I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving.
I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous.
Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
Up until now it's been a single dose of Ivomec, but apparently research shows that the residuals of using it can persist in the dung for a considerable period of time after use and still have considerable detrimental effect on soil health after spreading.
Sheep are typically housed about four...
Bit of a background. Last yr we didnt dose pre lambing. We then went on to loose a load of ewes with lambs at foot and it was unknown. Fec come back good. Pms inconclusive then we bit the bullet and dosed all the ewes with cydectin triclomox off our own backs and it pretty much stopped deaths in...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group has launched its nematodirus forecast with the aim of helping producers deal with variation in disease risk this spring.
The group said the forecast will be “really important” to help...
Mulling things over … now I love farming ( mostly) and as some of you know, I’ve said it’s all I ever wanted to do .
But times are changing and with the weather on top of poor ground plus my age and aches and pains, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to say enough
Part of me feels guilty as if I...
Recently bought some tenanted land. On visiting it today, I found this ewe clamped over a lamb. She had no water. There was no-one on site.
This looks completely unacceptable. Who better to ask than TFF.
This is a disgusting idea that came to me last year....
Supposing one kept a pig in the corner of ones lambing shed and chucked to it all the casualties and afterbirths...
Presumably this is not a legal method of clearing 'fallen stock.'
but in terms of ethics- Pigs are carrion eaters by...
As the title suggest considering going down this route with the cattle.
Mega simple system, no breeding stock, one stock class. 12 month old bought in 400kgish animals, groups of 40 grazed from March to November on good free draining ground. Fresh cell every day, grazing herbal lays, no corn...
Welcome to the Environment Agency Q&A event on The Farming Forum.
For the next two days, this thread will be open for questions for our team at the Environment Agency to answer farmers questions on agricultural regulations.
The Environment Agency are aiming to engage with the community on the...
Just opening myself a can of worms …Currently pricing up Horizontal Beater Spreaders and looking at the list of options any recommendations from current users ?? I’ve not got a huge amount of work for one yet but looking to expand in the area.
need a relatively compact machine capable of being...
Welcome to Ruminant Health & Welfare
Welcome to the first RH&W newsletter of 2024
Our important work continues with our focus now on developing a beef welfare strategy with the working group as well as progressing the welfare goals identified in the dairy and sheep strategies through 2024.
As...
Think this has been covered before ,but I have some land drainage to do and may struggle to get drainage stone on site ,are there any other options for backfill that will last other than stone , not done any test holes yet so unsure but it seems to be deep loamy topsoil over Clay for what I've...
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...
Just wondering, one block of farm with main buildings and sheep yard .
Normally bale the 15 acres ( 12+3 )and also a 4 acre field of the bit marked 16.
We get nice short cut sweet green hay but not so much of it , so you wise sheep men and women … to buy in fodder and rotate the sheep or to make...
Does anyone know whether having copious amounts of lead shot lying around is harmful to worms? I've eaten plenty of shot embedded in game and vermin in my time, but my guts are rather less abrasive than a worm's. Just pondering this as I wandered over our pastures this pm, in places the...
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we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:
We have a typical old school silage clamp setup which we want to improve. It’s earth bank at the back with occasional springs then free standing pre-cast panels dividing the clamps.
The option we’re looking at is to put a sealed wall against the earth bank (drainage stone and drain to catch...
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