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Imagine you are a farmer planning your cropping for the next few years to ensure everything remains healthy, productive and, especially, weed free. While you’re busy at this task, you read in a respected magazine that there is a new spray which you can apply liberally that will kill all plants...

Started drilling today and seems about right as it’s not been overly warm

What is other people’s approximate diesel usage per animal on farm over the whole year ? I’ve been thinking about mine and it will be around £25 a head this last year . And I thought I was fairly efficient 😱

Lambing easycares, outside, all going well despite very wet weather, apart from a higher than expected number of lambs born dead or dying within minutes of birth. Fully formed, good size, eyes clear, nothing apparently wrong. Often one of a pair. Ewes have done well over winter and are quite...

Have got underground pipes crossing roads etc to reach different blocks of ground with umbilical so can now do every field. Have got a mixture of 5 and 4 inch Bauer couplings on pipes as that was what contractor wanted to suit his pipes. Now for various reasons may have to get another contractor...

Just caught a bit of the Yorkshire farm thing on tv. Made me cringe to see them doing mouth to mouth on new born lambs. Always been told it’s risky to do from human health point of view. Is it just a stunt for tv or do many of you like the taste of lamb amniotic fluid?

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Growing demand for energy maize, supported by its appeal as a non-cereal alternative break crop, has seen a reverse in declining demand for self-propelled forage harvesters from national dairy herd contraction. But how does a typical buyer...

The cessation of production in Chile has led to supply deficits and as a result some farmers are seeing prices up to four times the normal retail price. In this article, as part of our spring lambing series, we look at alterative options to iodine as a naval disinfectant and review the...

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3rd crop Mule struggled to push this one out as a leg slightly back and a bug single. Noticed the yellow tongue as I pulled it out. No sign of life. Milky eyes but perfectly formed. Pretty sure it died in birth. On a second look it looks like umbilical ripped off. Correct? Just trying to...

155mm here in March, so far. Agronomy now facing an unfortunate combination of surface waterlogging and subsoil moisture deficiency, with current root death likely to restrict scarce moisture uptake later on. Combining that with last autumn's much higher cost base and next harvest's lower...

So been to wynstay this morning, small drum of iodine £160ish!!! 500ml was £30!! Lickily I've got some left over from last year, but what are the other options people are using?!

12 month apart today 3 year ley put in with zero clover you would need a boat to overseed today That's my prefered machine for overseeding

What are peoples preferences? Pros and cons?

For some reason Im getting a run of these in ewes at the moment... In singles, doubles, even had a trip this morning with all three coming backwards. Its not ram related as across various tupping groups, and ewe treatment post tupping has been the same as previous years. Last year out of 250...

Hello. I am in the need for a slurry stirrer for a Lagoon. As we are hilly ground and we use a umbilical system the slurry needs to be like water.

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University. Following birth, livestock are highly susceptible to diseases and mortality rates are high Management of the newborn’s navel region is important to prevent infections from tracking through to the animal’s internal organs and causing greater...

For all the right reasons: YES!

Hi there, I'm looking for insight from people who are running umbilical slurry systems about how you fix leaks especially in your feeder hose. Background: I've been running one of those systems for a contractor here in Northern Germany since 2021 (when spreading slurry on frozen ground was...

This caught my eye a few days ago. 120hp for £60k. Almost affordable by today's standards. Google suggests it's nearer 115 hp though. Turkish built..........hmmmmm. Back in the day, you'd happily put a 4 furrow reversable on a tractor of this HP. Maybe even a 5 furrow. But this looks a bit "...