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Who has replaced Guy Smith at Red Tractor?
Do we know yet who has replaced @Guy Smith at Red Tractor after he resigned last year? Did we ever find out more on the reason than the classic political "personal reasons"?- Chris F
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Dressing tups for sale
What’s everyone’s techniques/timescales/tips on preparing tups for sale? All I have done is card and trim and wash legs and faces, what else is worth doing? Does washing the fleece a few weeks beforehand make a difference? Worth it? If you want to decry the practice…..start your own thread 😊- Macsky
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The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)
Well here goes...- jackrussell101
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Minette Batters
Sunday Mail today. Page 27. A very good article from Minette about possible food shortages. Someone needs to wake up.- Performer
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Hire a Avatar 4 m sd with tractor?
A farmer want to hire my 4m avatar sd with tractor (JD 6170m) on 160 ha. He keep driver and diesel! What to take /ha? -
He-va stealth or sumo Lds
Looking at the above , wanting to place a seeder ontop to plant osr but also as the machines have a leading disc looking at sticking it into grass and possible squinting grass seed a t the same time into tied pasture , I know the width of the placement will be wide , roughly .5m but not too... -
Having a go at direct/low disturbance drilling
Medium to heavy clay soil(open cast with drains but limited efficiency) up to 270hp available what would be a good drill to start with. Would need to be able to carry 1.5t of seed ( happy to use a front tank) Would be able to use a low disturbance subsoiled pre drilling if conditions allow...- snipe
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Bank of England
So rumour has it interest rates to go up again by .5%,how can they reduce inflation by hitting the public to cut spending yet energy etc constantly going up.They now want food prices down to help but does that mean they expect industry etc to run at a loss .I just can’t get my head round the...- nelly55
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Grain yields 2022
Thought it would be a good idea now that harvest 2022 is well underway to have a thread with grain yields/ variety of Barley/ Wheat etc all in one place. So how are your crops yielding for 2022?- gone up the hill
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Teckel dog pup for sale
Due to a late cancellation, I have one male Teckel (Wire Haired Dachshund) pup for sale. He is a lovely pup, probably the calmest one of the litter, and we would keep him if we could. He is 7 weeks old tomorrow and will be available from 16th July. The litter will be KC registered. Viewing...- Mickeydredd
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Kelpie vs Huntaway for working sheep
We’ve currently only got one working collie and one in retirement. I could do with another dog for working in pens predominately. The collies we’ve had and have now struggle with pushing sheep in the pens. They end up backing off in that situation. So I was thinking a kelpie or huntaway would be...- Sheepykid
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Water test results- interpretation
Recently tested the well water under the house to see if it was ok to use for stock drinking water Have received the attached test results but no interpretation. A Google seems to indicate the water is fine to drink. Well us nearly 12m deep and water depth is over 6m. Can happily draw 4 or 5...- Jerry
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Going hourly rate for 150 hp tractor
Hi , What would be the going rate for 150hp tractor (including driver and fuel) ? Thanks -
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News From NZ and the Wider World
Apologies for probably a not very good copy of the annual Waiere Newsleter from Derek Daniell, but it gives a great insight into trade for sheep and protein in the world as well as the politics in NZ HOME THE FARM BREEDING STRATEGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RAMS CLIENT SUCCESS NEWS...- Frank-the-Wool
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Back to minimum tillage ?
We have a big issue with grass weeds and it’s getting worse. We are ok if we have a big spread of crops but it simply just doesn’t pay due to poor yields of spring crops such as spring linseed, spring barley, spring beans spring wheat. We’ve also tried grass but without our own livestock we get...- Smithjamesjohn
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Recruting a new farm manager - where on earth to begin?!
Morning All, Our main operator / farm manager has left, a little more suddern than we expected, but it was always talked about. we now have the task of recruiting, we feel its a good all round job with a decent 4 bed house but looking out there, lots of jobs being advertise but very few...- confusedsibling
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