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Due Mid 2024, Toyota launching the new 2.8l diesel/electric invincible pickup More details here https://mag.toyota.co.uk/hilux-hybrid-48v-intro/?fbclid=IwAR2MTyyB4eZoDZeo41Z-FCyK9NHsCP3DcoCgYe96sn-DF5obQW1OC3gz1_0_aem_AXj_sJHkFIbD9SvBT9RParACmQVUGMdykf8LPVXIDz66EpcTSaZqpeGFgIpCIkNjBkU

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Mineral-oil-based fuels suffer a good deal of bad publicity, but the government’s enthusiasm for batteries as a universal method of energy storage means that alternative sources of diesel are overlooked. Carbon-based fuels, such as diesel, have several...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has relaunched its ‘Your Farm, Your Future’ campaign with a focus on the dangers of working the livestock. Incidents involving livestock were the number one cause of work-related deaths on British in...

Please see the attached form I am going to send this form to the AHDB and various organisations in the grain supply trade to see what reaction there is to a valid alternative to Red Tractor assurance. I you support this form as an alternative to RT then please show your support by voting in...

I ask the above as @Farmer dyke and @Gerbert, have explained in answer to my thread “River/dyke cleaning,Question for farmers in Holland/Netherlands, that the “Waterboards”, dictate how waterways must be “Cleaned”. So repeating my self, why is the UK Environment Agency so so opposed, hell bent...

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are investigating the theft of £3,000 worth of farm machinery in Co. Derry. Police in Strabane are appealing for information after a report of the theft on Glenshane Road near Claudy in Co. Derry. The PSNI...

Any suggestions for an all round vehicle please. Both a farm vehicle and family vehicle. It’ll be used for towing a ifor Williams at times, running across fields during harvest with bowsers/tools etc. Then on the daily school run as well as holidays in this country. Basically my only vehicle for...

hi, a friend of mine is in the process of buying a set of tractor row crop wheels in east sussex/kent border and looking for them collected and brought home to him. he is located approx 50km north of dublin. would anyone know of a company interested in this type of a job? tia

From some conversations I’ve had recently, I’m getting the feeling there’s some panick in businesses that rely on farming customers that large scale SFI options could become very popular. For instance, suggesting that it wouldn’t be moral, or that you wouldn’t be a real “farmer” if you take...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The benefits of slurry separation were profiled at recent College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) events, hosted to highlight the value of all animal manures. Research scientists at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) have...

Heard it on youtube this morning from an Aussie farmer How true it is

Just an observation last night as driving home. Lot of horse paddocks on rough ground. At the moment lot I went past are just muddy bogs. Some right against the river. (if was cattle then would be hell to pay...) Nothing against horses, but surely would be better covering the pony paddocks in...

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are appealing for information over the theft of 13 pregnant sheep in Co. Derry. The 13 Suffolk/Texel-cross ewes expecting lambs were taken from a field in Claudy, at the junction of Kilcreen road and Altinure...

Can anyone recommend a Tracker device to deter theft and aid recovery? What are the must haves? Thanks

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland In Ireland, there is the idea that field robots are something that will arrive one day a long time from now, but that day has already arrived – with the Agxeed 5.115T2 being displayed at the recent Kellys of Borris celebration event. News of this...

Could we see the first Reform MP as a protest vote and a result of the Labour Party ,withdrawing support , for the Rochdale candidate .

Just seen on twitter that HMRC are to re classify crew cabs as cars for employees. As a Ltd Co. reckon it's back to pickups and wee vans. However the cost of them will maybe have stifled demand as it is. Best get the wax oil out and look after my current Hilux...

I am sure this thread will have been done to death but if it has then I am not finding it. What's the opinion on the best make and model to choose for making up to / around 2,000 small conventional hay bales per year, within a price of around £5-6k second hand?

Maybe we are getting this wrong. Double the Red Tractor fees and spend all the money on a marketing campaign. But... "If it doesn't have a Red Tractor on it, it's cheap stuff from God knows where, that has been sprayed and injected with God knows what" That would call out the supermarkets...

The UK faces a general election at some point this year. Farmers all over the world are protesting measures that once explained in lay terms, are simply not inline with how we all wish to be connected to our food supply. In fact if anything there is now more than ever an increased need to...