Tim Gowling

@cutlerstom I think your being a bit hasty! We’ve only had a few dry days we had flooding a week ago. Are you drilling with the GD?

Worms have been busy. But the sheep have left this field ex cover crop very wet ontop, which is not the result I was hoping for.

@honeymoon250 Been using one this morning but a 2 man one with 4 handles. We call it the man killer

I bet no one knows what is this

@ThrimbyFarms @cattlefinishers These are the ones we have made by tjc engineering Ltd. We told him what we wanted and this is what he made

Farmers of X… I’m looking for feed barriers that are universal for cattle and sheep. Easy to change around. Has anyone come across some or have any ideas? Thanks in advance… Please share. Photo for attention.

@farmboy1060 @ClaydonDrill @chandlersfe @SOYLprecision Is that a 4m rigid?

Thats a wrap for Autumn drilling. A big thank you to @chandlersfe for keeping the wheels turning @SOYLprecision for technical help on v rate stuff and as always the @ClaydonDrill has done its thing. W bean companion crop drilled down the leg for #SFI24

@FarmerSimonC What was the cover crop? When were they grazed and what type of sheep and were they on it all or strip grazed

2. Autumn ploughed, power harrowed to level in spring, losing moisture, 75% germination then the rest came slowly after rain which was suppressed by beetle. Grew with high vigour, 5 ins taller than elsewhere and more branching, 2.1 t/ha

A tale of 3 linseed crops 1. Sheep grazed cover crop, left in one day too long after rain. Water stood rest of winter, had to surface cultivate, lost moisture, slow emergence, decimated by flax beetle. Disaster, 0.75 t/ha.

@mcfwill What are the drains like? If it’s wet it will lay cold and not grow early in the spring if it has any modern drains in it mole draining will transform it. After drainage lime then p+k

Often wonder what the place would of been like when this oak was a sapling or being in nasby parish if it was here at the time of the battle

@farmermat1 Poor you I bet that’s a real drag with lambs at £9/kg 🤣🤣🤣

And the weighing begins again

@mcfwill Try vitamin B1 also as said metacam and penn strep etc

@farmermat1 We had to empty pens into straw yards in the night several nights this week and still had them all up the ally ways etc. 💤

30 empty pens to get us through the night 😬🤞🐑

@RTKfarmer @AtGardiner

@AtGardiner Go out on a damp night with a torch and you’ll see them stretched out collecting. They do bolt in very quickly however.

I found lots of these little heaps of straw in direct drilled osr. Is it worms that do this?

@SpudSlingsby Same principle at auto cast rape if you think about it. Take crop off place the seed and chop straw over it to keep moisture in 👍👍

Trash control and direct drilling #holdmybeer

@farmermat1 We looked at one but was far too narrow for what I wanted we bought a teagle 8500 and put 2 120x70 bales in it side by side. I just dislike the electric controls I could feed it in far better with cable controls

Weekend demo

New case of blue tongue

@No1FarmerJake @FavColour_Green @fyfe_callum

Calling all local #hedglayers fancy tackling this beauty conservation style? There’s 1km to do this winter @FavColour_Green

@CammockSalers I’d look at drainage and maybe mole drain into drains and then test the ph

Any views on why this field struggles to grow. Plenty of p patches from where cows have left deposits. So maybe locking up p for some reason. Its gone very yellow like it's water stressed... otherwise pH and nutrient applied as per. Adjacent field is our most productive.

@panotiller @FthomasTcs @john_kutz3 @FLOLOfarms EI tv cjj k esffcccccvvvvxzcffgggvvvvv jq X🐆

#relaycroppping hit a home run in 2023 I'm not inventor of this just following in the foots of the great @john_kutz3 and @FLOLOfarms Things just clicked.. Will probably never happen again

@FarmerSimonC I’m finding the same I think I put a lot of it down to better seed to soil contact especially where the Cambridge rolls turn causing a twisting action very like putting twisting your foot on a clod of soil

I have been trying to understand why my crops are so much better on the headlands for a while now. Better consolidation seems to create a better environment for plants to grow. Look at these tractor wheelings from harrowing in, Jan drilled wheat, the same effect.

@RTKfarmer We’ve got one for bagging sheep feed. I’m not entirely sure they are strong enough to be bounced about on the loader too much though for drill filling.

Came across these today. Perfect for filling drills with a vertical open lid as some Avatars and others have as the outlet is at the front not middle. Waterproof lids too. mcaree-eng.com/products/v-mac…

@cutlerstom Sorry my mistake I’ve zoomed in and can see the leaves now.

@tim_gowling It’s phacelia, not thistle

If you are going to have a cropping disaster, at least if it’s beside a footpath everyone can laugh at the cock up, then enjoy the alternative afterwards!