The Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies) has published the results from its recent survey about the mental health and wellbeing of young farmers and agricultural workers in the UK, and its findings are very concerning.
Of the 450 farmers who were questioned, 94% confirmed that poor mental...
Does anyone believe anything that the mainstream media report around covid to be true?
I’ve been pretty sceptical of the whole thing from the start, ie it’s origins and real impact, the measures used to control its spread, and especially the experimental gene therapy injections.
There do seem...
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Since its 1st March tomorrow, thought I'd start the next year's worth of sugar beet fun and games 🤦♂️
@Breckland Boy have you started....or finished!! drilling yet?
Not saying it’s wrong for us to help but why are we at the forefront or that’s what it seems to me anyway. I’m not referring to the aid but in terms of military assistance and our government visiting regularly.
What’s it got to do with us really? Ukraine used to be part of the USSR and there’s...
We screwed now.
Mr gets every model wrong is in on the panel.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11786059/Health-chiefs-modelling-worst-case-bird-flu-scenarios-case-killer-virus-jumps-humans.html
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Following birth, livestock are highly susceptible to diseases and mortality rates are high
Management of the newborn’s navel region is important to prevent infections from tracking through to the animal’s internal organs and causing greater...
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That man is UK, born and bred, sir jim ratcliffe, he said amongst a few things, the most important thing, was to start, explore gas fracking, he was quoted in saying that the UKs businesses, and people have and are paying far to much money for their energy, as against our major competitor...
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We have about two tonnes of big six asbestos to get rid of, local firm want around 190 a tonne plus 390 for a ro ro container, is that a decent price ?
I see Martin Woolf has written a challenging and informative article in the FT on the merits of taxing natural capital assets such as land as a way of reducing tax rates on created capital assets and work. It would be very taxing on the millionaires and billionaires whose effective tax rates are...
What are people using for welding gloves? For mig and arc welding also oxy bottle work, the usual welding gauntlets from ag suppliers don’t seem to last very long, either go hard with the heat or the stitching goes on them or normally both, but mainly on left hand, so if any left handed welders...
We use a solar set up to run about 6k of high tensile electric fence wire.
But we are running a water pipe there from the farm its about 400m and wondered whether to put an electric cable in the trench?
Would i need to use armoured cable? Would i have too much voltage drop?
What size wire...
As above.
I mention glyphosate but surely their must be a comparable, chemical, under development to succeed it ,as should it ever get banned worldwide,the market for a comparable is huge.
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Our insurers (Cornish Mutual) are offering a health and safety "package" that basically includes a site visit, identification of hazards etc, full risk assessment tailored to our business, H&S policy, environmental policy etc etc, a follow-up farm visit in 6 months and the lady who does it -...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand
Will the new NZ gov be more favourable to ag? What does this mean for NZ ag exports and our markets? Discuss.
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