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Looking through the awful farm fatalities last year, (27 of them) they actually include the following : • A 3-year-old child was killed when he was struck by a moving vehicle. • A 74-year-old member of the public was found dead in a field with cows, calves and a bull. She had been trampled...

I'm very out of touch with spray contractor charges, last time I had some done it was £4/acre imagine far more now. 200 litres per ha pre-ems and post em herbicides what's the going rate.

We are lambing again after years away from sheep. I'm interested to hear how different people manage their rams pre and post tupping. We have our six rams (mainly Texel) onsite already, and looking to tup from first week of November. I'm housing them at the moment to get used to each other...

Warning: some elements of this post are a bit of a rant. I think many if not all farmers assume that they need to grow their business. The mentality is that if you are not expanding, then you are standing still or even going backwards. Where does this notion come from? Take it to the logical...

Starting to get a little worried now. Spring seed might be short... Weather doesnt look great on the forcast - given how sh!t harvest was, could we be in for just as bad an autumn?

Has anybody ever owned or used an alstrong auctus re seeding machine? Looks to be hell of a bit of kit but intrigued to know what others think. Theres a mounted and a trailed version. I'd probably be more interested in the mounted for handiness of getting it in and out of places but would then...

Just interested how many Spring herds have started buffering? I would say this is pretty early and wouldn't normally buffer yet but our yields have dropped in the last 10 days by about 1.5 litres a cow, grass DM is low here at the moment and cows have started going through grass quicker as there...

Looking at these. Anyone with experience of them got any opinions? I have owned a Discovery (non commercial) previously, but have never even set foot in a Land Cruiser.

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Whitlaw Farm, sitting on over 107ha of land northwest of Lauder, has been brought to the market by Galbraith. The property consultancy said the site is situated in a private position two miles outside the small Borders town which is located in...

Starting a thread with solutions to application please keep it to practical solution there are other threads for rants and complaints

Well people ,society seem to think it is? is this just another sign of the declining "standards", morals etc? Not many years ago, times were alot harder/tougher, but people lived"within their means", an old saying, but true? So why bother, trying to do the "right" thing in both life and in...

About 50m by 12m. 1.8m fence. In ok condition overall. Last used we have been told 2018. Erected in 2011. No chance it'll be for pheasants again. But curious if it could be used for other poultry? 👍

it’s always being asked but looking for the good bad the ugly currently running a John Deere 6610 with a loader just shy of 10000 hours and clocking 800/1000 hours a year starting to think might be time for something newer with more comfort and possibly 50k but not sure what to replace with...

This gives guide as to the relative demand for various breeds. Just look at the average for Texel tup shearlings and Blue faced Leicesters. And Lleyns!!! https://borderunion.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Results-Summary-for-Shearlings-2023_v2.pdf

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.

Just watched a video clip of a combine retrofitted with auto steer. Very impressive but what does the driver do all day he dare not touch the steering wheel till the end of the row then panic stations lift, turn, drop then off again, might be up to 10 minutes to the other end. With auto speed...

Generally pure pet of cow you can scratch her back out the field all year round. Never had bother with her before. Calved unassisted every other year. Had to assist this year (leg down and only a handy pull of the jack only used jack to save my back to be honest. ) got zero hardship at all. In...

here a strange trend and maybe others have seen it or not looked but might show up in records ok back ground info hoggets here mated at 43 kg used to be 40kg but found alot between 40-43 dry so not worth mating them lighter ones and scanned drys run as drys until mated as 2...

A 10 acre patch of ground which I rent has just been sold at auction for £585,000 . The purchaser out bid developers .....to stop development adjacent to his property ! .....would you do that or just move? His brother said to me today that in reality he only paid about 335K cos if developers...

One of my neighbours who is getting on in years has decided to cut back a bit and has offered to rent me a 9 acre field just down the road from here as it's 3 miles around twisty lanes from his farm and he doesn't want to be travelling about anymore. It's decent arable ground, not really stony...