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There is a lot of perfectly good science going to waste out there in the countryside. For instance, the first thing someone should have done the last few years is to clone Honest RC, The Farmer's Friend from Beginning to End. One copy of him is not enough.
Straw demand outstrips hay at winter sales
Demand for big bale straw remains strong, but there appears to be less buying interest for hay, according to reports from two recent sales
A wet and windy May will fill the barns with corn and hay - Cows 365 Blog - FWispace
Travelled up from Roscrea to County Laois to one of the best Limousin breeders in the British isles. The stock here are excellent. Today we were scanning
Wheat straw outshines barley at Berks auction
Wheat straw was in hot demand at a recent hay and straw sale at Newbury in Berkshire
Standing straw auctions set the trend
One of the first main standing straw sales in the south west set an expensive marker when Kivells & Husseys sold almost 2,400 acres of wheat, barley and oat straw recently.
First standing crop auctions to test straw market
Standing straw auctions begin from 30 June in Herefordshire and Welsh border counties with Sunderlands & Thompsons, which expects to sell about 2,000ha (5000 acres) of standing wheat, barley, rape and bean haulm this season.
Record prices at hay and straw auction
The first of four annual hay, straw and fodder auctions held by Tayler & Fletcher of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds has seen record prices achieved for all commodities
HARVEST GOING OK - SO FAR (David's Digest)
I don't want to tempt fate by bragging about harvest progress and there's a lot more still to do. Further, the forecast for Thursday is wet again. However, I remain astounded by how much can be done in a short...
MAKING HAY (David's Digest)
Believe it or not our wheats are still not fit to combine. Some are getting close but most have ears sticking straight up mixed in with those curled over like a shepherds crook. What's worse, we have fields where one...
EARLY START TO WHEAT HARVEST (David's Digest)
Wheat on this farm is seldom fit to combine before mid August. But when I rubbed out a sample on our first drilled field yesterday morning it was 16% moisture and looked like it would thresh. So, at lunchtime we...
