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  1. andybk

    Labour promises to end Badger cull if elected

    pressure on cattle farms around here would be huge ! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/17/labour-promises-end-badger-cull-england?CMP=share_btn_tw
    • andybk
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    • Replies: 76
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  2. J

    Claydon drill set up

    Just bought s/h 3 meter Claydon drill with what I think you would describe as wide press wheels ( look like car tyres with little or no pressure in ) soil building up on wheels u til they dont turn a d bulldoze soil. As they are set up the gap between wheel and scraper is approx 1 1/2 inches...
  3. bobk

    Is it possible to make hay from a herbal ley ?

    A thought came to me
    • bobk
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    • accident agronomist baling barley carbon cattle cereals clamp dairy dandelion defra docks establishment ewes fertiliser fertility flail fodder forage forecast grass grass leys grazing hedge herbal kuhn lambing lambs legumes maize management milk mower nettles paddock ploughing rye sam3 seed sfi sheep silage tedder thistles varieties variety vicon yielding yields
    • Replies: 60
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  4. P

    JCB Workmax 800D help needed please

    My rear axle is shot and I can’t find one available sooner than 2024…can someone tell me if they are aware of another make/model may have a compatible part? Thanks in advance!
  5. L

    The humble year of an organic farmer

    Under request from @Bokey I have decided to dedicate a thread to the trials and tribulations on the farm, I shall endeavour to splice the good with the bad. A bit about us, 600 acres all told, 450 cropable, 8 years into organic, mainly arable with a few wooly critters, an impatient old man and...
    • L P
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    • agronomist ahl3 application baling baling hay barley bayer beans beet blackgrass break crops carbon cattle cereals charlock chloride compaction cover crops cows cultivate cultivating cultivation cultivator defra direct drilling disc disease docks drilling drills drought establishment family fertility financial flock forage fungicides fusarium futures genetic glyphosate grass grazing harrow harvest health herbal herbal ley herbicide hoof kuhn kverneland lambing lambs laureate learning legumes lpg maintenance maize malting market nettles nitrogen num3 nutrients nutrition oats organic organic matter peas plough ploughing polysulphate pre-emergence premium quad rapid red tractor residual roots rtk rust rye ryegrass sam1 seaweed seed seeding sfi sheep silage sodium soil health soya sprayer spraying storm sulphate thistle thistles tillage training triticale tungsten vaderstad vaderstad rapid variety weather weed control wheat yields
    • Replies: 127
    • Forum: Holistic Farming
  6. P

    Wheat seed rates 2023

    Thinking about starting drilling wheat next week. This early drilled stuff is going in mainly after early potatoes and some overwintered stubble that has been ploughed and pressed. We have subsoiled and disc & pressed after the potatoes. All seedbeds are really good and the nice bit of rain has...
    • Pottersfarm
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    • agrii agronomist agronomy ahdb application barley beans beet blackgrass break crop broadway star brother buying group bydv cereals coulters cover crop cover crops cultivate dairy direct drilling disc dressing drilling establishment fertiliser foliar forecast fungicide fusarium grass grassweed grassweeds harrow harvest herbicide hoof horsch insurance isobus maize malting ndvi nettles oats osr plough ploughing potatoes premium rapid residual seed seedbeds seeding sfi sheep slug slugs stubble take-all trading treated seed variable rate variety vigour weather weed control wheat winter wheat yielding yields
    • Replies: 153
    • Forum: Cropping
  7. Jackov Altraids

    Sustainable farming

    Sustainability is surely the thing on which the world needs to concentrate. Measuring carbon etc. is surely all smoke and mirrors compared to showing that you live, work or produce in a manner that is [at least in the main] , infinitely repeatable. It is clear that everybody has a view on what...
    • Jackov Altraids
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    • ahdb ammonium analysis beef buffer carbon carrots cattle cereals co2 cows dairy defra diesel docks electricity elms environmental fertiliser fertility fire fuel gate genetic grass grassland grazing groundswell health herbal hilux kwh levy market massey methane milk nettles nutrients organic organic matter ploughing pollution potato potatoes red tractor seed sequester sequestration sfi sheep soil carbon soil health stubble sustainability sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive thistles wheat worming
    • Replies: 150
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  8. W

    Red Tractor do it again

    Hopefully this link works. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ7ykPwW/
    • warksfarmer
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    • accident beef carbon cows dairy death environmental financial gatekeeper grass health market milk nettles operator parasites premium red tractor rpa stress wheat
    • Replies: 62
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  9. yellow belly

    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Starting a thread with solutions to application please keep it to practical solution there are other threads for rants and complaints
    • yellow belly
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    • agronomist agronomists agronomy ahl2 ahl3 ahl4 analysis application barley beans beef beef cattle blackgrass boots break crops brother buffer carbon carbon capture cattle cereals cleavers combi cover crop cover crops cultivating dairy death deere defra digital direct drill disc drainage dressing drilling drought environmental establishment family fertiliser fertility fertilizer financial flail fodder forage fuel fungicides gate glyphosate gps grass grass leys grass weed grassland grassweed grazing harvest harvesting health hedge herbal herbicide hoof horsch horticulture hrw1 hrw2 hrw3 igl3 insecticide insecticides ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 lambing lambs lig1 lig2 maintenance maize management mapping market milk nettles nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients oats online operator orchard organic organic matter osr paddock peas peat pesticide pesticides plough ploughing pollinator poultry pre-em renewal reseed roots rpa rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 satellite security seed seeding sfi sheep slug slug pellets slugs soil assessment soil health soil sampling soil test soil testing sprayer storage supplement sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive technology testing thistles triticale turnout varieties variety weather weed control wheat wild oats woodland yields
    • Replies: 747
    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  10. Deere342

    Bomford 457 Hedge Trimmer

    Good evening, I have a Bomford 457 Hedge Trimmer which has a spool block set up for open centre hydraulics. I run it on a John Deere 2140 which is closed centre hydraulics. Is it possible to convert the spool block to closed centre? Having read a few hydraulic threads it would seem @Mr Happy...
    • Deere342
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    • deere drilling hedge nettles parts
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Machinery
  11. Bruce Almighty

    Kyleo equivalent

    How many l/ha Glyphosate & how many l/ha 2,4D do you need on rape stables pre-drilling We’d normally use 3 l/ha glyphosate but some rape volunteers are strong Thanks
    • Bruce Almighty
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    • beans cover crop dff drilling fmc glyphosate groundsel hedge nettles osr stubble thistles wheat
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Cropping
  12. 4

    sfi you can now apply

    5.45 am this morning rec email from defra saying as youve registered your interest you can now start your application. ok thinks me will try . First thing to do will be go get some more ink and a couple of reams of printer paper as will have to download the 40 pages of the new guidance of how...
    • 4course
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    • agronomist agronomists ahl2 ahl3 aphids application barley beans beef beet biodiversity blackgrass break crop brome buffer bydv carbon carbon capture cattle cereals combi cover crop cover crops cultivation death defra dff diesel digital diquat direct drill direct drilling disc docks drainage drift drilling drought elms environmental establishment fertiliser fertilizer finance financial fire fodder forecast fuel fungicides gate gates glyphosate gps grain store grass grass leys grassland grassweed grassweeds grazing harrow harvest harvesting hedge herbal herbicide hoof hrw1 hrw2 hrw3 igl1 igl2 igl3 insecticide insecticides ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 lambs learning legumes liberator lig1 maize management mapping market methane milk mor1 nematode nematodes nettles nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients nutrition oats oilseed oilseed rape organic osr parts peas pesticide pesticides pests pig platform plough ploughing pollinator pollution poultry premium reseed residual roots roundup rpa rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 satellite seed seeding sfi sheep silage slugs software soil sampling soil test spraying spring beans storage stress stubble sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive technology thistles tillage trading training triticale varieties variety vra weather weed control wheat wild oats winter wheat woodland yields
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    • Forum: Tenant Farming, Subsidies, BPS & Legal Issues
  13. M

    Belkar in OSR for fat hen/small nettle? 🤔

    Hello Bit of a newbie when it comes to growing rape, it's a bit up and down this year in places and the fat hen and nettle has taken advantage of the smaller crop. Have attached some pictures and interested to hear opinions as to spray or not, I'm inclined not to at the price of £60/ha...
    • MeavyHetal
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    • belkar fat hen fire nettles oilseed oilseed rape osr
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Cropping
  14. D

    Docks in grass seeds

    Put grass seeds in about 3 weeks ago, they are up and away. Sprayed with roundup first, should I be spraying for docks again now or wait until Spring. I can see the little buggers there starting to grow. Our two Spring reseeds were not sprayed at all, tried to be clever, it didn't work, now...
    • DairyNerd
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    • agronomist break crop chickweed corteva cows docks fluroxypyr glyphosate grass grass leys grassland grazing herbal maize mcpa minerals nettles roots roundup rye seedling slurry spraying su thistles weed control wheat
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Dairy Farming
  15. Grassman

    Spot spraying

    So we have some established docks and thistles etc that I want to get rid of. Knapsack and quad sprayer. Grazon pro. Doxstar Pro. Pastor. Thistles. What to use? Rather have something that will work on all rather than just one weed but does it do as good a job?
    • Grassman
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    • boom docks doxstar fluroxypyr grassland herbicide mcpa nettles quad sprayer spraying thistles thistlex weather
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  16. Dead Tomorrow

    Easy way to cut and clear small meadow?

    Hi, our meadow isn't great for animals and only 2acres, I wondered if there is something I can use that could cut and clear it? Long term I'm interested in exploring ways of turning this into compost for our vegetable crops, though appreciate it will need to be heated to destroy seeds.
    • Dead Tomorrow
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    • boots carbon fertility flail grass grazing health lambs mower nettles nutrients orchard paddock plough seed sheep soil health thistles
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Machinery
  17. Laggard

    Winter Beans

    Never grown them before, recovering OSR grower. Which is a good winter variety and what seed rate if ploughing or Claydon drilled please? Any other advice welcome.
    • Laggard
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    • Replies: 94
    • Forum: Cropping
  18. P

    Do any TFF members use a Shelbourne Reynolds stripper header to harvest your wheat?

    As above. If not why not as stripper headers are used to harvest wheat in North America. In theory it is the way to go to increase the output of a combine. Why haven’t strippers headers been popular in the uk???
    • Pilatus
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    • barley cereals claas cover crops cows deere direct drilling drilling drills grass harvest hedge lexion nettles organic osr peas plough ploughing seed silage slug weather wheat
    • Replies: 53
    • Forum: Machinery
  19. B

    Thistles

    I have. A lot of this taking over pasture what would the ground have to little of or to much of
    • bazza3034
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    • adjuvants agronomist application arylex barley boom cereals clopyralid compaction docks grassland grazing herbicide nettles pesticides potash quad roots seed sprayer spraying tank mixing thistle thistles thistlex triclopyr weather wheat
    • Replies: 39
    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  20. An Gof

    The penny has finally dropped on what a shambles Defra is

    Interesting article in The Grocer. Seems rest of industry catching up with what we have known for some time.
    • An Gof
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    • analysis application beef boom break crop carbon cows dairy defra docks drilling environmental ewes family financial harvesting health management market milk minerals nettles organic pickup premium sfi sustainability trading weather yields
    • Replies: 185
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
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