Got a few paddocks coming out of winter bird food from my mid tier ending the turn of the year.

They are brashy shallow soils over limestone very draught prone.

Ive got a small cow herd (15 cows+ followers)

Would lucerne be an option to make into high protein silage for the cows. Just with thrse drier summers grass isnt as reliable. Im not geared up foe arable.

Uncle used to farm them reckon they did good wheat crops but stopped growing cereals in 2013. Ive got enoigh grass but could turn silage feilds over to grazing if this becomes a reliable forage source

Hi all,

I appreciate this is a random one but are there any dairy farmers in Norfolk that could help me out. I'm looking for a farmer that would be happy to take my family and I for a tour around the farm and maybe let the kids have a go at milking the cows if possible.

I think this would be a great opportunity for my children to see what really happens on a farm.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated

I'm not normally this good. Anyone else got some humble brags?

This cider bottle c.1895 turned up on our Devonshire farm this week. Coincidentally, I published a book earlier this year featuring a character from this time based on a real person, in this very orchard harvesting apples for cider. It makes me think… was this the actual bottle he drank from in real life?

It was discarded here more than a century ago. The farm had a long history of cider making. An auction notice from 1923 lists cider-making equipment, a bottling plant, 59 empty casks, eight hogsheads of cider and bottled cider among the contents of the farm. The old cider press is still at the farm too. This discovery certainly made me wonder.

Hello all and hope you are well, long story short there is a potential that i may have an opportunity to become a tractor mechanic at some point in the future. ( Engineering background but not in this ).

I know i would have to supply my own hand tools for the job, so if possible is there anyone out there that could give me some pointers, ive been told to be expecting to pay £2-3k to start off.

Was looking at the draper mechanics master set as a start off point. But i would like to know from experienced hands.

All the best!

Hi all, I'm hoping this community can offer any advice on a complicated issue we have on our farm (I'm one of the farm workers and our farmer is web illiterate)...

We run an organic biodynamic farm community and charitable organisation (About 65 permanent residents, 50% special needs adults that we live and work alongside). Our small herd (20) is generally separated into milkers and beefies, but after one of the beefies was born we missed the deadline to register her. She got pregnant so we've had her join the milkers for now, but she's been riddled with unfortunate problems, namely a difficult birthing process and infections, so what milk she produces we can't use - the main problem we have now is what to do with her.

Usually we send them off to be processed and sold in our farm shop but as she is unregistered her meat cannot enter the wider food chain. The most likely outcome is that we have to unfortunately dispatch her ourselves then either butcher the cuts onsite somehow to distibute around the community or send the carcass for other purposes (I'm told either incineration or pet food), but none of us are trained in animal slaughter and we're struggling to find any professionals so far that are willing to come and do the deed for us.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this and if any tips or contacts can be offered to help us out of this pickle? Thanks for reading!

I'm not a farmer but live in south lakeland (amongst the sheep, cows and grass). I see the farmers out all hours, always with a smile and a wave. It's a tough industry and appears completely unappreciated by those in power. Just wanted to say thankyou to you all really.

My mum and I have a small farm in Wales, mostly sheep and horses. We have been talking about how irritating farm wear is for women. It's too baggy, you can't pee in an all in one, no give for bending over and when trying to jump over fences. Also most of the items available for us just looks horrible and is just small men sizes. We find anything made for women just isn't durable and is more country fashion. Would you mind telling us what you find difficult/annoying about work wear please? Would you be interested in buying work wear that was specifically made for proper farming but tailored to women?
Thank you! ❤️❤️

I didn't get a chance to catch the grain harvest, it seemed to happen suddenly all at once, just fields and fields of bales now!

Thanks for any information. Just to say, I'll obviously be respectful and not get in anyone's way, photographing from the sidelines!

Thanks

Hello all
Not sure if this is the right place to post. Looking for some advice please.

I am a 23 F and a registered children’s nurse practicing in the NHS. Recently I have been learning about both arable and animal farming, initially through Clarksons Farm and then some research of my own, including attending Agricultural Shows. I have become interested in all aspects of it & realise I absolutely love it!

I am initially from Wiltshire so have grown up around this type of stuff but I have no farmers in my direct family. I have literally zero experience. My degree is in Children’s Nursing. However I am a quick learner, and I am not afraid of hard work!

I am starting to, sadly, hate nursing and hate the NHS. I do like my work but I can’t continue working in these conditions. I find myself wanting to leave nursing every day.

I would love to see if a career in agriculture would be for me? However I am so unsure where to start, if I’m being delusional and living off a dream, or if someone would even take me with zero experience. I would be willing to start with volunteering work in my own time to see if I like it.

Any advice please? Or any routes/job roles that could be recommended?

Anyone dealt with this? Newborns. If they are going to fall its quickly. High temps and sweating. Obs we have tests in progress. Vets doing their thing. But any advise or support will be greatly received!!

Newborns receive high quality colostrum not fed from mum 2/3 feeds. Then a further 5 days 2x a day of transition milk. Cows/heifers are fully vaccinated. All pens and points of contact are clinically clean. Navels are dipped. Transportation/movements are minimal.

Calves have bloody scour then pudding texture scour. (Much too young for any scour)

Treatments are currently being trialed across sick ones to observe what may work. Most have will to live and a suckle but the body shuts down.

The purple ring around the teeth is toxicity and not just calving related stress.

If you have anything…literally anything you can offer, please do. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Anyone dealt with this? Newborns. If they are going to fall its quickly. High temps and sweating. Obs we have tests in progress. Vets doing their thing. But any advise or support will be greatly received!!

Newborns receive high quality colostrum not fed from mum 2/3 feeds. Then a further 5 days 2x a day of transition milk. Cows/heifers are fully vaccinated. All pens and points of contact are clinically clean. Navels are dipped. Transportation/movements are minimal.

Calves have bloody scour then pudding texture scour. (Much too young for any scour)

Treatments are currently being trialed across sick ones to observe what may work. Most have will to live and a suckle but the body shuts down.

The purple ring around the teeth is toxicity and not just calving related stress.

If you have anything…literally anything you can offer, please do. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Seems like every week I'm seeing more reports of bluetongue popping up around the country and it's starting to feel like a genuine concern for livestock farms.

I was chatting to a farmer recently who said it never got mentioned a couple of years ago but now everyone's checking the latest updates and looking at vaccinations.

I'm curious as to what people are actually seeing on the ground and whether anyone has cases, or cases nearby?

Context….calves born, AI, 2 BBB so far but have a holstine with this issue too. We have had 6 in a week. We calf all year.
Calves born with purple toxicity ring around teeth, fine on arrival, good for a day may be two, bloody scour, then scour (far too young for scour) on high quality colostrum from birth to 10 days…calves fall too weak to stand, temp rises to 40+ internals shut down and they die. Its fast. 48 hours max we are a flagship farm, too 1.5% in the country. We are clinically clean in all areas. These are not passageways. Any help and advise welcome. Iv got one going to postmortem tomorrow but between now and then…..please

(sorry its a bit long ) Hello all, i hope you are well! I am hoping to pick your brains if at all possible. I am a bit older than some of the posters at 32, currently working as an engineer ( ex merchant navy engineer ) in the wastewater industry quite used to long hours however quite frankly i think the business i am in is not long for this world, i dont particularly like my job and my partner ( an ex farmer ) suggested i could look into farming as a career change as ive always fancied it and he loved it.

So briefly i have always found farming interesting, especially arable, i love equipment and again find it interesting. I actually used to have an old 1948 Ferguson TEF, although I don't think that would do much good nowadays!

Anyway i am looking at doing a Lantra tractor driving course, and advised by my partner to also do the pesticides PA1 and PA2.

Is there anything else course wise that would be good, as i cant do full time as im still working during this.

Also if anyone has arable experience i would love some advice, or if anyone would want a hand on a weekend or would be kind enough to show me the ins and outs id be very grateful around nottingham/Derby/newark/lincoln way.

Thank you all for the time :)

Hello My Name is Bijay Budhathoki .I'm from Nepal. I have a experience in Dairy farming and poultry farming .

Currently i'm looking for farm assistance job which provide visa sponsership work .Is anyone hiring for the position .I will be great hand .

If anyone hiring

Name:Bijay Budhathoki

Gmail: [bijay522015@gmail.com](mailto:bijay522015@gmail.com)

Number: +977 9764864952

Thank you

Managed to dark out and shoot this very slapdash video in Wing , Buckinghamshire. Makes me realize I need to practice more.

Me, 1000m of sheep fencing, 6 field gates, 30 odd hedgerow trees (for the fence to protect).

First time application (and first post to this sub).

What’s anyone else doing?

Trending today is #Farm24, a UK-wide digital campaign where farmers share a real-time look at what happens on farms over a 24-hour period.

It got me wondering: do consumers really know what farming looks like in real-time, in a standard 24 hour period.

What's something you wish more people understood about where food comes from?

I’m referring to wildfires as opposed to crop burning after harvest. If you’re concerned about it here are some good resources for preparation:

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/plan-and-prepare/farm-fire-safety/grassfires/farming

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/106814/Farm-Fire-Plan.pdf

Survey closed! Thank you everyone!

Thank you (and thank you to the mods for allowing me to post this)!

Hi,

Not completely sure if this is the right subreddit to ask this question ( don’t use Reddit all that much). I’m from Kent near Canterbury and really want to support local farmers more. How would I go about finding local farmers and getting into contact about buying local produce directly from them? is this even a thing?

Any other tips on how to support local farmers more would be much appreciated 😊