There is a small holding in our local village and the owner no longer farms, moved abroad and is now sub-renting to a member of his family who does not work in the village, let alone in agriculture.
The farm is not being used, the fields are just used for the current occupier to go offroading...
Does any small engineering firm make a 3m basic tine direct drill, I'm looking at making a 3m tine drill with metcalfe legs/tines, 250mm spacing, 11 legs in total, following harrow with hopper and accord type metering.
Something similar to what @Wombat built, probably based on 80mm box frame.
I was always told that February nitrogen flattens crops.
RB209 recommends nothing until the start of stem extension, and not before early April, unless it has low tiller numbers.
Yet everybody else seems to start chucking it on now and their crops look strong and green where as mine look crap...
Hi all been approached to hire our culitpress out what would
Be the going rate they collect and drop off how would it work with damages/breakages thanks
Hello All,
I am looking at purchasing a KRM drill.
I saw the very basic box drill at the Doe Show. It had 16 tines (could be 21) with the ‘SM‘ coulter.
we also looked at the ‘elite’ coulter with auto-reset tines.
it will be used for burying beans to 4+ inches.
we want to take advantage if the...
Put a new set of boards on plough. Any tips on removing paint so they clean OK?
Tried paint stripper, wire brush on grinder, flap disc and still not keen to come off.
Posted this in cropping but realised it should be here! My mistake!
Looking for some advice on the following please.
How would strip tillage, ie using a Claydon, Sumo DTS, McConnell seedaerator type drill vs a more low disturbance type of drill such as a Sky Easydrill work with the following...
I have just seen the trailer on the forthcoming series,due to commence airing on 10th February 2023.
It looks brilliant with Kaleb ,Gerald & Charlie to name a few.
I know that my non farming friends will be glued to their television screens ,and then on the phone to me.
I am however very...
On a lighter note I have in the past 24 hours visited a couple of local pubs ( I stress pubs & not hotels) and had a pint of 3.5 to 4% bitter in each.
In both places I was charged £5.00 for a pint,what are other forum members paying in their locals ??
I know a farmer who has built a real masterpiece cottage inside a very ordinary looking portal building. There are fibreglass lights in the wriggly tin walls so it isn’t in complete darkness. He lives here with his family and has done so for twenty or more years. I suppose his children have gone...
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SOIL-CENTRED WORCESTERSHIRE SUSTAINABILITY DRIVE
Home-made compost, massively reduced tillage and determined cover cropping have been central to the single-minded drive to improve the arable sustainability of the Green Horizons Network farm at Salford Lodge, Pitchill just outside Evesham over...
Evening all,
I expect we have all seen the consequences of drink driving, ranging from bit of cars through holes in fences, hedges and dikes, through to folk losing licenses and of course the ultimate, death.
It seems to be on the rise again around here this winter, in the last month I have...
Seen plenty of YouTube stuff about Lamma.drill badged as weaving looked identical to the Moore direct drill.are weaving selling Moore drills or is it a copy.
nick...
Well I guess it’s time to start another annual thread about how peoples crops are looking at the start of the year.
All pics taken today.
Generally I’m pretty happy at present other than one but of rape that looks a bit thin in places thanks mainly to pheasants🙄
Wheats
Skyfall
Two year...
TRANSITION EXPERIENCES GIVE GROUNDSWELL GUIDANCE
Transitioning to more regenerative regimes hasn’t been entirely plain sailing for three growers with very different soils and situations who shared their experiences at a packed Agrii Green Horizons seminar at this year’s Groundswell.
However...
Farmers and growers flocked to the sixth annual Groundswell, the UK’s largest regenerative agricultural show in late June this year. It was another sell-out event with 5,500 attendees who travelled to North Hertfordshire for two days of information exchange, inspiration and a bit of liquid...
It doesn’t work if just removing some elements of what you are doing now and leave others in is “OK I’m doing less”.
A couple of articles caught my interest in the July additional of this magazine, first What’s Your Colour written by James Warne and Farmer Focus by Andrew Ward. The theme of...
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