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Looking to change our pickup,we currently have a manual l200 but the gearing is quite high especially when starting on a hill with 60 spring lambs in a Gamic tri axle livestock trailer.So we are considering an Auto and I was wondering what the pros and cons are.We are looking at a Ranger,Hi Lux...

Looking about for a decent sh trailer. 12 or 14ft. Wheels on outside. Got to have good sheep decks. What's the better trailer? Anything for sale that's not in Scotland...

I've had my daily text come through from my feed rep to say hipro soya is £408/t for november/December contract Would it be ridiculous for me to contract 3kg/cow for september-april? It seems a bloody good price to me...

Never owned or driven a john deere in my life. Looking at a second hand one 2018 with jd loader 3000 hrs power quad transmission 115min/l. What are these tractors like ? Are they reliable? Good on a loader? Stable on a slope?

I have the opportunity of some fenced and watered grazing FOC by a country house hotel. They are adamant they must be photogenic breed that the guests can enjoy looking at as well as tasting good on the plate. They are especially keen on Highland cattle or Belted Galloways. Does anyone have...

Just got my soil samples back, heavy clay now herbal leys. high mag, high ph (if you believe that) great OM, calcium, potassium CEC. but P index 1. i do have a lot of fym which will get spread. what does anyone use to effectively up their levels

Just had a bill from our local tyre place, new tyre for our topper, which is what we expected but then a charge of £60 for disposal of the old tyre and the same amount for the old tube ! Now before I go in and make a fool of myself.......does anyone think they have made a mistake? The new tyre...

Does anybody run a spinning disc muckspreader? I have been offered some chicken manure that I could have spread on some of my crops and the only way to do it properly is through a spinning disc spreader. Before I accept the manure I could do with knowing how much I would be charged by a...

My Cvx 230 is my ploughing/Trio tractor and after just 2700hrs the Michelin Mach bibs are down to 20% mainly because in life before me it dragged a 21t digger around at 35psi. Anyways 650/75 r38 Michelin £3900 Vredstein £2700 BKT £1375 Front 600/65 r38 have similar pricing. Am I going to be...

some pretty generous grants about, all seemingly based on reducing out put. we know from sheep and cattle prices, numbers are short, if they were not, prices wouldn't be where they are. the world is getting more dangerous by the day. And yet, politicians here, from all parties, think we can...

Hi Just wondering what people’s thoughts on Cheviot mules, quite a lot of people seem to be getting them now and iv got the chance of a batch of shearlings, currently on NoE mules, will the cheviots be as good lambing? Similar milk ? And as good mothers not had anything to do with them? Any...

Have got upto 300 acres of cover crop that can be grazed 15th august-31st October, looking to get sheep on tack shepherded by myself. Please message if you are interested or know of anyone interested. Oxfordshire/South Warwickshire border. Also what do people think it is worth? Cheers

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Openfield Group has teamed up with Voltloader to trial fully electric trucks in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. The partnership will see grain loads moved from Openfield member farm gates to consumer customers using an all-electric fleet, which is...

Bit confused just been listening to the woman from QMS on the fed by farmers podcast and she was talking about halal slaughter being stunned first when I always thought halal slaughter protocol was that it wasn't allowed to be stunned first and had to have it's throat slit and hung to bleed out...

I expect my staff to take a 30mins dinner break at noon. Which is unpaid. Is this reasonable? If we are busy and they don't stop I pay them.

Always had ground limestone spread before. Anyone used granulated lime? What are the pro's and cons? I guess it is a more expensive product but surely there is a gain in being able to spread yourself when you want and ease of handling.

In broadest terms , how much would it cost please ?

Matt baker program offering a tenancy on a NT farm northumberland

I thought I did on the Sainted Isle but that seems to no longer be the case … Recently, we tendered and won a block of 70ac on the outskirts of a village and accessed by a lane with houses off. I said to son after we’d walked the land that if we won, there would be trouble…… and yesterday we...

With the way things are and no improvement on the horizon ,how long will it be before a huge dealer shuts up shop.they mostly got very large expensive premises and massive stocks of parts and machines but they will be suffering the same as the smaller dealers.seems to be a weekly occurrence of...