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Funding available for nutrient management solutions Written by Joss Wallace With good nutrient management, farmers and growers can increase their productivity and protect the environment too. Nutrient management involves using either organic or manufactured nutrients as efficiently as...

How do people judge if it’s weather this thing and hard start to life for them affecting them or underlying issues ? Been white dosed and got cocci dose about 2 weeks ago going by vet advice and the nemo risk forecast

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland Farmer Derek Dyer contaminated a private water supply and polluted a stream after a slurry store built from farmyard manure collapsed. In a case brought by the Environment Agency, Dyer, aged 74, of Crawley Farm, Yarcombe near Honiton, received a community...

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

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland The quality of a company’s product emerging from its factory will depend on several factors, and cost is not always the major item. What is most important, is the desire to make something that will work as it should, and for a long period of time...

Long report on today Scheduled 1830, 2130 + SAT 1030 and 1230

Just had a text from APHA congurming BSE found in Ayrshire Stand by for a bumpy ride

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) has issued a crop management update, covering cereals and potatoes. Crops specialist, Leigh McClean, said: “Frustratingly, spring weather has limited opportunities to get spray and...

Heavy ground is ploughing up badly. Looks alot of work getting into a seedbed. I reckon I could get a better seedbed with cultivator/disc then power harrowing twice. Min-till maize a good idea. Usually would have Subsoiler but I image will only smear it

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...

I want to tidy up my silage fields , docks thistles ,, what do you recommend chem wise , docks will be the worst ..

Interesting to hear your thoughts! We have some sappy first cut, will be tedding behind mower.

1 block of land has a really good spot to film aeroplanes from. Never bothered me until these live streamers turned up. I guess the spotters just did it for there own use. Now almost every day there is someone there filming putting it on YouTube for over a thousand people to see live while I...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) has put together its management tips for farmers as slurry tanks on many farms “remain full” following the prolonged wet spell. According to CAFRE, farmers in zones 1 and 2 of Northern...

We are going to install a tank to provide pressurised water to our 100 dairy cows, youngstock and plate cooler. If possible we would like to feed about 5 troughs on a grazing block from the pump (600m of 32mm pipework already in place) what pump would people recommend? 3 phase is available of...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Fleming Agri Products Ltd. from Derry may not normally hit the headlines every five minutes with new product launches, yet that does not mean that this 160-year-old company has little to offer farming. Indeed, quite the opposite is the case, for what...

Our milking parlour reception pit currenty gets emptied with the slurry tanker. We have a under ground store which we put it in over the summer. A pump would be so much easier. 2.5m deep tank PTO pump at ground level (self priming) and a 4m lift 30m accross the yard. The issue is the tank...

Bit of a long shot. Got an old slurry pump that just pumps dirty water. Coupler on the bottom just died. Any idea what make it is TIA

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland The FSP (Farm Safety Partnership) has raised serious concerns over the recent decision by the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) to halt farm safety inspections. The FSP fears that the decision will pose significant risks to the health and safety of...

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