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This morning we have had our 6 month Health and safety consultant visit. We got on to Loler inspections. We have the two loaders independently inspected annually and accept that I'm in a grey area when I inspect the man cage and loaders for their 6 month competent person inspection. I also...

From a H&S news bulletin” Martin Falshaw of FalshawPartners, Shaws Farm, Swinton, Ripon, North Yorkshire pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (2) of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974. He was fined £771 and ordered to pay £4,539 in costs. After the hearing, HSE principal inspector Howard...

one of these .. replace something like this?

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has relaunched its ‘Your Farm, Your Future’ campaign with a focus on the dangers of working the livestock. Incidents involving livestock were the number one cause of work-related deaths on British in...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland A farmer has been ordered to pay costs totalling over £5,000 after a woman was “trampled” by more than a dozen cows on a public right of way in north Yorkshire. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that livestock were being...

Two weeks ago I asked for volunteers to help organise a farmers protest. To make the risk-reward of farming worthwhile. JUST ONE FARMER STEPPED FORWARD! In the face of this level of apathy I give up on trying to get (English) farmers to do anything. Indeed, the vast majority of comments on...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF After much uncertainty, the HSE finally announced last month that mancozeb doesn’t meet approval criteria and therefore it proposes to withdraw it from use. CPM asks whether the industry is prepared for the impending loss and what can fill...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Establishment is a critical period of any season, but it’s been a challenging time to get crops drilled, so what does this mean for T0 applications? CPM explores the diseases likely to be most problematic this spring and how to manage...

whos actually involved in this and does anyone know who set it up?

Thinking of refurbishing and adding some extensions onto some houses, have all the necessary planning and will do all work up to all the current standards, but do i have to have them inspected and signed off from Building Control? They will never be sold.

Anyone had one yet. Be good to get a heads up on how vigorous they are, as if they find anything wrong they'll be charging as they do for all inspections.

Bit of a tongue in cheek poll

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:

We have a typical old school silage clamp setup which we want to improve. It’s earth bank at the back with occasional springs then free standing pre-cast panels dividing the clamps. The option we’re looking at is to put a sealed wall against the earth bank (drainage stone and drain to catch...

Hi folks. I’m currently coming up on my 18th birthday and have just passed my car driving test. I was wondering now I have that under my belt what it would take to become qualified for seasonal tractor work during harvest perhaps carting. I have very little farm experience so am in the dark on...

Two of our bins empty into a pit set into the concrete. This works OK, except that it's a PITA to clean out, particularly if only putting a few tons on a trailer - it takes longer to clean it out than it does to put the load on. Also, the pit tends to fill with water, either from rain or just...

In the light of the Post Office scandal, should government bodies have an independent right to prosecute individuals? it would seem to me that a court is automatically going to believe the government body as it would not appear to benefit directly from any person, company or other being found...

When did the government overreach and interference start, that's lead to all the hassle we all have now from other bodies thinking they own us or what we grow before we have even sold it? Obviously WW2 and WW1 we were about starved out so the government had the war Ag committees etc. But were...

copied from twitter :, moving goalposts after we paid the first time ?

Hi All 2024's Challenge. I have an old barn with a leaking asbestos roof, i'm looking to take the roof down and potentially convert the barn (i will look at getting planning permission first). The barn has spray foam applied on the underside of the roof sheets. Any ideas on the best way to...