I have an Albutt A075-80GB grain bucket. It has a 2.1 cu m capacity. I have upgraded to a new JCB TM320S which can handle a lot more. Is it realistic to weld plates to the bucket or do I need to upgrade?
Farmer Focus Clive Bailye (Dec 2020)
Fake news?
Harvest 2020 was never going to be great, the perfect storm of a wet autumn and winter followed by a spring drought was always going to end in disappointment. When it came to yields any usual excitement and anticipation was replaced by simple...
Farmer Focus Edwin Taylor (Dec 2020)
Well, I am sitting here thinking of how the last eight months have been since my debut article back in April and I do not think there is any way to sugar coat it, it’s just been bloody moderate (in fact probably less than moderate) with all that is going...
Discuss that?
We are occasional straw sellers depending on price. If we can achieve £70/t and over we will bale and sell. If it’s less we chop it. Normally we’d sell to a merchant for ease. However this year we’ve sold direct to end users mainly because they are coming direct to us. They’ve...
In the 2000's replacement policies were easy. You could buy high end machinery as reasonable prices and they would halve in value over 5 years. Financed over 5 years you could then px for the newer model and costs per acre would be similar.
Today. Machines halve in 3/4 years and second hand...
We are a 400ha arable farm on the Suffolk/Essex border looking for a full time tractor driver for drilling, variable rate fert spreading, potato planting, relief spray operator, chainsaw man. We currently grow wheat, spring barley, potatoes, sugar beet, peas/linseed. The farm is in a higher tier...
Harvest workers required for 2021 harvest on 2,000 acre farm in West Essex. The farm specialises in herbage seed production as well as growing wheat, OSR, linseed, peas and beans. The job is to start at the beginning of July and to finish early September (dates to be arranged with you).
The...
Folks, happy to be redirected if you have had this conversation but looking for any and all advice. The battle between looking after the soil structure and dealing with weeds without the hallowed Glysophate. I emailed the editor of PFI and DD who acknowledged the clash and recommended a shallow...
How necessary do you think it is to have row cleaners on a disc drill? How much of an issue is hair pinning on disc drills. I have no intention of selling straw to make a disc work so need to make sure I spec properly. I also wonder if hair pinning appears a bigger issue than it actually is...
Dry ewes inside on hay now until lambing. Had enough. Land is wet and reedy at the best of times. Straw is an actual fortune atm, wool a waste product. Put a few inches of straw down first to aid cleaning out, ripping the fleeces up as I go, going 50/50 for cover wool/straw and likely use more...
Are you able to graze winter cover crops as part of a mid tier CSS sw6 option??
Does grazing count as cover crop destruction? Or do you have to start grazing in mid jan?
States:
establish a quick-growing cover crop by 15 September that will provide a dense cover and protect the land from soil...
Here’s one for you!
a customer has been written to, to demand he ploughs his field at 90 degrees to the slope (standard)......
The field in question is linseed stubble destined to be direct drilled when the weather permits......
He had been written too by the local flood prevention department...
I’m planning on going 50% first wheat and 50% something else... non cash crop... I was thinking of just leaving stubble and perhaps subsoiling and preparing land early ( July) so it’s ready to drill at optimum time
suggestions for an easy/cheap catch crop that would build fertility and...
Hi I have restoration project and looking for some parts, its a MF1800 artic an earlier version of the MF1505 / MF1805 .
Does anyone know of any machines being broken for spares as have lots of parts missing. Seems a shame to scrap as think it maybe the only one MF brought to the UK
The Red Tractor logo or brand does not appear on products that UK cereal growers supply the ingredients for so unquestionably has no value to end consumers of bakery and other cereal products
The processors of these products including the likes of Hovis and Warburtons have stated that they have...
Statement on the decision to issue – with strict conditions – emergency authorisation to use a product containing a neonicotinoid to treat sugar beet seed in 2021
Published 8 January 2021
Contents
The process for assessment and decision-making
The requirements for emergency authorisation
The...
Hi all got 250 acre mixed farm with plenty of cattle which in turn means loads of fym currently growing grass for the horse market wheat , spring barley and maize ( may drop maize yet ) , thinking ahead the grass will help the soil structure and seems a shame to plough it up and it’s heavy clay...
Doing the Nmax on the dreaded planet 😪.
No problem with ww, struggled with SB (hadn't confirmed something somewhere) and now struggling with Spring Beans.
Given that nothing was applied to spring beans, is it even possible for it to show up in the NMax?
Happily leave it as it is. But is RT man...
Many reasons to forget 2020 but from a farming point of view its not been bad for us,
Store cattle price has been good especially in the autumn and lamb price has been good
the weather has been ok made plenty of silage and hay though it did get a bit dry for a while had a good back end its wet...
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