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We currently have fibre to the cabinet and about 1km of copper to the house. It looks as though we will loose the copper landline. There is already fibre on the pole in the roadside hedge clse by that also carries our copper line. Our EE contract is nearly up and they will not offer a landline...

Ban non-stun slaughter Please sign and share the petition, I have finally got this through parliament, using new laws and ruling, so it's not like those in the past In modern society, we believe more consideration needs to be given to animal welfare and how livestock is treated and culled. We...

Interesting To know what inventions people have turned their plastic drums into. we just have a sledge for moving a fresh calve but I bet theres more creative things to do with them

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The average price of bare agricultural land in England and Wales has hit a new “all-time high” of £9,250/ac in the first quarter of 2024, according to property consultancy Knight Frank. The firm’s latest Q1 Farmland Index revealed a 1% rise in...

66k members. Safe to assume that many hundreds will be lesbian/gay. We know, for sure, that Muslims are members. Important posts made about keeping abattoirs going. Yet there is a constant dribble of homophobic and racist posts. Often presented as humour, or thinly disguised as political...

Herring bone System with 2inch clay pipes on chalky boulder clay all hand dug over 120 years ago, Photo taken last weekend

Be gentle... ignorant arable farmer asking for a friend on this one... Let's say you had £25k, and wanted to get into livestock. You have access to low imput permanent pasture (heavy land), and occasionally some rotational leys. You have access to a loader, You have an old shed, potential...

Hello all, we currently making around 300 4 foot round bales of hay per year, all sold as horse feed. Once winter set in we started to see some mould on the outside layer of the bale. It’s like a green dusty mould. Once you take off the first layer the bales are really nice but the outside is...

I submitted a simple application for FG2: Sheep netting today. Who long should I expect to wait for the results of my application?

Anybody know much about this outfit? Have a machine I fancy but a long way away to view.....could you trust them?

FiPL spotlight: the Central Dartmoor Farm Cluster Written by Mark Ward Dartmoor is a distinctive landscape. Open, windswept moorland sheltered woodland valleys, enclosed farmland, varied geology and unrivalled opportunities for recreation are just a few reasons why it was designated as a...

Anyone ever had wire break like this before? Had this in 2 spots were barb and rylock split, along with a few spots where the bottom 2 wires are broken. Has it been cut or is it possible for it to break like that?

I’m helping out a local contractor over the summer, driving his gear. What would the going rate per hour be now the minimum wage has gone up.

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland Every day, the Guernsey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) helps care for lost and stray animals. The GSPCA is often called out to help larger animals get back into a field after breaking out. Most animals that escape is the cause...

Are these models due to be upgraded soon? All new models 200/600/700 lwb have new styling. I would prefer the agco power engine but the 500 series is still deutz. What is the 4 litre deutz like for reliability?

I’ve got 40k to spend, so looking for a decent tractor. Would like 50k, air brakes and possibly front linkage. Main workload, hedge cutting, silage work ( mowing, raking, trailers etc) Baling, cultivations………

A bit hypothetical , but if it goes really dry how would you cope ? I'd be fine as I've written off this year .

Genuine question, and I know that I'll get a thousand different answers. What is a "standard" working day to you, or your staff, on your farm? How many hours? On a run of the mill day - not lambing/calving/harvest/silage etc For reference, I'm thinking 800ac, mixed beef/sheep/arable, modern...

Reports the 970 acre 'Sibleyback farm' on Bodmin has been sold to rewilders....£10 million to turn it into native woodland and bog. Where does this all end?