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Hmmmm....... reality, or BBC pushing climate " emergency " again ? Disruption to power and water supplies, and no mobile phone signals...... every cloud and all that.

Best tractor air conditioning, past or present? I’ll start, MF 3000/3600, open the can cooler in the ceiling and freeze the sweat on your forehead.

Hello everyone, I'm looking to buy a new tractor for my operations. I'm thinking of John Deere 6120m or Case Maxxum 150. The tractor is going to be ploughing, disking, cultivating, spraying, fertilizing, planting etc. The two tractors are similarly priced but the thing is I'm not sure of the...

So with the awful situation in ukraine and they can only export 2 million tones per month... What will uk grown feed wheat hit? 450, 500 a ton?

Went to twickenham on the 303 at the weekend to watch rugby, very jealous of the huge fields that way, if anyone here farms it then I must say your crops lovely, credit where credits due, just wish I could be that way come harvest to have a look. I’ve got lovely views in Cornwall but my word...

Hi Planing to in the near future to by a tractor nr 2 as the need for one bigger tractor to work the round baller as we are getting more acres from next year and with ony one tractor it will take a lot of time. Have been looking into the 70 series as I really like this Ford era tractors. But...

Get it while it’s hot. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175259288448?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=iVA6kszNR6-&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=0uEg1ZQrTPC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=751450669175143 Fair play it looks like they've listened to most of the feedback.They've put an air gauge back on the dash!

Anybody go? The Good, the Bad, the Ugly? Watching the first video on Youtube ground conditions looked testing with wet clay land and the soil pit actually filling with water overnight!! Interested to hear people who went thoughts? Cheers Alistair

Best tractor engine ever made ? give me your opinions !

Hi anyone got any recommendations for calf dehorners. Had countless portasol ones and now got one of the green express ones and its on the way out now I think

I’m looking at buying a 240 as above and just wondering how people have found the reliability. The tractor is 4 years old 3000 hrs. I have tried it out and cannot find anything massively wrong with it apart from some small issues like suspension not working, front linkage position sensor faulty...

Currently spend quite a bit on pumping:poop::poop::poop::poop::poop:, particularly double pumping up to 3500m. would average out at probably 2000+m of pipe. What would be the best options for single pumping as far as we can? go to bigger pipes? thinking maybe 800-1000m of 6" then about the same...

Hi I'm looking at a triaxle 5000gl slurry tank and I'm wondering what size tractor I would need to pull it I'm not in hilly country and the biggest tractor I have ATM is a tm 190 mapped but I think it would be sluggish and our next wagon will prob be a triaxle so the tractor would have to be big...

Increasing Yield with Orchard Design Given that profit margins are tight and labour is in short supply, a “robot ready” orchard that yields almost twice as much Class I fruit and can be mechanically harvested would probably be a dream come true for the UK’s top fruit growers. Happily, crop...

DEEP ROOTED NEWER FODDER BEET VARIETIES SHINE IN DRIER CONDITIONS The hot, dry summer in 2018 suppressed yields in fodder beet crops compared with 2017, but the results of trials, carried out by Limagrain UK, showed up the variation in performance between varieties. “We saw a reduction in...

Increasing Yield with Orchard Design Given that profit margins are tight and labour is in short supply, a “robot ready” orchard that yields almost twice as much Class I fruit and can be mechanically harvested would probably be a dream come true for the UK’s top fruit growers. Happily, crop...

DEEP ROOTED NEWER FODDER BEET VARIETIES SHINE IN DRIER CONDITIONS The hot, dry summer in 2018 suppressed yields in fodder beet crops compared with 2017, but the results of trials, carried out by Limagrain UK, showed up the variation in performance between varieties. “We saw a reduction in...

DEEP ROOTED NEWER FODDER BEET VARIETIES SHINE IN DRIER CONDITIONS The hot, dry summer in 2018 suppressed yields in fodder beet crops compared with 2017, but the results of trials, carried out by Limagrain UK, showed up the variation in performance between varieties. “We saw a reduction in...

Hi just joined but have been looking in for a while. It’s my first post and I’m looking for some advice please. So I’m covering 400ac on my own alongside some farm diversifications. The arable is very much part time though. The system I’m running is I have a contractor doing combining, hedge...