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How many dd guys have gone cultivating? Out next door neighbours practices a full range of cultivating and has 95% crop cover after a hard winter we dd a majority of ours and a currently re drilling 50% .cultivating a fair bit as the top is solid from rain. Any one else feal like abandoning...

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Hi, I'm new to the forum, I have a goal I've been thinking about for some time to help bring smart tech and smart sensors to British farmers, in a way that gives the most options and best value. Preferably in a way that doesn't lock people in to one 'system', but that overall that helps...

A supplier has some over-yeared seed to move on at an excellent price. Smart Radish 4.5 Phacelia Stala 1 Empress Spring Linseed 8 Nikian Spring Vetch 14 Carmina Crimson Clover...

A supplier has some over-yeared seed to move on at an excellent price. Daikon Radish 65% Terminator Brown Mustard 35% 100% Delivered price: £2.00 per kilo Packed in 20kg bags Minimum order 2 x 20kg bags...

A supplier has some over-yeared seed to move on at an excellent price. Gruner Angeliter Kale UNTREATED 1 Goldeneye Kale UNTREATED 1 Thousand Head Kale UNTREATED 1 Proteor Kale UNTREATED 1 Astera Kale...

How much nitrogen in seed bed for spring barley? In units per acre please so I can understand it!!

A supplier has some over-yeared seed to move on at an excellent price. Alambic Triticale REDIGO PRO 39 Inka Kale 1.8 Goldeneye Kale UNTREATED 2.7 Spitfire Rape 1.8 Lirina Linseed...

A supplier has some over-yeared seed to move on at an excellent price. Special Wild Bird Mixture The mix; % Alambic Tritcale UNTREATED 33.33 Penn 110 Dwarf Sorghum 20.84 Sprint 11 Sorghum UNTREATED 20.84...

Frost on the ground in parts this morning and we have 45 acres of maize going in today. I'll let you know in a fortnight wether it was the right call. Hope to get a photo up later.

Posted earlier that I had around 40k to spend. Maybe able to up my budget to 50k. Would welcome options please.

thinking if a grass lay would fit in the rotation with SFI. Would either of these scenarios work and would I need to plant a high vigour seed £50/ac or a standard 1 to 2 year lay £40/ac plant in april and plough out end of September (would you get 2 cuts) plant in august (rain permitting)...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland Ministers are being asked by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) to consider using residual potato levy funds to support seven industry projects through a grant to GB Potatoes. The recommendation has been made by the AHDB following...

Just thought I would share a picture of wild meadow flowers cheers me up. We used to spread bagged nitrogen on the farm until 20 years ago and had no wild flowers in meadows I remember my dad saying how when he was young the meadows were full of flowers. Now I know what he meant . Over 20...

Hi, I left it late to buy my spring oat seed,I'm looking for 2.5t of either Isabel or husky,but rang around everywhere that I can think of in Ireland and they say they are out of stock. I never thought buying seed would be a problem. Any ideas? Would anyone in the UK send some over?

Westerwolds Ryegrass Seed £32.26 acre Italian Ryegrass Seed £33 acre Hybrid Ryegrass Seed £35 acre @14 kg acre Straight Red Clover seed £6.95 kg Patching Seed £27: acre Seed Mixes including SFI available Semi Herbal Long Term Leys Straight Legumes Herbs and Brassica Seed Delivered anywhere uk...

Any recommendations please? We want to learn! We have less than 30 calvings pa and our traditional native breed cow is an easy calver. But there are still times we need to intervene, so few we have little practice and even less confidence. This leads to vet calls I think we could reduce given...

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.

Hi, Have a 3m Vederstad Rapid with no system disc in front of the seed/fert coulters. What i havent been able to get 100% is the navigational point and the coupling length settings for the implement. The "horizontal rotational axis" for the Rapid, is that the rear packer wheels? Or is it the...

Never used or seen one of these up close, how exactly do they work? And how is the seed rate adjusted? I have a chance to buy one fairly cheap but has no drive motor and no control box. Would this be able to be converted to a land wheel style drive? I’m thinking of making a small grass seed...