didn’t mess about and got tested. Everything else clear but definite crypto in all 3 calves tested and didn’t come as a surprise as we vaccinate and are sticklers for colostrum, Was pulling my hair out. Every single calve...

ffs . https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/eu-is-set-to-launch-a-sausage-war-with-uk-over-northern-ireland-row/ar-AAKOgzh

Agreement in principle reached on fisheries for 2021 Written by Defra Press Office Fishing boats in harbour There is coverage today of the UK and EU’s confirmation yesterday evening that an agreement in principle has been reached in annual fisheries negotiations for 2021. The Telegraph and...

Read the small print and be selective who you trust. Bought 5 Charollais bulls at borderway mart at the British Charollais spring show and sale on the 15th of may. One of which came with a vet certificate of fertility.. Ideal sensible vendor. The other four did not. Two of these bulls came from...

This year instead of buying in stores I took on some cade`s and have been plagued by scours. Weaned at 5 weeks, introduced to grass gradually over the next week then turned them out 24/7. A few of them started getting just a bit loose which I was convinced was just the flush of new grass and the...

Surprised this hadn't been mentioned already but here it is Heifer shot after police enter Welsh dairy farm with TB order - Farmers Weekly 3 minutes The heifer at the centre of a row between a dairy farmer and the Welsh government over bovine TB has been...