seeding

  1. B

    Liquid back to granular fertiliser?

    I’m thinking of making the move back to spreading fertiliser instead of using liquid. Anybody done it and regretted it? We can’t put on liquid P & K so have to use a contractor and as we are 36m spread pattern is hit and miss. We’ve had scorch last year and this year with this year in...
  2. McDaniel

    How to keep 1500 ewes

    Greetings. I've decided to reach out and see if I can gather some ideas about any aspects of keeping 1,500 sheep you care to discuss. I'm in the Northeast US. I've had 120 +/- ewes for the last 5 years and now looking to expand to 1,500 for a solar park grazing contract. Winters are wet and...
  3. G

    Wheat prices jump

    Today Up £7
  4. muleman

    Too cold

    Does anyone think we need cloud cover as like a kind of insulation?
  5. Sambo

    Advice needed

    Evening all, at work, we are looking for an accurate guidance, rtk or close, as we are drilling our own maize with a 3m powerharrow with a mounted maize drill. The tractors aren't guidance ready but a new one in the future will be so will be following a lightbar for now. We already have a...
  6. News

    AMAZONE to showcase a range of new kit at CEREALS 2024

    AMAZONE Ltd will again take the opportunity at Cereals 2024 to showcase kit that reflects the shifting trends in crop establishment. These shifting trends are also supported by government help through the SFI and grants available through the Farming Equipment Technology Fund. The Condor 12001-C...
  7. P

    Hope you like the attached, if you like trees.

  8. D

    when can I plough out herbal ley?

    wanting to claim on existing herbal leys hoping 1/may start date but some of them are to plough out sept 23 some sept 24, can I claim the the herbal payment in the same scheme year that I am ploughing them out? they'll still be down for 4/5 months of the scheme year where as if I was...
  9. Agriland RSS

    ‘60% of targeted winter cereal planting achieved in NI’ – agronomist

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Agronomist, Richard Owens, has confirmed that continuing wet conditions are hampering cereal growers form getting on with critically important field work. “Some areas were hit that little bit harder with the weather than others. As a rule of thumb...
  10. H

    Sick bull

    Our bull has stopped eating and is making a low grunting noise with every breath, started 2 days ago but yesterday seemed better but worse now. Will be phoning the vet shortly, just wondering if you have any ideas? My father is thinking a wire. Been no change in his diet so ruling out acidosis...
  11. Badshot

    SFI 24 no till payment

    Just wondering if there's any further information out yet as to what constitutes no till in the eyes of SFI? Is it a dts/mzuri/claydon direct into stubble? Or is it going to be lower disturbance tine or disc? Supposedly a claydon grain and fert meets the grant spec with the leading tine applying...
  12. P

    Cereal drill for very stony land these days.

    When farming( tenant farmer),a lot of the farms soil was very stony as per pictures attached. Strangely enough I think the Amazone combi drill with Suffolk coulters straight behind the plough press gave us the most even seeding compared to other drills we had, had. Just wondering what drill you...
  13. R123

    Kuhn Quantron S2 Variable Seed

    As the title suggests, is the Kuhn Quantron S2 terminal capable of Variable Seed Rate (from plans i.e SOYL) in its standard form? Are there any users of the S2 with any advice/experience of this? Or is it only possible to achieve variable seed rate sowing through ISOBUS? Drill in question is a...
  14. Mad Farmer

    NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap

    Received an email today from NFU welcoming SFI cap and was a result of their lobbying. Can you believe it. !!
  15. More to life

    Grant funding

    As a dairy farmer who plays at arable I'm thinking of getting a mounted 3m dd for over-seeding, cover crops ect. Mounted and 3m as we have some truly steep land. Discs to allow me to drill into grass, I'm aware of the weaving and moores options i'm generally looking for recommendations.
  16. GeoPard

    Precision Agriculture natural language Q&A A.I. portal

    Our documentation portal is accessible at docs.geopard.tech, answers your precisionAg questions in natural language (AI-powered). Examples of questions from the video: - How to clean and calibrate yield data? - How to run trial analytics? - How to create VR seeding maps? Check more in the short...
  17. Giorma

    Why nobody using seeders like this?

    Hello, I have a question about why nobody is using seeders like this in Europe, the UK, or the US, I can't find any seeders like this in those countries, in my country we are using seeders like this a lot almost every seeder are like this with single disc and I'm curious why is nobody using it...
  18. cquick

    Pimp My Maize Drill

    So I thought I'd post my adventures in pimping my Kuhn maize drill for the upcoming season. I use the drill for maize, pumpkins and OSR, where I run ahead with a subsoiler and follow down the lines with the drill. Sort of like strip-till but not quite. I'd like to use it in a truly no-till...
  19. Agriland RSS

    How best to establish red clover swards

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The recent ZeroNSile webinar, hosted by AgriSearch, provided an overview of how best to establish productive red clover swards. But, why should farmers opt to grow red clover swards in the first place? This was the first question addressed Dr. David...
  20. Farm Classifieds

    CM000147 NEW CLAYDON EVOLUTION M3 DRILL

    CM000147 NEW CLAYDON EVOLUTION M3 DRILL Advert added by: Chandlers (Farm Equipment) Ltd Machinery Details Category: Tillage Drills Price: £47950 Condition: New Description CLAYDON 3.00M EVO MOUNTED DRILL, STANDARD FRONT AND SEEDING. TINES, MARKER ARM KIT, REAR TOOL...
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