I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving.
I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous.
Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
We need your wettest trip pictures! We are requesting that all of our Slug Sleuths upload a photo from their wettest slug trap monitoring day below. All who contribute will receive 1.5 points⬇️😃
In the last two nights there has been four attacks around the village. Ewes and even fornight old lambs have been shot and left in the fields. A couple at each farm, but the same each time with some being shot in the head and some being the body.
Spoke to the police about it today and there is...
Hi All, looking at one of these to mount on a 6m harrows, are they any good? It says it comes with a self contained GPS unit, how does that work? Thanks
A little project to fit auto rate control and variable rate control to a Stocks FanJet Plus, this has an electric driven metering wheel,
that at present is controlled at a set speed from a VS-2 control box:
So I'm using an RC11 PCB the same as for my Knight Sprayer,
This has a motor...
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
After high autumn slug pressure and a mild, wet winter, growers are encouraged to assess and manage risk of damage to spring cereals.
Keith Walters, professor of invertebrate biology and pest management at Harper Adams University, says slug...
I’ve just watched a Sky news item on an apparent increase in hedgehog numbers in the UK, after years of decline.
There was no mention of the badger culls for some reason.🤔
I thought that the ranger was the first claas coloured telehandler.
Who made this and is it any good?
https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/l/1995-claas-486-verreiker-A1-16932-95
As part of my work on the SLIMERS project, I spent last week traveling around the South of England meeting our slug sleuths and visiting their farms. Following this successful trip, I thought the slug circle would appreciate an insight into the trip:
Day 1
Farms visited in Bedfordshire and...
Did I hear right!!!? Millions coming our way to improve our IT etc so that we have less reliance on foreign workers? and better outlets for food we can't sell? Apart from installing robots, I can't see, on the face of it, what impact this would have on the dairy industry. What about other sectors?
Looking to upgrade our ATV's - so many iffy looking adverts out there, especially on FB!
some of the private ones seem genuine but is there a data base you can check on to see if its legit?
any advice on Kawasaki Mule vs JG Gator vs Polaris also welcome.
looking for one to let the old man...
I had previously been overlooking SAM2 mutlispecies cover. Is it really as simple as we drill autumn cereal crop as usual, give it a light sprinkle of some other species and claim it as Sam2? Seems to have the potentially to be the most reward for least cost/effort option of all SFI...
https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a
we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:
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