Hi folks,
I have agreed in principle to the renewal of a 5 year lease on a 100ac block of land, mainly for sheep grazing with 20 suckler cows/calves and one cut of silage in the same field each year.
Over the past 5 years I have managed to increase stocking density massively using rotational...
We have not had a useable satellite image since late January so are unable to do any up to date VRA N plans. Given that all these services supposedly use the same satellites, is everyone else in the same boat or am i incredibly unlucky that each of the subsequent ~ 8 passes (approx 1 per week)...
I,ve heard down the grapevine that the EA are banning autumn slurry and solid muck applications as AHDB have told them there is no crop justification for applications of N or manur containing N apart from on osr
This effectively means all and any livestock manures or digestate cannot be...
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I am currently using Gatekeeper for crop recording and mapping/precision farming.
There seems to be a reasonable choice for the crop recording alternatives, however options for the mapping and precision farming side of things seem more limited.
What are other people using to do mapping and...
Not sure this is correct section but you boys much know more about this sort of stuff in just a pauper upland farmer,
getting alot of moss so thought i would check soils,
what you rekon to stick on for some correction, these fields are usually cut and get alot of muck after,
looks like they...
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Recently attended a zoom meeting with a respected independent land agent. He described the next 5 yrs as the biggest change in Farming in a lifetime. He painted a fairly bleak picture of agric under the Tory government’s funding plans, none of which encourage food production:
> £40K BPS will be...
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I have just received an alert from the National Grid that demand this afternoon will be within 1/3rd % as I understand of capacity.
Time to check your generators! And put your electric cars away.
But, what are we doing in this situation?
Is anyone using any of the imaging systems in anger? There seems to be a plethora of these appearing and I have meddled with the Agrii contour system. They seem to raise more questions than they answer and on generally light soil they just show lack of moisture, IMHO. They could however be used...
There is a bizarre aspect to the Pfizer and other potential vaccines.A compete turnaround in political and environmental attitudes that has not been clearly stated.!!!
That is that the new vaccine is GENETICALLY MODIFIED " G M " Dreaded by every European
politician.!!
Are we on the cusp of...
This autumn and last year have well and truly shown the value of soil structure, and highlighted in particular where problems exist.
My farm is generally grade 3 heavy silty clay loam with flints, with a decent chunk at 55%- 60% forecast establishment rates, according to Soyl. It also has no...
Is anyone using a bogballe spreader on green star isobus? Have 2/3 isobus tractors so don’t think any point going separate control box. How have people found them? Going to 30m with weigh cells and section control. Any thoughts and opinions appreciated
Ok lads time to pick your brains instead of your noses today I've got a 2014 horsh sprinter 4st and want to do veri rate drilling slight snag is the isobus from the drill to the tractor ain't on speaking terms so have decided to put the drill box into the cab but really don't want to try a...
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