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Introducing Laying Hen Housing for Health and Welfare grants Written by The Team Credit: Matt Cartney. Crown Copyright. Next month, a new grant for hen housing will be available to laying hen and pullet farmers in England with flocks of 1,000 birds or more. We've just published the guidance...

We have taken on some adjoining grazing land that has no water. A possibility is pumping from the brook approx 80 m across our existing field to the new field. There is a slight incline - not steep as this is a brook meadow we're going across. Would a 2" petrol water pump to an IBC work ? We...

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...

Anyone having trouble getting on? Website won't seem to work over the weekend and again today... Not sure if it's my phone or?

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...

Been having some very weird issues today when drilling with the autosteer... Solar storm issues I am guessing as not seen this before...

Northern lights are phenomenal tonight, go outside if you are still awake.

We are in a position of getting a fair bit of hot water periodically from a modest but successful solar thermal set up, Generating it is easy from our panel In the sun of a day but storing overnight with minimal loss for maybe a grey er day next morning is the challenge. How do you insulate...

What’s all this moaning I’ve been hearing on lambing conditions down south this year? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/26/cold-weather-april-all-in-your-head-met-office/#:~:text=The%20UK%20mean%20temperature%20for,as%20a%20cold%20month%20meteorologically”.

Recently set up a new ltd company for a solar development. We’ve leased the land and get a rent dependent on the amount of electric sold. The land used is owned privately and not in the company. Do I need insurance? There’s two directors who are family members. My current insurers are telling me...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/05/07/italy-bans-pv-from-agricultural-land/

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) has launched a new creative campaign for the Royal Highland Show – ‘The Royal Highland Ohh!’. The campaign aims to highlight the “unexpected elements” of the Royal Highland Show, which...

Hello from the northern U.S.. Spring is just getting started here. Grass is greening up nicely and some early leaves are poking out of the trees. Almost done with calving. My wife and I raise beef cattle in Minnesota and would love to travel to the UK someday. How realistic would it be for us...

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...

Got the email saying Groundswell tickets are on sale. Been to it since the start, but £250 for 2 days entry and camping is a bit on the steep side. Much though I love going probably going to give it a miss this year.

Iv got a farm stock solar fencer. Few questions as instructions not great. Charger for battery says green light means charged and red empty. But when charging it’s green and a flashing red. Does this mean charging or fully charged ? I tested with my tester straight onto the clip and it’s saying...

I have 3x 15kw turbines, producing around 90000kw intotal per year. Feed in tarriff runs for another 8 years and i think there is maybe a way i can replace them or add another to max out my feed in tarriff payment. Is this a thing? So 45 (kw site) x 24 (hours in the day) x 366 (days in year) =...

Morning All we are looking to put in a substantial planning application for a new milking parlour, collecting yard and handling facilities. What makes the application strong? Its a large building that for cow flow juts out of our site which will make it quite noticeable. I've read through the...

Lower Pertwood Farm near Warminster, a 2800 acre downland arable, sheep, and cattle unit is to be all reverted back to grassland, with trees planted and lightly grazed with cattle, sheep, horses and pigs. I can't do links, but perhaps somebody will, just google 'Lower Pertwood Farm rewilding'...