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The Wighton won its class, the Binham Blue runner up in Stilton country!

I see you have chosen a piece of Wighton, our first cheese which I started selling on Farmers Markets 23 years ago. We had the cheesemaker's AGM at Bath Soft cheese a couple of years ago.

We recently had to upgrade our HH meter (200A 3ph supply, import/export) to upgrade from 3G to 4G. For the comms to work, we have to put the antenna on a pole about 5 m above ground level.

Please test your questionnaire before publishing. The question which asks whether you have a bill for heating, and if you say no the next question asks to upload the bill, and will not proceed without an upload. The question on percentage fertiliser as synthetic or organic does not say whether...

Never worked for us, now using a little urea down the spout which seems to be working well.

Mark trades as Avocet Farming

Also Mark Gill at Coston, or Goffs at Elmham

Try Algy Garrod at Bintree, he did some for us a few years ago.

Uses a special oil for gas engines. With an extended sump we get about 1300 hours out of the oil, sampled at each oil change. We change heads every 28,000 hours as they tend to suffer from valve seat recession. It is a 12 litre block.

Service exchange for our CHP engine which has done 112,000 hrs built 2010. This one is even older, not sure how many hours but the block is 2007, remanufactured by MAN and just delivered from the Netherlands to be swapped on Monday. Not a cheap service option, but cheaper and quicker than having...

New to us, destined for the scraper. It looks a bit clean and tidy for that, but I could not find anything else 2 wheel drive and reasonably priced. We have given it a new seat, door latch and gas strut, and front wheel bearings as well as oil change and filters.

Mrs sjt01 is making preparations to attend Melton Mowbray cheese fair at the weekend. Please drop by and say hello if you are around. https://www.meltonfestivals.co.uk/artisan-cheese-fair/ It's a grand day out with drinks, streetfood and music- sometimes there's even a breakdancing pastor!

After a cut of Westerwolds and ryegrass drilled after barley harvest last year, applied composted FYM and liquid digestate before drilling maize.

If we have nothing growing for a month before drilling, we have to cultivate

Your last year's setup looks like a Concept. We had to take off the front rectangular plates either side of the tines as the cover crop sladed up on them. We are very pleased with the first season with it.