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Put wonderfully! facebook.com/share/r/1CE7qZ…

@willoliver88 It does work…. Came back through the wheat as an understory. Straight white clover. Not as good as grass for travelling on but did a different job.

Grain maize is just around the corner. Clover planted early in the year, has worked well in some places. Be interesting to see how it improves harvest conditions.

@connorTR @JackRobinson80 Buy 2 and weld them together then.

@JackRobinson80 I do think there's an unmentioned and invisible tax on working width! A 6m would be less than half the price

110k (yes ONE HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND POUNDS) for a glorified springtine. Whaaaat🤯🤦🏻‍♂️ 🤷🏻‍♂️

@waddledogie @JackRobinson80 And like mine, doesn’t need new fangled hydraulics to unfold it 👍

@JackRobinson80 @HDLRunciman I also have one, but it’s a quarter of the width, but as your a mate you can have it at 20% of the Vaddy.

Nice little number, even if I do say so myself! Please feel free to share, thank you.

@waddledogie @_James1Phillips 🙋‍♂️

@HDLRunciman @_James1Phillips And when their food sources dry up, because of over predation, guess who will get the blame for falling numbers?

Spring 2024 and I’m not seeing any breeding Lapwing anywhere. This iconic bird seems to have been airbrushed from farmland across Southern England. What was once a classic #farmlandbird has now all but disappeared from the wider countryside. This is so sad 😔 What’s going on?

@waddledogie @_James1Phillips Not to mention c. the massive increase in raptors…

@_James1Phillips Lapwing were my bird of choice, 20 years ago nest everywhere. Now since the a. Crows are left unchecked and b. Badgers are also unchecked my poor lap wings don’t stand a chance. As farmers we do more than you will ever know to protect vulnerable species.

@waddledogie @JackRobinson80 And mud!

@JackRobinson80 A liberal dollop of irony

Top of the shop at Alp d’ Huez today. Stunning week away, dawn to dusk sunshine. Promise I’ll try bring some back in the boot.. Highly recommend this place for families, Something for everyone. Even has the longest black in Europe apparently 👌🏼⛷️☀️☹️

Think the water tables up…

@HannahVCooper @nfueast @NFUtweets What do you need. DM me as may be able to help too…

‼️Farmers help needed‼️🚜 I'm looking for farmers who are growing any non-cereal crops in and around the area below. Looking to take a couple of soil samples in return for free analysis 😀 please retweet 🔃 share and get in touch! @nfueast @NFUtweets

@DaveGoulson @angusgowthorpe @OrgResCent @PAN_UK @WildlifeTrusts Take a look at a well known flea spot on treatment for cats and dogs? Look at the active ingredient and that may give some direction…

@angusgowthorpe @OrgResCent @PAN_UK @WildlifeTrusts No idea, theories welcome!

These rivers have all tested +ve for thiamethoxam since 2020 (data from Env Agency). This neonicotinoid was banned in Europe in 2018, but is allowed on sugar beet crops in UK. That is its only authorised use. Yet it is turning up in rivers all over the place... Hugely concerning.

@adam_farming I made a rake out of an old cultivator frame and used following harrow tines from a rapid… but then found I did a better job with the triple K spread straw a bit better and if you needed to drop it a bit deeper you could.

@adam_farming Why not just a triple k? Cheap quick and you can go as shallow as you like? Or change the tines to straw rake tines and just be a bit more aggressive on the grass.

@carlsayerUCL @RiverGlaven @VolkerFitzUK @Orsted @EnvAgencyAnglia The @EnvAgency did nothing about the the dudgeon cable from Sheringham shoel to Necton, washing soil into the wensun tributaries, What would have been said if a farmer had done this?… #iftheshoesontheotherfoot

This is the @riverglaven at Thornage Mill following mass soil loss to river from the @VolkerFitzUK @Orsted cable works. An ecological disaster. Spawning gravels now under >0.5 m of silt. Please stop this @EnvAgencyAnglia. I used to fish here as a little boy. I am broken by this.

@jimclark67crop @SpudSlingsby And big isn’t always beautiful

@SpudSlingsby No just big does not mean bad

Why do you think big farms have poor practices it’s the other way round but you are correct arable farms have grown into large units and livestock will follow

@JackRobinson80 @farmfletcher New sideline in rice…

@farmfletcher Nicely watered in Mark 🥴

On the plus side the wheat looks like running at 20 ducks to the acre #StormBabet 45mm and counting

@sussexfarming Yes….. it’s called what’s over the hedge syndrome…

Luckily only a few percent of the harvest ended up like this but it could off been 50% or more! Farmers have more options than ever not to take the risk. Do machinery manufacturers really think people will keep buying new machinery at 30-40% more than it was 10 years ago?

@Seb_eds @ListerLawrence #financefreefarming

@ListerLawrence Have you also popped back to the early 2000’s to get your ag contractor?

It’s the 2nd cut of the year and the 5th of my farming career today! 🙌

@ARoss_farm @PeterMedler1 And the straw cleared 👌

@PeterMedler1 Same here! 👍

Pleased to get the winter barley done last night before another 10mm of rain!!☔️