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- Lincolnshire
Every other farm round here is called Low Farm. Low meaning wet.
Drilling anyone?
- Thread starter kevindb880
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Every other farm round here is called Low Farm. Low meaning wet.
It does make me wonder if the weather continues year on year like this whether it may return to being stock land ?
Good idea.
Grassing down every farm within 60 miles of Cambridge would certainly gift many of us now apparently way-out arable farmers an enhanced chance of beneficial financial opportunity.
Should become Tory policy.
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John Slejpner
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- Brick clay near Bedford
Big plans for house building anywhere near Cambridge ( but not actually Cambridge itself ) - but not THAT big.
farmerm
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- Shropshire
are you including wild deer, foxes, badgers, mice and rabbits in your definition "stock"....
Around here it would be ?are you including wild deer, foxes, badgers, mice and rabbits in your definition "stock"....
you forgot rats, plenty of them about this year ?
Same here, John Slejpner - of the 300 or so fields given names here in the 1844 farm schedule, we're particularly keen to build on #1261 "rushy bottoms" and/or on #2017 "waterlog place".
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are you including wild deer . . . . in your definition "stock"....
Good point.
If you do, we're on 85% arable production here and 15% wilding already, but never yet claimed a bean of support for it.
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If we knew the answer to that question, glasshouse, it might yet help to solve the Moulin mystery.
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- Location
- South Oxfordshire
Same up here... still in Shropshire!
Rushmoor. Been a battle to stop the pasture living up to it's name as long as I've known it!!
Cow Pasture
Horse Pasture
Clayhorns. Old name meaning, clay field shaped like a Horn!
Boggylands, never was a patch better named....
All been under the plough, most back in grass, or due back under some Stewardship again, if I can wangle it...
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Doesn't sound like Roots land....
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Opposite here Upland but reflected in the namesSame up here... still in Shropshire!
Rushmoor. Been a battle to stop the pasture living up to it's name as long as I've known it!!
Cow Pasture
Horse Pasture
Clayhorns. Old name meaning, clay field shaped like a Horn!
Boggylands, never was a patch better named....
All been under the plough, most back in grass, or due back under some Stewardship again, if I can wangle it...
Hoyland
Royd
Thwaite
Many names ending in stone ie Penistone which is Pen of stones where sheep are sold.
- Location
- South Oxfordshire
A light disc in October. It is some of our lightest gravel land, but this year the water table has often come up through, so can be bottomless. Drill ran fantastically, 116 acres in after 1am start, travelling at 16kph with my JD 6195r. No system disc or anything, just disc coulters.
glasshouse
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- lothians
Have u drilled into frost before?
Is this the voice of dire experience coming to the fore there, perhaps, glasshouse?
Fortunately, it's been drizzling all day with us, so no new drilling done and no 3rd re-drilling yet and, thanks to all the woke objections listed on another thread on this forum, still absolutely no N on here.
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- Location
- South Oxfordshire
Yes, when I had a JD750a. that was into a red sand loam, worked really well. Don't want it too hard frost or it leaves slots.I did the headlands Monday morning, and landwork Tuesday. Looks good this morning.