thistle

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...

Not really a precision farming thread but mulling over options while spot spraying thistles with a quad mounted sprayer. Generally creating spirals around the field and repeatedly spraying some plants in error! Option two is to put the sprayer on a tractor with second person and walk along...

I re seeded a field last year and there's a lot of thistles growing on it, what's the best spray or way to get rid of them? It's a 10 acre field so might spot spray with knapsack

I have some ground going into vegetables and also into sunflowers. The thistles are putting on good growth and everything else was taken out by a Feb Glyphosate application. I really want to do the thistles properly, roots and all, but not leave potentially crop-damaging chemical residue. What's...

At a meeting last night discussing rural issues. Part of the meeting we discussed the farming scene and how tough it is ..... 2 of those present suddenly spoke out at what they had seen in various 'farming' type mags and market reports' about livestock making record prices in markets etc etc ...

Anyone know the current price for a 3 ltr. pack ?

We have a 12t trailer we put a dump body on. Due to some over zealous loading when moving soil this summer we destroyed one of the rams when it went though the trailer bottom and bent. Where would good place to go for a 3 stage ram? We usually just go to a hydraulic shop and get one remade but...

This is the number someone has come up with for the Welsh government for losses down to the new agriculture policy. Great news. Not.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories

My understanding is that you need PA1 and PA6 certificates to be able to use 'professional' herbicides from a knapsack sprayer. Fair enough I suppose, though I do slightly question whether there is any serious risk to any living thing (other that the thistle onto which you spray the stuff)...

Thought I’d ask TFF collective. Anyone know what this plant is? Coming up with our AB8 margin mix. Cheers.

So there is a plot of land beside me, (not marching my own ground) which is owned by the DOE, it is a derelict kind of site which has no activity, upkeep or maintenance. The last time I saw something happening within this land was approx 15 years ago. It now looks a sorry state, needing a lot of...

Crop-killing weeds are advancing in the USA according to this news item on Reuters. Including some kind of rice triffid, Ambrosia trifida. Does anyone know of any weed-killing crops that grow well in the UK? A giant kale perhaps? Issues with Canadian thistle and fleabane on parts of our fields...

So i wonder what announcements / new standards we might get re SFI today ? any guesses ?

Hi all. I've recently bought a 21 acre grass field. There's a local farmer who has grazed it for free with his sheep for some years. This dormant season I want to plant trees in certain areas, but as I don't want the rest of the land getting out of hand, I'm happy to still have it grazed. If...

Thinking of just spraying off the stubbles then broadcasting the grass seed, chain harrowing it in and Cambridge roll - or should I be going all out ploughing, power harrowing etc etc?

Hi I sprayed 10acres with Thristlex today how long would you have to keep sheep of it for? There’s plenty of grass on it so looking to get back on asap cheers

A thread for grassland/livestock farmers. There's lots of discussion threads covering arable too but seeing as SfI seems to want to see the back of livestock farmers I was hoping we could share what we're doing to recoup some lost subsidies. the options seem few and some very negative opinions...

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...

Asking for a friend! Is it possible for the owner to claim delapidations when it all goes wrong? Looking at possible negatives to letting land for grazing Grazing let for livestock which never turn up, consequently the land has a fine crop of docks which should have been topped. The licence is...