sodium

I know it’s a farming forum, not a health service, but has anyone had this done? Our little boy has been at the allergy clinic since the age of 2, been on abstention diet of meat, fish, fruit and veg for the duration since (despite a bit of pressure to try scratch tests and eating trials) and...

Mrs O uses Fentanyl patches plus morphine tablets to try to relieve her back and knee pain. She also has ‘Camptocormia’ which is an incurable condition where the back muscles waste away resulting in her case to a bend from the waist of at least 45 degrees. In addition to the above medication she...

Watch this. Very interesting counter arguments to the CC monster.

EU votes today on glyphosate: https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/glyphosate-renewal-a-round-up-of-how-eu-countries-plan-to-vote/

We've recently been asked by a number of forum members to post an overview of what Farmdeals can offer livestock farmers and members. We're really focusing on growing our products and offerings to help support our livestock members. If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to comment...

The average UK human consumes approx 575g of food per day (see chart below) There are 60 million people in the UK. Approx 50% of all food consumed is imported into the UK. That means over 30,000 tonnes of imported food is required per day, on average. Is that right? If so, this equates to over...

Telegraph; Fewer than half of trainee GPs go on to work full time for the NHS High dropout rate has left health service increasingly reliant on foreign doctors to fill vacancies, report warns By Michael Searles, Health Correspondent27 September 2023 • 11:59pm Fewer than half of trainee GPs go...

Under request from @Bokey I have decided to dedicate a thread to the trials and tribulations on the farm, I shall endeavour to splice the good with the bad. A bit about us, 600 acres all told, 450 cropable, 8 years into organic, mainly arable with a few wooly critters, an impatient old man and...

So State sponsored death by firing squad, electric chair, lethal injection and hanging no longer enough for the good ol’ US of A Prepare for death by nitrogen hypoxia or replacing oxygen by nitrogen until the victim passes out then suffocates to death. Way to go Alabama … who noted that pilots...

Going to try propcorning my barley for the first time. Any things to do or avoid in particular? It’s getting rolled and applied at the same time. Will be sheeting the side walls, wasn’t sure if I should also sheet the floor too?

Photo ID needed to buy AN this autumn The Control of Poisons and Explosives Precursors Regulations 2023 introduced new substances to the lists of regulated explosives precursors and poisons. Offences relating to the acquisition, importation, supply, possession and use of the following...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Sodium has been recommended as an integral component of all grassland (grazing and silage) fertiliser programmes. The benefits of the nutrient in improving palatability and mineral balances are relevant at all times of the season. According to Origin...

Harper are taking significant sums of money (certainly 6 figures, possibly 7) from Defra to research a problem that doesn't exist. Rumenco are backing this to the hilt - cash possibly, resources certainly - as there will be plenty of money to be made in solving that problem that doesn't exist...

Just wondering what everybody is paying for 0.12.12 fibrophos at the moment?

How are others lighting their sheds? Just had a quote through for proper 200lux lights. Dad disagrees with it being worth it as this isn’t our bottle neck. I tend to agree but want decent level of lighting. Ignoring milk production increases has anyone seem a fertility improvement from better...

Really interesting book on processed food, it's effect on our diets and increasing corporate control of the human food supply chain. Listen to Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken on Audible. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BL1M9XCL?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R

We’ve got about 30 water troughs on the mains supply on a couple blocks of ground we own and some we rent, and always have algae in the, some worse than others, and after putting in a brand new trough get algae within a month, wondering if fish would be a potential solution or if anyone has has...

Please can anyone share their experience of grass staggers with me? I have just lost my 6th animal (cattle) in the last few weeks. The youngest was only 6 months old and the oldest around 10 years. Some with a calf at foot, others not. My vet has indicated grass staggers yet both a blood test...

Hi all Stepping up our biosecurity with boot washing in and out of our sheep fields (since we had scab!) but am going down rabbit holes with finding a permitted disinfectant as we're in organic conversion. The Welsh Organic Standards list the following ingredients as being permitted...

To day a Canadian friend visited us for the day and he was telling me that excess sodium and salt is a big problem in parts of Australia. Does the above problem occur on any soils that you farm in the Uk? Perhaps @Farmer Roy may have heard of the problem. My Canadian friend and an Australian...