William Chestnutt

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William Chestnutt

William Chestnutt

@Chestnuttsfarm

Dairy farmer on the picturesque Causeway Coast. Sell milk direct from the farm via vending machine. Newcastle agric, Ulster Rugby fan, MTB mad 🚵‍♂️

Portrush, Northern Ireland Katılım Ekim 2010
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Jerry Moloney
Jerry Moloney@JerryMoloney1·
Anyone have a paddock/field that cows just won’t eat …reseeded this paddock last April ..indexes good ,ph fine not pumped with slurry or chemical fert .cows don’t milk well on it either
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William Chestnutt
William Chestnutt@Chestnuttsfarm·
@sprinkles785 Heard some fool heure in north wales at this carry on this week already @richrobscows1 he’s lucky he’s the other side of the channel or he get a slap 🤪🤪🤪
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Catherine
Catherine@sprinkles785·
I can see it happening … in about 10 days … lads looking for rain 🫣
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William Chestnutt
William Chestnutt@Chestnuttsfarm·
This strikes a chord with me
Jason Mauck@jasonmauck1

Today vs March 21 Little tangent here. Scared dogs don’t make puppies… I’ve been farming my whole life. In 2011 I lost my dad to cancer and the family looked at me to put out the crop. My dad made decisions. He was a leader. When I became responsible to seed, fertilize, spray, etc… 3,000 acres I knew I had 1 talent from when I was a kid. I have a memory like no other. I can tell you what hybrid I plant, pop, rate, day the last 14 years because I am engaged. When everyone was telling me exactly how to do things. I was more curious of what happens when I change a variable here or there. What was the elasticity of that decision or management. In weather forecasting they have a similar system that I was somewhat inspired by called ensemble forecasts where they change variables slightly and see how weather systems behave differently as time progresses. I could lean on my memory. I was bored AF quite honestly to do the same thing over and over again. What happens to corn if you skip a row or 2 or plant it thin or thick? Beans…can you broadcast them? Can you plant wheat with a shit tank? Can you run it over? When it’s 4” tall… what about 6” what about 13” Could you rotationally graze inside a cash crop and empower edge effect elasticity and fertilize simultaneously? It would drive some people crazy as they would wonder if you should plant 160,000 or 176000 beans per acre? What’s the difference…nothing. What’s the difference between 20” corn and 2040” corn? Full season likes the latter….early yields best crowded. Fuck around and Find out isn’t just some tic tok deal. It’s how you don’t become a scared dog. It calms your nerves as most people freak out about things that don’t really matter. Because they never had the balls to try anything else than what their dad did. I always felt like I needed to learn why and how things worked if I was ever going to become a better farmer. What matters are the derivatives, the 1st principles. There is a lot more we can do in production agriculture. It’s not all about winning the yield contest. Sometimes it’s about learning what you don’t need. That creates freedom.

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William Chestnutt
William Chestnutt@Chestnuttsfarm·
@HarbisonHugh I assumed it was a skit “so unless you can get your kids to swim and cycle round all week” is that not what Center parcs is?
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Goulding Soil Nutrition
Goulding Soil Nutrition@Gouldingsfert·
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Stuart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
UK’s equivalent of palm oil. I’ll stick my neck out and say non-under-sown maize is probably the most environmentally damaging crop we currently grow in UK. The soil, and everything applied to it during the growing phase, ending up in our rivers. ☹️
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William Chestnutt
William Chestnutt@Chestnuttsfarm·
@rava_ian Really impressed with Sheridan tonight. McCann had a good night too minus a few penalties but put in a serious shift
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Ian Frizzell
Ian Frizzell@rava_ian·
Two point loss at the end. Might have been better. The missed penalty and the possible try. Coming away with a LBP seemed like a step too far going into the game. The performance though was pretty good. Lots of people who were expecting Connacht to rack up a big score.
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Barry Mullane
Barry Mullane@BarryMullane1·
@TheLooseH Jake Flannery will be 1st choice 10 for Ulster by Christmas.
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Jeff Neville (TLH)
Jeff Neville (TLH)@TheLooseH·
Jake Flannery starting ahead of Billy Burns *and* JJ Hanrahan starting ahead of Jack Carty. Connacht and Ulster resting their first choice tens. Absolutely was not expecting that.
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Joe Stanley
Joe Stanley@JoeWStanley·
@laithafarm @ChrisBrough7 @NFUtweets @RedTractorFood NFU does not own Red Tractor. Assured Food Standards is a not-for-profit company which owns & operates RT. NFU are one of 6 organisations which sit on the ‘Ownership Body’ but have no financial input to or output from RT.
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Charlotte Ashley Farm
Charlotte Ashley Farm@laithafarm·
I am so confused… I never profess to be a clever lass you guys know this but as of yesterday I thought @NFUtweets owned @RedTractorFood how can it be issuing an urgent call when it is the parent company 🤨🤨🤨
Farmers Weekly@FarmersWeekly

🚜 Work on Red Tractor’s planned Greener Farm Commitment is going full steam ahead, despite an urgent call from @NFUtweets to pause implementation of the new bolt-on to its existing standards. READ MORE: fwi.co.uk/business/compl…

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Bill O Keeffe 🐄
Bill O Keeffe 🐄@billokeeffe·
The coolest piece of technology in dairy farming at the moment. Fully autonomous Zerograzer. Finds its way to the paddock. Cuts a set load of grass and feeds it out in the shed, before plugging itself back in. Lucky to see it in person recently.. @lelyrobotman
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William Chestnutt
William Chestnutt@Chestnuttsfarm·
@KevinoHanlon12 I took 6 heifers to a man they were over an hour in the trailer when we let them off at his few of them were mad going after the docs in the field. They weren’t so good that they’d eaten the ones that we have here before they left
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Kevin o Hanlon
Kevin o Hanlon@KevinoHanlon12·
Getting the cows for evening milking and this lady walks up the field and starts looking for doc plants to eat. Rest of herd were gone and she stayed eating on them away for 2-3 min.
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Joe Stanley
Joe Stanley@JoeWStanley·
A must read for anyone interested in, well, our ability to maintain civilisation. Explains in stark detail the cycle of agricultural intensification, soil loss & societal collapse we’ve visited on ourselves for millennia. Deeply unsettling, but important.
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William Chestnutt
William Chestnutt@Chestnuttsfarm·
@richrobscows1 Na for the first 2 months of calving I’d hardly leave the yard. But then I’m 30 years younger than you 🤪
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William Chestnutt
William Chestnutt@Chestnuttsfarm·
@Germinal_Ire @McEvoy_M I’ve wholecrop being cut this week and I would like to direct drill with a MSS is it too late in the season or is this still a good option?
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Germinal Ireland
Germinal Ireland@Germinal_Ire·
Looking for grass and forage answers? Germinal expert Dr Mary McEvoy is hosting a Twitter Q&A on Tuesday 8th August, 1-2 pm. Don’t miss this chance to share the challenges you’re facing and discuss solutions. Simply comment here with your question:
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Richard Kane
Richard Kane@farmerkaney·
The usual shite! 🙄 impossible weather for farming
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