round bales

Just having a bit of a review of operations here Potatoes is still our biggest enterprise, both from a time and money perspective, but risk and reward has got more and more out of kilter in recent years. Area for 2023 a bit under half what it was in 2017 for a number of reasons. I'm passionate...

Selfish me has converted their hay barn into a house. Doubt I will build them one for a few winters... So I've nowhere for hay this year. A friend suggested haylage as that could be stored outdoors... Another option would be get a tonne of concentrate each month and store the bags here and...

I've got a IH 454 with a cab and loader on running well but it's not helping me move my round bales in the mud! I need to explore trade in prices or what I could get for it to put against a similar 4wd or a bit newer. Any help to enable me to plan ahead would be appreciated. Thanks

Im looking to try & get into a little bit of grass silage making for the cattle next season, Im thinking of getting a small forage wagon & doing clamp silage but the one Im looking at isn't equipped with knives to chop & got me wondering for what reason can it not be full length when clamped...

What do you all do with mouldy round hay bales, how do you dispose of them? Are they saleable?

Does anyone have any installation instructions and an operators manual for a dragon D370(50) please?

So Fendts are 230K How about basic 80 hp tractor with loader to suit smaller farms, hill operations, livestock etc I'm guessing every day brands such as Case, NH & MF £1,000 per hp with the loader thrown in? I could afford one, but hanging on till things settle down.

Ok so iv not seen the episode and i cant find it on google so if some1 could put up a link thatd be great, my da watched it and said they were on about the hydro powered nh tractor and said that it said that 2% of basildon produced tractors is hydro powered. So why arent we seeing tractors like...

That time of year again, just wondering who is in and who is out. I’m still out but will soon be in!

Help please. Spring calving Belted Galloways. Feeding haylage we deliberately make from one big cut. These cattle get overweight very easily , just like their owner. We feed big round bales just set out in a feed passage and mostly have locking yokes. They won’t eat straw if they have haylage...

Any fodder beet prices yet? Heard a few talking around £45-£50 T Not seen much lifted yet.

New to me Castor 20 Hammers through straw and dryish hay type material but will not go through longer sticky 1st cut. Hellish fodder and the Teagle it replaced had no bother handling any type of grub here. Long first cut to leafy 3rd and 4th. It will do the first 1/4 of the bale no problem and...

No road work before anybody goes woke. Is anybody stacking hestons 3 high on a bale trailer and managing to haul across fields without loosing many? We haul 2 high without straps and without any problems but I’m thinking of buying a bigger grab that will handle 3 x 4ft hestons. It’s a one man...

This year has been a disaster. The lack of any real rain since before Christmas has crippled me, burnt up fields from the end of june and dry streams since may. My field that the ram lambs go to in September was unusable because of a dry canal on the longest boundary and those lambs had to be...

Hi, this is annoying me. I need other agri minded peoples opinion on this. Me and my husband have our own small herd of beef cattle , we usually go to my father in laws for winter tack and he provides food. This year we can't as he has his own cattle now and doesn't have room. He's 60. My...

Like everything this year my round bale contractor put his prices up. 12 quid a bale for raking baling and wrapping. In an effort to save money I decided to mow my silage with my vintage single chop harvester that was already on the tractor as I use it for zero grazing. I normally...

Westerwolds is new to me, drilled 2 weeks ago after barley. Pic taken couple of days ago and it’s starting to shift now. And been mild and wet last couple days in the balmy south!! How soon do people graze it? Hoping to put ewes on in about 8 weeks.

My girlfriend has a Connemara pony with laminitis, so we have to restrict his diet and are doing that using an electric fence to make the grazing area smaller. The main problem is providing shelter on this patch of land as natural shelter is very scarce. There are a number of vexing...

Am I the only person who carries clean carrier bags around in the car/truck ? To harvest the spuds carrots onions that fall off the overloaded trailers that turn to fast at junctions. Or the occasional mother lode at roundabouts. Only lasts a few weeks but sometimes dont have to buy spuds for...

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