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A farm open day in Gloucestershire on 29 May will offer arable farmers a low cost entry to finishing beef cattle with free on-call advisory support and minimum guaranteed payment terms at the outset. One of the open day organisers is Buitelaar Group, the “bed and breakfast” beef finishing...

Managing a small herd of longhorns here.Lovely quiet cows untill they have a calf, then it's as if a switch has been flicked and they suddenly become possessed by the devil. This of course then becomes exacerbated when you have calves that don't suck; big traffic cone tits to latch onto; tagging...

I've tried searching around and haven't found anything in the TFF annals so here we go! We have about 25 acres of woodland on our patch. Some of it very mature and a small but expanding area of natural regenerative woodland and some acres of steep, gorse and bramble covered ground. After years...

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Apologies if this has been covered before, but I am interested to know if anybody out there (in the UK that is, sorry not trying to alienate anybody else) is genuinely mob-grazing sheep on tall grass or other covers? It seems that many people are trying it to some degree, but I cannot find...

Is the Livestock sector, especially sheep and beef at a significant crossroads? The present long overdue higher prices for sheep may not mean that there will be an increase in production. Statistically there will be a significantly lower lamb crop this year, so it is likely that prices will...

Put in 5 acres forage rape, plough, rolled, combi drill. Not a big job to roll it but is it worth it?

Hi, Pretty much brand new to farming so please don't rip me to shreds! I grow barley and oats for cattle consumption. Currently have 4 arable fields in either barley or oats. Is it feasible to rotate consistently between these two crops over these fields or should I be putting in another break...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland By Chris McCullough An ambitious young couple milking 350 sheep in Greece have future plans not only to expand the flock, but to improve their genetics by precision breeding. Situated at the foot of Mount Olympus, close to the town of Elassona, is...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The 2024 spring planting and grass-cutting season is now well underway in the south Antrim area, according to one agricultural contractor. Darren Russell is part of the Russell Brothers team. The business works out of premises close to the village of...

Hello, i’ve just gotten a 2,40 m wide disc mower without a conditioner. I’ve also gotten an old Orkel baler (the one that has an integrated forage harvester instead of a pickup, GP1202). This means that the baler can’t handle too much grass at once. By collecting the grass after the mower, i...

worst I've seen here for years, reckon the rain made autumn sprays short lived and broadway star seems to have done very little this spring Rye grass and not blackgrass thankfully, but 2024 is certainly not a year where its easy to take a lot of pride in a farm Is it just me or are others...

I know there was a thread running about this company last year, wondered if anyone else has seen their advert on Facebook

Homozygous and Heterozygous polled pedigree bulls for sale. From ready to work, semen tested to yearlings. Hi health herd, tb accreditation scheme Forage diet, not been pushed. The Bulls that are ready to work have been blood screened for johnes, bvd, ibr + lepto. Tb1 area Herefordshire...

What is everyone thinking on this? I have winter triticale for AD being foraged in June, so was always planning to do a summer cover crop with legumes infront of the following wheat. There is now talk of SFI payments for this scenario which is another bonus. My initial thoughts were something...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Representatives of Farmers for Action (FFA) have discussed the Gosling Report with members of the Stormont Agriculture Committee. The publication, commissioned by FFA and produced by independent economist, Paul Gosling, assesses the current state of...

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RABDF Down to Earth, the regenerative livestock farming event, will be hosted at a housed cow unit for the second year in a row; cows milked 3x per day, I understand it to be "high input, high output". Not knocking confinement systems, but can this system really be regenerative? I believe that...

I have 90acres of 1st cut silage to sell to a dairy farm about 2 miles up the road, i have no idea what to charge him for it, what is the going rate per acre for silage? Its very good quality 2yr old lay, he will do all the contracting work so that wont be in the price

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Crop establishment has been a challenge over the past few months and with the difficult conditions, has come a new appreciation of the plough, as farmers fall back on this well-proven implement to get crops planted. The debate as to whether it actually...