lambing

How many dd guys have gone cultivating? Out next door neighbours practices a full range of cultivating and has 95% crop cover after a hard winter we dd a majority of ours and a currently re drilling 50% .cultivating a fair bit as the top is solid from rain. Any one else feal like abandoning...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland With temperatures on the rise and better weather for the past few days, field operations and grazing have begun across the country after being delayed due to the difficult spring weather conditions encountered this year. College of Agriculture, Food and...

Hi just been pricing fert after a wet miserable lambing ... normally buy 25.5.5.... 20.8.11 was mentioned in conversation, never used it and it'd obviosly higher in p an k ....on a mixed livestock farm that makes round baled hay and silage and puts muck on thru winter would a 20,8,11 be a good...

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

Having calved the first 20 cows to a new bull 3 have been the wrong way round. I cannot remember the last time we had one the wrong way round let alone 3. 2 have had to be out via ceaser as they were too large to jack out and I’ve just calved another the wrong way round tonight but the calf was...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland NFU (National Farmers’ Union) Scotland has written to Scottish government to enable farmers, crofters and growers to continue to produce high quality food against the backdrop of one of the “most challenging springs” on record. Agricultural businesses...

We had put a batch of 56 ewe lambs to the ram end of October when they were scanned there was 12 empty so wasn’t concerned about that! But have 14 lambed now and went threw them the other day and 22 have no sign of being in lamb they seem to be the ones that we’re tipped first! They were all...

Greetings. I've decided to reach out and see if I can gather some ideas about any aspects of keeping 1,500 sheep you care to discuss. I'm in the Northeast US. I've had 120 +/- ewes for the last 5 years and now looking to expand to 1,500 for a solar park grazing contract. Winters are wet and...

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.

Hello Posting here to see if anyone else has had a similar experience. Had quite a few ewes down/die with listeria from silage baled in the wet last summer. However the listeria manifested in a really odd way - it didn't seem to cause neurological symptoms. The ewes would go really thin, go...

Routinely dip everything in the Autumn, but somehow it's come in halfway through lambing. Been advised by Vets not to dip ewes and young lambs (~3 weeks) as the scent can lead to mis mothering, has anyone any experience with this? Always found Dectomax/Cydectin a complete waste of time, and...

Ive a 3 bay 30 x20 shed needs lights 13ft tall at a guess Considering 5 ft twin led batton ?? Enough light to see i guess , storage not really work shop Any wisdom please

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland A greater proportion of ewe lambs are expected to be slaughtered rather than being kept for further breeding next season in the United Kingdom (UK). This is according to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), which has updated its...

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...

Desperately looking for a Dorset Down ram to put to our Soay's for this years breeding season. Seems like the most ideal fit to increase carcass size and growth rate, while not compromising on the ewes safety during lambing or some of the good qualities associated in the breed. Only issue being...

So I have borrowed my friends bike for a while during lambing. Ran into an issue where it wouldn't start (it had been taking a while to start previously), he came over and thought the solenoid starter relay had died. We would just hear a clicking when trying to start it. Got a new starter relay...

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland The Springtime Sparklers Sale is set to return to Omagh, Co. Tyrone next week for what is a important date in the calendar of pedigree sheep breeders on the island. The sale will take place at Beatties Pedigree Centre, Omagh on Friday, April 26 at 7:00p.m...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland UK farming unions are urging major retailers to commit to support British farming during this difficult time of “extremely challenging and disruptive weather”. A joint letter on behalf of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), NFU Scotland, NFU Cymru...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RSABI) is set to release a cover of ‘Stand by Me’ with around 100 members of the Farmers’ Choir. The charity, which provides emotional and financial support to people in Scottish...

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...