spitfire

1979 I think

Have one late sown field of barley to spray for weeds, have been holding of as didnt want to stress it and also was no weeds much . But with the promise of rain was going to spray this evening. Rooting through the chemical store ive un covered a litre of Starane 2 litre of Spitfire and a litre...

Wondered what all noise was about

As above. Something works well in cereals but despite multiple stale seedbeds having a big problem in some stewardship options. Going to be difficult going forward but wondered if there was anything selective that might be worth using. Though i guess nothing will be legal.

I can use 24D as part of a mix with roundup in Kyleo as a full knockdown of weeds. But when it comes to spring crops I'm finding myself ladling on expensive Zypar because I'm now scared of growing direct drill osr with an su What am I missing here, What is it that those old fashioned contact...

Here's Captain Tom's flypast with the Hurricane and Spitfire from the BBMF, in case anyone missed it live on the BBC this morning. Glorious engine sounds which if I wasn't such a technical incompetent I'd lift for my phone's ringtone. Happy Birthday, Captain Tom.

chinease must be laughing their heads off? not only have they caused the problem but our people . those that govern ? according to this morning news are importing plane loads of protective clothing, facemasks for the NHS? So we have got thousands of people in factories idle while we pay the...

I guess anyone can apply, how is this going to work, pay back time etc.

Hi just need a bit of advice been having problems with electric ,we have got three wires coming from house where the meter for the farm is they need replacing ,We have a 15kva transformer ,the wires to the buildings stretch for about 60m ,would I be able to use one cable and what would I need...

my first memories of farm life are in the fifties, i was brought up on a small cheshire mixed farm, dairy, beef pigs, poultry, and sheep.We also grew potatoes cereals and green crop,its hard to believe it all fit in on less than eighty acres! the work was done by horses two shires and a...

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tomswalkforthenhs Hats off to the 99 year old veteran and those who have supported him to raise £2.5mil so far. The family's original aim was £1000......yesterday he hit £500k.....lunchtime today, £1mil.....this evening he now stands at £2.6mil...

Which BLW spray (preferably a hormone) will take out groundsel, chickweed and speedwell in WB. Don't say leave it, land is generally weedy but majority of the weeds are the above, a few thistles. WB really struggling. PDM and Liberator didn't take out well established examples as weather...

Still having a large debate with myself about how much of the wheat to do with Broadway Star (Avocet actually). For two years now I have not spotted both wild oats and meadow brome despite walking fields what I thought was quite carefully. Walked round with an experienced agronomist and we...

A lot of people on here have written against Dyson, with regard to farm buying and moving some jobs overseas (despite creating even more over here), some of it with justification. However... He's just committed to deliver 11000 ventilators to the UK in April and to have another 4000 ready for...

Anybody know what is happening we have a test due to be completed in April chances are it wont happen, animal health cant help you would have thought they could make a decision or do we have to do it for them.

Wife just got back from shops

Currently with EE but need to swap phones and wonder what other providers are like? EE coverage is OK around the farm generally but hopeless in my office. Whilst the office is upstairs in is an old farmhouse with foot thick stone walls built around 1830. I believe Virgin uses the EE network...

Having had the suckler herd clear for 14 months, Friday we tested and bang, 8 reactors. Socking great lumps. Always seems to pick the best cows. Devastated. Now 2 of the cows have 5 week old calves at foot. When they take the cows what to do with the calves? Would they amble round and cross...

Been looking at getting a new manual squeeze crush (presumably less to go wrong that a hydraulic squeeze). Any opinions of the practicalities of both setups? Currently have a premier crush and looking at their squeeze crush and the Ritchie one just now. Premier one more expensive than the...