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HEAD TO HEAD

● Barclay and Reed in election battle ● Leaders outline priorities for farming

By Rachael Brown and Alex Black AS Rishi Sunak and Kier Starmer gear up for an election later this year, the fight for the rural vote was also heating up as the Defra Secretary, and the man looking to take his job, spoke at the Oxford Farming Conference.

Defra Secretary Steve Barclay insisted Defra was listening to farmers with its latest update to the Sustainable Farming Incentive, while Shadow Defra Secretary Steve Reed promised ‘a new deal for farmers’ (see page 8).

The Prime Minister said it was his ‘working assumption’ he would call a General Election in the second half of the year.

But Mr Starmer said the country was ready now, with Labour well ahead in the polls.

The latest voting intention poll

by YouGov and The Times showed the Conservatives behind on 22 per cent of the vote with Labour at 46 per cent.

The Liberal Democrats have 10 per cent of the vote, but leader Ed Davey has faced calls to quit.

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Steve Barclay

As the ITV drama on the Post Office scandal highlighted a major miscarriage of justice, the Liberal Democrats have defended Mr Davey’s actions when he served as Postal Affairs Minister between 2010 and 2012, accusing opponents

Steve Reed

of using the scandal as a political football.

Reform UK was polling at 9 per cent, with the Greens on 7 per cent and the Scottish National Party at 3 per cent of the overall UK vote.

There was less fire in the race for

the top job at the NFU, with Tom Bradshaw revealed as the sole candidate in this year’s election, but more competition for the other officeholder roles (see p9).

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Celebrating the diversity of the farming indu Red Tractor saga continued to rumble on.

Former serviceman’s journey into farming. See p92-93.

INSIDE

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NEWS

Livestock sector at risk from border ‘apathy’

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LETTERS BUSINESS

Oxford Farming Conference looks at ‘broken’ supply chain

GLOBAL AG VIEW

Pork welfare law takes effect in California

FARM PROFILE

Family’s South Devon devotion spans generations

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Oxford Real Farming Conference takes a deep dive into biological and regenerative practices

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Beltex realise 1,800gns at J36

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Polaris Ranger: How the petrol and diesel options measure up

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Taking an ‘environmentally sensitive’ approach to sulphur

Arable

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SHEEP AND LAMBING

Supplementing trace elements for nursing ewes

82 WORKING DOGS Tom Huddleston and Lidl secure third title

84 MARKET PRICES 92 FARMING: THE BACKBONE OF BRITAIN

How a former serviceman was helped to get into farming

94 IN YOUR FIELD 94 WEATHER 95 CROSSWORD 96 FARMING MATTERS

‘A resilient food system must work with nature’, says Andy Cato

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Red Tractor ‘secrecy’ called out rFrustration over

‘lack of transparency’ RED Tractor has been accused of ‘operating in secrecy’ after a meeting scheduled this week to ‘discuss environmental standards’, was cancelled, with sources suggesting it was scrapped after details were ‘leaked to the press’.

It comes after NFU president Minette Batters expressed her frustration at continuing leaks, at the Oxford Farming Conference.

Red Tractor told Farmers

Guardian back in November there would be ‘no decisions’ or changes to existing standards until the review of governance was complete.

The meeting had been due to take place online this week, with one source claiming it would be about ‘re-entering discussions’ and starting from a ‘blank page’ with the Greener Farms Commitment module and another saying it would be looking broadly at environmental standards and the impact on farm businesses.

The source claimed the meeting had been cancelled on Monday (January 8), as Red Tractor was ‘not

OFC24 SEEN AND HEARD ■ IN a session entitled ‘Diversified leadership — could farming do better?’ outgoing NFU president Minette Batters recalled a text message she received from a friend when she was elected.

“It said, ‘As a woman, you will have to work twice as hard and will be judged twice as hard’ — that text message has stuck with me.

“But I was determined on behalf of women not to let them down. That has been a driver.”

■ In a panel discussion looking at how diversity can help alleviate the recruitment crisis, Amie Burke, inclusivity programme manager at the Institute of Grocery Distribution, said: “People need to come to work and be their true self.

“It is not just about diversity it is about inclusion.

“When people are at their best they are at their most productive — 60 per cent more according to McKinsey research.”

■ Honorary OFC president Princess Anne spoke about the problem of food waste, highlighting the need for consumers to step up and to make better use of produce, referencing the importance of using all cuts of meat and ‘not what is convenient for supermarkets’.

■ Dutch MP Caroline Van der Plas addressed a political session with Shadow Defra Secretary Steve Reed on the panel. She said: “Cherish your farmers, they make one of our basic needs — food.

“We need our farmers to feed our people.

“If we lose the critical mass of farmers it will be a very dangerous situation.”

■ The door was shut by farmers when farmer and business owner David Mwanaka, who came over to the UK from Zimbabwe, was looking for land to grow white maize.

Resilience Speaking as part of the ‘Inspiring Farmers’ session, Mr Mwanaka shared his story of resilience, perseverance and determination to do something different and grow a crop not usually grown in the UK for his family.

Mr Mwanaka was eventually given land in Enfield, after someone enquired about what white maize was, after seeing the advert he had posted in a free newspaper.

As well as white maize, Mr Mwanaka grows white sweetcorn which he previously sold to Harrods and Sainsbury’s.

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CONFERENCE NEWS

ming industry was a key theme at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, but the ble on. Rachael Brown, Chris Brayford and Olivia Midgley report from Oxford.

Minette Batters speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference.

POWER OF DIVERSITY HIGHLIGHTED happy’ information had been leaked.

Red Tractor denied this.

The source said: “They were advised they should not do anything until after the review was complete, but they pushed on with this meeting in secrecy and now it is out in the open they have had to cancel it. Maybe they should have listened to people from the outset.”

Cancelled A spokesperson for Red Tractor said they were asked by stakeholders to facilitate a meeting to review the criteria in the beef and lamb sector and the meeting had been cancelled pending the outcome of the NFU review.

Ms Batters said she was ‘beyond frustrated’ at ‘continuing leaks’.

But a source said the leaks were

coming out due to a ‘lack of open discussion’.

When probed if there was any way back from this for Red Tractor and building trust back again with farmers, she said she was ‘massively frustrated’ where things were and the focus should be on a solution and how assurance can be done better.

She said: “The easiest thing to say is I do not like Red Tractor, let us get rid of it. What I do know is what will come in the very next day will be worse.”

An NFU spokesperson said the second review would involve ‘wide consultation’ with NFU members and the entire industry with the first review solely focused on governance, adding this was why the views of a ‘selection of people who have direct experience of that’ were sought.

CELEBRATING the positive ground agriculture has made, while understanding the hurdles and obstacles so many face in entering farming as a career, shows just how much work needs to be done.

Will Evans, chair of OFC, said the power of diversity in agriculture had been encapsulated by the incredible people who provided him with ‘hope for further progress in the future’.

Co-founder of the inclusive farm, Michael Duxbury, who lost his sight completely at the age of six years old, said he was proud to be part of a community which had embraced him and made him feel there was ‘hope for the future’.

He added they had started the business to show what people with disabilities can do.

“We have proven at our farm in

Bedfordshire that everyone can achieve great things no matter who they are or where they come from.

“My wish one day is we are talking about people as a collective in agriculture rather than by their attributes.”

Donna Edmonds, chief executive of Education Farms, described the importance of getting more schoolchildren and young people involved with farming through school visits as they were the ‘diverse workforce of the future’.

However, Scottish dairy farmer Rory Christie from Dumfries and Galloway, said strong communities ‘thrive’ through diversity of people and thought, but was concerned the industry would ‘lose its relevance’ if it did not continue to make the inroads needed to become more diverse.

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NEWS

Livestock sector at risk from border ‘apathy’ rDover pigmeat

seizures raise alarm

By Jane Thynne GOVERNMENT ‘apathy’ about UK border security risks wiping out the livestock industry, the pig sector has warned.

It comes after it emerged that 57 tonnes of illegally imported pigmeat had been halted at the Kent port since September 2022.

Beverley Edmondson, port health manager at Dover District Council and Port Health Authority, warned the figures could be just the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

The National Pig Association (NPA) has now called for all non- commercial meat imports to the UK to be made illegal and for more resources to be allocated to enforcing the law.

Lizzie Wilson, chief executive of the NPA, said the long-awaited Border Target Operating Model must be implemented in April following five previous delays which have put the whole UK pig herd at risk from African swine fever (ASF) which has been spreading across Europe.

Pig farmer Stephen Thompson, who farms outside Sheffield, South

It has emerged that 57 tonnes of illegally imported pigmeat has been halted at Dover since September 2022.

Yorkshire, said it ‘was only a matter of time’ before a serious outbreak hit the UK. “There just seems to be so much apathy. The Government just does not seem to care about protecting farming and food. In the end it will cost millions and ruin the industry.

Barriers “They appear to want trade more than barriers,” he added.

“But it has to be the right trade and we still need security. We really do need to put a lot more effort into controlling

Farmers asked to adhere to rules with no contracts FARMERS have branded Welsh Government’s actions as ‘totally unacceptable’ after being asked to adhere to rules for the Habitat Wales Scheme with no contracts in place.

Welsh organic farmer Glenda Crawshaw, who runs Dolwen Welsh lamb and beef with her husband Mike in the Berwyn Mountains near Llangollen, said the Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths was treating farmers ‘very poorly’ and the lack of clarity around organic funding was making it difficult to plan.

“We are running businesses that need to know whether we are being funded going forward, and to not give us the clarity of detail we need to make a decision about our future in the organic sector is very poor,” she said.

Ms Crawshaw had applied and been accepted on to the Habitat Wales Scheme. In a letter from Rural Payments Wales, received at the end of

December, it said if she were to accept the offer and take part in the scheme, her commitment would start from January 1.

From that point she would be required to comply with the scheme rules and habitat classifications, for ‘all habitat areas’ on her farm.

“To ask us to adhere to the rules until a decision is made with all our added organic costs is a step too far,” she said.

Details will follow A Welsh Government spokesperson said: “The budget for Habitat Wales was prioritised in the draft Budget, we can confirm all eligible applicants to the scheme will be offered a contract in line with the scheme requirements and payment rates published when we opened the application window.

“We have said we will support the organic sector in 2024 and further details on this will follow.”

and checking. We cannot just wave stuff through and hope for the best, which is what we seem to be doing.”

Arable farmer and contract pig finisher Patrick Twigger, from Frome in Somerset, said it was ‘hopeless’ that the UK is unable to control its own borders.

“Why are you even allowed to bring 2kg of pigmeat into the country? That is enough to cause a problem. You are not permitted to do that in countries such as Australia. There seems to be no real desire in this country to protect livestock,” he said.

In response, a Defra spokesperson said: “Preventing an outbreak of ASF is one of our key biosecurity priorities.

“We have strict import controls in place to limit possible infected pigmeat being brought into England and we continue to work closely with Defra-funded Port Health Authority officers to enforce these effectively.”

When to apply for a Nuffield Scholarship APPLICATIONS for 2025 Nuffield Scholarships will open on January 25.

A virtual open evening will also take place on January 24 at 6.30pm, with an overview of the application process and a chance to ask questions. Those interested should register by emailing charlotte@nuffieldscholar.org.

Applications will close on July 31.

FIND OUT MORE Prospective applicants can find out more about Nuffield Farming Scholarships and start their applications at nuffieldscholar. org/scholarships/how-apply farmersguardian.com

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NEWS NFU deputy president Tom Bradshaw will stand unopposed for the position of president in this year’s NFU elections. He said he would be honoured to lead the union.

“I fully recognise the scale of the challenges and the pressures businesses are facing, as well as the stark reality of the impacts of the cuts in the Basic Payment Scheme and delays in delivery of the Environmental Land Management schemes which combined has significantly impacted confidence,” he said.

He said politicians must recognise the strategic importance of food production and deliver on the words that ‘food security is national security’.

“I urge you all to unite, to influence the politics of tomorrow and make sure the new Government delivers the policy that underpins a thriving, profitable farming industry.”

However, ex-NFU vice-president Guy Smith, who ran against Minette Batters when she was elected, said on X that, while he was confident Mr Bradshaw would be an ‘effective’ NFU president, single candidate elections were ‘not good for NFU democracy’.

Current vice-president David Exwood will run for the role of deputy president. Upland forum chair Thomas Binns, dairy board chair Michael Oakes and Yorkshire upland farmer Rachel Hallos will stand for both the deputy and vice-president positions.

Crops board chair Matt Culley and South Wiltshire mixed farmer Mark Jeffery were also standing for vice-president.

Tractors lined up in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin as part of the farmers’ protest.

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German farmers hang up their boots GERMAN farmers have ‘hung up their boots’ and embarked on a week-long strike to protest at proposed subsidy cuts, prompting calls from UK farmers to follow suit.

Founders of campaign group Proud2Farm, Martin Fox and Josh Hockin, said the seven-day action, which has seen major German routes and cities brought to a standstill by thousands of tractors, showed how farmers across the world were being treated by governments which did not appreciate the industry.

During the past week, farmers from across the whole of Germany have taken part in the demonstrations with many displaying banners reading, ‘No farms, no food, no future’.

The strike is the latest act in a campaign of direct action that began last year.

The demonstrations are in response to German Government plans to cut crucial fuel and vehicle tax subsidies, which farmers say will cost the industry more than £780 million per year, plus their

treatment by retailers and a rise in imported food.

German agriculture journalist Wilfried Wesselink told Farmers Guardian, German farmers have ‘hung up their boots’ and those of their children to highlight their lack of faith for the future of farming.

He said this was to show citizens that farmers can ‘no longer keep their heads above water’ due to Government measures, too low prices paid, and to show there was no future for the next generation.

Calls to mitigate flood impact rFarming Recovery

Fund launched

By Jane Thynne

THE Government has hit back at claims it was ‘asleep at the wheel’, insisting it is ‘acutely aware’ of the devastating effect the recent floods have had on farmers.

Mark Stubbs, a Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) winner and arable farmer from Louth in Lincolnshire, has lost around 162 hectares of crops in total, with 24ha of wheat sitting in 3.5 metres of water.

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When we had floods in October, I was told by the EA to just wait and that it would be gone by Christmas MARK STUBBS ditches as the Environment Agency (EA) was clearly ‘not up to the job’.

Mr Stubbs said: “I know they are

stretched and under-resourced, so we should be allowed to get involved and we should be paid for it.

“When we had floods in October, I was told by the EA to just wait and that it would be gone by Christmas.

“It was not and now it has flooded again. It will be at least April before that goes and that is if we have no more wet weather.”

Exceptional In response to the losses, the Government has launched the Farming Recovery Fund, to provide grants of up to £25,000 to farmers adversely affected by exceptional flooding.

The package has been designed to help with ‘repair and reinstatement costs’ and comes just days

after the Labour Party accused the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ as more than 1,000 rural properties were hit by flooding.

A spokesperson for Defra defended its record and said more than 400,000ha of agricultural land had been protected from the impacts of flooding. It also said it was investing £5.2 billion to better protect communities from flooding and coastal erosion.

“We are acutely aware of the impact extreme weather can have on the farming community,” the spokesperson said.

UK farmers experienced what many are calling the ‘wettest winter’ ever as rainfall of around 50mm fell over consecutive days. farmersguardian.com

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NEWS CONFERENCE

Politicians seeking rural vote rFocus turns to

General Election

By Rachael Brown

BOTH the Secretary of State and the Shadow Secretary of State for Defra were on the charm offensive at last

week’s Oxford Farming Conference, with all eyes firmly on the General Election later this year.

Promoted by the Defra team as ‘the biggest upgrade’ to the UK’s farming schemes since leaving the European Union (EU), the Secretary of State, Steve Barclay, said he had ‘listened to farmers’, bringing what he said was a

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Prof Julia Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was ‘disingenuous, lazy and damaging’.

POLICY HOLDING BACK NATURE RECOVERY GOVERNMENT policy is damaging farmers’ ability to recover nature.

That was the message from this year’s Oxford Farming Conference debate, which debated the motion: “This house believes farming for food is holding back nature recovery in protected landscapes”.

The motion was voted down, with 272 against and 109 in favour.

Conservative environment network chair Ben Goldsmith and sustainable economics adviser Sarah Dickins proposed the motion, with Lake District hill farmer Will Cockbain and upland farmer and Prof Julia Aglionby arguing against it.

Mr Goldsmith argued sheep grazing in protected landscapes was nothing to do with food security, public good or economic prosperity, and if farming for food was stopped there would be ‘an explosion of nature’.

He added nobody wanted to end farming in National Parks and suggested native cattle were a ‘silver bullet’.

Arguing against the motion, Prof Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was ‘disingenuous, lazy and damaging’.

“I put to you it is not farming for food holding back nature recovery but our shambolic Government,” she said.

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‘clearer focus on enabling food production in environmental land management schemes’.

There was also emphasis on building trust with regulatory bodies like the Rural Payments Agency.

Mr Barclay said: “Farmers feel the starting point for too many interactions with regulatory bodies is one where you are treated with suspicion and not trust.”

He added that there were lessons to be learnt.

Neil Shand, chief executive of National Beef Association, said he was ‘encouraged’.

He said: “We are in the position now where devolved countries have thrown stones to Westminster, but England is potentially ahead.”

CLA president Victoria Vyvyan said she was concerned farmers would have to wait until the summer while facing ‘remorseless cuts’ to the Basic Payment Scheme.

Shadow Defra Secretary, Steve Reed, started his speech with some ‘friendly rivalry’, wishing Mr Barclay well as he embarks on ‘his farewell tour’.

Mr Reed prioritised ‘a new deal for farmers to give back their future’,

We are in the position now where devolved countries have thrown stones to Westminster, but England is potentially ahead NEIL SHAND switching to a new publicly owned energy company, GB energy, to lower farms’ energy bills; slashing planning decisions from years to months; and cutting red tape and costs at borders by seeking a veterinary agreement with the EU. Public procurement was also on the agenda, with Mr Reed stating at least half of food in schools, hospitals and prisons should be ‘locally produced or certified to higher environmental standards’.

New measures on food labelling DEFRA has introduced measures to improve food labelling in a bid to ensure high-quality British food ‘stands out from the crowd’.

The Government said the move would enable consumers to make informed decisions, while backing British farmers.

Plans would include a consultation on proposals to make food labelling clearer and ways to better support online customers in understanding the origin of their food products at the point of purchase, including the

option of a ‘Buy British’ button.

Steve Barclay said British farmers took pride in producing food which met or exceeded ‘world-leading animal welfare and environmental standards’, but too often products produced to lower standards were not clearly labelled.

However, the plans have been condemned by animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming UK, which claimed it would do ‘nothing to help build trust with consumers on animal welfare issues’.

Spike in Schmallenberg cases FARMERS and vets are seeing high levels of Schmallenberg in early lambing flocks, particularly in the south and west of England.

Vanessa Swinson, Animal Plant and Health Agency (APHA) Cattle Expert Group veterinary lead, said: “There does appear to be a spike in cases, which is unexpected as it is not following its usual pattern.

“This could be due to a number of factors. National flock and herd immunity could be lower than we thought; there were more midges circulating and warmer weather later

in the year. So far, we have only seen Schmallenberg in lambs because of the longer gestation period in cattle, but we are seeing evidence of it in bulk milk testing.

“It is important suspected cases of Schmallenberg are tested as there may be some similarities with other diseases, including Bluetongue, and it is important we establish what diseases are circulating.

“APHA offers free Schmallenberg testing, but farmers should contact their own vet in the first instance for advice on how to proceed.” farmersguardian.com

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NEWS Farmers have outlined concerns in what is likely to be a General Election year.

Farmers want food security prioritised rElection expected

in autumn 2024

By Alex Black

PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak was expecting to call an election in the ‘second half’ of 2024, with the country preparing for a potential change in Government this year.

Current polls show a lead for the Labour Party, with the Conservatives looking to try and close the gap before they go to the polls, but farmers were looking for a party which could deliver on food production and the environment when casting their vote.

Robert Graham, an Essex arable farmer, said his priorities were health, social care, education and ‘of course, taking climate change seriously’.

“I do not expect agriculture to be an election battleground, but then food security might be, depending on what happens in the commodity market in the next few months,” he said.

He hoped Labour would be more concerned with food security ‘than the free-trade fanatics of the right’.

Horticultural grower Rees Keene said his priorities were finance and taxes, adding tax hikes could not be the only answer to improving things, plus planning reform, the environment and roads.

He wanted a plan to improve the economy and support businesses, ideally through tax incentives. While he was a Conservative voter, he would ‘jump ship if I felt another party offered a better solution to my concerns’.

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Obiero was undecided, but said ‘any party that has genuine interest in improving food security will get my vote’ and he did not want the current Conservative Government to stay in power.

Fife farmer Alan Steven said he had voted for Scottish independence and Brexit, but ‘neither have happened’ and he wanted politicians to ‘get on with the job in hand’.

He added his nightmare scenario would be a coalition Government ‘with the Greens involved’, criticising the current situation in Scotland.

He added his local MP and MSP were both Liberal Democrats on tight majorities with the SNP close behind.

Issues He said: “They have both been in touch about issues in farming and did help in getting fibre broadband to our business.”

Pig and arable farmer Robert Lasseter in Dorset said farming was in a ‘bad place’.

“There is no longer room for the small independent family farm that we are, relying on a commodity supply chain,” he said.

He added farmers needed a Government which understood that the well-being of the UK’s rural environment ‘depends on implementing a social policy that maintains people living in the countryside’ which the market did not deliver. He said while he previously voted Conservative, he was now a swing voter.

“I shall read the manifestos — something I have never done before — and then make a decision.”

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THIS year will be the biggest election year in history, with more than 60 countries – representing half the world’s population – going to the polls. About four billion people will be voting in presidential, legislative and local elections, according to The Economist.

In the UK, the focus is on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is sticking with his plans to schedule an autumn General Election, despite growing calls for it to happen in spring.

Even closer to home, the runners and riders in the race for the NFU’s top team have been formally announced. There are only a few weeks to wait for the outcome of the latter, and with current deputy Tom Bradshaw standing unopposed for the presidency, the results will surely bring few surprises.

However, the same cannot be said for the wider industry, which continues to be at the mercy of ever-shifting external forces.

Against a backdrop of war, extreme weather events, cost of living pressures, a changing agricultural support landscape and, according to the OFC’s latest report, a ‘broken’ supply chain, there is plenty

of high priority work in both the Government and NFU’s in trays. How the two can work together to tackle them efficiently and effectively will give farming businesses a clear mandate to thrive and grow.

Despite the obvious challenges, it was heartening to see and hear the positivity swirling round Oxford’s spires as two of the industry’s major conferences took place in the city last week. Reports on a variety of topics, from leadership and retaining staff, to consumer appetite for environmentally friendly food and regenerative farming tips pepper the pages of FG this week.

A sense of determination and enthusiasm for farming’s future has also been highlighted in a survey commissioned by the Farming Community Network, FG’s charity partner for LAMMA. When asked what they enjoy most about their profession, being close to nature, positively impacting the environment and local communities, and feeling a sense of achievement in doing something worthwhile ranked high among respondents. No matter what happens in this year’s elections, these attributes remain at the heart of farming.

YOUNG FARMER FOCUS ‘Everything I do today is for my mum’ Farming: First and foremost, farming is most definitely in my blood.

The farm on my mother’s side of the family in Cambridgeshire can be traced back to the 17th century, where politician Oliver Cromwell once stayed on a visit. I did not necessarily grow up on a farm, but we had smallholdings in our family where we would help out whenever we could.

My dad came from Northampton and my mum from Cambridgeshire before they moved to Cheshire for work and had me.

However, the memories of those days on the farm when you could feel the freshness of the spring air and the long, hot summers was magical.

We would help with lambing on my grandparents’ farm in Wistow, Cambridgeshire, and my auntie’s farm in Woburn, Buckinghamshire, where they stored Red Poll cattle.

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It was a time when I really understood and appreciated how hard farmers work and my own passions to work in the glorious outdoors.

I loved it and it was these early days when I knew I wanted nothing more than to work in agriculture.

Family: A very sad aspect to my story is when my mum died from breast cancer when I was around five years old. She was the warmest and loveliest woman you could have imagined.

At the time, it was really hard to understand and comprehend the emotion surrounding her passing because I was only very young. She was my world and she had gone from my life within an instant.

It was only as I got older that her passing really affected my physical and emotional well-being.

Today, I volunteer with the Farming Community Network and the Farm

Tom York Ledsham, Cheshire Tom York, 21, is from Ledsham, Cheshire. He is studying agri-business at Harper Adams University and is currently out on placement as a farm adviser.

Tom York Safety Foundation to spread awareness around the importance of mental health in our wonderful but stressful industry.

Everything I do today is for my mum and I want to make her proud of me every single day.

Education: I am currently studying agri-business at Harper Adams University, which has been fantastic for my development and future career prospects.

I am currently out on a placement as

a farm adviser, where I get to learn about the challenges farmers face on their farms and offer practical solutions from a different perspective.

The changing climate and weather has had a huge impact on businesses over the past year. Many farmers have struggled to plant their winter crops because of the huge amounts of rainfall we have experienced.

Overcoming challenges and obstacles is what farmers do best, and I am really proud to be part of a community of like-minded individuals who want to learn, succeed and be the best they can every single day.

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Footpath stress I WAS interested to read the letter ‘Farm education key for walkers’ written by Hilary Wilson (December 22).

We have our parish path that runs through the centre of our farm, which is a public right of way, and was traditionally used by farmers helping other farmers at the time of harvest, and for local people going to church.

We are aware cows with calves can be protective, so we never put cows with young calves on our footpath fields.

Previously in past decades, we have never had any issues with walkers, that was until about five years ago.

After the first incident, we set up an alternative footpath for people to follow away from the cows for anyone who had concerns walking past them.

We then had another incident of a walker being knocked over by one of our cows, and taken to hospital.

We were inspected by the local council and the Health and Safety Executive, who concluded we could not have done any extra with the signage and alternative path we set up to prevent this. However, it is so stressful each time this happens.

I think I have worked out that the main cause for this happening is people using this path for jogging/ running, something it was never designed for.

This disturbs the cows, particularly when they see someone/predator running at one of their calves, and it is probably the next quiet, well-behaved walker that cops it.

Once most people started to own a car in the 1960s, practically no-one used this path (we saw one person that year). Now, we have shed-loads of people.

We have stopped keeping sheep

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Threshing group pictured at Richard Gamble’s (back row, far right) farm in Cullinagh, Kilmeaden, on September 19, 1940. John Norwood (on tractor, far left), Johnstown, was among those private operators who went around the east of the county with a threshing machine.

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and lambs on these fields, as the livers get condemned when they go for slaughter due to the parasites in dog faeces.

We have to keep our hens shut inside, otherwise about twice-a-year several get mauled or killed by a dog attack, usually followed with the phrase, ‘oh, it has never done that before’.

We are lucky that the path does not go diagonally across our fields like it does on some farms, so we have now fenced completely along the path, but this has meant fencing off a good chunk of some of the fields, due to the path not being next to the hedge.

Sam Nankervis, Via email.

Ag needs the public on its side WHAT a brilliant letter Hilary Wilson wrote on the subject of footpaths, dogs, walkers and livestock.

Hilary was quite correct in her views and comments.

Education is key. The majority of the general public know nothing about farming, arable or livestock.

They do, however, want to know.

Countryfile has a prime-time slot for viewing, but has been turned off by the farming community as it is just ‘fluffy bunnies’.

As farmers, we need the public on our side. As a national farming publication, can Farmers Guardian help with this? Jeremy Clarkson was just one man and love him or loath him, he did more for British agriculture than the NFU has ever done.

Come on FG. Use your might to do the same.

Lucy Hollinshead, Via email.

Infectious cattle WITH regards to your columnist James Robinson’s concerns about

keeping TB designated Inconclusive Reactor cattle on the farm ‘Unfortunately we are now under bTB restrictions’ (December 29).

There is no indication that infected cattle can become infectious before clinical signs of the disease appear.

In its wisdom, Defra has concluded that in the low TB risk areas, an animal that becomes infected with TB the day after it was tested is unlikely to become infectious in the next four years.

Hence the four-year testing regime in those areas.

The premise that an animal becomes infectious immediately when it becomes infected is based on circumstantial evidence that is promoted by people who are keen that attention is diverted away from the more probable route of infection.

John Tuck, Swindon, Wiltshire.

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Oxford at the start of January is a tale of two tribes, with the city also hosting the popular Oxford Real Farming Conference which is underpinned by agroecological principles. Ben Briggs dipped into some of the vast agenda.

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FARMER confidence that support schemes would deliver for the uplands was waning and more needed to be done to engage with potential applicants.

During a session entitled ‘On common land: Managing upland commons in the Lake District’, a range of stakeholders said collaboration between farmers, governing bodies and Government agencies was key to the future of upland commons.

Responding to a comment from a

Shropshire commoner that the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) was not fit for purpose for upland farmers, Prof Julia Aglionby urged Government to make much needed positive steps.

She said: “We need stability and clarity about these schemes, as well as more money for the uplands.”

A former chair of the Uplands Alliance, she suggested her decision to stand as Liberal Democrat candidate for Penrith and Solway at the next election was partially due to the lack of progress she felt there had been around support schemes for the uplands.

Session chair Sam Caraway,

Farmers and academics must talk to bridge research gap BRINGING academics and farmers together for meaningful and engaged discussions was key to bridging the chasm between the two.

Ben Adams, a north Oxfordshire mixed farmer, told the ‘Reconciling Farming and Academic Research’ session it was vital that academic research was communicated to farmers in the right way.

Trust He said: “These older farmers will never read an academic paper.

“Farmers trust farmers and we need to link them with researchers.

“Farmers will attend a farm walk, so let us get researchers

and farmers together in that setting. It is about talking with one another and that is the way you can bring about change.”

The session sought to look at how academic research could be made more accessible and relevant for the farming community.

But Julia Cooper, head of research at the Organic Research Centre, said the focus of many academics was on the research itself and not always how it was disseminated to a wider audience, such as farmers.

She added: “Researchers get rewarded for big picture research and not always how it works at farm level.” farmersguardian.com

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CONFERENCE NEWS COMMUNICATION IS KEY IN THE FACE OF CHANGE

Feeling John Atkinson, who farms near Coniston and is chair of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, said there was a feeling among many upland farmers that SFI was designed for the large landed estates and bigger arable farmers, with complex paperwork.

For Jez Westgarth, assistant director of operations at the National Trust in Cumbria, collaboration between all parties was key to successful outcomes.

He said: “There are tensions between nature recovery and ‘traditional farming’ and we understand that.

“We need to be a in a place of compromise in order to bring about change, but sometimes the current schemes do not encourage that compromise.”

While SFI options for species-rich grassland creation or maintenance were welcomed, there was also caution as some commoners would be unable to apply.

Concept Lucinda added while there was no formal weekly meeting among the different family members, it was a concept they had thought about introducing.

This was echoed by the Gent family, consisting of Thomas, his father Edward and grandfather, Tony. For Thomas, ensuring his ambitions and new ideas were done in such a way that father and grandfather were on-board was key.

For Edward, having his son involved provided ‘energy and motivation’, with the family seeking to chat through major issues facing the farm on a regular basis.

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incidents had become so common, she had sought to plant trees and even bury large tree trunks in the banks as she tried to stop the impact of flood water.

Mr Robinson, who is a Farmers Guardian ‘In Your Field’ writer, said he had installed solar powered water pumps which allowed him to take the water to the cattle, rather than his dairy cows damaging the banks as they headed for the stream during outdoor grazing.

He had also sought to ‘rewiggle’ the beck (stream) on his farm, something he said had produced positive benefits for both his business and the wildlife habitats.

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James Robinson, who farms at Kendal, Cumbria, and is the chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN), spoke alongside North Wales-based farmer Sam Kenyon, who is also part of NFFN. Both farmers said they had fenced off streams and water courses on their land in order to keep livestock away from the banks, reducing erosion in the process.

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He added: “The faith that the Basic Payment Scheme replacement will deliver for the uplands is waning.”

farming practice, Lucinda said: “[Change] is a slow process and do not be too hard on yourself.

Just get on and do it.”

Billy added the family sought to discuss all the major issues affecting the business among themselves, but there had to be an acceptance that one of them would ultimately have to make the final decision.

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CHANGE was not a speedy process and patience and perseverance were key, a family farming debate was told.

‘Family farming decisions: Bringing together old and new thinking’ was a session which heard from two farming families about their journey towards a more regenerative form of agriculture.

Hearing from the Lewis family, which farms a 200-hectare mixed enterprise in Herefordshire, and the Gents, who farm 800ha of combinable crops on the Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire border, the emphasis from both families was on the need for open and honest discussions between family members.

Jim and Lucinda Lewis, who farm with their son Billy, said the family had come to realise that the health of their soil was the most important factor in their farming business and was behind their move to a more regenerative form of farming.

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With farmers seeing more risk than reward in growing food, the Oxford Farming Conference heard from different players in the supply chain. Cedric Porter reports.

Supermarkets are not the only culprits in a broken supply chain rSolely blaming retailers

THE risk of producing food is outweighing the rewards, resulting in farmers giving up production. That was one of the stark warnings from a report, Is our food supply chain broken?, commissioned by the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC).

“There is body blow after body blow and farmers are no longer growing the same amount of buffer as they traditionally would, so if something grows wrong, we take the hit,” said Liam Stewart, managing director of field vegetable grower Stewarts of Tayside, after floods in Scotland in October 2023 and quoted in the report.

“The cost of growing crops now is so high that you cannot grow in the hope you will sell it.”

OFC director and fruit grower Ali Capper echoed those sentiments, saying many apple and pear producers were not replacing old trees or were giving up altogether because they did not have the commitment to plant trees that would not deliver a full harvest for seven years.

Easy Report author, supply chain consultant, Ged Futter, told the conference that it was easy to blame the supermarkets, but the reasons for a broken supply chain were more complex.

He added: “There are other active participants in the industry – farmers;

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a ‘gross distortion of truth’

Consultant Ged Futter told the conference that it was easy to blame the supermarkets, but the reasons for a broken supply chain were more complex.

growers; governmental bodies and NGOs. They have all played a role, to a greater or lesser extent, in bringing us to this current position.”

That was echoed by one of the 40 fresh produce, poultry and pig suppliers interviewed for the report.

They said: “Retailers are often lambasted as being the sole cause of all ills in the sector, this is a gross distortion of the truth. As one grower said, ‘We would not have a business if it was not for the multiple retailers, we just want to engage in the right way’.”

Mr Futter suggested ways to mend the chain, including the greater use of

long-term contracts, moving away from oversupply, development of brands, understanding the cost of production, more negotiation training for suppliers and more stability of buyers to address criticism that many buyers were inexperienced or were not in post long enough to understand the markets they operated in.

Dr Chris Brown, senior director of sustainable supply chains at Asda, said: “Junior buyers will inevitably get promoted, but they often come back in more senior roles to manage teams in the sectors they are most experienced in.”

Supply issue

was taking the issue of Major players lose market share HesupplyaddedveryAsdaseriously after the shocks ASDA has been the biggest loser in terms of market share over the Christmas period, as Aldi and Lidl continue to win ground.

According to Kantar, Asda saw its share fall from 14 per cent to 13.6 per cent, while Morrisons, Co-op, Waitrose and Iceland also lost share. Tesco only gained 0.1 per cent share to 27.6 per cent, but it remained the market leader by a large margin.

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Christmas Eve, up from 9.1 per cent the year before. Lidl’s share increased from 7.2 per cent to 7.7 per cent – the largest gain of any retailer. Sainsbury’s consolidated its second position with a 0.3 per cent increase in share to 15.8 per cent.

Kantar said consumers’ appetite for the traditional Christmas dinner was particularly strong, with volumes of parsnips, sprouts and potatoes up 12 per cent, 9 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively, and festive meats up 6 per cent.

of Covid-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and extreme weather, but said there was a need for greater measurement of the cost of production and more use of forecasting by suppliers to help buyers plan for any supply issues.

Robert Chapman, managing director of Scottish egg producer Farmlay, agreed with the report that oversupply can be an issue.

“Farmers are often tempted to produce as much as they can and then are surprised when prices go down. By keeping the market tighter, they have more control.”

The cost of growing crops now is so high that you cannot grow in the hope you will sell it LIAM STEWART The report used eggs as a case study, with a lack of profitability leading to producers reducing output in 2022 and early 2023, which led to a big jump in retail prices and the increased import of eggs that had not been produced to UK standards.

Since then, more than £100 million in egg producer support has been committed by just three retailers – Tesco, Aldi and Lidl.

This week has also seen the launch of a pullet finance initiative by egg company Stonegate in partnership with Oxbury Bank. It provides a fixed interest rate of 8 per cent, with repayment plans of 13 and 15 months designed to suit different production cycles. farmersguardian.com

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Market data is vital with margins tight

rShared experiences

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By Alex Black

Buyers and vendors using LAA member livestock markets have free access to the essential daily price updates.

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BENCHMARKING, shared experiences and the community of livestock markets mean they remain at the heart of the UK livestock industry.

And with margins tight, data was becoming even more valuable to farmers looking to maximise returns for their stock.

That was the message as the Livestock Auctioneers Association (LAA) officially launched its new market data platform. It follows LAA taking mart data back in-house through its own platform.

Buyers and vendors using LAA member livestock markets have free access to the essential daily price updates, with a free of charge weekly plan as well as subscription options, and a free trial available for the premium Real-Time prices plan until March 31.

Market data will continue to be available in the pages of Farmers Guardian.

Speaking at the online launch event, beef and sheep farmer Mark Townley said market data was key when deciding when to market stock and how

many to take. Auctioneer Will Alexander said markets can change quickly, so data was important.

“It is also not a local area now, so what happens here [Bentham] can be

affected by something that has happened in Devon or Cornwall, or Aberdeenshire,” he said, with prices also impacted by global factors.

On the value of auctions, sheep

farmer Rebecca Wilson said: “Having only gone back to the sheep on the farm a few years ago, it has been a real learning experience for me to understand what buyers want, and to talk with the auctioneer.

“That comparison between other lambs coming in, and being able to know what a good, finished lamb looks like has been really important for me, and I would not have got that by selling through a different method.”

The social value of marts for farmers’ mental health was highlighted, as well as the ability to bounce ideas off other farmers and share experiences, with Mr Townley adding that other farmers were able to empathise with problems or offer solutions which had worked for them.

Ms Wilson said: “We all really do want to help each other out.”

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Labour looms large over 2024 rPeople vital to good

Keeping good staff remains the biggest challenge for 2024, particularly in the dairy sector.

farming businesses

FINDING and retaining good staff would continue to be the major challenge for many farm businesses in 2024, a breakfast briefing by consultancy firm Andersons was told.

Held on the Friday morning of the Oxford Farming Conference, Andersons’ Richard King said although many assumed there would be a General Election towards the back end of the year, even if Labour did get into power he did not foresee a huge change in farming policy in the short-term.

For him and his colleagues the challenge would remain around keeping good staff, particularly in the dairy sector.

Perennial problem He said: “Labour shortages and getting good staff is a perennial problem for many farming businesses. The

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difference between good businesses and bad businesses is often about the quality of the people within it.”

Looking at the dairy sector, possible changes to slurry storage rules and the potential need to put roofs over slurry stores was casting a long shadow of uncertainty over some businesses, the consultancy claimed.

On a positive note, inflation was starting to ease and some experts in

the room said the cost of borrowing would hopefully start to fall in 2024.

There was also good evidence, some suggested, that the more progressive farm businesses were pushing ahead with expansion plans in spite of uncertainty around the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI).

On that note, NFU vice-president David Exwood, who was one of the attendees at the event, urged farmers to apply for what they could under

SFI, even if they were cautious about entering the scheme.

He claimed the worst thing was if farmers did not take up the SFI cash, especially with a new Government potentially coming in at the end of the year.

He added it was essential farming bodies could show there was strong demand for these schemes; something which would aid their case to ringfence support cash for agriculture moving forward.

Halal market continues to grow HIGH fertility rates among Muslims and a rapidly emerging affluent middle class in Asia-Pacific and African countries will see opportunities for the halal meat sector to continue to grow.

Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference last week, AHDB’s halal sector manager Awal Fuseini said the market was valued at nearly £2 billion.

“High fertility rates, population growth and high disposable income brings opportunities in this market,” he said, highlighting peak consumption during Islamic festivals.

Although Muslims account for just under 5 per cent of the UK population, they account for an estimated 20 per

cent of lamb consumption in England alone. Of total sheep slaughter in the UK 72 per cent is attributed to the halal market, with goat slaughter at 55.6 per cent.

While the domestic market would continue to grow, Mr Fuseini also highlighted a number of export opportunities, with the UK already having market access to many countries in North Africa and the Middle East.

He said the levy board was actively targeting countries with a high population of affluent Muslims, including Qatar, and major cities such as Dubai, with a trade delegation due to visit them over the next few months.

FARMERS MOST TRUSTED TO DELIVER FOR ENVIRONMENT FARM businesses would have to ‘go green or go broke’, according to emeritus professor of food marketing at Imperial College London David Hughes, speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference.

Prof Hughes said that with farmers unlikely to benefit from additional monies from the public purse in the medium-term, it was incumbent on businesses to make the move to ‘greener’ markets work for them and ensure they are properly rewarded.

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understanding of ‘regenerative farming’. There was also a risk of consumers seeing product claims around low carbon as ‘greenwashing’.

However, Prof Hughes said consumers did trust British farmers and this provided the farming sector with leverage when collaborating with other powerful food industry players, including the Government, on environmental issues.

“It just makes common sense that the farm sector should lead on issues relating to the environmental impact of food production albeit in collaboration with the other key sectors,” he added.

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GLOBAL AG VIEW using sow stalls

By Alex Black PORK industry bodies in the United States have flagged concerns over uncertainty in the marketplace, after the controversial Proposition 12 legislation came into effect in California on January 1, more than five years after voters approved it as a ballot measure.

Proposition 12 prohibits the sale of food from farm animals not housed under specific standards, including banning the use of pig sow stalls Pork provisions were delayed from last August, with industry bodies the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and the National Pork Producers Council taking legal action to try and overturn the law.

Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, welcomed the enforcement.

“We wish we could celebrate unanimous support within the pork industry itself for the humane provisions of Proposition 12, but we cannot yet do so,” she said, suggesting the use of sow stalls was subject to a ‘civil war’ within the industry between those producers who ‘see the strong headwinds

Pork welfare law takes effect in California from the conventional marketplace.

“Now that we are facing a decreased inventory in the beef market, that leaves us asking when will consumer demand start to pick up for pork products, or will they, as pork is a very close substitute to our beef prices.”

Proposition 12 prohibits the sale of food from farm animals not housed under specific standards.

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of humane progress blowing’ and those who do not.

With the pork market already uncertain, AFBF economist Bernt Nelson said there were bearish fundamentals already in the market,

with ‘more hogs in the market than we have demand’.

He said: “California possesses about 13 per cent of the demand for US pork, and when Proposition 12 goes into effect, we lose that 13 per cent of demand

The AFBF said there was still a lot of uncertainty about how the market would adjust.

“When this takes place, the only pork that will be allowed for sale in that California market will have to be compliant with Proposition 12, so that automatically removes many of our conventional producers from that marketplace,” said Mr Nelson.

“And so, until we see some increased demand domestically and continued demand in our export markets, we are going to be at the mercy of whatever comes into play here.”

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The South Devon, a native breed which has graced the UK countryside for centuries, boasts benefits for both commercial and pedigree herds, and is gaining popularity in modern times. Ruth Wills visits some long-established breeders to find out more.

Family’s South Devon devotion spans generations

W

alking into the Rowe family home in Liskeard, Cornwall, it is immediately obvious that South Devon cattle are at the family’s very core. Every wall is adorned with showing accolades and pictures of proud children grinning next to their South Devon calves.

The breed spans generations of the Rowe family.

Ashley Rowe, the third generation of South Devon breeders, says: “In 1947 my grandad Stuart Rowe

came to Trewint Farm and started out with eight South Devon cows; he later farmed with his sons Mervyn and Peter.”

They started out milking the dual-purpose breed, which has since evolved to more of a specialist beef animal. They stopped milking the cows in 1976, and moved over to the double suckle system, then to single suckling. Now Mervyn and his son Richard, along with Peter and his son Ashley, farm separate herds.

Ashley says: “Even though it is a

beef cow and not a dairy cow, it needs good milking ability.

“The farming partnership was split in 1995 so Uncle Mervyn and Dad [Peter] now run their own herds – the Tregondale and Trewint herds – the same original bloodlines are still running through.”

Calving At Trewint, Peter and Ashley calve 25 to 30 heifers a year, at two years old, after running with either a pedigree South Devon bull or a Salers bull. They decided to

introduce calving at two years old seven years ago.

Ashley says: “Financially it is bringing in an extra £40,000 a year and it has not affected mature weight.

“The ideal heifer bulling weight is at least 65 per cent of her mature weight, which would be 460kg.

We regularly weigh to keep an eye on growth.

“The heifer calves stay in their own separate management groups of around 25 to 30, until they have had their third calf, then they join

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the rest of the herd. We retain the top eight bull calves to sell for breeding and finish the rest of the males as bull beef, marketed through Cornwall Quality Livestock Producers to Kepak or Dunbia.

“We do buy the best bulls when we see them too. We generally buy a bull a year. If he looks right and is good on paper, then that is even better.

“We are gradually introducing polled genetics into the herd, and two of our stock bulls are polled.

“Our ideal bull is naturally fleshed with good length, structure and locomotion.”

The bull beef are fed a predominantly homegrown cereal-based diet, comprised of crimped barley and beans.

“AHDB recently found that South Devons are ranked highest of the native breeds for carcase weight, average daily carcase gain and carcase conformation.

“And our finished bulls prove that; they kill out well, at mainly U and R grades, with a fat class of between three and four at an average deadweight of 387kg, at anywhere between 13 and 15 months old,” Ashley adds.

They sell about eight breeding bulls a year, selecting three bulls to

go to the spring sale at Exeter and the rest are sold privately.

Of the heifers, 25 are kept for breeding and the surplus are sold for breeding.

“Even the first cross Salers heifers are sold for breeding, and because we are in a high health herd scheme, we have a market of people looking for that,” says Ashley.

“We do quite well at selling large consignments of heifers off the farm.”

Blood test They blood test all the females annually for Johne’s disease, says Peter, and they have been accredited BVD free since 2012.

The cattle are kept out into late autumn with some supplementary hay.

Peter adds: “They are brought in when they get close to calving – they are given a pre-calving bolus, injected for scours and we put them on high quality silage.”

And it is the female South Devons which are gaining the most amount of popularity, having sold a lot of females to start new pedigree herds, or expand existing breeding or commercial herds.

Ashley says: “We saw 100 per cent clearance, which goes to show what an appetite there is for the breed.

“Some people keep them as pedigree and use a pedigree bull,

Farm facts ■ 140 pedigree South Devon cows run across 182 hectares (450 acres) in total, 129ha (318 acres) of grass and the rest cereals ■ They sell about eight breeding bulls a year, selecting three bulls to go to the spring sale at Exeter and the rest are sold privately farmersguardian.com

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■ Cattle stocking rate – two livestock units per hectare (0.8 livestock units/acre) ■ 150 Suffolk Mule ewes, two Hampshire rams and a Rouge ram ■ Run farm walks in association with the South Devon breed society

We keep the herd consistent and only retain what fits our type – I think that is what has helped our success in the herd competitions PETER ROWE but others will put different types of bulls on them – Angus, Charolais, Limousin – but the maternal traits bring the milkiness, and their docile nature.”

And it is the gentleness of the South Devon which has been admired by buyers, especially, Ashley says, as they see a change towards mixed farming, and for those that have limited experience in cattle, ‘they want quiet animals.

Having easy-to-manage cattle is a big factor’.

Easy management is something that Peter and Ashley have experienced first-hand.

“It’s just me and Dad working on the farm, and the cattle are so easy to manage he can happily move them on his own,” says Ashley.

The family’s success in the showring speaks volumes for the herd too.

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FARM PROFILE CORNWALL at the Worcester sale, and they also won the national herd competition in 2023 out of 20 herds, for the sixth time.

Peter says: “We are really pleased, they sold well, and they are in-calf to a pedigree bull.”

But it is one particular homebred bull that has stood out over the years – Trewint Carlos. It has won several breed championships and some supreme championships coming first out of 52 bulls in the herd competition.

They sell about eight breeding bulls a year.

Give it a go It is clear the family truly enjoy showing and would encourage anyone thinking about getting into the showring to give it a go.

“We are a friendly breed society and we all get on really well; it is our business but it is also our hobby,” Ashley says.

“Showing is our shop window, and agricultural shows have almost changed purpose; years ago, it would have been more advertising

South Devons are versatile and have their five unique selling points: ease of management, growth from grass, naturally milky mothers, adaptable and sustainable ASHLEY ROWE

to farmers as potential customers, now it is more of a link between farmers and the public.”

Their success is partly down to a love for what they do, but the breed itself is ideal.

“We have a type of animal which is a modern, easy-fleshing type, which does not take a lot of feed to finish,” says Peter.

“We keep the herd consistent and only retain what fits our type – I think that is what has helped our success in the herd competitions.”

Both Peter and Ashley are passionate supporters of the South Devon Herd Book Society, and have taken up various roles on the committee. Anyone can be a member, and they have a varied programme of events and farm walks throughout the year.

When they had a farm walk after winning the herd competition, they had 110 people turn up.

“Registering a South Devon herd is good because it uplifts the value of the herd and opens up more avenues for potentially selling breeding stock,” says Peter.

Society sales And they both see the value in society sales.

“We think it is important for every breeder to take their best to the society sales; we always take our best bulls. It gives everyone an equal opportunity to buy that bull – we are already looking forward to the next show and sale on April 3 at Exeter,” he says.

So, what is the future for the Trewint herd? They want to keep produ-

cing heifers, keep the herd uniform and sell good quality bulls.

They are loyal to the breed too, believing it has a bright future.

“I think going forward, South Devons are going to play a big part in the beef industry; they are versatile and have their five unique selling points: ease of management, growth from grass, naturally milky mothers, adaptable and sustainable,” says Ashley.

“The beef value has risen significantly in the past few years, and every kilo is worth more than it was – so heavier cattle are going to mean a greater financial return.

And I think we will see a lot of the arable farms reintroducing livestock; South Devons are a good choice because they do well off grass and they are easy to handle.”

Ashley Rowe credits the cows for being ‘so easy to manage’.

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ARABLE

Edited by Ash Ellwood – 07786 190 188 – ashleigh.ellwood@agriconnect.com

The Slimers Project hopes farmers will take data collection rigs into cropped fields and capture images of active grey field slugs.

Farmers called to aid AI robots in identifying slugs rCamera rigs to be

deployed by early March

By Ash Ellwood A PROJECT has requested farmer participation to collect images of slugs which are essential to train artificial intelligence (AI) robots to detect and control future populations.

The Slimers Project, run by the British On-Farm Innovation Network (BOFIN), hopes farmers will take push-along ‘manual data collection rigs’ into cropped fields and capture images of active grey field slugs.

The rigs are equipped with RGB camera technology, including both individual image capture and continuous capture modes, and are

being built by Slimers Project’s partner, Small Robot Company.

The rigs are being constructed to mimic a robot’s movement through the field, and for farmers to manually direct the rig to high slug activity areas.

The imagery will then be used to

The main requirement of participants is for crops to be sown at the right time TOM ALLEN-STEVENS

Retirements resulting in fewer farms RURAL advisory business Sentry has predicted that agriculture’s ageing population will have one of the biggest influences on farming numbers and size.

Defra reports that 42 per cent of UK farmers are aged 60 or older, with the average age currently being 59.

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that, in the future, farming businesses will cover a larger area.

“As well as retirement, this will come about because of changing business structure; decisions such as family deciding to contract out the management of the land rather than farming it in-hand.”

Other key changes, predicts Sentry, will be more land going into environmental options, whether it be Biodiversity Net Gain or other schemes, such as the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

train AI robots to recognise the many different colours and sizes of grey field slugs, enabling future precision identification and control technology.

Speaking at a BOFIN webinar on January 10, Kerry McDonald-Howard, of CHAP Agri-Tech Centre, said: “Building images of key elements such as the colour of the base of the slug, keel shape and tentacles are important so the machines can learn the many different variations of the grey field slug.”

Target The rigs are currently still in production, with the hope they will be deployed on the farm by early March, targeting wheat and oilseed rape crops of a certain growth stage.

Tom Allen-Stevens, BOFIN founder, said: “The main requirement of participants is for crops to be sown at the right time to have crops small enough to get through in March/April, which

might restrict the participant fields to either spring sown or very late winter sown.”

There are five rigs to be delivered to farms, which will stay with farmers for a couple of weeks then move onto the next farm to collect a diverse data set.

Ray King, technical lead for the Slimers Project at the Small Robot Company, said: “The rig has been developed to cause less damage when going through a crop than a person walking, as the ground pressure is significantly lower than a human foot.

“The rig will be easy to move, being a maximum of 20kg and folding to fit in a car boot.”

A rig training video will be produced, with in-person training also available to farmers, depending on location and staff availability.

Mr Allen-Steve added: “This will be a paid activity, but we have not yet worked out how much this will be and how this will work.”

Industry-wide digital grain passport consultation ending FARMERS are being reminded to submit their views on the proposal for the grain passport to turn digital before the consultation period closes on February 2, 2024.

Six trade associations are inviting feedback and comments on the

digital grain passport proposal ahead of the deadline.

MORE INFORMATION To find out how to submit feedback, visit ahdb.org.uk/digital-passport, or email digitalpassportconsultation@ahdb.org.uk farmersguardian.com

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Toolkit launched to assess nature market opportunities rSignificant barriers

still to be overcome

THE Green Finance Institute has published a free, independent resource to equip UK farming communities with an understanding of nature markets.

The ‘Farming Toolkit for Assessing Opportunities in Nature Markets’ launched on Thursday, January 11.

It includes step-by-step guidance on carbon credits, biodiversity net gain and nutrient neutrality, while supporting growers with eligibility information for Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund (NEIRF) funding.

Andy Slaney, NEIRF programme manager at the Environment Agency (EA), says: “Understanding the opportunities that nature markets provide can feel like a daunting prospect.

Improve “The Farming Toolkit is an invaluable resource for the farming community when considering how to enhance nature and improve the climate resilience of their businesses while seeking to maintain a suitable income.”

The resource includes an introductory guide to nature markets and detailed guidance from assessing land, through engaging with other farmers, to attracting buyers and the final selling of credits or units.

Case studies of farmers already engaging in nature markets

The new toolkit includes an introductory guide to nature markets.

accompany each milestone, as do useful resources and audio clips.

The Farming Toolkit was developed in partnership with Defra, the EA and in consultation with farmers and supports the NEIRF funding process.

NEIRF is a project development fund that is run by the EA and Defra, which provides grants to help nature restoration project managers, land managers and eNGOs to explore how private

finance can be channelled into nature, including through nature markets.

George Dunn, chief executive at the Tenant Farmers Association, says: “To date, farmers have been rewarded, to some extent through public funding, but it is now good to see private markets being developed.

“In landlord tenant situations it will be essential to ensure that tenant farmers have fair access to any private funding available for the

environmental work they carry out.

“They must not be displaced by private sector agreements with landlords which sideline the legitimate and important interests of tenant farmers.”

The toolkit was designed and tested with a group of more than 100 farmers, representing various farm sizes, agricultural sectors, ownership structures and regions.

It provides a framework for farmers to identify and assess nature market opportunities.

Farmers warned of rodenticide rule change FARMERS and gamekeepers will now have to be fully trained in the use of certain rodenticides, following a significant rule change.

Industry members have two years to prepare for the updates which were ordered by the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use UK (CRRU) stewardship group.

As of January 2026, second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) will only be available to users with an up-to-date training certificate.

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an individual is also a member of an approved continuing professional development scheme.

CRRU chair Dr Alan Buckle says despite user groups making widespread advances including improved competence and best practice, greater understanding of the potential adverse impacts of rodenticides on wildlife, and ways to mitigate them, targets had not yet been met.

Dr Buckle says: “The most recent headline is that a stubbornly static 80 per cent of barn owls carry residues of one or more SGARs. These

changes are designed to strengthen stewardship and protect essential uses of rodenticides for all professional user sectors, especially farmers, by meeting environmental targets.”

CRRU was formed in 2016 to reduce wildlife’s exposure to rodenticides. The key indicator has been the incidence of SGAR residues in annual surveys of dead barn owls sent to the Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme by members of the public. According to CRRU, the main causes of death have been vehicle impact or starvation.

“Another important strengthening measure, announced in May 2023, was that from July 2024, none of the five SGARs available in the UK can be purchased for use in ‘open areas’ away from buildings,” says Dr Buckle.

Since January 2023, all stewardship-specific training and certification approved by CRRU has been regulated independently by Ofqual.

All qualifying CPD schemes will also be CRRU-approved.

Two are available already from BASIS PROMPT and BPCA Registered with more expected in 2024.

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How sustainable farming can com The Oxford Real Farming Conference took a deep dive into biological and regenerative practices, and how they can be facilitated at a commercial scale. Ash Ellwood reports.

BIOLOGICAL FARMING AT SCALE FARMING just north of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, Tim Parton has farmed biologically for 14 years on his 300-hectare arable farm.

During the transition, Mr Parton removed all use of fungicides, insecticides, pre-emergence sprays, growth regulators, and all phosphorus and potassiumbased fertilisers.

Mr Parton said: “I find farming with Mother Nature much easier than farming against her.”

Speaking at a session entitled ‘Soil science at scale’, Mr Parton described how he was able to apply biological farming methods to his once conventional system.

He explained that his arable rotation was as diverse as possible, including winter wheat, oilseed rape, spring barley, beans, heritage wheat and lupins.

“Lupins are a fantastic crop as they are so high in protein why we import so much soya when we can grow lupins is always beyond me,” he said.

Each field on the farm grew a cover crop within a 12-month period.

“Cover crops are at the heart of our system as it is so important to

put the exudates back into the soil and really get that soil health right,” said Mr Parton.

Wildflower mixes - including chamomile, cornflower and corn marigold - were included within the rotation, which were sold as natural capital areas.

Microbes The whole farming system was managed as biologically as possible, including putting microbes back into the soil by creating a biological brew.

Mr Parton said: “If you remember: in a teaspoon of healthy soil, there are more microbes than people on the planet. I do not need many microbes to inoculate my farm, so this is the way I can do it at scale and get the soil to work for me.”

Microbes were purchased externally and ‘brewed’ in an IBC tank with an air pump. The microbes were added to a food source, such as molasses, and within 24 hours they would have multiplied by three, which enabled Mr Parton to keep the costs down.

“I use the biological brew as a natural fungicide, which roughly

Tim Parton told the audience how he was able to apply biological farming methods to his once conventional farming system.

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costs me £2-3 per hectare.

Whereas in a previous life [when conventionally farming], I would be spending £30-£40 per hectare on fungicides, so that is a massive saving on a product which I believe is doing a better job,” he said.

The biological brew could be adapted for different uses at different stages of growth.

However, Mr Parton adapted his direct drill to enable him to also apply the microbes at drilling to allow the plant the best start.

Direct drill modifications THE farm had no soil movement before planting as all crops were direct drilled.

“We use a direct drill on the farm to create the furrow, pop the seed in, and let the seed do the work as nature intended,” said Mr Parton.

The drill was adapted over the years to include a liquid system that could apply different microbes, nutrition and compost teas through direct drill at planting.

“Right from day one, I am trying to make the plant as strong and as diverse as possible so it can cope with the environment I am putting it in,” said Mr Parton.

The drill also included seed hoppers when Mr Parton drilled additional companion crops, and a broadcast spreader at the back for jobs including fertiliser amendments or

extra seed requirements.

Lastly, Mr Parton added a road cleaner on the front of the implement, so if the previous crop created challenges for the new seed during drilling, it could sweep the straw out of the way for increased seed-to-soil contact.

Seed-to-soil He said: “We had been having problems in oilseed rape where there was lots of chaff from the previous crop. We only drill very shallow, so as the straw was breaking down, the soil would become very acidic, and we had problems with yellow plants.

“By sweeping the trash away we got the seed-to-soil contact we needed, so we made the permanent addition to the drill.”

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n complement large-scale systems This year saw the 15th annual Oxford Real Farming Conference with 45 sessions across two days.

More information n The Oxford Real Farming Conference took place on January 4-5, 2024, both online and in-person in Oxford n For more information, visit orfc.org.uk/

QUANTIFYING REGENERATIVE BENEFITS BALBIRNIE Home Farms is a 1,300-hectare farm based in Fife, Scotland. The enterprise is mixed, including 800ha of arable on a rotation including oats, spring barley, winter wheat, spring beans, potatoes and brassica vegetables, plus 200 suckler cows.

After taking over the farm in 2018, managing partner Johnnie Balfour said his journey into regenerative farming started by reading as many books as he could.

He then became an agroecology ambassador for the Soil Association and was elected to the board of directors for Pasture for Life, which is a certification for 100 per cent grass-fed meat and dairy.

Mr Balfour said: “The farm is still quite conventional, but we transitioned from heavy cultivation and large arable inputs supporting livestock that were housed for six or seven months of the year, being finished on homegrown grain.

“The system was not working as

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We have managed to halve the fungicide use for wheat, and we have not used insecticides on any of the crops for many years JOHNNIE BALFOUR we were not making enough money and I could not see the point in continuing it.”

Over five years, both cultivations and inputs were reduced, with the cattle being fed in-field forage on a mob grazing system. This winter

was to be the first time the cattle would be out all year round, outwintering on forage crops.

Due to these changes, Mr Balfour has seen a 50 per cent reduction in tractor use over the past five years and has not used any fungicides on barley, oats or beans for the last three years.

“We have also managed to halve the fungicide use for wheat, and we have not used insecticides on any of the crops for many years,” he added.

The farm has been the AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland since 2020, with the key areas of focus including regenerative agriculture practices, plant health, soil health and reduced inputs.

The AHDB host farmer, farm manager David Aglen, was managing a selection of trials including cover crop assessments, direct drilled establishments and optimising nitrogen applications.

Mr Balfour said: “The AHDB

Strategic Farm Scotland has been hugely beneficial for us to learn from all of the people coming in and doing studies on the arable crops.”

Fruit trees In 2022, Mr Balfour began planting fruit trees into an undersown herbal ley as part of an agroforestry project.

“We plan to introduce the cattle into the corridors next year where they can graze in between the orchard.

Once the fruit trees are productive, I plan to make cider,” he said.

The project has been self-funded to date due to a lack of funding opportunities in Scotland.

However, Mr Belfour said he was hoping that the next round of Scottish agroforestry support would be better.

“We did receive support from NatureScot through the Nature Restoration fund, providing funding for hedges around the farm,” he said.

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SALES Longtown Ladies peak at 4,000gns

Edited by Angela Calvert – 07768 796 492 – angela.calvert@agriconnect.com

champion to 3,200gns THE Longtown Ladies sale of pedigree females topped at 4,000gns for a Procters El Presidente daughter out of a Rhaeadr Best of the Best dam from Boden and Davies’ Sportsmans flock, Stockport. It sold, in-lamb to Knap General Lee to Robert Cockburn, Crieff.

The pre-sale show champion from the same pen was also by El Presidente, but out of a Deveronva-

le Ace of Diamonds-sired ewe and in-lamb to Knap Grumpy. It sold for 2,200gns to the judges, James and Ellie Amphlett, Worcestershire.

Alan Blackwood, Auldhouseburn flock, Muirkirk, sold two gimmer shearlings at 1,600gns apiece, both to Donegal purchasers. An Auldhouseburn Expression daughter went to A. Mackey, Dunkineely, and a Seaforde Empire King daughter to Michael Gallagher, Corcreggan.

Also at 1,600gns, Mr Cockburn sold the third prize gimmer by New

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Pre-sale show champion, a shearling gimmer from S. and A. Watson, Galashiels, which sold for 1,800gns to Messrs Stewart, Blackford.

Intock flock leads Border Leicester trade THE pre-sale show champion, a shearling gimmer from S. and A. Watson’s Intock flock, Galashiels, topped the trade at 1,800gns at the Border Beauties show and sale of Border Leicesters at Carlisle. By Knockglass Mr Dandy and carrying twins to Drennans Big Mac, it was knocked down to Messrs Stewart, Blackford.

The same buyer then paid 1,300gns for the third prize-winning ewe lamb, a Westforth Walk On daughter from John Barrowman’s Knockglass flock, Stranraer.

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Alnwick, which sold to Messrs Dyson, Morpeth.

Gimmers Two gimmers sold for 1,100gns. First was a Spotsmains Diamond daughter in-lamb to Alitcan Archie from E. Stokeld, Middlesborough, which went to Messrs Grant, Kilrenny. The other was a gimmer by Didcot Diamond from the Intock flock which sold to Messrs Watson, Holmrook.

AVERAGES 3 ewes, £518; 16 shearling gimmers, £1,004.06; 18 ewe lambs, £659.16.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

Overall reserve champion, a ewe hogg from James Hair, Stranraer, which sold for 3,200gns to Gordon Gray, Selkirk.

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Top price, a Procters El Presidente daughter, from Boden and Davies, Stockport, which sold for 4,000gns to Robert Cockburn, Crieff.

View Electrifying to A. Hambleton, Thornhill.

Ewe hoggs sold to 3,200gns for the overall reserve champion, a Haymount First Class daughter from James Hair’s Drumbreddan flock, Stranraer, which went to Gordon Gray, Selkirk.

Consignment Others from this consignment sold at 2,000gns, to Kenny Pratt’s Hilltown flock, Peterculter, at 1,500gns to Messrs Mosey, Gilling East, North Yorkshire, and 1,300gns to the judges.

The sale included Texel disper-

sals of the Lintalee flock for Maurice Hardy-Bishop, Jedburgh, and the Wallace flock for June Scott, Jedburgh, which topped at 600gns twice for in-lamb ewes.

Suffolk ewes topped at 700gns from Ali Jackson`s Tiptop flock, Annan, with Dutch Spotted inlamb gimmers to 1,300gns and 1,100gns from Louise Linton, Whitcastle.

AVERAGES Texels - 81 gimmer shearlings, £734; 20 ewe hoggs, £614; 13 ewes, £428; Suffolk ewes, £657.

Auctioneers: C. and D. Auction Marts.

Gisburn dairy sale to £2,600 high GISBURN’S first dairy sale of 2024 topped at £2,600 for a newlycalved pedigree heifer from M. and J. Bristol, Newton-in-Bowland, which was a daughter of Sound System out of a Dealmaker dam giving 31kg daily. It was knocked down to N.W. and J.M. Coulthurst and Son, Goosnargh, Next, at £2,550, was a Copdon heifer from G.D. Donkin, Blackburn. By Bacon-Hill Hurricane and giving 34kg, it sold to volume buyer B.F. Blezard, Preston, who bought the next four top price pedigree heifers.

These were the first prize heifer

by Claynook Casper from J.J.M. and H.J. Walmsley, Fordswood herd, Preston, at £2,450, followed by £2,380 for an Aireburn heifer by Wilra Harvet, from G.B. Moorhouse, Bell Busk, a Wilder daughter from the same home at £2,350

and at the same money the third prize heifer by Stantons Adorable from T. Cowell’s Whitecarr herd, Lancashire.

Non-pedigree section The non-pedigree section peaked at £2,520 for a first prize heifer from S.J. Sugden, West Yorkshire, which sold to Messrs Blezard.

The cow trade peaked at £2,400 for a second calver from Messrs Hutchinson. In-calf heifers met £1,900 twice from D.W. and M.N. Ishmael, Wigan.

AVERAGES Pedigree newly-calved heifers, £2,167; pedigree newly-calved cows, £2,000; non-registered newly-calved heifers, £1,951; non-registered newly-calved cows, £2,213; in-calf heifers, £1,608; pedigree in-calf heifers, £1,867.

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Dyfnant Adda 18, from D.G. and B. Thomas, Aberdyfnant, Llangadog, which sold for 14,000gns to W.G. and M.E. Evans, Talybont, Gwynedd.

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bull sells for 9,000gns THE Farmers Guardian-supported Welsh Black Cattle Society sale at Dolgellau peaked at 14,000gns for Dyfnant Adda 18, a June 2022-born bull by Nantrhys Adda, from D.G. and B. Thomas, Aberdyfnant, Llangadog.

The buyers were W.G. and M.E. Evans, Talybont, Gwynedd.

Second top price of 9,500gns was for Machreth William 3, an April 2022born bull from Lewis R. Williams, Llanfachreth. It sold to E.W., M.M. and D. Jenkins, Talybont, who themselves had the champion bull, July 2022-born Tynygraig Samuel 6 which sold for 9,000gns to L.R. Williams a’i Gwmni, Llanfachreth, Gwynedd.

Deicws Samuel 4, a bull from G.C. Williams, Gwytherin, Conwy, was knocked down for 7,200gns to Messrs Jones, Nantlle, Gwynedd.

Messrs Thomas also sold another bull, June 2022-born Dyfnant Blewgi 2 for 5,200gns to Messrs Williams.

Reserve champion Making 3,000gns was the reserve champion bull, August 2022-born Deiniolen Gerwyn, from Michael Wyn Jones a’i fab, Penisarwaen, Gwynedd, which went home with R. LL. M. Jones, Star, Gwynedd.

The champion maiden heifer,

Machreth William 3, from Lewis R. Williams, Llanfachreth, which sold for 9,500gns to E.W., M.M. and D. Jenkins, Talybont.

Welsh Black bulls top Dolgellau at 14,000gns Mynach Gwyneth 80 from A. and R.C. Williams, Pentre, Cwmtirmynach, was bought for 2,900gns

by S.J. Layton, Knoakes Court Livestock, Leominster.

Reserve champion maiden heifer was Llwynsarn Cati 27 from H.W. Jones, Llwynsarn, Rhydymain. It made 2,300gns to J.J. and M.M. Lewis, Llangwyrfon, Ceredigion.

Llwynsarn Beti Ddu 27, another maiden heifer from the same farm, sold for 2,050gns to R. LL. M. Jones.

Auctioneers: Farmers Mart, Dolgellau.

Champion bull Tynygraig Samuel 6, from E.W., M.M. and D. Jenkins, Talybont, which sold for 9,000gns to L.R. Williams a’i Gwmni, Llanfachreth, Gwynedd.

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SALES North West Texel Breeders Club pre-sale show champion, a Texel shearling gimmer from K.A. and R. Campbell, Lochgoilhead, which sold for 1,600gns to Harry Griffies, Biggar.

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J36 pre-sale show champion, Woodies Happy Girl, a Beltex shearling ewe from Stuart Wood, Skene, which sold for 1,800gns to Hannah Pedley, Kirkby Stephen.

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champion leads trade AT the sale of pedigree female sheep at J36 Beltex topped at 1,800gns for the pre-sale show champion, Woodies Happy Girl, a shearling ewe from Stuart Wood, Skene, which sold carrying twins to Swffryd Eyecatcher to Hannah Pedley, Kirkby Stephen.

The second prize winner, Tercrosset Helter Skelter, from T.C. Whiteford, Brampton, made 680gns to M. Wilcock, Wigan, with other shearlings from the same home selling to

700gns to B. Bousfield, Kirkby Stephen. The third prize winner, Mortons Henrietta, from A. Morton, Denny, sold for 750gns to B. Cowton, Bishop Auckland.

Ewes sold to 350gns for K. Williams, Gwynedd.

The sale of Badger Face Texels saw gimmer hoggs sell to 850gns for Messrs Wood, with others at 750gns from H. Pedley, Kirkby Stephen.

Show and sale The North West Texel Breeders Club show and sale peaked at 1,600gns for the pre-sale show champion, a shearling gimmer by

Sportsmans Express out of an Auldhouseburn Boss-sired ewe, from K.A. and R. Campbell’s Cowal flock, Lochgoilhead. It sold, carrying twins to Milnbank Freddie, to the judge Harry Griffies, for the Cairngryffe flock, Biggar.

Next, making 1,500gns, was the reserve champion, a gimmer by New View Electrifying from Gordon Gray’s Ettrick flock, Selkirk. Inlamb with twins to Clarks Grey Goose, it was knocked down to Charlie Fielder, Test Valley flock, Romsey.

Four gimmers sold for 1,400gns.

Firstly, for two ET sisters, by Sea-

forde Empire King from Boden and Davies’ Sportmans flock, Stockport, which went to Spear Farming, Leeds, and Eamonn Vaughan, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Spearing Farming also paid 1,400gns for a New View Electrifying daughter in-lamb to Knap Godzilla from Messrs Gray, with a gimmer by Hope Valley Dazzler from the same home also making 1,400gns to David Morrison, Girvan.

Texel ewe hoggs topped at 950gns for Leigh Smith and Joanne Huddart’s Majestic flock, Hensingham.

Auctioneers: North West Auctions.

and Carnduff herd tops Carlisle dairy sale Solway Tyne Texels to THE first dairy sale of the year at Carlisle topped at £2,620 for the Bryson family, Lanarkshire, with the heifer, Carnduff Kenmore Girl, a Denovo Kenmore daughter giving 39kg.

It sold to Messrs Kincaid, Lockerbie, who also paid the top cow price of £2,520 for Wreaywood Rusty Sonya Red, a second calver giving 47kg from the Wilson family, Carlisle.

A selection of heifers from Andrew Graves, Cockermouth, peaked at £2,450 for a daughter of Delta Fisherman with a PL+£409, which went to Messrs Fisher, Kirkcudbright.

The Esk pedigree Holstein Friesian herd dispersal from Robert Byers, Canonbie, topped at £2,400 for Esk Supersire Hopey, a Seagull-Bay Supersire daughter in its third lactation, giving 42kg. The buyer was Messrs Connell, Maryport.

Daughter Also selling for £2,400 was Kibbleston Samuri Jan, a OCD Spring Samuri daughter from the Craig family, Fife, which went to Messrs Robinson, Brampton.

In-calf heifers topped at £1,650 twice for Wyreview Mauro Lotus and Wyreview Lunar Rika due in

April to Red Ranger sexed, from the Parkinson family, Lancashire.

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AVERAGES 103 Holstein heifers in-milk, £2,108.25; 31 Holstein cows in-milk, £2,066.77; 6 Ayrshires in-milk, £1,671.66; 3 British Friesian cows in-milk, £1,766.66; 3 Jersey cows in-milk, £1,216.66; 3 faulted cows, £1,433.33; 11 Holstein in-calf heifers, £1,441.82;16 short-bred Holstein heifers, £1,018.12; 2 Jersey in-calf heifers, £710; 6 Holstein bulling heifers, £730; 2 Jersey bulling heifers, £365.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

A TEIGLUM Cinnamon daughter out of a Sportsmans-bred ewe by Garngour Craftsman and in-lamb with twins to Auldhouseburn Ghost topped the Solway and Tyne Texel Club sale at Carlisle at 2,000gns.

Consigned by Eamonn Vaughan’s Partridge Nest flock, Newcastleunder-Lyme, it sold to Glen Wilson for the Rule Water flock, Hawick.

Next, at 1,400gns, from Alan Blackwood’s Auldhouseburn flock, Muirkirk, was a gimmer by Auldhouseburn Expression out of a Garngour Alabama daughter. It sold carrying twins to Haymount Fan Dabi Dozi, to Gemma Brown, Darwen.

Making 1,000gns was an aged ewe

by Glenway Ace of Diamonds inlamb to Hexel Funky Pigeon from the dispersal on the Callerton flock on behalf of Malcom Sym, Ponteland, which sold to J.R. Lawton, Throckley.

Kirkby Stephen sees store cattle trade reach £2,200 THE show and sale of store cattle at Kirkby Stephen topped at £2,200 for a 20-month-old Limousin steer from Messrs Atkinson, Bleatarm, who also sold 19-monthold Limousin cross steers to £2,175 twice, £2,145 three times and £2,100. The consignment of 12 Limousin cross steers from this home averaged £2,095.

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18-month-old British Blue cross steer from Messrs Sowerby, Ormside, which sold for £1,980.

Limousin cross heifers sold to £2,045 from Messrs Owen, Kirkby Stephen.

British Blue cross black and white steers sold to £1,945, £1,835 twice and £1,735 twice for Messrs Brass, Soulby, who also sold Aberdeen-Angus cross steers to £1,855.

Holstein/Friesian steers sold to £1,455 for a pen of four from Messrs Longrigg, Appleby.

Steers averaged £1,481.95 (up £200.49 on the year) and heifers averaged £1,372.85, up £30.78, giving an overall averaged of £1,432.48, up £125.21 for 124 more cattle sold.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Heatherington.

AVERAGES 14 gimmers, £756, 17 aged ewes, £542.91, 1 ewe lamb, £525.

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ANDERSON Farming, Keith, was the leading buyer at the Blue Belles sale of Bluefaced Leicester females at Carlisle, paying the top price of 3,500gns.

This was for the fourth prize winning gimmer shearling by L1 Ashes from Alan McClymont’s Kirkstead flock, Yarrow, carrying

twins to Kirkstead S11. Its full ET sister, in-lamb with triplets to £23,000 Espley, went to the same home for 2,000gns.

The same buyer also paid the second top price of 3,200gns for a gimmer shearling by a £9,500 Lowes Fell ram and carrying triplets to Parton M31, from Frank Johnson’s Ashes flock, Bishop Auckland.

The Burndale flock reduction from D.W. Henderson, Wylam,

topped at 2,200gns for a two-crop ewe by M1 Kirkstead and carrying twins to P2 Pield View, which was knocked down to Messrs McClymont.

The first prize gimmer shearling and the day’s reserve champion sold for 1,250gns. From Matthew Seed, Auchry, it was by N2 West Bolton and carrying lambs by the R1 Nant Y Glyd, and it sold to Messrs Davies and Sons, Llanymynech, Powys.

The overall champion from Lisa Fleming’s Falnash flock, Hawick, was a ewe lamb by N11 Bonvilston, which sold for 1,000gns to Messrs Morton, Penrith.

AVERAGES 8 ewes, £813.75; 42 shearling gimmers, £798.50; 7 ewe lambs, £735; 17 High Craigs flock, £466.32; 20 Burndale flock, £786.97.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

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Fourth prizewinning gimmer shearling, from Alan McClymont’s Kirkstead flock, Yarrow, which sold for 3,500gns to Anderson Farming, Keith.

Beltex claim prime lamb championship AT the January prime lamb show and sale at Skipton, the championship went to Richard and Mark Ireland, Whalley, with five 45kg Beltex making £174/head – a section top – to Knavesmire Butchers, York.

Judge Mick Etherington, Eldwick, awarded the reserve championship to Brian and Linda Lund, Walshaw, with 44kg Beltex which made £168/ head.

The third prize 50kg Beltex pen from William and Michael Oldfield, Newsholme, sold at £174/head, with others at £168 and £158 to a section by-weight high of £4/kg.

Old season lambs The 3,110 old season lambs averaged £121.72/head or 286.3p/kg (SQQ 284.9p/kg).

Auctioneers: CCM.

Gimmer shearling, from Frank Johnson’s Ashes flock, Bishop Auckland, which sold for 3,200gns to Anderson Farming, Keith.

Skipton dairies to £2,400 high twice THE dairy sale at Skipton topped at £2,400 twice, with the judge, Brian Blezard, Ribchester, paying that price for his champion; a 35kg Decembercalved daughter of KFH Epic Sassafras from Mark Smith, Winterburn.

The other to make £2,400 was the third prize heifer, which was 10 days calved and giving 28kg, from Raymond and Robert Johnson, Felliscliffe, selling to Mark Goodall, Tong.

Paul, Janet and James Bolland,

Airton, continued the dispersal of their Dyklelands herd and had 10 milkers forward, peaking at £2,250 for the second prize cow in-milk; a 41kg fresh second calver by ABS Onyx bought by Richard Crabtree, Otley.

This was followed by the second placed heifer in-milk from the same home; a 30kg daughter of Claynook Francisco, which made £2,220 to John Howard, Heslaker.

Auctioneers: CCM.

Store cattle to £3,100 at Cockermouth

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THERE was a flying trade at the show and sale of store cattle at Cockermouth, which was judged

by Matthew and Harry Brown, Carnaby.

Their champion was a British Blue heifer from I. Powley, Carlisle, which went on to sell for the top price of £3,100.

In reserve was a Limousin steer from S. Hardisty and Son,

Ennerdale, which sold for £2,100.

R.W. and J.H. Emmott, Cockermouth, sold 11-month-old heifers to £2,350 and strong heifers from T.W. West, Pickett Howe, topped at £2,070.

Forward steers sold to £2,070 for G. and T. Tyson, Brigham, with young bulls to £2,000 for W.G. and D. Wilkinson, Brookfield.

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30 BARREN COWS COWS IN OR WITH CALF 80 STOCK/FEEDING BULLS 450 STORE CATTLE Greg Christopher - 07770 972815 Matthew Nicholls - 07811 521267 Rory Matthews - 07983 465226 HMA Ltd, The Livestock Centre, Roman Road, Hereford HR4 7AN 01432 761882 www.herefordmarket.co. uk email: hma@herefordmarket.com

015242 61444 - Sale Days 61246 Stephen 07713 075 661 Greg 07713 075 664 Will 07590 876 849 www.benthamauc on.co.uk

Tuesday 16th January 10.30am Feeding & Cast Cows & OTM Cattle 653 FARMERS STIRKS & YOUNG STORES

Wednesday 17th January 10.30am COGENT WINTER DAIRY DAY Prize Show & Sale of Newly Calved Cows & Hfrs 11am 100-150 REARING CALVES 2.30pm 2000 Cast Ewes followed by 2500-3500 Prime Hoggs Tuesday 23rd January 1st Winter Sale of 1500 IN LAMB BREEDING SHEEP Inc. Flock Dispersals from F & ML Lee & Son of 180 Cheviot/ Cheviot x Texel Ewes & Shlgs (Tick Bitten) IL to Cheviot/ Texel Rams due March 25th, C Gibson & Son, Burneside Hall of 450 NofE Mule Ewes & Shlgs due March 1st to Texel Rams Annual Consignment from T Crick of 150 Mule Shlgs & 150 1-2 Crop Ewes due March 28th FORTNIGHTLY SALE OF STORE HOGGS Entries for catalogue close Friday 12th January Saturday 3rd February Annual Multi Breed Sale of Individual Breeding Sheep Inc. Dalesbred for Dalesbred Sheep Breeders Assoc., Swaledale for Swaledale Sheep Breeders Assoc., Teeswater for Teeswater Sheep Breeders Assoc., Blue Faced Leicester, Herdwick, Cheviot & Others Entries for catalogue close Friday 19th January

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18th January - Newcastle Emlyn: Calves, weanlings, culls & sheep 19th January – Carmarthen: Barren cows, store ca le & sheep 24th January - Carmarthen: Dairy ca le, calves & weanlings 25th January – Newcastle Emlyn: Calves, weanlings, culls & sheep 26th January - Carmarthen: Barren cows, store ca le & sheep 30th January - Newcastle Emlyn: Store ca le 31st January - Carmarthen: Dairy ca le, calves & weanlings 1st February - Newcastle Emlyn: Calves, weanlings, culls & sheep 2nd February - Carmarthen: Barren cows, store ca le & sheep 5th February – Carmarthen: Weaned calves, suckler cows, bulls 7th February – Carmarthen: Dairy ca le, calves & weanlings 8th February – Newcastle Emlyn: Calves, weanlings, culls & sheep 9th February - Carmarthen: Barren cows, store ca le & sheep 12th February - Carmarthen: Orange TB sale 13th February - Newcastle Emlyn: Store ca le 14th February - Carmarthen: Dairy ca le, calves & weanlings 15th February - Newcastle Emlyn: Calves, weanlings, culls & sheep 16th February - Carmarthen: Barren cows, store ca le & sheep 17th February – Carmarthen – Collec ve Machinery Sale

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Farmers deserve recognition Richard Hyde on trade and food supply

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ast year was another exceptional year for Hereford, Builth Wells and Talgarth markets.

We took on Builth Wells in 2020 and have invested massively in new penning, concrete and loading bays. In June, the pre-EID sale saw the investment prove its worth with more than 9,000 sheep sold and some pens being used three times.

Generally, 2023 saw tremendous trade, with confidence in store stock repaid with the best prime lamb trade we have ever seen throughout the autumn period.

This culminated with some terrific trades throughout the Christmas and New Year period, which thankfully continues now with strong export demand from Germany and France.

The threat of increased New Zealand and Australian sheepmeat looms over us, but it is wholly unfair

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to put their product on the same shelf as our own when welfare standards and medicine withdrawal periods are so different. Over Christmas, 2kg legs of New Zealand lamb were reduced to £10.99 in our local Tesco. What good is that for the producer in New Zealand, the carbon footprint and sales of our own product?

Locally and nationally, farmers’ ‘peace of mind’ is being severely stretched at the end of the Basic Pay-

ment Scheme. This is a serious concern and there is no promotion of food production – only environmental schemes.

The function of a farmer is to produce food and they want to feel valued for feeding the nation. Less than 2 per cent of the population produce 60 per cent of our food, but there is precious little appreciation.

We have two major conflicts in the world: the Red Sea shipping route in peril and the effects of global warming on the world climate.

We have just been through a pandemic, but our politicians learn nothing and leave food production and supply to supermarkets, which are very good at their job but generally of little benefit to a producer.

Prices Our harvest next year is unlikely to be good after the wet autumn of 2023.

The prices to the producer have many times been reduced to the point where they reduce or cease production, and then we must import

products from other countries – very often not produced to our standards.

There are too many global and national influences that can disrupt commodity availability. Government scientists need to raise the alarm to politicians about safeguarding our home-produced food supply and giving those producing it recognition for their labour, rather than concerns about how they will continue.

We have taken food supply and availability for granted for too long, and it could very easily be compromised. But it is possible to combine production with environmental schemes to protect our food supply.

Our climate is temperamental, but we can produce food and we need to do so to prevent being held to ransom from abroad. Our home-grown food supply should be sacrosanct; let us hope our politicians wake up to reality.

Richard Hyde is auctioneer at Hereford Market Auctioneers.

Call 07977 467 165, or email hma@herefordmarket.com

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Auctioneers: Jeremy Eaton - 07747 780481 Ted Ogden - 07855 958211 Kyle Hawksworth - 07538 539077 Rob Cloughton 07496 278828

ONLINE SALE

Monday 15th January

Tel: 01228 406200

Genetic Selection sale of

SHOW & SALE OF REARING CALVES

“Classy Lassies” show and sale of registered crossing type inlamb

SEMEN & EMBRYOS of BEEF CATTLE & SHEEP

129 BLUEFACED LEICESTER FEMALES Monday 15th January Show 9.00am Sale 11.00am 9 ewes 45 shearling gimmers 74 ewe hoggs and 1 pregnancy

PEDIGREE DAIRY DAY 120 DAIRY CATTLE SELLING Wednesday 17th January Show 10.00am Sale 11.00am 5 Cows In Milk - 112 Heifers In Milk – 3 Breeding Bulls No.1 source for quality milkers in the UK QUALITY MILKERS Quality milkers producing oceans of milk sell in this sale all bred from herds with excellent health status. Prefixes include: Bankview, Belaw, Berryholme, Boclair, Carldanton, Carsewalloch, Chapelhouse, Crowdundle, Dalserf, Denmire, Drumtall, Dunnerdale, Enbridge, Ernespie, Errolston, Espland, Feizor, Greengrass, Heathersgill, Holehouse, Kepculloch, Kingcaird, Liscabank, Nethervalley, Ploughlands, Potstown, Potts, Stowbeck, Swaites, Wormanby, Whiteflat BREEDERS CHOICE Several top end animals sell including FEIZOR ATTICO W LASENZA & BOCLAIR CHIEF ELEGANCE plus heifers from the APPLE, ASHLYN, ATLEE, MARIE, DELLIA, & SHARON families.

LARGE GROUPS 13 from ESPLAND 12 from STOWBECK 10 from DENMIRE FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK TO VIEW SALE LOTS PRIOR TO SALE

28 PEDIGREE BRITISH BLUE CATTLE Friday 19th January Judging 10.00am Sale 11.30am On behalf of the British Blue Cattle Society Comprising 18 bulls and 10 females

BEEF BREEDING CATTLE Wednesday 24th January Entries close Wednesday 17th January Show and sale of

PEDIGREE GALLOWAY and WHITEBRED SHORTHORN CATTLE Friday 1st March Entries close Friday 26th January

Bidding starts 10am Wednesday 24th January finishing from 10am Thursday 25th January Comprising: Beef - 350 lots semen and 44 lots embryos Sheep – 279 lots semen and 23 lots embryos

KIRKBY STEPHEN MART Tel: 01768 371385

“KIRKBY CLASSIC” special prize show and sale potential of SHOW CATTLE Monday 5th February Entries close 10am Monday 22nd January Prize show and sale of

CROWNED SINGLE INLAMB SWALEDALE EWES

Show 10.30am Sale 10.45am Classes for BB Bull & Hfr, Lim Bull & Hfr, Native Bull & Hfr, Other Cont Bull & Hfr, Dairy Bull (All 8wks & under – Champ/Res 8 wks & under) Native Bull & Hfr Stirk, Cont Bull & Hfr Stirk PRIME, CAST & FEEDING CATTLE Sale 11.30am (TB exempt section available) SALE OF PRIME HOGGS Sale 12.30pm followed by CAST EWES Wednesday 17th January 200 FEEDING BULLS Sale 10.00am followed by 10 PRIME CATTLE, 35 BEEF FEEDING COWS & 425 STORE BULLOCKS & HEIFERS

Thursday 8th February Also gimmer hoggs and flock books on behalf of the Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association.

Also other breeds of inlamb ewes and geld gimmer hoggs entries invited until sale day Entries 10am Monday 22nd January

STIRKS, WEANED/SUCKLED CALVES,

NEW SALE FIXTURE

Wednesday 24th January

Saturday 24th February Dispersal sale of 200 inlamb Swaledale ewes (shearlings up) on behalf of M/s Sowerby, Oakbank

STORE HOGGS & BREEDING SHEEP

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(Entries close Monday 15th January)

Tel: 01576 202332

Dairy Cattle

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Monday 22nd January

INLAMB FEMALES

Show & Sale of DAIRY CATTLE

Saturday 10th February Entries close Friday 12th January

MIDDLETON MART Tel: 01833 640281

120 STORE CATTLE Tuesday 16th January Show 10.30am Sale 11.00am

Saturday 20th January BREEDING & CULL GOATS & SHEEP (Entries close Monday 15th January)

Inc SPECIAL MID WINTER SALE OF INLAMB EWES

Monday 5th February Show & Sale of DAIRY CATTLE Entries and Enquiries to Sarah 07710 795585 Working Sheep Dogs Friday 1st March FIELD SALE OF WORKING SHEEP DOGS (Entries close Wednesday 14th February)

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LANCASTER AUCTION MART Tel: 01524 63308 Monday 15th January 10.30am PRIME HOGGS & CAST SHEEP -------------------------------

Friday 19th January 10.15am 150 REARING CALVES & WEANLINGS 10.15am 150 CAST / OTM CATTLE 11.15am 300 STORE CATTLE -------------------------------

Friday 26th January Monthly Sale of FARMER STIRKS & YOUNG STORES

J36 RURAL AUCTION CENTRE Tel: 015395 66200 Tuesday 16th January 1pm 2000 PRIME HOGGS & CAST SHEEP -------------------------------

Thursday 18th January 10.30am Fortnightly Sale of 3000 STORE HOGGS -------------------------------

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Thursday 25th January 10am REARING CALVES & WEANLINGS 10.30am 100 CAST / OTM CATTLE 11.15am STIRKS, STORE & BEEF BREEDING CATTLE -------------------------------

Saturday 27th January 10.30am Rough Fell Females on behalf of the RFSBA Swaledale Females on behalf of the SSBA Individual Cheviot, Herdwick & Bluefaced Leicester Females Dutch Spotted Females on behalf of the Society Also this day Multi-Breed Sale of Individual In-Lamb Breeding Sheep & Commercial In-Lamb Sheep Entries to include: Zwartbles, Texels, Beltexs, Suffolks, Kerry Hills, Dorsets & Millennium Bleus

ONLINE MACHINERY SALES

JANUARY SALE LIVE ONLINE - nwa.auctionmarts.com Sale Concludes Monday 15th January --------------------------------

February Online Sale of Large Items of Machinery Delivery: Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th January To Commence: Fri 2nd Feb & Conclude: Mon 5th Feb Viewing: Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd (am only)

...Yorkshire’s Friendly Mart WEDNESDAY 17TH JANUARY

Saturday 13th January 75 Store Cattle & Cull Cows. Sale at 10.30am

400 Prime Cattle 455 Prime Sheep 185 Prime Pigs

Tuesday 16th January

Pigs 9am Sheep 9.45am Cattle 10.30am

2000 Prime Lambs at 10am

SATURDAY 20TH JANUARY

400 Cast Ewes & Rams

120 Breeding & Store Cattle inc

20 Calves at 10.30am

11 Lim Hfrs 10/12mth GE Lindley & Son 8 BBX AAX Str/Hfr, 18mth J&L Cooling

Saturday 20th January 49 Ind Registered Ewes & Gimmer Lambs

4 Bld Str/Hfr & 2 Bulls, 15-18mth R & L Green

on behalf of the BFL Sheep Breeders Assoc,

Store & Breeding Sheep

followed by 28 Ind Registered Ewes & Gimmer Lambs on behalf of the SSBA Assoc.

Judging 10.30am. Sale at 12 noon.

Sale of Flock Books to follow Telephone: 01969 667207, 015396 20895, 07974 126397, 07711 469280.

Store & Breeding Pigs Pigs 9am Sheep 9.45am Cattle 10.45am Contact Office for Details MART OFFICE: 01757 703347 RICHARD HAIGH 07768 594535 Contact Office for Details MARTwww.selbymart.co.uk OFFICE: 01757 703347 RICHARD HAIGH: 07768 594535 www.selbymart.co.uk

01995 640280 www.garstangmart.co.uk Auctioneer: Ian Atkinson 07944 237516 Tuesday 16th January, 2024 9.00 a.m. 750 Prime Hoggs & 180 Cast Ewes/Tups 10.30 a.m. Sale of 80 Store Cattle 11.30 a.m. 60/80 Rearing Calves, Weanlings & Stirks Wednesday 17th January, 2024 10.30 a.m. OTM Cattle Sale & TB Exempt Cattle Wednesday 24th January, 2024 12.00 noon Show & Sale of Dairy Cattle Entries for Catalogue Close 10.00 a.m. 18th January To inc. on-going Dispersal of 25 N/C Cows & Heifers Saturday 17th February 2024 Early Spring Sale of Machinery & Implements Saturday 24th February 2024 “BROCKHOLES BEST OF BRITISH” SALE OF NATIVE PEDIGREE BREEDING BULLS & FEMALES Entries Close 31st January

GISBURN AUCTION MARTS Auctioneers, Valuers, Agents Tom Greenow - Market Manager 01200445376 Rachel Capstick 07713075659 Jack Pickup 07710708326 Eleanor O’Neill 07706347505 Matthew Middleton 07860659803 Saturday 13 January 9.30am WEEKLY CAST SHEEP & PRIME HOGGS 431+ 10.30am OPENING NEW YEARS SALE OF BREEDING & STORE CATTLE HEAD catalogue online now Thursday 18 January 10.30am PRIME & CULL CATTLE 10.30am REARING CALVES 11.00am SEMEX UK & JAMESON FEEDS SHOW & SALE OF DAIRY entries to Eleanor by Monday 15th Saturday 20 January 9.30am WEEKLY CAST SHEEP & PRIME HOGGS 10.30am BREEDING SHEEP to inc special sale of In Lamb Sheep; MV Acc, Pure, Coloured/ Commercial followed by STORE HOGGS entries please Thursday 25 January 10.30am PRIME & CULL CATTLE 10.30am REARING CALVES 11.00am WEEKLY DAIRY 12.30pm STIRKS entries to the office by 12noon

Tuesday 23rd

Tuesday 6 February 10.00am MONTHLY MACHINERY SALE entries to the yard 8am-2pm Monday 5th. Loadall available. Advise office of entries for advertising

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609 Cattle & 1,803 Sheep - Full report available on our website Store Cattle Entries for Monday 15th January Please call the Bakewell Office on 12th January before 12 Noon Call 01629 812777 Watch the livestreamed cattle sales on www.streaming.auctionmarts.com ********************** THURSDAY LUNCHTIME WEEKLY SHEEP SALE SPECIAL ENTRY OF IN LAMB EWES - THURSDAY 18TH JANUARY 2024 62 NC Mule Draft Ewes - Scanned in lamb at over 200% to Texel, due Mid March Enzo, Toxo, Footvax, Hept P & Dectomax, showered with Golden Fleece Sale to commence 12 Noon - FURTHER ENTRIES INVITED Entries/Enquiries, contact Peter Oven: peter.oven@bagshaws.com or 07973 982443 Or Ivor Lowe: ivor.lowe@bagshaws.com or 07977 449126 ***********************

HPLS CATTLE SALE - FRIDAY 19TH JANUARY, 10.30AM

690 CATTLE

175 Feeding Bulls & 515 Steers & Heifers

Saturday 4th February - Over 500 lots Rural & Domestic Bygones Moved to Bakewell Agricultural Business Centre Sale to commence at 10am Catalogues available from the Bakewell Office or www.auctionmarts.com Online & Live Bidding For any further Information call Peter Oven at the Bakewell Office

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Friday 19th January @11.00am Sale of Store & Breeding Stock 50 Store Lambs, 8 New Calven Hfrs/Cows Inc 3 from M R Ashton ongoing Dispersal 10 Feeding Cows, 10 Young Bulls 300 Store Cattle 50 Fresh Farmers Calves at 11.30am Saturday 10th February at 10.30 Machinery & Sundries Sale Items accepted Friday 12-2.30 Or Saturday am Ian Smith - Mart Manager 07738043771 Office 01943 462172 wfam@auctionmarts.com

335 DAIRY CATTLE

✰ 60 FRESHLY CALVED COWS & HEIFERS from Beaconhill, Beneknowle, Dinnaton (x15), Kenham, Leweston, Lilylane, Moorshard, Newmead, Peacehay & Swallowdale ✰ To include The Dispersal Sale of 47 British Friesian Dairy Cows & Aberdeen Angus X Bull for IJ & ME Bailey (Removed from Ruxton Court Farm, Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire for convenience of Sale ✰ 147 INCALF & SERVED HEIFERS from EH Brown, J Dale & Son (Dispersal), JW Finding (Farms) Ltd (LIC Bred, Dispersal), Leweston & GH, VM & RA Pearce (Dispersal) ✰ 62 BULLING & YEARLING G R E E N S L AHEIFERS D E T A Y L O Rfrom HUNJ T Dale & Sons (Dispersal) www.gth.net & Leweston ✰ 20 HEIFER CALVES from FAW Baker Kingston Farms Ltd (Norwegian Red X) ** Live bidding on MartEye, please register in advance at gth.marteye.ie ** GREENSLADE TAYLOR HUNT www.gth.net

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SEDGEMOOR AUCTION CENTRE Thursday 18th January 2024 at 10.30am with the Heifer Calves The Winter Warmer Collective Dairy Sale of

Bakewell Market Results - Monday 8th January

Tel: 01629 812777

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THE BRITISH BLUE CATTLE SOCIETY Carlisle 19th January Show 9.30am Sale 11.30am 18 BULLS 10 FEMALES Other Sale Dates: • Shrewsbury 2nd March • Dungannon 22nd March • Melton Mowbray 23rd March • Worcester 27th April THE BRITISH BLUE CATTLE SOCIETY 01768 870522 info@britishbluecattle.org

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FGBuyandSell.com Brand new website Visit jobs.farmersguardian.com for the latest job vacancies in agriculture

We have the following important posi ons available due to the natural re rement of two Directors and the con nued growth and progression of the business. Located to serve our large valued rural client base in the stunning scenery of the southwest; a region s ll dominated and suited to grassland livestock produc on. These roles are centred around our three livestock markets and will offer significant and long-term career opportuni es for the right applicants in a long established, expanding and successful auc oneering and land agency business.

Calf/S rk and Store Ca le Auc oneer

Kivells are recrui ng for a passionate ca le auc oneer who delivers the highest level of customer care with an appe te and ability to source, auc on and head their own department. This is a tremendous opportunity for the right auc oneer with significant career/business opportuni es.

Sheep Auc oneer

Kivells are looking for an enthusias c and commi ed sheep auc oneer to work alongside our exis ng 2 sheep auc oneers and provide a complete service to our sheep farming clientele of sourcing and selling both finished and breeding sheep within our three livestock markets. This role would suit an auc oneer looking to gain further experience and grow their career or an aspiring auc oneer.

Machinery Auc oneer/Fieldsman

With a very successful and expanding monthly machinery sale on our own site, online auc ons ( med & live) and on farm dispersal sales throughout the year we seek an Auc oneer and/or fieldsman who has the ability to oversee, source and run machinery sales. This person will need a passion to con nue the growth of this very successful department.

Chartered Surveyor/Agricultural Valuer/Land agent

Kivells are looking for a RICS and CAAV qualified surveyor/valuer to provide the highest level of advice and service to our large rural client base in the southwest. The workload will be mainly for our valued private client base of farmers and landowners in the stunning regions of the southwest. Whilst joining a strong team of surveyors and auc oneers, it will be important that the applicant is capable of being self-driven, commercial and building long-term rela onships with clients.

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Agriconnect is a business unit within the Arc network, a global events, data, and media platform. Arc is a fast-growing global events, data, and media platform with a varied portfolio content led portals, magazines, and events.

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We currently have a wide range of positions available nationwide to include:• Herdsperson, Derbyshire, 320 cows • Stockperson/Calf Rearer/GFW, Berkshire, 500 cows • Herdsperson, Dorset, 300 cows Relief Herdspersons Nationwide LKL provides the perfect solution for finding the very best herd carers and managers.

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We are now looking for a motivated and driven salesperson to join our Sales team.

The main function of the role is to develop business through growth in revenue, yield, and to increase customer numbers. You will be required to identify new opportunities and influence companies’ media buying habits within the agricultural sector. Due to the ever-changing nature of the industry, this person will have the ability to spot new avenues and exploit market trends.

Hours: 35 hours per week – Mon – Fri Location: Preston – temporary hybrid remote Salary: Competitive, dependant on experience.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

As finding the right person for these vital roles is crucial to the Directors, we would welcome applica ons from persons with all levels of experience and are very open minded to discussions around a combina on of the roles for the right candidate. These roles have huge poten al for future career progression and business opportuni es. A rac ve salary and working terms.

For further informa on/applica on please contact in complete confidence – Kivells HR department – HR@kivells.com – 01409 259544 or Directors, Mark Bromell – 07966 430001 or Simon Alford – 07789 980203

required for the Stranraer, Castle Douglas and Cumbria areas We are looking for 2 new team members to join our growing team

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Advise existing and new customers on the most effective solution to meet client needs within the Agriconnect portfolio.

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Ability to accurately forecast future sales Keep abreast of all current trends, activities and relevant news within agriculture and specific sector An interest in agriculture Highly motivated & driven, with an ability to meet ambitious performance goals Be enthusiastic and motivated to continually explore new opportunities, whilst possessing a natural inquisitive nature Excellent communication written and interpersonal skills

We offer an excellent package including: A competitive basic salary 25 days holiday increasing to 27 after two years An extra day off on your birthday Free life assurance Contributory pension scheme Employee assistance programme

Arc has ambitious plans for growth, and this is an opportunity to be part of our continuing success story whilst enjoying a fabulous work/life balance.

We strive to create a culture that is open and respectful, where differences are valued and celebrated. We want everyone to be able to reach their full potential, so we are committed to cultivating a company that promotes inclusion and belonging.

To apply for this role, please email amber.tabiner@agriconnect.com

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APPRENTICE AUCTIONEER/FIELDSPERSON COLLECTIVE MACHINERY SALE North East Livestock Sales are ac vely-seeking a highly SATURDAY 28TH OCTOBER 10.00AM mo vated enthusias c Appren ce SALE INCLUDESand SEVERAL PART FARM DISPERSALS View on line at : www.acklingtonmart.co.uk Auc oneer/Fieldsperson for this (Gallery farmerPage)

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Available with a petrol or diesel engine, the Polaris Ranger has been a popular choice for many agricultural businesses. James Huyton puts the two engine options side by side to see how they compare.

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ith several competing manufacturers offering a range of off-road vehicles, including ATVs and UTVs, the price and usability are often key purchasing factors. Could upfront cost and performance give enough reason to step away from traditionally favoured diesel variants and towards petrol?

Petrol power plants are the almost exclusive engine of choice in ATVs, with lighter and more compact designs suiting the agility required on a rider-active vehicle.

Until recently, they have seen fewer requirements in the UTV market, which often needs the low-down torque offered by a

Polaris Ranger: How the petrol and diesel options measure up diesel. With growing pressure on diesel engines to meet scrutinous emissions regulations, a side step to petrol might offer a valued alternative.

Weight savings and overall power are factors that could play in the favour of the petrol Polaris variant, but the question is whether it can provide the torque curve

needed for farm applications. Optional specifications do vary slightly between the petrol and diesel models, but on paper, the units’ size and performance are equal.

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■ Engine: Kubota three-cylinder 25hp ■ Fuel type: Diesel ■ Cylinder displacement: 898cc ■ Transmission: Automatic (belt driven) ■ Brakes: Hydraulic disc ■ Front tyres: 27 x 9 14R ■ Rear tyres: 27 x 11 14R ■ Bed box capacity: 435kg

■ Engine: Prostar 1000 twin-cylinder 82hp ■ Fuel type: Petrol ■ Cylinder displacement: 999cc ■ Transmission: Automatic (belt driven) ■ Brakes: Hydraulic disc ■ Front tyres: 27 x 9 14R ■ Rear tyres: 27 x 11 14R ■ Bed box capacity: 435kg

■ Bed box dimensions (length x width x height): 930 x 1,370 x 290mm ■ Fuel capacity: 43 litres ■ Ground clearance: 330mm ■ Overall vehicle size (length x width x height): 3,050 x 1,580 x 1,960mm ■ Payload: 720kg ■ Towing: 1,136kg ■ Price as tested: £23,590

■ Bed box dimensions (length x width x height): 930 x 1,370 x 290mm ■ Fuel capacity: 43 litres ■ Ground clearance: 330mm ■ Overall vehicle size (length x width x height): 3,050 x 1,580 x 1,960mm ■ Payload: 569kg ■ Towing: 1,134kg ■ Price as tested: £21,379

Side by side, there are few differences between the Polaris Ranger Diesel Deluxe (left) and Petrol XP1000 (right).

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Limitations to the ram height on the electric tipping back restricted tipping angle and free flow of material compared to the manual version.

CARRYING AND CAPACITY THE 3,050 x 1,580 x 1,960mm moulded tipper back offered a durable platform to carry the 435kg and 454kg capacities, on the diesel and petrol variants respectively.

Slight differences in payload gave the diesel variant the edge,

with 720kg compared to 569kg on the petrol. Towing capacities were nearly identical: 1,136kg for the diesel and 1,134kg for the petrol.

Both units incorporated the same load bed, with the only variation being in the tipping mechanism.

Each variant can be specified with

an electrically operated tipping bed, but for test purposes, this was only fitted to the diesel unit. Surprisingly, this did create some notable differences in tipping height, with the manually operated system providing a greater tipped bed angle over the electrically operated

system. This was put down to the shorter hydraulic ram restricting tip height, which caused considerable compromise to material sliding out. This was further hindered by catch points around the tail gate, which also retained material when emptying.

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MACHINERY HANDLING AND PERFORMANCE FROM the outset, there was a clear difference in the noise level both outside and inside the cabin; the petrol variant provides a more refined and low-level engine patter compared to its diesel counterpart.

The 57hp variation between the two engine platforms results in sizeable differences in performance. But, with ample torque, the diesel still delivered when carrying and towing weight with low engine rpm, compared with the petrol which required a much higher rpm to match performance.

Neatly positioned on the dashboard of the petrol ranger, a rocker switch dictates a choice of drive modes: performance, standard and work. This feature is not offered or, in our view, required

on the diesel. Selecting work and standard drive modes gave throttle control and performance reflective of the diesel variant. Performance mode was seldom required during our use of the vehicle and did not reflect the needs of regular yard or fieldwork. We found performance mode would be most suitable for bursts of rapid acceleration when required on the public highway.

Wallowing and body roll were kept to a minimum across both machines, with anti-roll bars giving both a firm and planted feel when handling around corners. In the field, the diesel variant tended to give better power delivery to the ground, but this may have been due to the more responsive nature of the throttle.

Each unit incorporated 330mm ground clearance suited to difficult terrain.

Engine air intake points positioned at a height provided opportunity for wading.

Anti-roll bars gave a firm handling to both machines.

CABIN BOTH machines were fitted with identical premium cabins. The higher specification Deluxe Diesel model did host a greater array of creature comforts, with a heater system coming as standard, plus the optionally specified radio.

Although the radio was a nice feature, there were limitations to AM and FM frequencies and the drone of the engine often hampered the operator’s ability to hear the

unit – it was concluded to be an unnecessary addition.

One welcome feature of this diesel variant was the heater system.

It proved very effective in demisting the windscreen in what has turned out to be a winter that only Noah could prepare for.

Even with the compact nature of the vehicle, both models comfortably carried three adults. Although, it was viewed that passenger comfort could

be compromised during longer journeys. Instrument controls were wellpositioned, but the location of the light switch did cause some initial confusion.

Many well-sized cup holders adorned the cabin alongside several dash-mounted storage compartments, creating ample space for a range of items.

A storage compartment under the passenger seat also left room to store ratchet straps and other useful sundries.

The front-opening windscreen and manually operated door windows offered sufficient airflow for hot working conditions.

Alternatively, doors could be removed completely for summer work and easier access.

Both vehicles had electronic engagement of four-wheel drive and hill descent mode, and the petrol variant had a third switch for engine performance modes.

Extra specification on the diesel variant provides the luxury of a heater system and a radio.

There were slight variations in upfront dash display between the two models, with the petrol (left) being the preferred layout.

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ENGINE THE diesel variant uses a Kubota 25hp, 898cc three-cylinder power plant. In comparison, the petrol variant has significantly greater power output, delivering 82hp from the manufacturer’s own 999cc four-stroke, twin-cylinder offering.

Considerable provision to shield both engine bays from mud and debris has been made, with the diesel variant boasting slightly greater protection over the petrol.

Differences in engine design and layout meant exhaust positioning changes across the two models; the petrol machine’s exhaust is slightly more exposed to mud build-up, being positioned above the right-hand rear wheel.

However, this did offer improvements when hitching trailers, as the potentially hot

exhaust was moved away from the tow hitch.

Looking under the load bed of both machines, there are two well-composed engine bays which allow clear access to most serviceable parts and daily checks.

The diminutive size and positioning of the diesel did give more room to access.

Removal of the bonnet panel allows access to fluid checkpoints for the radiator and screen wash, alongside the engine air intake points – positioned at over 900mm from ground level – aiding wading ability of both vehicles. Although it was simple to remove the bonnet, closing it required significant alignment of clips and catches on both machines, indicating that design improvements could be made.

Exhaust placement on the diesel (above) reduced accessibility to the tow hitch, but the petrol variant (below) risked mud build-up as it was mounted above the right-hand rear wheel.

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Both engines and transmissions were neatly positioned in the chassis, with the diesel variant (left) offering slightly more serviceable accessibility over its petrol counterpart.

The diesel model (right) had improved removable wheel arch guard work (see inset) compared to its petrol equivalent.

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THE reduced noise levels from the petrol variant certainly stood it apart from the diesel, particularly for a regular user in noise-sensitive areas. The quiet, refined nature of the petrol also made it a more suitable choice for farm diversifications and working around game enterprises.

With little difference in capacity, body style and cabins, there was not much to separate the two models.

Most farms are already well-equipped to handle and store diesel, but providing a secure secondary storage point to meet the legislation requirements for bulk storage of petrol would create an unnecessary expense

for farms requiring regular fill-ups.

Overall, the diesel variant still offered the torque performance and conformity in fuel type to fit in well on most farms.

With there being pros and cons in noise levels and performance for both vehicles, a price variation of £2,211 in favour of the petrol machine leads to an obvious choice in two evenly matched units.

Looking closer at the additional specifications on the diesel, any differences in price point may be mitigated. Ultimately, it becomes a question of personal preference and the specific requirements of the vehicle for each business, rather than initial financial gain.

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DESIGNING one of agriculture’s most globally recognised video games has spurred on the creators to keep ‘telling the true story of farming’, with the hopes of reaching a wider audience beyond the farmgate.

Giants Software, the global gaming developer behind the Farming Simulator series, has recently opened up about the complexities and challenges the Switzerland-based company faces in bringing farming to life to a digital audience.

With more than 25 million copies sold across the world and over 90m mobile downloads, players can learn how to use machinery and tools, how to treat animals, how to plant and harvest crops, as well as learning about the fields in a game full of ‘creativity’ about farming.

Wolfgang Ebert, PR and marketing manager at Giants Software, spoke with Farmers Guardian about the challenges and successes associated with games where users can operate machines from John Deere, Claas, Case IH, Deutz-Fahr, New Holland, Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra and many others, in three diverse American and European environments.

The process of refining the details, with new editions and updates available to consumers through PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and Windows PC, has been the focus for Giants Software and the team.

Mr Ebert says: “Our creators found-

ed the first Farming Simulator game in 2008 because they had a vision and dream to bring farming alive on a gaming platform. It has been very successful and popular among people who love playing video games where the user essentially becomes the farmer.

“The level of difficulty the user chooses can dictate the opportunities they have to expand or upgrade equipment and machinery used to harvest the field and sell crops for a profit.

“They can invest their money to buy additional fields and equipment to raise livestock or gain income from forestry.

“For us, we want to create a space for farmers and make them proud to play our game. The amount of feedback we have received on this has been incredible, and it really does give us the momentum to work with our

Unwinding from the day by playing the game can be ‘very powerful for people’s mental health’, says Wolfgang Ebert.

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partners and for people’s mental farmers to health. Becoming the offer the best master of your own gaming expdestiny – and workerience posing at your own pace – is very rewarding. sible, which is “As a player, you based on accurcan go through varied acy and real life.”

Wolfgang Ebert terrain on the field and Mr Ebert says different levels of vehicle susthe game’s power to pension to weeding, production offer something more to chains and new crops. farmers from their everyday lives is especially rewarding.

“It might offer something new He adds: “Farming Simulator offers for farmers who might not have a cerso much more to farmers who face tain types of machinery or livestock busy and stressful days on the farm. on their farms in real life. They can “Being able to unwind from the presalmost fulfil their dreams and ambisures of farming and having the chance tions through the game.” to just go into your own little world Phenomenon where you can do whatever you want The power of connecting people without the stress is very powerful from a non-farming background has made the game a ‘phenomenon’, according to Mr Ebert.

“One thing which has really surprised us is the amount of people from non-farming backgrounds who enjoy the game,” he says.

“It is opening the door to farming in more ways than we could ever have imagined, and influencing people to get into the industry, which is really encouraging.

“We have recently joined Netflix Games, which is a positive step forward in telling the story of farming to more people. As a company, we like to think we are forward-thinking, and the more we speak and listen to In the game, players can learn how our customers, the better we can to grow crops and rear livestock. become in the future.” farmersguardian.com

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By Toby Whatley THE National Association of Agricultural Contractors (NAAC) will host specialist land drainage training at Harper Adams on January 30, 2024.

With many farmers experiencing seemingly relentless rain during autumn and winter, the NAAC has organised a dedicated technical training day to focus on land drainage.

The event aims to highlight that greater fluctuations in rainfall need to be managed to avoid both flooding and drought; landowners and contractors need to understand the movement of water and the dynamics of drainage to ensure the land can store and utilise water to maximum effect for sustainable land management.

The course will include presentations from Prof Dick Godwin and Dr Paula Misiewicz of Harper Adams University, who will speak on the principles of water, soil and drainage. There will also be comments from drainage machinery manufacturers, highlighting the current technologies offered for drainage design and installation.

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NAAC to host land drainage course More information FOR further information and costs to attend for members and non-members, visit naac.co.uk/events-and-training

The course will include presentations from Harper Adams University and drainage machinery manufacturers.

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Livestock farmers wanting to improve their grassland in line with the latest Sustainable Farming Incentive requirements need to optimise nitrogen use, with advisers pointing to the growing role of sulphur in the equation. Farmers Guardian reports.

Take an ‘environmentally sensitive’ approach to sulphur rSulphur a key element

for nitrogen fixing plants

ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly sources of sulphur will have an increasingly important role to play in helping livestock producers get more from their grassland and forage crops under the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), says Scott Garnett, an agronomist with crop nutrition specialist ICL. He says: “Under the new SFI, NUM2 pays £102 per hectare for improving grassland by growing legumes from spring to early autumn, while growers will receive £151/ha under LIG1 and LIG2 to include flowering grasses and wildflowers in grass leys during summer.

“All such schemes require that nutrients are managed effectively, with a particular focus on optimising the use of nitrogen. One of the most

effective ways to achieve this is to use sulphur to improve nitrogen use efficiency [NUE] of all the N resources available.

“These could be from applied N, to N fixed by legumes or that contained within farmyard manure and slurries.”

Mr Garnett says that N and sulphur have historically been applied together in the form of nitrogen sulphur (NS) products.

He says: “The trouble with these is they are sold in fixed ratios that do not often address the needs of the crop.

“Decoupling N from sulphur could, therefore, be a good start in being able to make more use of this vital element in the future.”

According to Allison Arden, of nutrient planning specialist Navigate Eco Solutions, SFI challenges livestock farmers to better manage their use of N,

look more at N fixing leguminous species in leys and use organic sources more effectively.

She says: “It is all about optimising N applications from all sources, encouraging growers to better target nutrient inputs to match grass demand and ensuring farmers get as much production out of every kg supplied as possible.

Best practice “It is also promoting a wider awareness of best practice for nutrient use in grassland, while incentivising use of N fixing legumes in leys, testing of farmyard manure and slurry before application, and working from a comprehensive nutrient plan.

“What it also covers is making sure as much of the available N in the soil as possible finds its way into plants, reducing the risk of

excesses in the soil becoming vulnerable to leaching or ammonia loss to the air.”

Sulphur is often overlooked by livestock producers when it comes to ways of improving NUE, Ms Arden believes.

“Levels of atmospheric sulphur have been falling rapidly since the industrial clean-up some years ago, yet it plays an essential role in the ability of many crops, grass included, to recover and utilise N efficiently,” she says.

“Numerous trials have consistently shown 20 per cent lifts in forage yields when appropriate levels of sulphur are used to drive NUE, with a corresponding increase in grass quality too.

“Sulphur is also essential in specific amino acids, and if absent plants cannot use N as effectively and manufacture all the necessary protein efficiently.”

At a time when crude proteins in forage have been falling and the cost of bought-in

Sulphur is one of the most effective ways to improve nitrogen use efficiency.

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“It is also true that N fixing plants, such as clover and other legumes, are disadvantaged if sulphur supply is reduced.

“It is a necessary element for N fixation and, if in short supply, deficiency symptoms can quickly develop as the grasses starve the legumes of any availability,” she says.

Polysulphate Mr Garnett says he believes there are some compelling reasons why the naturally occurring mineral polysulphate, mined from under the North Sea, could be a better source of sulphur for grassland than the traditional ammonium sulphate-based fertilisers in the future.

He says: “For a start, it contains no N at all with a composition of 48 per cent SO3, 14 per cent K2O, 17 per cent CaO and 6 per cent MgO. “This high concentration of sulphur makes it ideal for maximising the N produced from the growing use of legumes in grass mixes encouraged

by SFI, and reducing the overall dependency on inorganic fertilisers.”

He also says Rothamsted Research has estimated the separation of N and sulphur could decrease ammonia emissions from sulphur fertiliser applications by 90 per cent.

“This is the result of growers being able to choose low-emission N fertilisers to apply alongside the polyhalite mineral, rather than relying solely on traditional combined NS products.

“Another key advantage is its

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prolonged release characteristics that deliver the sulphur and other nutrients over a period of eight to 10 weeks, so these are constantly available to drive NUE throughout the growing season,” says Mr Garnett.

Furthermore, it means N and other key nutrients are utilised more fully so they are not left in the soil for long periods where they are vulnerable to leaching, he explains.

“This is also in contrast to standard fertiliser practice, where large amounts of available sulphur are usually applied to crops when they are not really in a position to utilise them fully.

“Extensive trials have shown this sustained nutrient supply and ability to improve NUE can deliver an increase in grass yields of 29 per cent, together with an increase in dry matter of over

10 per cent. The additional sulphur provided also significantly improved the protein content of the grass.

“All in all, these improvements lead to denser, heavier, more nutrient-rich forage which, combined with the increased palatability and digestibility from a lift in sugars of over 9 per cent, produces healthier, more productive animals for the same, or potentially less, cost,” he says.

on the mineral has highlighted particular improvements in the allimportant crude protein of forage.

“We have seen positive trends in terms of forage yield, but it is in the area of nutritional value and mineral content where we have seen the biggest gains,” he says.

“In one trial, we saw a significantly improved N:S ratio in forage, which resulted in a 56.3 per cent lift in the amount of sulphur contained in the forage and a corresponding crude protein increase of nearly 7.5 per cent.

“We have found polysulphate offers a very different release profile than other commonly used forms of sulphur, and one that better matches the growth of the crop, which is one of the main reasons we are seeing such significant benefits in grassland.”

Carbon footprint Mr Garnett adds that as a natural mineral requiring only minimal processing, polysulphate also has the lowest carbon footprint of any fertiliser on the market and is approved for use in organic grassland systems too.

Peter Scott, technical director of Origin Fertilisers, says their own work

Scott Garnett says polysulphate, which is mined from under the North Sea, could be a better source of sulphur for grassland than the traditional ammonium sulphate-based fertilisers.

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also come with problems WHILE the scope and complexity of research into feed additives which reduce enteric methane production levels in ruminants was huge, there were still a number of issues with their practical application, said Prof Sinead Waters of Teagasc.

She added research and development in this area presented a one step forwards, two steps back scenario.

“The first problem is the fact that many compounds work in a test tube but fail to deliver when actually fed to living animals.

“Moreover, of those products that do work, their impact is only discernible with animals standing at a feed bunk.”

Prof Waters said challenges arose when additives were made available to grazing animals. This related to the short-term impact of these products – a very small number of hours at best.

“So scientists are now striving to develop long-term delivery systems that will work for cattle at grass.”

There was a general expectation among the speakers taking part in the workshop that significant reductions in methane emissions could be achieved without cutting cattle numbers.

One of many And all the speakers made it clear that enteric methane reduction was just one of many solutions to climate change mitigation.

Prof Waters added: “All new technologies must act to bring about a net reduction in all greenhouse gas inventories – simply reducing methane while increasing carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide production levels at the same time is not an option.”

Getting consumer approval for all new feed additives and vaccines which were specifically developed to allow farmers to tackle climate change was also proving to be a lengthy and problematic progress.

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Of those methane inhibitor products which do work, their impact is only discernible with animals standing at a feed bunk.

The British Society of Animal Sciences recently hosted a workshop held at Queen’s University Belfast, which looked at methane mitigation research. Richard Halleron reports.

Complexity of research into methane mitigation

For example, Prof Waters said it had taken DSM well over a decade to get the one feed additive now registered for use in the European Union and Northern Ireland – Bovaer – over the line.

It also turned out that even natural compounds, known to have a direct impact on enteric methane levels, came with a problem or two.

Red seaweeds Dr David Yanez-Ruiz, of the Spanish Research Council in Granada, said red seaweeds, for example that were found in tropical waters, contain the active compound bromoform.

“However, this is a known carcinogen” he said.

“Admittedly, the chemical breaks

GENETIC SELECTION COURTESY of his presentation at the event, Prof Mike Coffey, of the Scottish Rural College, confirmed that genetic selection had been proven, in tandem with better management practices across all of the farmed species, to deliver more profitable animals through permanent and cumulative genetic progress.

He said: “Work within the dairy sector is already confirming that current milk production levels can

down to less toxic metabolites immediately on entering the rumen.

“The other problem with natural substances is the fact that they tend to be bulky materials. So, transporting

be achieved from a lower cow population.”

Prof Coffey also pointed out there were lots of steps that farmers could take already to reduce the carbon footprints of their businesses.

“The enhanced use of sexed semen and genomic assessed sires is already acting to bring down emission levels within the dairy industry.

“And, where beef is concerned, slaughtering cattle at younger ages ticks a ‘large box’ in this regard.”

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A group of in-calf heifers which will calve in May at Drochil Castle Farm.

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switch to cattle outwintering using deferred hill grazing has paved the way for herd expansion on the Black family’s upland beef and sheep unit south west of Edinburgh.

Composite breeds have featured at Drochil Castle Farm since 2018, with 120 Stabiliser cows and a flock of 1,000 Highlander ewes grazing across just more than 500 hectares (1,235 acres) at West Linton in Peeblesshire.

Robert Black, who returned home to work on the rented farm a decade ago and now farms with his wife, Rachel, and his father, David, says the business has benefited from a move away from the traditional sheep stratification system, which used to include hill sheep breeds.

Hill land Key to the opportunity for the change in herd management is a large acreage of light, freedraining, hill land, coupled with a lowland area suitable for silage-making.

The farm also grows spring barley to feed young bulls in the finishing period. The 142ha (350acre) parcel of land on the hill that has been designated for cattle out-wintering, is shut up from late May until November.

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A change in herd management allows for expansion left untouched for a long period, because it is highly vulnerable to drought in low rainfall seasons,” says Robert.

“It receives no inputs of any kind, but the dung that is deposited during the grazing period contributes to the soil fertility.

“The cows have improved productivity by trampling the bracken and paving the way for fresh grass growth.

“The permanent pasture is made up of a deep turf that is highly resistant to poaching, with the herd contained using a combination of permanent and electric fencing.

The temporary fencing is moved

every couple of days, to give access to new grazing and fresh bales.”

The cows’ diet is supplemented from the new year onward with 120 big bales of forage, spread across the hill grazing.

“Hay is the preferred option, as it can be rolled out very quickly using gravity, but the weather prevented haymaking last summer, so silage is being offered in ring feeders.

“This is a marked change compared with the system we operated until 2020, when cows were always fully housed over winter.”

The rotation comprises forage rape for one year, followed by two years of spring barley and four-year

grass leys. Two grass silage cuts are taken, with the first stored in the clamp and second cut made into big bales.

“Our silage is made from a seed mixture containing mainly perennial ryegrasses and red clover,” says Robert.

“Thistles are one of the biggest problems on the farm and they are the reason why we have not followed the trend for sowing herbal leys.

“We have tried them on the more upland rotation, but have struggled with weed control.

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The deferred grazing has to be left untouched for a long period, because it is highly vulnerable to drought

■ The land rises to 445 metres (1,460 feet) above sea level ■ The farmland is classified as less favoured area ■ The family signed the farm tenancy in 1970 ■ Lambs are taken to 40-42kg liveweight, with most achieving R grades ■ Finished bulls achieve 365kg deadweight, with a figure of 330kg for heifers

it is necessary when making baled silage.”

The majority of the grassland has not seen a plough for a decade.

“On reflection, following tradition was the main motivation for our ploughing routine, but the shallow, stony soils are not really suitable,” says Robert.

Drought “Stale seedbeds do not perform well on this farm, as they can dry out very quickly and reduce yields significantly in a drought year.”

The policy for establishing autumn-sown silage leys may include an initial application of glyphosate,

ROBERT BLACK depending on conditions, plus as a small quantity of chicken manure imported from a neighbour.

The next stage is two passes with a Catros mounted compact disc harrow for manure incorporation, followed by a pass with an Opico grass harrow.

A set of Cambridge rollers to push the seed into the top 10mm of the soil is the final operation.

He says: “The barley is for crimping and that allows for an early harvest date, which allows plenty of time for establishing the following

Cows out-wintered on deferred grazing are supplemented with bales of forage.

grass crop. After sowing, the fields will be grazed a couple of months later by a mob of ewes and it will be grazed even more intensively in the second year, before lambing starts on April 10.

“Pre-lambing, batches of about 700 head will spend one day in each of the 40 paddocks.

“By May, groups of roughly 250 ewes and their lambs will be grazed

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on a rotational system, followed by the cows, while the lambs go on to the silage aftermath to boost their growth rates.”

Land for first cut silage is grazed by a large mob of ewes to produce a short, even crop, and treated with urea fertiliser at a rate of about 40 units/ha (16 units/acre).

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LIVESTOCK Mobs of ewes graze the autumn-sown silage leys.

to optimise input levels. Second cut is made with zero inputs, with the high red clover content relied upon to boost protein levels. Robert says that livestock bloat has never been an issue.

A liberal winter application of chicken muck supplies phosphate

The deferred grazing has provided the opportunity to take the herd size to a target of 200 cows ROBERT BLACK

and potash. Lambs are weaned at 80-90 days and 75 per cent were finished off grass by late July in 2023, with any remaining lambs moved on to the forage rape from October.

They are all sold on a deadweight basis and the final group will have left the farm before the new year.

At present, the Highlander flock is fully closed, but the family is considering the introduction of a terminal composite sire for secondcycle mating, to further improve growth rates.

Outdoor calving The cows are moved to the in-bye fields for outdoor calving in May. Weaning takes place at about 180 days and the youngstock are split into entire bull and heifer groups and housed on straw from November.

“The bulls are given a total mixed ration comprising first cut silage and crimped barley, as well as

Robert Black is aiming to grow the herd to 200 cattle.

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1kg/head of molasses and 300g of soyameal,” says Robert.

“The heifers also receive first cut silage, plus 1kg/head of barley.

“The majority of bulls and heifers are finished and sold deadweight, with the exception of a few bulls sold for breeding and any heifers retained as replacements.”

Future plans include an increase in cow numbers and a drive to further cut fertiliser rates, says Robert.

“The deferred grazing programme has provided the opportunity to gradually take the herd size to a target of 200 cows.

“The farm’s fertiliser usage has been cut by half over the past few years, but an application is essential to boost early growth before the effect of the clover kicks in.

“Leaving out the early fertiliser would hold up second cut silage which, in turn, would delay the

First cut silage analysis ■ Dry matter: 26.4 per cent ■ D value: 77 ■ ME: 2.3MJ/kg DM ■ Sugars: 49g/kg DM ■ Ash: 93g/kg DM

lambs going on to the silage aftermath and increase days to finishing.

“It is difficult to see how additional savings could be made on fertiliser inputs, but we are constantly reviewing the options.

“Our attitude has changed in recent times.

“Historically, our perception of the upland, which makes up more than 50 per cent of the farm, was considered to be a disadvantage to the business and only useful for grazing hill sheep breeds. Today, the out-wintering of the cows plays a valuable role in the financial viability of our business,” he says.

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As well as a farm feature, this special includes technical advice on improving flock performance at lambing time.

72 CHANGES

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76 WORMING

What is best practice at lambing time?

78 NUTRITION

Get it right to improve performance

80 LAMB LOSSES Identify areas for improvement

Supplementing trace elements

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nsuring ewes in late pregnancy receive adequate mineral supplementation will be particularly important this winter as higher grazing covers will not meet requirements.

The mild autumn means grass has continued to grow strongly in many parts of the country. While this could increase the grazing available to ewes, Alicia Wilson of Trouw Nutrition says that grazing will need careful supplementation to optimise productivity.

She says: “The importance of balancing energy and protein requirements, especially during mid to late gestation and early lactation is generally understood. However, to ensure optimum utilisation of the diet, trace minerals must also be balanced.”

Adequate levels While the major elements, including calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium, are usually supplied in grass at adequate levels and require minimal supplementation to meet requirements, Mrs Wilson emphasises that the same is not true for the essential trace minerals.

Ewes may be deficient without showing significant clinical signs. The consequences can include lambs with lower birthweights, lower milk yields, reduced colostrum and milk quality and more problematic lambings.

Selenium, cobalt, iodine, zinc and manganese are all important, with selenium and vitamin E particularly important during late pregnancy.

These are vital nutrients essential for the functioning of the reproductive, muscular and immune systems.

They have also been shown to improve lamb vigour and survivability at birth. Adequate supplementation will also contribute to higher growth rates long-term.

Mrs Wilson says: “The challenge when delivering responsible mineral nutrition to ewes is to balance the farmersguardian.com

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variation in mineral intakes, which is a direct consequence of variable feed intakes during late pregnancy and early lactation. A key factor in ensuring effective mineral supply is the source of minerals fed.”

Minerals are only of value to the animal when they are absorbed across the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. How much mineral is absorbed is referred to as bioavailability.

About 90 per cent of all minerals fed to ewes are from inorganic sources, such as sulphates and oxides which have very low relative bioavailability.

As inorganic minerals are largely unavailable to the animal due to stability and bioavailability limitations, most will not be used by the animal and therefore excreted, possibly reducing performance of both ewes and lambs.

It is important to ensure mineral supplements contain minerals from more bioavailable sources where possible.

Organic and hydroxy trace minerals, such as Intellibond zinc and manganese, have higher bioavailability as they do not react or break down in the rumen and feed. Research shows hydroxy trace minerals are twice as bioavailable as inorganic sources. This means they can be fed at considerably lower levels and still supply the same amount of trace mineral.

Mrs Wilson says: “Paying closer attention to mineral levels and the sources of those minerals can have a significant impact on ewe productivity, helping make the most of the total diet to improve lamb performance resulting in higher flock margins.”

The challenge is to balance the variation in mineral intakes

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SHEEP AND LAMBING Making the most of opportunities and being open to change has allowed the Wilson family to expand and develop its farming enterprise. Lynsey Clark paid them a visit.

A switch to North Country Cheviots proves beneficial

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avid Wilson’s journey to ‘taking on the family farm’ was less conventional than most. He studied engineering, qualified as a chartered accountant and then worked in banking before returning home to Marwhirn, in Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, which has been farmed by the Wilsons since 1901.

It meant he had some catching up to do on his farming know-how when he did come home 14 years ago, but he brought with him plenty of business experience and a broader perspective, which has helped him carry the family business forward in the years since.

Sitting at 183 metres (600 feet) above sea level and rising to 335m (1,100 feet), Marwhirn has remained a mixed stock farm since the family bought it for the mighty sum of £1,900 in 1945, having rented it from Craigdarroch Estate for the four decades prior to that.

Over the years, the Wilsons have grasped opportunities to buy neighbouring land, and consequently, they now farm 1,012 hectares (2,500 acres), with the team including Mr Wilson and his father Robert, plus three full-time staff (two shepherds and a tractor/stockman).

Mr Wilson is now based just along the road from the farm at Tererran, with his wife Una, a

David Wilson (centre) with shepherds Andy McKie (left) and Gus Hunter (right).

teacher, and their children Annabel, Cameron and Eleanor.

The cattle enterprise comprises 275 sucklers, mainly Aberdeen-Angus and Salers crosses, which are put to Charolais and Aberdeen-Angus bulls. Calves are either finished at home or sold as forward stores, with about 35 Angus cross heifers retained in the herd each year.

On the sheep side, the team run 2,800 ewes (2,050 North Country Cheviots, 500 Cheviot Mules, 150 Blackfaces and 100 Lleyn/Lleyn

crosses). Mr Wilson’s grandfather first travelled to Caithness and Sutherland to buy North Country Cheviot ewe lambs in the 1950s, aiming for a slightly bigger alternative to the South Country Cheviots that they previously had to cross with the Border Leicester and produce Scotch Halfbreds.

Halfbred ewes This proved successful, and for many years the family sold Halfbred ewe lambs and gimmers at

Lockerbie, Annan and Dumfries to a strong demand. However, by the mid-2000s, that demand was dwindling.

Mr Wilson says: “As the Halfbreds started to become less fashionable, we began using Bluefaced Leicester rams and gradually transitioned to breeding Cheviot Mules. For a few years, we sold both, but as the Cheviot

Breeding stock is mainly sold at Longtown, where last year’s gimmers topped at £235 and ewe lambs at £165.

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SHEEP AND LAMBING The North Country Cheviot definitely suits our type of ground; it is hardy, keeps its condition well and can lamb outside DAVID WILSON Mules became more popular, we phased out the Halfbreds.

“The Cheviot Mules are a slightly smaller sized ewe and are very maternal sheep that produce great fat lambs when crossed with a terminal sire, which flesh easily off grass.

Their temperaments make them easy to work with and they hold their condition well, with a good lambing percentage too.”

Approximately 500 of the North Country Cheviot flock are kept pure, while the remainder go to traditional type Bluefaced Leicester rams, normally bought at Longtown or Dumfries.

Mr Wilson says he looks for a good-sized Blue tup with plenty of length, a good skin and feet, and that it needs a bit of ‘spark’ too. On the female side, half the Cheviot replacements are home-bred, while the other half are bought as ewe lambs, mainly from Dingwall.

“We have bought North Country Cheviot ewe lambs from the Caithness and Sutherland areas since my grandfather’s time – I try to buy from the same farms that have done well for us in the past.

“The North Country Cheviot definitely suits our type of ground; it is hardy, keeps its condition well and can lamb outside with no issues.

We sell the draft ewes after four crops at the Longtown Border Ewe Sale, and they always sell well for further breeding,” says Mr Wilson.

David Wilson says the farm system at Marwhirn is ‘fairly simple’ and ‘tailored’ around the land.

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“We get a good trade for the ewe lambs, but because we lamb the Cheviots a bit later than some people, we are happy to run quite a few of the younger ewe lambs on to sell as gimmers the following year, while the bottom end are sold fat,” says Mr Wilson.

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lambing season off in mid-March – they are mainly lambed inside, for ease of management and to give the fields a rest, as the weather is often unpredictable at that time of year.

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He adds: “We try to get a couple of draws of fat lambs away in July before concentrating on the breeding sales, and once they are by with it frees up more ground for the finishing lambs, which we then sell away from August onwards, mainly through the ring at Longtown and Dumfries.

“We usually buy the Texel tups at Longtown too – again looking for good skins, feet and conformation.”

The North Country Cheviots are next to lamb, starting with the ewes at the beginning of April, then the gimmers later in the month, along with the Blackfaces and Lleyns.

They are all lambed outside, with the triplets kept close to hand in case of any issues.

energy tubs and get a bite to eat, depending on condition, weather and grass. Hay is fed if necessary or if there is snow on the ground.”

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He adds: “People are always looking for the ‘holy grail’ of sheep breeds, but I do not think it exists.

It is really about finding the type of sheep that suit your land and your system, and I think we have achieved that with the Cheviots.

“They are hardy and can cope with bad weather, but they are also great mothers. I certainly get a boost if I am out on a horrible day and see a ewe that has lambed itself, with the lambs up sucking.”

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SHEEP AND LAMBING In most cases worming ewes at lambing time is for the benefit of the lambs later in the year. Farmers Guardian reports.

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hether ewes should be wormed at lambing time is a question often raised by farmers.

Heather Stevenson, veterinary investigation officer at SRUC veterinary Services, says the short answer for many is no — but why not?

“The justification is that worming ewes will reduce the number of worm eggs that they excrete in faeces during the periparturient rise (PPR),” she says.

“Limiting this egg output will, in turn, reduce the number of infectious larvae on the grass later in the year — i.e. reduce worm challenge to the lambs and therefore the need to treat.

“So, how good is the evidence that this is the case, and that all ewes should be treated?”

The PPR usually lasts from around two weeks before until six weeks after lambing. The ewes are under the greatest nutritional pressure during this time and the number of worm eggs they excrete can increase.

However, there will be variation with healthy ewes in target body condition still able to control their worm burdens (irrespective of litter size).

Ms Stevenson says: “It is recognised that a single treatment during the PPR with a non-persistent wormer will reduce worm egg output, but this effect is short-lived and egg counts increase again rapidly.

“This practice is unlikely to benefit lambs later in the year. Repeating this treatment every three weeks will pro-

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Vet Heather Stevenson says worming ewes at lambing time may actually be counter-productive.

long the effect, but it is not practical to frequently gather ewes with young lambs at foot. It will also increase selection for anthelmintic resistance and is not recommended.”

A single treatment with a persistent wormer (moxidectin) will suppress ewe egg excretion for a variable length of time depending on the formulation used and the worm species present.

Teladorsagia (ostertagia) circumcincta worms are commonly the species of interest in spring and moxidectin drench, one per cent injection or LA injection would be expected to eliminate them for 35 days, 35 days and 97 days respectively.

Ms Stevenson says: “Studies have confirmed that this will significantly reduce ewe egg output but, as with most things in life, there are both pros and cons to consider and a need to balance potential short-term gain with long-term sustainability.

“Not all studies have shown a significant benefit to lambs with regards to either level of worm infection or daily liveweight gains. One possible effect of using a persistent wormer is that it dampens the ewes’ immune response to worms and, once the anthelmintic activity wears off, ewe egg output rebounds until they are able to re-establish immune control. This could increase pasture contamination during this time.”

If ewes are infected with any worms that are resistant to moxidectin these will survive treatment and have an advantage over susceptible worms for as long as the product persists.

The long-acting property of moxidectin is due to the fact that it becomes concentrated in fat.

This also means that it is transferred in milk to lambs born to treated ewes.

Both factors have the potential to increase the selection pressure for anthelmintic resistance.

Ms Stevenson says: “Large numbers of flocks no longer worm ewes at tupping, saving time, money and reducing product use. Perhaps now is the time to question and change your worming practices at lambing time too. How could you go about this?”

Heather Stevenson’s top tips for worming ■ Carry out forage analysis and work with your adviser/nutritionist to ensure that the protein needs of late pregnant/early lactation ewes are being met; this will help them to control their own worm burdens ■ Where possible, plan in advance to create and prioritise areas of low-risk grazing for ewes with young lambs at foot. It is not recommended to use moxidectin under these circumstances; if any worms survive treatment, the selection pressure for anthelmintic resistance will be high as there will be minimal re-infection with susceptible worms from the pasture, and for lambs following weaning ■ Reduce the amount of anthelmintic used by carrying out selective treatments of ewes at lambing time; target treatment to ewes that are thin or most likely to benefit from a dose,

such as ewe lambs; you could carry out worm eggs counts beforehand to confirm treatment is required ■ If a moxidectin based product is used preference should be given to the oral drench or 1 per cent injectable formulation, and treatment should be timed so that the persistent effect comes to an end within six weeks of lambing ■ Treat as few ewes as possible and ideally avoid using moxidectin at lambing time every year ■ If the LA injectable is administered, then Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep advice is that it should only be used once in a flock during any calendar year; remember that this includes treatment for sheep scab ■ Monitor the efficacy of Group 3 (3-ML) anthelmintics via a faecal egg count reduction test later in the year

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SHEEP AND LAMBING Ensuring ewes are getting their nutritional requirements during mid and late pregnancy is essential for them to produce good quality colostrum and healthy lambs. Farmers Guardian reports.

BODY CONDITION SCORING BODY condition scoring (BCS) is the most useful tool for assessing the reserves of a ewe throughout the production cycle. The key times to perform BCS are: tupping, scanning, lambing and weaning.

To perform BCS: feel the last rib and then assess the spine and short ribs behind this. The short ribs are the horizontal bones that

continue after the main ribs. The best time to try and change BCS is at weaning. Condition scoring at scanning allows you to group your ewes according to number of lambs and condition of ewe.

For example: fat twins and thin twins. This allows targeted feeding for mid to late gestation to avoid problems at lambing.

BCS THROUGH THE PRODUCTION CYCLE SOURCE: SRUC

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heep nutrition aims to feed the rumen microbes (bugs) the correct balance of energy, fibre and protein which then produce nutrients for the animal.

Vet Kirby Dobson from Tyndale Farm Veterinary Practice, Gloucestershire, says: “Rumen microbes need a near neutral pH of 5.5-6.5 to function and survive. A diet high in energy will lower the pH and this acidic environment will destroy the microbes.

“A high-fibre diet can help neutralise the pH thanks to saliva produced during chewing.

“The best diet for maintaining a steady pH in late gestation is a total mixed ration. This option is only financially feasible for farms that already have a feeder wagon on-farm for cattle.

“If feeding ewes concentrate, avoid feeding more than 500g per head in one feed, as this will upset the pH. Split the feed into two or three times daily to avoid this.”

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Energy requirements To work out the requirements of the ewe, the dry matter intake (DMI) needs to be calculated.

The maximum total DMI of a dry ewe is 1.5 per cent of its bodyweight.

This increases to 2-2.5 per cent in late pregnancy and 3-3.5 per cent during lactation.

For example: A 70kg ewe will eat 1.6kg in late pregnancy (70kg x 0.0225 = 1.6kg).

DMI is effected by many factors, including the type and quality of forage and stage of production.

Allow 15cm of feed space per ewe for best forage intakes.

Metabolisable energy Metabolisable energy (ME) is the energy available to an animal from the diet.

Ms Dobson says: “To work out how much ME in megajoules [MJ] a ewe is getting per day, multiply DMI for that forage by the ME of your forage.

“For example: A 70kg ewe on average hay two weeks pre-lambing will eat 1.5kg of hay at 8.5ME, giving 12.75ME. This ewe needs 15.3ME though, so falls short.

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“Next, we need to calculate how much concentrate to supplement with. The deficit is ME required minus ME provided from the forage: 15.3ME – 12.75ME = 2.6ME. “Check with your concentrate provider what the ME is; it is usually about 12.5ME/kg fresh weight of comp. Therefore, divide the deficit ME by the concentrate ME/kg fresh to see how many kg of concentrate to feed each ewe: 2.6ME divided by 12.5ME = 0.2kg.”

Protein The protein available to the ewe comes from protein made by the rumen microbes and protein that passes through the rumen unchanged. Calculating protein intakes is complex, so consult your vet for tailored protein analysis.

Supplementing forage Feeding concentrates ensures each ewe gets the extra energy and protein they need. Allow 45cm per ewe of trough space when feeding concentrates.

Ms Dobson says: “Ask your feed

supplier for the energy and protein content of your feed – sometimes buying a higher quality feed works out cheaper per ME. “Consider feeding all ewes some concentrate in the last three weeks of pregnancy, especially if planning to adopt lambs onto your singles.

“Topping up energy requirement with energy buckets can be expensive and ineffective. It tends to be that a third of animals use them a lot, a third use them sometimes and a third never use them. The cost per ME/MJ can also be three times more than that of concentrates.”

Checking your diet Ask your vet to perform metabolic profiles on five ewes per management group at three to four weeks pre-lambing.

These blood samples will check ketones to assess energy levels, and urea and albumin to check protein intakes.

Twin lamb disease Twin lamb disease can affect thin ewes as they have no bodily

reserves and are not receiving enough energy in the diet, but it can also affect fat ewes.

Ms Dobson says: “Fat ewes have lower feed intakes as they have less space in the abdomen for a full rumen due to the excess fat. Checking ketone levels is a good indication for at-risk ewes.

“The clinical signs are weakness, depression, blindness and recumbency. Successful treatment relies on catching the disease quickly and providing a goodquality energy source as well as a non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory injection.

“There are good oral drenches available that provide energy and calcium.

“The clinical signs of twin lamb and hypocalcaemia are similar, so choose one which covers both.”

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SHEEP AND LAMBING Being much more specific about recording lamb losses at one of Scotland’s Monitor Farms has prompted an innovative new lambing health project. Farmers Guardian reports.

Identifying reasons for lambing losses to improve profitability

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ith lambing being one of the busiest and intensive periods on a livestock farm, there often is not time to take stock of what is happening until long after the event.

And when lambing is less successful than you would have liked, it can be difficult to identify why.

While it can be disheartening to even think about recording ewe or lamb deaths and the reasons for them, attendees at a Monitor Farm Scotland meeting at Wallets Marts, Castle Douglas, heard how it had helped identify issues on-farm and prompted action to tackle them, as well as inspiring a new research project.

Meeting attendees heard that Dumfriesshire monitor farmer Richard McCornick and his family, who run the 200-hectare (500-acre) beef and sheep unit at Barnbackle, had used data to identify flock performance issues. Sheep numbers have increased this year, with 800 ewes and 150 ewe lambs to the tup this autumn, so there is a particular focus on improving performance.

The farm’s Integrated Land Management Plan, produced by SAC Consulting as part of the first year of this monitor farm programme, high-

The ‘board of death’ is a depressing thing to do, but it is a good motivation for change, and identifies where you can quickly make a difference ALI HAGGERTY lighted lambing losses as an area for attention.

As a result, a flock tally sheet recording losses on a whiteboard in the lambing shed helped the farm identify the main causes of loss. To tackle these, Mr McCornick is going to focus on ewe nutrition and health, colostrum quality and lamb immunity.

It has also led to a deeper investigation into colostrum quality and failure to transfer passive immunity from ewe to lambs. The collaborative project between Monitor Farm Scotland, Livestock Health Scotland

and run by Stewartry Veterinary Centre and University of Glasgow, will involve a holistic approach, said vet and researcher Ali Haggerty, who is Barnbackle’s vet.

“We will be looking at ewe body condition score and nutrition, then sampling ewe colostrum and blood testing their lambs to see how that marries up, as well as investigating lamb deaths.”

The ultimate aim of the project is simple; to increase lamb survival rates, producing more lambs for sale, she said.

“The ‘board of death’ is a depressing thing to do, but it is a good motivation for change, and identifies where you can quickly make a difference.

We had broad categories such as abortion, stillbirth, predation, watery mouth and so on, and a tally mark system. It is not fancy, but it is easy to use and better than having to think back afterwards or using intuition.

“The whiteboard at Barnbackle highlighted that quite a lot of the lamb losses were round lambing, from things such as watery mouth or joint ill. Lambs are born without any antibodies, so they rely on that first few hours of receiving colostrum from their mother for immunity to disease in the first few weeks of life.

“We think that if we can look at

improving their immunity, we will have more healthier lambs on the ground.”

Ewe nutrition Looking at ewe nutrition will be key, assessed through consistent body condition scoring throughout the year and metabolic profiling at key times, particularly two to three weeks before the start of lambing.

This will look at whether the available feed is adequate and being utilised fully by ewes. This is vital to produce enough high quality colostrum to feed their lambs in the first few hours of life.

Mrs Haggerty added: “The lamb’s gut is only permeable to the antibodies from colostrum for the first six to 12 hours of life. By 24 hours old, the channels in the gut wall have closed completely, so colostrum at that time will not be absorbed into the body and provide local gut immunity at best.

“It is also a high fat product, which is crucial for lambing out-

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VET Ali Haggerty has some key pointers for successful lambing and colostrum management: ■ Focus on ewe body condition score and blood profiling to ensure they are receiving enough energy and protein in their ration to produce quality colostrum ■ Ensure ewes are as clean as possible, so lambs do not suck a dirty fleece or teat to start with; bugs can prevent colostrum antibodies crossing the gut, impairing immunity ■ Ensure triplets, especially,

get enough colostrum; 50ml/kg in the first few hours and up to 200ml in the first 24 hours ■ Clean feeding equipment with hot, soapy water and a brush to keep it clean and remove the fatty scum that accumulates. Check equipment is clean before every use, and consider whether it is actually cleanable: teats and tubes which are cracked or perished harbour bacteria and need to be replaced ■ Use plenty of bedding, and a dry disinfectant such as lime between pen occupants if a total clear out

is not possible. Power washing is not always a good option as it will increase moisture into the environment, which pathogens love ■ Where lambs and ewes have a bad or assisted lambing, do not be afraid to use anti-inflammatories.

Stress can affect antibody absorption in lambs ■ Think about your lambing set up and how you can make it as easy to work as possible, especially under pressure. Simple, inexpensive changes can often make a big difference

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Dumfriesshire monitor farmer Richard McCornick and his family run the 200-hectare (500-acre) beef and sheep unit at Barnbackle.

side – providing energy to keep warm. There is a lot in it to give lambs the best start, so proper colostrum management is important.”

Taking colostrum samples from ewes, and later, blood samples from

their lambs will assess whether the lamb has adequate passive transfer of immunity. All of that data, plus details of the ewe and its lambing performance collected by vets and vet students, will be collated, with

results expected to be available in early summer.

“We are not changing too much on the farm this year and in the run up to lambing as we want to capture what is going on and to be able to

assess that. While Richard lambs indoors, I expect some aspects of the results to be equally applicable to outside lambing, and I think it will focus attention on just how important colostrum is.”

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TOM Huddleston took his third nursery title at the Fylde trial held at Caton, as ground at the scheduled venue at Chipping was waterlogged.

Here the course, that dipped in the middle before rising to the lift, had a hard covering of frost first thing that gradually thawed as the sun came out.

Most dogs gathered to the right, but as they approached the lift, some lost sight of their sheep, dazzled by the bright sun.

Worked in threes, the Lonk hoggs were manageable and came down the fetch much better than they had in the previous nursery

English results FYLDE (Judge, J. Relph, Greystoke) Nursery (33 ran) 1, T. Huddleston (Caton) Lidl, 68 of 90; 2, R. Hutchinson (Littledale) Chrissy, 66; 3, Thomas Longton (Quernmore) Clay, 65 OLF; 4, S. Metcalfe (Sedbergh) Max, 65; 5, Steven Longton (Quernmore) Jake, 62; 6, S. Lopizzo (Quernmore) Bertie, 61.

HOLME (J. Scrivin, Elslack) Nursery (47 ran) 1, D. Wood (Derwent Valley) Hill Top John, 75 of 90; 2, R. Taylor (Burnley) Dot, 73; 3, R. Taylor, Tess, 72; 4, B. White (Bradfield) Jan, 70; 5, A. Grant (Ripon) Kate, 68; 6, G. Brierley (Lanehead) Ella, 67.

MORTON (A. Blackmore, Ledbury) Nursery (26 ran) 1, B. Smith (Harborough Magna) Ben, 65 of 90; 2, R. Curtis (Grantham) Ru, 63; 3, S. Varney (Kilburn) Jen, 61; 4, P. Johnson (Burton upon Trent) Matt, 60 OLFD; 5, S. Mynard (Thrapston) Bonny, 60; 6, N. Vyas (John O’Gaunt) Cai, 60.

Novice, 1, V. Beech (Byfield) Gypsy, 65 of 100; 2, P. Johnson, Inch, 64; 3, J. McBride (Grantham) Boss, 59; 4, A. Sayer (Hilderstone) Waitby Lyn, 53.

Open, 1, J. Elkin (Hilderstone) Kemi Bert, 73 of 100.

Young handler, 1, C. Elkin (Hilderstone) Mirk, 69.

NORTHUMBERLAND League (P. Anderson, USA) Nursery, 1, P. Telfer (Haydon Bridge) Telf Biff, 90 of 100; 2, R. Mitcheson (Belsay) Mitch, 84; 3, T. Iley (Longframlington) Dunelle Jake, 49; 4, B.

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Tom Huddleston triumphs with Lidl held there. However, after the turn at the post, where the ground was particularly wet, they pulled towards the exhaust field gateway and the dogs had to work hard to take them down the first leg of the left-hand drive.

Standard Joe Relph judged the entry of 33.

First to the post, Ricky Hutchinson set the standard with Chrissy.

Jordan (Whitfield) Zoomer, 39; 5, M. Northwood (East Woodburn) Dunelle Flame, 30. Novice, 1, F. Samson (Bellingham) Mel, 55 of 100.

SOMERSET (T. Griffiths, Lydney) Chute, 1, R. Stock, Lil; 2, L. Hansson, Limone; 3, R. Stock, Blue; 4, L. Tibbs, Swift; 5, H. Lewis, Betsy.

Drive, 1, J. Wheaton (Port Talbot) Meg; 2, M. Dowden (West Pennard) Turk; 3, A. Sharp, Bolt; 4, B. Watts, Dev; Equal 5, M. Dowden, Nap and D. Survila (Wellington) Mia. ROMNEY MARSH (E. Lauder) Nursery (16 ran) 1, M. Banham (Chipstead) Jon, 81 of 100; 2, W. Cole (Tillingham) Gipping Valley Lil, 73; 3, M. Banham, Shabden Glen, 70; 4, E. Anstey (Kirdford) Joy, 58; 5, J. Dorrell (Dover) Gipping Valley Jack, 53; 6, E. Anstey, Ben, 47. Novice, 1, J. Dorrell, Rhydale Tip, 72 of 100; 2, G. Gower (Lydden) Kelsall, 66; 3, R. Levy (London) Ellan Vannin Meg, 43. Cradle, 1, H. Long (Canterbury) Wren, 65; 2, G. Gower, Ayesha, 33.

NORTH WESTMORLAND, NORTHERN, RYEDALE, SLINDON and WINDERMERE - either cancelled or postponed due to wet weather.

Scottish results MILLDEN (M. Simpson, Brechin) Nursery (21 ran) 1, M. Gallagher (Alyth) Dalriada Chief, 93; 2, M. Gallagher (Alyth) Hillrunner Bee, 84; 3, K. Dickson

Through no fault of her own Chrissy had an awkward sheep that kept breaking on the first drive.

However, she managed it well and after catching both drive gates secured her sheep in the pen to score 66 points.

Tom ran Lidl, bred by his nephew, John Huddleston, at number 14.

For running slightly tighter towards the end of his outrun than (Fintry) Llwynsarn Sky, 83; 4, A. Wilkie (Glenmoy) Bill, 82; 5, A. Wilkie Outbye (Glenmoy) Seal, 75; 6, E. Nilsson (Alyth) Dalriada Amy, 73.

GILLISBIE I (J. Allan, Mt. Benger) Nursery (14 ran) 1, S. McCrindle (Stanraer) Duncallean Play, 90; 2, K. Keith (Lockerbie) Foinaven Ellie, 85; 3, A. Stewart (Lockerbie) Annandale Spot, 83; 4, A. Stewart, Jim, 82; 5, C. Armstrong (Archbank) Mirk, 79; 6, I. McMillan (Newton Stewart) Cat, 78.

BIRTHWOOD (H. Mitchell, Glenfarg) Nursery (15 ran) 1, S. Morgan (Heriot) Mainstay Pip, 81; 2, H. Brown (Coulter) Meg, 78; 3, I.M. Brownlie (Dunbar) Lark, 77; 4, I.M. Brownlie (Dunbar) Beck, 75; 5, R.B. Henderson (Broughton) Nell, 67; 6, J. Mitchell (Broughton) Aaro, 56. Novice (10 ran) 1, R. Reid (Carnwath) Lynn, 63; 2, M. McColm (Leadhills) Viking Lee, 60; 3, A. Walker (Hamilton) Roy, 48.

HUNTERSTON (C. Joelsson, Sandbank) Nursery (16 ran) 1, S.L. Davidson (Sandbank) Mac, 78; 2, C. Toner (Drimsynie) Fernhill Jock, 68 Outbye; 3, V. Mathie (Kilmaurs) Fea, 68 Outbye; 4, D. Kinloch (Kilsyth) Jock, 68; 5, E. Gray (Ardros) Graylees Flute, 67; 6, E. Gray (Ardros) Mainstay Jock, 65.

the judge would have preferred, he lost three points and one from his lift.

As the sheep mostly refused to flow, straight lines were hard to achieve.

Lidl lost five marks from his fetch before having the best drive of the day, where eight points were deducted for deviations.

Some difficulty at the pen cost five points, resulting in the winning score of 68.

Tom bought Lidl from Sam Hey, who gave the dog his initial training.

In addition to numerous placing, he has previously won at Windermere and North Lancashire and took a third win at Fylde.

Holme At the Holme trial held at Clough Head, Haslingden, there was just a light frost in the early morning.

Set over rough ground at the bottom of a steep hillside, the course rose gently to the lift.

Running was on packets of Cheviot hoggs which, although they had been used at the Boxing Day open trial, were not easy to manage.

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WORKING DOGS they would pick up speed down the cross-drive resulting in most missing the last hurdle.

They were tricky, needing the dog to give them room and time to look in. Jim Scrivin judged the entry of 47.

David Wood proved himself and, with an early run at nine, he took the lead with Hill Top John.

Gathering to the left, John had a good start and handled his sheep well up the difficult first leg of the drive.

Slipped The hoggs set off down the crossdrive and, although he kept them on a good line at the last moment, they slipped down the inside of the hurdle.

With a good pen, David and John gained 75 points which failed to be matched.

After winning at Heron Rock and twice at Butterton Moor, where they took the championship, this was their fourth nursery win.

Running in the late 20s, Robbie Taylor went into second place with Tess on 72 points.

He later bettered his score with his second dog Dot, gaining 73 to take second and third placings.

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Tough conditions fail to deter Scots triallists Scotland: Sine Robertson GOOD work outbye and at hand gave Stuart McCrindle’s Duncallean Play a clear lead over the field at Gillisbie.

Cheviot gimmers ran on a rising field on a very bright, frosty day making a pretty picture, but the cross-drive gate was no pinup.

Play worked very well, with a good outrun and lift, minor wavers on the fetch and a good first leg to the drive.

Shed A kink on the line of the crossdrive got the sheep through the gate and a good pen followed.

A clean shed completed the run in first place with a comfortable lead.

A good, steady run from Stuart Davidson and Mac at Hunterston won them a long lead.

On a glorious winter day, the

Mule hoggs behaved well on the flat course, if handled appropriately.

But, some young dogs crossed their course and some struggled to shed.

The turn on to the drive took the sheep through a gap between the post and the pen.

Mac’s sound work outbye and on the course was threatened by difficulties at the shed, but once completed, the run earned Mac first place.

Blackface hoggs behaved very well on an uphill course at Birthwood on a beautiful, frosty day.

Dogs ran out over a line set diagonally across the braeface and later they tended to find the sheep hard to shed.

Sion Morgan’s Mainstay Pip ran out to the right to find her sheep had moved left, tight to the fence.

Pip covered them and brought them on line for a very good fetch

Trials diary ENGLAND January 13. YORKSHIRE, Nursery, Hull House, Hellifield, North Yorkshire, BD23 4JP, 9.30am start, enter on field, more than one dog, first to be booked in by noon. TRAWDEN, Nursery, Coolham Farm, Higher Twiston, Clitheroe, BB7 4BY, 9.30am start, enter on field by 1pm, more than one dog first to be booked in by noon.

MORTON, Nursery, novice and beginner, Camp Farm, NN14 4EW, 9am start, enter on field by noon. SLINDON, Nursery, novice and beginner, Slindon House Farm, Slindon, Eccleshall, Staffordshire, ST21 6LX, 9.30am start, enter on field by noon. NORTHERN, Nursery, novice and new handler, Waitby, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, CA17 4HF, 9.30am start, enter on field by 1pm.

RYEDALE, Nursery, West House Farm, Kildale, YO21 2SE, 11am start, enter on field, more than one dog first to be booked in by 1pm.

January 13 and 14. NORTH WESTMORLAND, Nursery, novice and new handler trials on both days, Tailbert Farm, Shap, CA10 3ND, 9am start, enter on field by 1pm. EAST ANGLIAN, Heveningham, IP19 0PN, Saturday, Cradle and novice handler, Sunday, nursery and novice, entry closed.

January 14. MID-SHIRES, Eastcote, Solihull, B92 0JJ, 8.30am start, enter on field. SURREY, Nursery and novice, Shabden Park Farm, High Road, Chipstead, Surrey, CR5 3SF, 10am start, enter on field by 11am.

and drive with straight lines and tight turns.

At the mouth of the pen, the hoggs broke.

Pip retrieved them, penned and finished the winning run with a clean shed.

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MARKET PRICES PRIMESTOCK ENGLAND All prices quoted in p/kg.

STEERS Market day(s) week ending Jan 7

Acklington Th Ashford Tu Bakewell Mo Barnard Castle Bentham Tu Bishops Castle Bridgnorth Tu Brockholes We Carlisle Mo Cirencester Th Clitheroe Cockermouth We Colchester Tu Cutcombe Darlington Th\Mo Exeter Mo Frome We Gisburn Th Hailsham We Hallworthy Hawes Hereford Th Hexham Tu Holmfirth Holsworthy Hull/Dunswell Kendal Kington Kirkby Stephen Mo Lancaster Fr Leek Tu Leyburn We Longtown Louth Mo Ludlow Malton Tu Market Drayton We\Mo Market Harborough Melton Mowbray We Newton Abbot (Rendells) Northallerton We\Tu Norwich Sa Oswestry We Otley Mo Penrith Ross on Wye Mo Rugby Mo Ruswarp Mo Salisbury Scots Gap Sedgemoor Mo Selby We\Sa Shrewsbury Tu Skipton We\Mo South Molton Stratford Thame Thirsk Th Thrapston Truro We Ulverston Wigton Th\Tu Wooler Worcester We York Mo

HEIFERS

YOUNG BULLS

Total cattle number

Light average

Medium average

Heavy average

Light average

Medium average

Heavy average

Light average

Medium average

24 53 130 71 6 123 3 44 45 221 15 25 92 9 5 1 22 8 2 6 77 210 81 255 60 66 124 338 7 249 28 19 74 201

257.7 223.3 280.8 287.5 319.0 218.2 261.2 259.4 246.0 206.4 270.5 251.2 264.2 249.0 319.0 254.0 296.1 296.0 314.3 267.5

276.5 269.1 284.8 301.1 168.0 259.2 322.5 296.6 293.9 258.5 255.2 289.1 248.7 207.0 229.0 279.8 321.3 257.7 269.5 288.4 266.3 286.9 255.4 315.4 355.5 307.3 240.0 293.0 275.2

254.7 269.8 276.5 279.3 283.6 237.2 297.5 293.7 286.1 240.5 264.5 253.5 259.5 267.5 305.7 260.1 248.5 273.5 240.0 254.7 266.5 298.8 305.4 206.0 292.5 298.5 300.0

278.0 324.6 88.0 270.9 287.4 171.5 214.0 274.4 124.5 235.1 248.7 287.3 277.0 239.0 298.8 275.8 143.5 229.0 272.3

284.0 246.3 303.6 300.6 151.5 272.6 309.4 281.3 321.9 203.5 251.9 309.9 265.7 310.0 230.9 223.0 289.5 315.4 244.8 260.3 310.2 262.8 306.7 253.0 310.1 338.5 310.6 215.8 292.5 300.3 303.9

289.3 270.9 298.9 272.1 264.7 303.4 287.1 311.4 268.2 253.5 267.2 174.0 256.8 234.5 180.0 278.0 252.1 267.8 275.0 248.3 287.6 262.9 304.0 281.5 308.7 182.3 290.5 301.2 300.8

231.7 207.9 221.0 289.3 235.5 244.0 241.5 261.5 238.8 245.6 217.5 233.2

287.00 316.00 304.00 278.00 -

283.50 272.60 310.67 319.33 -

204.40 316.00 301.38 271.14

175.28 153.60 234.67 298.67 269.00

260.88 285.50 296.25 307.50 303.16 303.68 296.75 291.64

311.75 287.33 273.00 316.00 177.55 299.51 300.08 292.28

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Heavy average

Total cow number

Grade 1 average

Grade 3 average

Dairy sired average

Beef sired average

Total N lambs

264.0 262.2 250.0 246.3 250.0 258.0 214.5 283.1 295.5 209.5 271.9 267.5 252.6 259.5 267.0 262.5 247.9 269.8 253.1

262.5 287.8 243.0 259.5 315.0 283.5 290.4 319.6 304.1 269.7 265.7 277.4 305.5 310.2 257.8 282.5 265.2

3 107 115 40 49 347 52 6 150 16 47 117 1 19 66 51 101 15 15 22 177 10 38 8 6 12 22 10 5 54 15 24 9 33 18 40 3 11

213.5 190.3 148.2 -

162.5 186.1 155.9 -

148.5 133.0 132.4 145.8 133.0 133.3 140.2 159.1 143.9 135.3 127.5 109.5 139.1 148.3 131.2 124.7 171.0 148.8 138.2 151.5 127.6 137.5 119.8

170.0 164.0 161.8 156.3 193.0 171.8 165.8 181.6 166.8 159.8 137.0 196.1 177.9 202.4 178.9 121.0 150.0 172.0 155.3 153.8 179.7 136.1 153.0 164.9 191.4 122.4 173.0 121.5 200.8 142.8 164.3 203.7 159.5

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250.00 246.00 259.00

193.33 256.00 265.25

150 30 20 7 38 86 62 101 186

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133.60 168.60 134.10 110.10 136.80 -

156.60 218.00 184.80 180.30 178.70 186.00 160.70 175.70 192.60

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SCOTLAND Ayr Caithness Castle Douglas Dingwall Dumfries Forfar Huntly Kirkwall Lanark Lockerbie Newton Stewart Newtown St Boswells Stirling (caledonian) Stirling (ua) Thainstone

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WALES

SHEEP Total N/S lambs

N/S lambs light average

N/S lambs standard average

N/S lambs medium average

N/S lambs heavy average

N/S SQQ average

Total Ewes

Ewes average

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105.1 79.5 96.4 53.2 81.4 99.1 86.7 99.3 85.2 56.2 57.9 86.1 81.0 67.5 68.3 73.1 92.3 84.1 84.1 51.2 77.8 76.4 90.0 90.1 97.1 67.1 91.0 104.3 83.1 83.3 84.5 95.2 76.6 64.0 103.4 106.1 91.4 97.9 45.1 76.2 90.1 93.8 92.4 65.5 59.8 99.0 91.0 91.2 106.1 97.5 99.6 114.8 91.9

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All prices quoted in p/kg.

Source: MartEye/LAA

Market day(s) week ending Jan 7 Bala Brecon Bryncir Builth Wells Carmarthen Crymmych Dolgellau Gaerwen Knighton Llandeilo Llanrwst Llanybydder Machynlleth Mold Monmouthshire Newcastle Emlyn Rhayader Ruthin St Asaph Talgarth Talybont on Usk Welshpool Whitland

Total cattle number 3 6 100 69 5 -

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STEERS Light average 238.9 246.0 -

YOUNG BULLS

HEIFERS

Medium average 258.5 324.4 -

Heavy average 251.6 310.9 -

Total cow number 12 47 11 1 41 4 12 5 37 17

Grade 1 average -

Light average 211.5 281.0 170.0 -

CULL COWS

Medium average 245.0 247.4 308.2 130.0 -

Heavy average 237.0 267.1 305.1 234.3 -

Dairy sired average 143.5 139.0 115.5 119.9 128.4 122.8

Beef sired average 201.5 147.0 149.6 120.0 145.7 141.4 210.0 226.0 184.4 165.6

Light average 226.0 224.0 -

Medium average 262.0 304.0 -

Heavy average 314.4 -

Total N/S lambs

N/S lambs light average

N/S lambs standard average

N/S lambs medium average

N/S lambs heavy average

N/S SQQ average

Total Ewes

Ewes average

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201 146 775 87 311 312 287 63 187 6 20 795 183 106 725 707 74 1813 79

63.0 89.4 62.5 96.9 84.6 95.4 73.3 53.6 75.3 87.3 83.0 78.8 81.8 75.8 68.6 74.6 59.9 86.5 79.0

Bala Brecon Bryncir Builth Wells Carmarthen Crymmych Dolgellau Gaerwen Knighton Llandeilo Llanrwst Llanybydder Machynlleth Mold Monmouthshire Newcastle Emlyn Rhayader Ruthin St Asaph Talgarth Talybont on Usk Welshpool Whitland

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SHEEP

Bala Brecon Bryncir Builth Wells Carmarthen Crymmych Dolgellau Gaerwen Knighton Llandeilo Llanrwst Llanybydder Machynlleth Mold Monmouthshire Newcastle Emlyn Rhayader Ruthin St Asaph Talgarth Talybont on Usk Welshpool Whitland

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MARKET PRICES STORE CATTLE ENGLAND STORES (CONTINENTAL-SIRED) Market day(s) w/e Jan 7

Ashford Bakewell Mo Barnard Castle Bentham We\Tu Bishops Castle Bridgnorth Fr Brockholes Carlisle We Cirencester Tu Clitheroe Cockermouth Fr Colchester Cutcombe Darlington Mo Exeter Fr Frome We\Fr Gisburn Th Hailsham We Hallworthy Th Hawes Hereford Th\Tu Hexham Fr Holmfirth Holsworthy We Hull/Dunswell Mo Kendal Kington Kirkby Stephen Mo Lancaster Fr Leek Sa\Tu Leyburn Fr Longtown Louth Ludlow Market Drayton We Melton Mowbray We Middleton in Teesdale Newton Abbot (Rendells) Northallerton We Norwich Sa Oswestry We Otley Fr Penrith Fr Ross on Wye Rugby Mo Ruswarp Salisbury Mo Sedgemoor Sa Selby Sa Shrewsbury Tu Stratford Skipton We\Mo Tavistock Thame Fr Thirsk Thrapston Sa Truro We Ulverston Tu Wigton Th Worcester Sa York Th

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No. / Av.

-/12/923.3 -/3/1090.0 -/2/920.0 -/30/976.8 7/970.6 -/75/1422.7 -/-/17/1157.4 10/922.0 1/475.0 -/-/-/-/43/1066.9 18/1221.4 -/6/381.7 2/1020.0 -/-/41/1239.4 -/12/809.6 -/-/-/-/1/1360.0 8/464.4 -/-/4/923.8 1/900.0 -/14/1098.6 -/-/-/-/-/13/1005.0 7/1092.9 -/-/27/1149.6 -/7/773.6 -/3/870.0 5/430.0 6/1203.3 30/1141.0 -/1/715.0

-/51/1143.1 -/19/1372.1 -/3/860.0 -/37/1245.7 8/1011.6 -/166/1504.5 -/-/38/1244.0 10/1036.0 3/1249.0 -/-/3/938.3 -/69/1243.3 35/1434.3 -/2/997.5 -/-/-/80/1556.3 31/1431.0 20/1069.0 -/-/-/-/6/1158.3 6/790.8 -/-/12/1258.3 2/1370.0 -/66/1315.8 -/-/-/-/-/77/1266.0 6/1234.2 -/-/117/1326.9 -/5/1041.0 -/-/-/75/1317.4 80/1289.6 3/1240.0 -/-

-/8/810.0 -/-/-/-/-/3/810.0 8/729.3 -/11/791.8 -/-/9/822.2 1/810.0 3/866.0 -/-/2/490.0 -/4/585.0 1/720.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/5/810.0 -/-/-/-/1/1120.0 2/562.5 -/3/1176.7 -/20/660.0 -/-/4/522.5 -/-/-/2/382.5 22/629.1 -/-/-/-/-/2/710.0 -/3/673.3 6/415.0 -/-/5/614.0 5/786.0

-/13/1113.1 -/3/1173.3 -/-/-/17/857.1 3/892.7 -/9/1316.7 -/-/-/7/891.4 10/822.6 -/-/1/690.0 -/5/618.0 1/1470.0 -/8/849.4 -/-/-/1/1345.0 5/1170.0 27/951.3 -/-/-/-/7/1077.1 2/695.0 -/-/9/952.2 -/-/4/827.5 -/-/-/-/-/43/938.6 7/1017.9 -/-/4/1242.5 -/14/1039.9 -/-/4/656.3 5/1157.0 6/1080.0 1/730.0 2/947.5

-/11/1235.0 -/25/1586.0 -/2/780.0 -/10/1273.0 20/1155.1 -/15/1454.0 -/-/24/1335.8 20/1013.5 43/1235.0 -/-/1/890.0 -/20/1457.7 7/1708.6 -/-/-/-/-/3/1628.3 39/1493.9 31/862.1 -/-/-/-/10/1289.0 -/-/-/6/1084.2 -/-/43/1374.5 -/-/-/-/-/82/1229.1 -/-/-/31/1407.4 -/12/1263.3 -/-/2/930.0 37/1442.3 23/1503.7 -/2/1350.0

-/6/510.0 -/-/-/-/-/1/820.0 6/522.0 -/1/500.0 -/-/4/787.5 2/355.0 2/757.5 -/-/-/-/2/625.0 -/-/2/240.0 -/-/-/-/-/4/548.8 -/-/-/-/14/405.0 6/408.3 -/-/-/10/522.0 -/-/4/402.5 -/-/-/-/20/515.0 2/745.0 -/-/-/-/8/759.4 -/1/510.0 1/340.0 -/-/1/530.0 -/-

-/-/-/-/5/1226.00 -/72/1267.92 -/-/-/-/-/18/1046.67 95/1376.37 86/1380.87

-/-/-/-/32/1303.13 -/98/1550.05 -/-/-/-/-/42/1294.05 150/1543.47 165/1571.03

-/-/-/-/13/827.69 -/1/1130.00 -/-/-/-/-/22/950.91 14/1193.57 32/1048.44

-/-/-/-/18/1203.33 -/22/1285.00 -/-/-/-/-/16/1225.63 53/1382.92 23/1390.65

-/-/-/-/41/1399.27 -/54/1559.72 -/-/-/-/-/42/1433.33 51/1488.82 61/1622.21

-/-/-/-/9/770.00 -/1/1520.00 -/-/-/-/-/6/666.67 13/896.54 3/1161.67

SCOTLAND Ayr Caithness Castle Douglas Dingwall Dumfries Forfar Huntly Kirkwall Lanark Lockerbie Newton Stewart Newtown St Boswells Stirling (caledonian) Stirling (ua) Thainstone

Mo Sa Mo

Mo We Fr

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-/-/-/-/6/1196.67 -/79/1366.96 -/-/-/-/-/32/1153.13 181/1358.26 223/1444.15

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Figures show livestock numbers first, then average price per head.

Source: MartEye/LAA STORES (HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN)

+ month fers

6-12 month 12-18 month 18+ month steers steers steers

o. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/1/500.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/1/565.0

-/1/970.0 -/5/1088.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/4/860.0 -/-/-/1/880.0 -/-/-/7/742.9 -/7/422.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/7/717.1 -/-/-/-/-/-/4/836.3 -/-/-/-/-/15/705.0 1/800.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/1/925.0 -/-/1/565.0

/1128.1

/1427.5

754.1

1134.0 /1036.4

/1289.2

1203.1 075.0 /1006.2

60.0

041.0 /1127.0

060.0

365.0 /1172.5 /907.0

076.3

196.1

1165.0

/1071.7 955.0

/1170.8

957.5

1156.9 /1195.5

947.5

/1378.28

/1203.89

1494.29 1374.12 /1474.71

WALES

Source: MartEye/LAA STORES (CONTINENTAL-SIRED)

CALVES (7-42 DAYS) Black and Continental Continental Native white bulls bulls heifers bulls

Native heifers

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

-/5/1006.0 -/5/1129.0 -/-/-/3/1230.0 -/-/1/1040.0 -/-/3/803.3 3/763.3 1/1310.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/6/1428.3 3/1213.3 3/908.3 -/-/-/-/-/1/490.0 -/-/-/-/-/28/1192.0 -/-/-/-/-/24/1041.7 -/-/-/2/1225.0 -/-/-/-/-/6/1263.3 1/1155.0 -/-/-

-/9/93.8 -/6/59.8 -/-/-/11/46.9 -/-/-/-/-/-/2/22.5 2/27.5 18/105.9 -/-/-/-/-/-/14/66.1 -/-/-/-/-/10/76.7 -/-/-/-/31/64.7 -/-/-/-/-/7/18.4 11/81.6 7/18.6 -/-/-/-/21/42.9 -/-/-/14/58.4 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

-/13/312.9 -/4/138.3 -/-/-/29/266.0 3/223.3 -/-/-/-/-/19/202.3 29/166.9 29/383.9 5/140.4 -/-/-/-/-/51/197.8 -/-/-/-/-/37/251.4 -/-/-/-/151/238.0 -/-/-/-/-/15/236.0 6/281.2 6/185.0 -/-/-/4/275.5 87/210.8 -/-/-/9/332.2 -/-/-/4/261.3 14/151.2 -/-/-/-/-

-/7/199.3 -/4/98.8 -/-/-/21/124.5 3/76.0 -/-/-/-/-/19/117.3 33/99.1 20/310.0 5/98.0 -/-/19/241.8 -/-/50/132.6 -/-/-/-/2/280.0 30/176.9 4/365.0 -/-/-/128/177.4 3/145.0 -/-/-/2/124.0 8/179.1 6/211.2 8/160.0 -/10/232.7 -/9/173.7 72/140.7 -/35/159.6 -/4/233.8 -/-/-/1/265.0 10/152.6 -/-/-/2/390.0

-/13/75.2 -/5/181.4 -/-/-/15/150.3 12/156.6 -/-/-/-/-/13/57.9 42/62.4 27/229.6 5/102.8 -/-/-/-/-/35/106.4 -/-/-/-/-/17/120.6 -/-/-/-/92/135.6 -/-/-/-/-/2/177.5 7/250.6 3/130.0 -/-/-/9/137.7 48/105.4 -/-/-/1/205.0 -/-/-/3/210.0 12/90.0 -/-/-/-/-

-/8/53.8 -/10/97.6 -/-/-/26/113.3 6/55.8 -/-/-/-/-/20/41.2 42/36.9 11/198.5 2/75.0 -/-/6/126.3 -/-/32/53.8 -/-/-/-/3/33.3 11/62.5 -/-/-/-/88/106.5 7/85.0 -/-/- -/-/4/153.0 5/146.0 1/100.0 -/-/9/122.8 -/7/86.0 68/67.9 -/16/102.9 -/6/199.2 -/-/-/1/200.0 8/74.6 -/-/-/-/-

Market day(s) w/e Jan 7

Brecon Bryncir Carmarthen Dolgellau Gaerwen Knighton Mold Monmouthshire Newcastle Emlyn Rhayader Ruthin St Asaph Talgarth Welshpool Whitland

6-12 month steers

12-18 month steers

18+ month steers

6-12 month heifers

12-18 month heifers

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

-/-/We\Fr\Mo 15/743.3 -/Tu -/-/Fr -/We 8/768.8 Th -/-/Th 16/1193.4 -/-/-/Sa\Tu 5/996.0

-/-/17/1135.3 -/-/-/7/1097.1 7/941.4 -/-/9/1345.0 -/-/-/27/1180.7

-/-/23/1462.2 -/-/-/43/1322.9 4/740.0 -/-/12/1405.8 -/-/-/61/1377.2

-/-/31/679.0 -/1/580.0 -/-/10/581.0 1/670.0 -/10/611.0 -/-/-/3/990.0

-/-/15/868.3 -/5/1008.0 -/5/930.0 7/1037.1 -/-/-/-/-/-/6/1100.8

-/-/20/1135.0 -/16/979.1 -/31/1071.3 4/1236.3 -/-/15/1264.0 -/-/-/72/1247.8 18+ month heifers

STORES (NATIVE-SIRED) 6-12 month steers

Brecon Bryncir Carmarthen Dolgellau Gaerwen Knighton Mold Monmouthshire Newcastle Emlyn Rhayader Ruthin St Asaph Talgarth Welshpool Whitland

12-18 month steers

18+ month steers

6-12 month heifers

12-18 month heifers

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

-/-/4/625.0 -/-/-/1/790.0 12/833.3 -/-/4/590.0 -/-/-/1/1350.0

-/-/7/872.9 -/-/-/4/802.5 6/1038.3 -/-/3/853.3 -/-/-/6/836.7

-/-/12/1356.3 -/5/1320.0 -/14/1051.1 8/997.5 -/-/7/1220.0 -/-/-/28/1155.4

-/-/8/322.5 -/-/-/5/536.0 4/737.5 3/285.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/-

-/-/6/811.7 -/-/-/4/771.3 1/1250.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/2/900.0

-/-/10/1128.0 -/-/-/19/1075.5 2/970.0 -/-/1/1250.0 -/-/-/10/793.0

STORES (HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN)

Brecon Bryncir Carmarthen Dolgellau Gaerwen Knighton Mold Monmouthshire Newcastle Emlyn Rhayader Ruthin St Asaph Talgarth Welshpool Whitland

-/-/-/-/1/940.00 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/7/735.71 1/1250.00 11/996.36

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/1/950.00 7/1117.14 10/992.00

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-/-/-/-/4/60.00 -/-/-/2/30.00 -/-/-/-/-/-/-

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/2/232.50 -/-/-/-/-/-/-

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

Source: IAAS/ScotEID -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/1/150.00 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

CALVES (7-42 DAYS)

6-12 month 12-18 month 18+ month steers steers steers

Black and Continental Continental Native white bulls bulls heifers bulls

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av. No. / Av.

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

-/-/5/810.0 -/-/-/2/855.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/-/3/500.0

-/-/15/66.5 -/-/-/4/52.0 -/2/37.5 -/-/-/-/-/11/43.6

-/-/57/231.8 -/-/-/15/142.5 -/8/187.5 -/17/210.0 -/-/-/18/188.0

-/-/51/153.6 -/-/-/15/143.3 2/207.5 12/175.6 -/15/174.7 -/-/-/27/151.9

-/-/25/114.3 -/-/-/11/85.6 -/12/92.0 -/4/185.0 -/-/-/27/107.3

MARKET COMMENT MARKET prices dropped at auction marts across England and Wales after a downturn from the Christmas and New Year period.

In the cattle rings, the biggest decreases were in steers and heifers, which fell 10p/kg to 277.1p/kg and 6.4p/kg

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/2/750.00 -/1/1070.00

18+ month heifers

to 284.3p/kg, respectively.

Young bulls increased by 1.2p/kg to 266.9p/kg, as did culls cows by 9p/kg to 140.9p/kg.

Native heifers

-/-/36/90.9 -/-/-/14/64.7 9/99.4 5/127.0 -/3/131.7 -/-/-/29/82.2

LIVESTOCK AVERAGES Primestock throughput, price and price change (p/kg).

Week ending January 7, 2024.

ENGLAND AND WALES Category

Throughput

Price

Change

Young Bulls Steers Heifers All Prime Total NS/OS Lambs (SQQ) Porker (60 - 87kg) Cutter (88 - 97kg) Baconer (98 - 115kg) Other (over 115kg) Cull Cows Dairy Sired Cull Cows Beef Sired

942 633 1303 2878 58933 73 151 300 104 1060 961

266.9 277.1 284.3 277.0 277.6 165.3 183.6 184.2 133.9 140.9 174.4

1.2 -10.0 -6.4 -7.2 -11.8 -23.9 -27.2 -15.5 56.0 9.0 4.9 Source: MartEye/LAA

In the lamb rings, new season stock fell 11.8p/kg to 277.6p/kg.

For pigs, prices lowered

by 23.9p/kg to 165.3p/kg.

As Farmers Guardian went to press on Wednesday (January 10), UK LIFFE Wheat prices for May 24 were trading at £192/tonne, a decrease of £2.45/t on the previous week.

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MARKET PRICES DEADWEIGHT CATTLE STEERS Region

Throughput

Southern 2298 Central 2990 Northern 3235 Scotland 1941 HEIFERS Southern 1756 Central 2701 Northern 1971 Scotland 1727 YOUNG BULLS Southern 100 Central 452 Northern 203 Scotland 115 COWS Southern 1355 Central 2474 Northern 1395 Scotland 490

Deadweight prices for the week ending Jan 6, 2024.

Average

-U3

-U4L

-U4H

R2

R3

R4L

R4H

O+2

O+3

O+4L

O+4H

-O2

-O3

-O4L

-O4H

483.1 482.5 493.0 499.1

501.4 501.1 499.0 502.3

499.8 494.3 499.9 500.2

505.5 485.3 507.9 503.0

-

491.3 496.0 496.2 501.4

493.5 491.7 502.2 500.9

496.1 487.5 499.1 500.7

-

483.0 485.9 491.5 494.1

476.8 485.5 492.7 498.3

468.4 477.2 488.1 495.3

-

463.8 455.0 469.6 478.8

458.0 449.3 476.1 475.9

472.2 450.4 466.9 504.5

477.5 485.2 486.9 501.3

501.4 503.0 494.1 506.1

501.9 502.1 501.3 507.4

493.8 489.4 508.4 503.6

-

492.1 494.9 493.2 501.4

494.0 494.2 495.5 501.9

492.1 490.9 499.8 501.3

-

480.2 483.9 481.4 493.1

477.9 483.8 488.8 498.5

479.4 485.5 487.4 498.3

-

464.4 445.7 450.2 469.7

453.6 462.6 479.1 461.4

460.5 449.5 483.0 483.3

452.0 468.3 455.9 478.8

495.0 497.6 484.4 486.3

460.0 495.0

463.0

473.4 478.2 472.7 481.2

486.4 479.3 476.8 484.3

479.7 480.2 485.9

456.0 -

442.2 457.2 466.9 -

465.0 464.2 466.3 473.2

460.6 476.3 478.0

475.0 -

420.4 424.9 395.1 433.4

445.0 418.0 427.5 453.3

410.0 375.0 415.0

410.0 -

299.7 312.0 329.8 352.3

-

-

-

-

360.2 368.3 370.8 371.5

366.0 372.4 373.0 371.3

359.0 364.4 365.4 367.1

-

341.2 354.9 362.0 362.6

354.3 360.0 364.1 361.4

355.9 346.6 354.6 354.2

-

339.8 340.5 342.7 337.7

339.3 341.5 344.5 344.6

336.3 339.8 321.1 327.2

STORE SHEEP ENGLAND STORE LAMBS

DEADWEIGHT SHEEP

Source: MartEye/LAA

w/e Jan 7

Day

No.

Ave.

Ashford Bakewell Barnard Castle Bentham Bishops Castle Bridgnorth Brockholes Carlisle Cirencester Clitheroe Cockermouth Colchester Cutcombe Darlington Exeter Frome Gisburn Hailsham Hallworthy Hawes Hereford Hexham Holmfirth Holsworthy Hull/Dunswell Kendal Kington Kirkby Stephen Lancaster Leek Leyburn Longtown

Tu Th\Mo

506 25 2295 140 244 274 1720 2 17 899 1433 21 514 340 90 5204 2302 125 21 1893 166 63 6

83.4 56.2 91.1 98.6 93.3 74.6 85.1 84.0 59.2 89.7 97.0 55.5 71.6 83.4 69.3 97.7 93.5 76.4 53.0 86.8 91.1 51.0 84.3

Tu Fr Mo Th Sa Tu We Mo Fr We Sa We Th Tu Fr We Mo Th Th

Fr Th

Source: MartEye/LAA

Day

Brecon Bryncir Carmarthen Fr Dolgellau Fr Gaerwen Mo Knighton Fr Mold Monmouthshire We\Mo Newcastle Emlyn Th Rhayader Ruthin Th St Asaph Th\Sa Talgarth Welshpool Mo Whitland Tu

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Day

No.

Mo

9 2 741

Louth Ludlow Market Drayton Melton Mowbray Middleton in Teesdale Newton Abbot (Rendells) Northallerton Norwich Oswestry Otley Penrith Ross on Wye Rugby Ruswarp Salisbury Sedgemoor Selby Shrewsbury Stratford Skipton Tavistock Thame Thirsk Thrapston Truro Ulverston Wigton Worcester York

We Tu

We Sa We Fr We Mo

Sa Sa Tu Tu

Fr Sa We Tu Sa Th

Ave.

52.2 49.0 73.6

-

-

50 125 38 87 147 151 1236 231 4 87 89 212 79 24 699 75

104.5 78.7 77.8 75.2 86.4 80.2 99.9 74.1 85.1 65.2 74.5 66.3 86.3 65.3 101.3 80.7

No.

Ave.

44 466 80 526 369 9 500 527 937 96

77.2 62.9 71.0 87.2 72.6 72.3 68.9 73.2 75.5 70.0

STORE LAMBS

Source: IAAS/ScotEID

Day

Ayr Caithness Castle Douglas Dingwall Dumfries Forfar Huntly Kirkwall Lanark Lockerbie Newton Stewart Newtown St Boswells Stirling (caledonian) Stirling (ua) Thainstone

Tu We

Mo

Mo We Th

N/S deadweight prices for the week ending Jan 6, 2024.

SQQ 2 3L 3H E 635.9 (117) 634.3 (314) 625.5 U 632.1 (613) 628.3 (2847) 622.8 R 620.3 (3961) 619.0 (11963) 618.0 O 603.7 (3294) 607.3 (4012) 601.9 P 567.7 (136) 548.0 (17) 485.0

No.

Ave.

1 19 195 -

72.0 58.2 73.3 -

268 806 55

85.2 93.4 84.8

4L (105) 612.8 (1234) 601.3 (5430) 597.7 (1112) 586.4 (2)

Source: AHDB 4H (21) (179) (666) (79)

584.8 579.7 542.6

(16) (35) (5)

Average: 615.6 (36,592) Medium E U R O P

2 636.2 632.4 621.9 608.3 495.5

(114) (577) (3337) (1689) (2)

3L 634.3 628.6 619.8 611.3 495.3

3H (313) 625.5 (2784) 623.0 (10936) 618.6 (2714) 603.5 (3)

(104) (1220) (5158) (883)

4L 612.8 601.2 597.2 584.8

4H (21) (178) (649) (71)

584.8 578.8 542.6

(16) (34) (5)

Average: 618.4 (30,992) Deadweight sheep prices are collected from a sample of GB abattoirs. The sample accounts for about one-third of deadweight sales; prices quoted p/kg are averages for all qualities 12-21.5kg.

DEADWEIGHT PIGS

Latest prices for Great Britain.

STANDARD PIG PRICE (SPP) Week ending December 30, 2023

ALL PIG PRICE (APP) Week ending December 23, 2023.

Weight Number p/kg Change Up to 59.9kg 100 160.52 -8.80 60 - 69.9kg 695 202.51 -2.33 70 - 79.9kg 4,622 215.46 -0.28 80 - 89.9kg 13,425 216.17 -0.42 90 - 99.9kg 12,402 214.67 -0.40 100 - 104.9kg 2,888 212.60 -0.32 105.0kg and over 1,723 195.25 -2.26 All clean pigs 35,855 213.85 -0.56 70 - 104.9kg 33,337 215.20 -0.47 EU spec average 213.85 -0.56 UK spec average 210.17 -0.52

Weight Number p/kg Change Up to 59.9kg 655 190.41 na 60 - 69.9kg 2,455 211.43 1.12 70 - 79.9kg 11,466 216.44 0.56 80 - 89.9kg 25,181 216.01 na 90 - 99.9kg 17,800 214.10 na 100 - 104.9kg 3,240 211.63 -1.40 105.0kg and over 1,839 196.69 na All clean pigs 62,636 214.30 0.23 70 - 104.9kg 57,687 215.26 na EU spec average 214.30 0.23 UK spec average 210.56 0.22

PIGS Prices in p/kg.

SCOTLAND

WALES STORE LAMBS

Source: AHDB

Ashford Selby Thirsk York

Source: AHDB

Source: MarEye/LAA Market day w/e: Jan 7 Tu We Th Mo

Pigs total 29 244 26 39

Porkers average 72.2 136.6 198.0

Cutters average 103.9 191.2 160.3 -

Cull sows Baconers average Total Average 112.2 4 35.5 193.1 6 82.7 153.8 95 84.5 184.3 6 89.0

WEANER PRICES

SLAUGHTERINGS

Please note: AHDB weaner data has been suspended until further notice.

Estimates for GB (per head), W/e Jan 7, 2024 2023 %change (2022) Pigs 93,841.29 -26.42 Sheep 190,497.35 -0.86 Steers 13,352.43 -1.45 Heifers 10,680.01 +4.17 Young bulls 1,570.50 -9.65

HAY AND STRAW PRICES

December 27, 2023

GOOSTREY: Mon, hay, square bale to £105/tonne, round bale to £145/t; haylage, round bale to £82/t; barley straw, square bale to £114/t; wheat straw, square bale to £110/t, round bale to £145/t; silage, wrapped to £54/t, loose grass to £22/t; fodder beet to £44/t.

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LIVESTOCK AVERAGES LIVEWEIGHT STEERS (ENGLAND/WALES)

DEADWEIGHT STEERS (GREAT BRITAIN)

SOURCE: MartEye/LAA

SOURCE: AHDB

520 280

500 480

270

p/kg deadweight

265 260 255

460 440 420 400

250

380

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jul

Jun

May

Jan

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jul

Jun

May

LIVEWEIGHT HEIFERS (ENGLAND/WALES)

2022 Apr

2023

360

Mar

2023 Mar

Feb

Jan

2024

Apr

245

Feb

p/kg liveweight

275

DEADWEIGHT HEIFERS (GREAT BRITAIN) SOURCE: AHDB

SOURCE: MartEye/LAA

520 295

500 480 p/kg deadweight

285 280 275 270

460 440 420 400

265

380

260

360

2023

2022

LIVEWEIGHT SQQ LAMBS (ENGLAND/WALES)

DEADWEIGHT SQQ LAMBS (GREAT BRITAIN) SOURCE: AHDB

SOURCE: MartEye/LAA

780

320

2024 2023

740

300

700 p/kg deadweight

p/kg liveweight

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jul

Jun

May

Apr

Mar

Feb

Jan

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jun

Jul

340 May

Apr

2023 Mar

Feb

2024 Jan

p/kg liveweight

290

280 260

660 620 580 540

240

500

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jul

Jun

May

Apr

Feb

Jan

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jul

Jun

May

Apr

Mar

Feb

Jan

CULL COWS (ENGLAND/WALES)

2022

Mar

2023

460

PIG PRICE INDICATOR (GREAT BRITAIN) SOURCE: AHDB

SOURCE: MartEye/LAA

230 200

150

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Jun

May

Apr

Mar

Feb

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jul

Jun

May

Apr

Mar

Feb

Jan

130

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SPP (2023) APP (2023)

140

120

Dec

Dairy-sired (2023) Beef-sired (2023)

170 160

Nov

140

180

Oct

Dairy-sired (2024) Beef-sired (2024)

190

Sep

160

210 200

Jan

p/kg

180

Aug

p/kg deadweight (EU spec)

220

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MARKET PRICES UK DELIVERED PRICES – SUMMARY Wednesday, January 10, 2024 (£ per tonne).

Delivery East Anglia / London (BW)

Northamptonshire

North-West grains/ Liverpool OSR

Avonmouth feed /South bread

Yorkshire

Fife/Edinburgh

Jan-2024 Feb-2024 May-2024 Hvst-2024 Jan-2024 Feb-2024 May-2024 Hvst-2024 Jan-2024 Feb-2024 May-2024 Hvst-2024 Jan-2024 Feb-2024 May-2024 Hvst-2024 Jan-2024 Feb-2024 May-2024 Hvst-2024 Jan-2024

Source: AHDB Bread Wheat Price Change 256.50 n/c 258.00 n/c 262.00 n/c 259.50 n/c 261.00 n/c 265.00 n/c 270.50 n/c 272.50 n/c 276.50 n/c -

Feed Wheat Price Change 188.50 n/c 189.00 n/c 194.50 n/c 200.50 n/c 190.00 n/c 191.00 n/c 196.00 n/c -

Feed Barley Price Change 158.50 n/c -

Oilseed Rape Price Change 363.50 n/c 367.00 n/c 364.50 n/c 368.00 n/c -

UK DELIVERED OILSEED RAPE PRICES Source: AHDB

Jan-2024 363.50 364.50 364.50 -

Hvst-2024 367.00 368.00 368.00 -

Nov-2024 375.50 376.50 376.50 -

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-

FUTURES MARKETS (WHEAT) Wednesday, January 10, 2024 (£ per tonne).

Price LIFFE £/tonne Jan 24 Mar 24 May 24 Jul 24 Nov 24 Jan 25 Mar 25 May 25 Jul 25 Nov 25

181.90 187.20 192.50 199.45 205.75 208.35 210.95 213.55 209.45 204.15

MATIF

Price €/tonne

Mar 24 May 24 Sep 24 Dec 24 Mar 25 May 25 Sep 25 Dec 25

219.75 224.00 229.25 232.75 234.50 236.00 234.75 239.00

Last updated Jan 9, 2024 BPS ENTS English Deadline – Early 2024* Price at deadlines

Average prices (2023)

Non-SDA SDA Moorland

£80.59 £99.41 £24

-

BPS ENTS Welsh Deadline – May 15, 2024 Price at deadlines £50**

CME

Price US cents/bushel

Mar 24 May 24 Jul 24 Sep 24 Dec 24 Mar 25

610.00 622.50 630.75 641.75 656.00 667.75

Average prices (2023) £65

BPS ENTS Scottish Regions 1, 2 and 3 Deadline – April 2, 2024 Price at deadlines

Average prices (2023)

Region 1 Region 2 Region 3

£149.47 £40.34 £15.44

£130** £35** £10**

BPS ENTS Northern Irish Deadline – May 3, 2024 Price at Average deadlines prices (2023) x 1.0**

Wednesday, January 10, 2024 (£ per tonne).

Oilseed Rape East Anglia / London Erith Liverpool Hull / Selby

BPS ENTITLEMENTS, BNG, CARBON AND WATER

x 1.0

*For trading Delinkage ref amounts; £1 per £1 of Delinkage reference amount. ** Estimates.

ENGLISH DELINKAGE REF AMOUNTS: average of 2020/21/22 claims. Seller’s 2023 claim not needed. Estimated return £1.46/£1 ref amount with buyer’s delink payment less than £30,000 post-transfer at 4% interest. Subject to Delinkage values 2025-27. BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN: English: Defra estimates £20,000£25,000/unit post-November 11. Current market £15,000-£90,000/unit excluding VAT and associated fees. NUTRIENT NEUTRALITY: Long-term sales of all types agric man excluding specialist habitat creation. Nitrates £3,000£4,000/unit (£18,000-£206,000/ha); phosphates £50,000-£65,000/unit (£2,000-£169,000/ha).

CARBON: Woodland Carbon >£30/WCU >£20/ PIU. Nov 2022 WCG reverse auction average £22.61. WATER: English abstraction licences less than £3-£15/cu.m.

Source: Townsend Chartered Surveyors

SUPERMARKET RED MEAT PRICES Week ending Jan 7, 2024 (prices in p/kg).

CORN RETURNS EX-FARM PRICES Wednesday, January 10, 2024 (£ per tonne).

WHEAT Milling Bread

South East South West Midlands Eastern North East North West England & Wales South Scotland Central Scotland North Scotland Scotland Great Britain Northern Ireland United Kingdom Change on last week (£/t)

246.70 256.40 252.90 252.50 252.50 252.50 n/c

Other

Feed & Other

BARLEY Malting Premium

Other

Feed & Other

188.10 192.50 192.50 192.50 n/c

185.40 184.10 192.20 186.40 185.30 185.70 185.70 +0.30

235.30 238.60 238.60 238.60 n/c

-

155.10 159.40 157.60 165.30 160.10 160.20 160.20 -2.00

OATS Milling

Feed

-

-

FIELD PEAS/BEANS

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This week Last week

Late Source: AHDB

Jan Feb Mar

Micronising peas

Jan 7, 2024 All prices £/tonne ex-farm Feed Feed peas beans

£333.00 £335.00 £337.00

£240.67 £241.67 £242.67

£241.08 £242.08 £243.08

BEEF Roasting Joint Sirloin Steak Rump Steak Fillet Steak Diced Braising Steak Lean Mince Standard Mince

1141 2027 1611 3392 1088 0 698 500

1125 2027 1611 3392 1088 0 707 500

LAMB Whole Leg Shoulder (Bone-in) Shanks Steaks Chops Diced Standard Mince

1316 1017 1349 1593 1559 1873 1080

1316 1017 1349 1593 1559 1873 1080

PORK Leg (Boneless) Shoulder (Boneless) Fillet (Tenderloin) Loin Steaks Chops Diced Belly Slices Ribs Lean Mince

584 415 805 880 789 809 787 733 566

562 415 805 880 789 809 804 733 566 Source: AHDB

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CURRENCY WATCH

Last updated Jan 10, 2024

€1=£0.8605

£1=€1.1620

$1=£0.7856

Where stated, data provided by AHDB.

£1=$1.2728

UK DELIVERED WHEAT PRICES

NATIONAL STRAIGHTS PRICES

Wednesday, January 10, 2024.

1. FEED WHEAT Avonrange Central Scotland East Anglia East Devon Lancashire London North Humberside Northamptonshire Oxfordshire South Humberside Southampton Tyne & Wear West Midlands East Midlands

JAN 190.00 188.50 -

FEB 191.00 189.00 -

MAY 196.00 194.50 -

HARVEST 200.50 -

NOV 208.00 207.50 -

2. FULL SPEC. BREAD WHEAT North-West Northamptonshire South London / Essex Yorkshire

JAN 259.50 256.50 -

FEB 272.50 261.00 258.00 -

MAY 276.50 265.00 262.00 -

HARVEST 270.50 -

NOV 276.50 -

3. FULL SPEC. BISCUIT WHEAT North-West Northamptonshire South London / Essex Yorkshire Scotland

JAN -

FEB -

MAY -

HARVEST -

NOV -

DAIRY CATTLE PRICES GREAT BRITAIN Bentham Carlisle Carmarthen Exeter Frome Gisburn Holsworthy Lancaster Leek Leyburn Market Drayton Norton and Brooksbank Otley Sedgemoor Shrewsbury Skipton Wigton Mold Whitland Ayr Lanark Stirling (ua)

We We We

Th

Tu We Fr Sa Tu Mo Mo Tu

Last updated Jan 7, 2024 Source: AHDB/LAA/IAAS

January 497.00 497.00 230.00 293.00 305.00

February - April 471.00 471.00 230.00 293.00 305.00

268.00 N/A 200.00 304.00 N/A 292.00

270.00 N/A 200.00 281.00 N/A 292.00

OTHER

Cows (under

Cows (under

Cows (over 36 months)

36 months)

months)

36 months)

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

No. / Av.

16/1724.4 80/2091.4 43/1708.4 -/-/56/2059.5 -/-/13/1236.9 -/-/-/1/1180.0 1/760.0 26/1793.8 12/1705.8 -/11/1379.1 -/3/1966.70 -/-/-

2/1425.0 43/2038.8 8/1550.0 -/-/9/2123.3 -/-/-/-/9/1391.1 -/-/15/1749.3 8/1885.0 6/1733.3 -/8/1343.8 -/5/1310.00 -/-/-

-/7/1597.1 1/1720.0 -/-/1/1380.0 -/-/3/1180.0 -/-/-/-/-/1/1020.0 -/-/2/1375.0 -/-/-/-/-

-/2/1250.0 -/-/-/-/-/-/5/1132.0 -/4/1247.5 -/-/1/1780.0 2/1815.0 -/-/-/-/1/750.00 -/-/-

Source: Straights Direct May - October 422.00 423.00 225.00 293.00 N/A 200.00 270.00 ✧ 250.00 ✪ N/A 288.00

Key: All prices in pounds sterling. Currency, £/$1.2575; £/€1.1511 Guide prices indicated include delivery charge of £6/tonne. ✸ = After safe arrival; F = First half; S = Second half; =Sept; ✥ = Oct; ✦ = September/October; ◗ = November; ▲ = December/January; ✧ = May/June; ✪ = August/October

MILK PRICE LEAGUE TABLE December 2023

Source: AHDB

Aligned liquid milk Müller Milk & Ingredients M&S Müller Milk & Ingredients TSDG (Tesco) Müller Milk & Ingredients Sainsbury’s Arla Foods - Sainsburys Müller Milk & Ingredients Co-op Dairy Group

Monthly price 46.18 42.27 41.33 40.96 40.35

Annual average 46.12 42.27 41.27 40.78 40.29

Standard Liquid Milk Lactalis - Caledonian Cheese First Milk Manufacture2 Barber’s Cheesemakers Wyke Farms Belton Farm Leprino Foods South Caernarfon Creameries4 UK Arla Farmers Manufacturing1

Monthly price 36.23 35.97 35.67 35.63 35.00 34.21 34.14 33.64

Annual average 36.23 36.04 35.67 35.56 35.00 33.88 33.51 33.43

A&B

Monthly price

Annual average

36.66

36.46

Freshways

HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN Cows (over 36

Last updated January 10, 2024 Commodity Hi Pro Soyameal – North Hi Pro Soyameal – South Soya hulls Maize distillers Maize gluten Non-GM HP sugar beet pellets (delivered) Whole maize PCR Negative Palm kernel expellers Rapeseed meal basis Erith Kent Rapeseed meal basis Humber Distillers dark grains

1. This contract will receive a 1.33ppl guaranteed minimum payment.

2. This contract will receive a 0.50ppl member premium payment.

2. This contract will receive a 1.78ppl Tesco cheese group payment.

3. This contract will receive a 1.00ppl direct premium payment.

4. This contract will receive a 0.40ppl actual 13th payment.

5. Formerly Glanbia - Llangefn.

Retailer price supplements are included where applicable. Supplements listed are in addition to listed milk prices.

UK MONTHLY MILK PRODUCTION UK milk deliveries in September 2023 were down 1.2 per cent on the year at 1,137 million litres. Cumulatively, this was 0.3 per cent up on the year to date.

September 2023 GB milk deliveries down 1.3 per cent for the same period at 963 m litres. GB milk deliveries for the year to date were 0.3 per cent up.

In print, in pocket, informed, in profit.

HAY AND STRAW: REGIONS Week ending Jan 7, 2024.

Big bale hay Quality North East E Yorks N Mids E Mids C Mids E Counties S East South S West S Wales SE Scotland

Good 85 80 100 80 75 75 80 90 100 95

Pickup baled hay and straw Seed Meadow Barley hay hay straw Good 130 100

Good 120

125 130

100 100

130

120

Wheat straw

Good 100

Good 80

90

90

75

65

80

80

Big sq. baled straw Barley Wheat straw straw Good 75 68 65 70 80 70 65 78 95 80 78

Good 65 53 55 55 75 60 50 66 80 75 70

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FARMING: THE BACKBONE O Having spent much of his life in the army, Martin Frodsham found it difficult to find a new career – until he found farming.

Emily Ashworth finds out more.

W

hen Martin Frodsham left school in 2005, he had his sights set on the fire service. Fast forward a few years and Martin found himself in the army, working his way up. So, having led a life of service, how did Martin end up in agriculture?

He has been on quite the journey and the latter part, which has seen him leave the forces and find his feet in farming, has been one of great selfdiscovery.

“Growing up, I did not hang around with the best group people and I wanted to take the opportunity to distance myself from trouble and gain some maturity,” says Martin.

“I was a bit of a loose cannon with no direction. The fire service in my locality would not consider me because of my age and I had no substantial qualifications.

“So, the army it was. Signing my oath to the late Queen Elizabeth at the age of 16, I started in February 2007.”

Martin went through basic training and started an apprenticeship as a fitter – a maintainer in mechanical engineering. He was appointed as driver operator, maintainer of the Challenger 2 battle tank and was eventually deployed overseas.

He says: “As a tank crewman, I was part of a highly trained combat team working on the fastest and most advanced battle tanks in the world.

“Training carried on when I arrived at the unit. This included gunnery courses where I became an expert in most of the defence vehicle platforms.

“I worked alongside the Afghan uniformed police and special forces tiger teams. Living in patrol bases in the green zone, our job was to cut the main weapons, money, drugs and ammunition supply route to the Taliban, taking out high-value targets and, at the same time, befriending locals. By building a

It bridges the gap for the pool of talent of robust, resilient, reliable and hardworking individuals who would otherwise overlook farming MARTIN FRODSHAM relationship with locals and understanding their culture, we were able to build schools for girls and protect their education from the enemy.”

“These were the highlights of my career, but it is only when you have been there that you think to yourself, ‘why are we really at war with such a poor and unequipped country?’

Instructor “There are moments that have scarred me for life.”

Martin went on to become an instructor, and was posted to Bovington Camp, a British Army base in Dorset.

He taught the fundamentals of safely operating, servicing and maintaining equipment using defence instructional techniques.

But in the middle of all of this Martin sustained a back injury, which later in his career, brought him ‘to a standstill’.

“I was moved to a desk-based role where I was in charge of more than 10 people in the technical department.

“My daily duties were procurement and fitting of operation critical equipment or parts, worth sometimes in

Martin Frodsham has been completing John Deere’s Military Hiring programme.

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excess of £20 million, both in the UK and overseas,” he says.

Sadly, Martin then lost his mother.

The pain from his back injury sat alongside the grief of losing a parent, PTSD, anxiety and the trauma of two failed operations on his spine.

This sparked his resettlement journey out of the army; it was the start of getting his mental health back on track and a chance for Martin to try and find a new career.

After 17 years in the military, people presume there is support out there, but Martin did not find it easy.

He says: “I have a wide variety of experience from working with power take-off units, hydrostatic gear changers, planetary gears to working in an office managerial environment and warzones.

“Through social media I was following the likes of The Grassmen and Prohorizon as it just interested me. I thought to myself, I could do that.

“I had always had a soft spot for tractors and farming – maybe due to my father growing up on a farm in a village called Flash in the Peak District, and I listened to his stories about living there and working the land.

“To start with I did what anyone would do – I rang big name dealerships, colleges, and contractors in my area for placements. I sent my CV out as much as I could, but with no luck.

“I then was introduced to Jeremy Gibbs at Forces Farming [an initiative which supports army veterans into the farming industry] by a dealer, and I was told to get experience.

“Jeremy was always sympathetic with my situation – the fact I had no experience, knowledge and was from a non-farming background. Whenever I spoke with him it always felt personal and professional.”

Jeremy Gibbs has led Forces Farming to be recognised by the resettlement process of the military, and there is now a 6X6 programme established where service leavers can use some of their resettlement grants to essentially have a go at all things agriculture.

Martin, with Jeremy’s support, has been on days out at shows, been to various talks and visited the Agco head office, which is one of Forces Farming’s supporters, to attend one of their technical courses.

“I think this is a great idea and is a credit to Jeremy,” says Martin.

“What I found most interesting is getting on the kit and operating it; not just going through the motions, but actually talking about what you are trying to achieve in terms of looking after the land, animal

husbandry and ecology. Jeremy has been a key part of my transition into agriculture – every farmer/manager I encountered either wanted a 17-year-old or 30 years of experience. It has been a struggle to get them onboard and to trust you and be a bit more patient.

“I have been close to packing it all in and going in an alternative direction.

“Veterans are fast learners, but being in the military, things get done in a slow, methodical and safe way.

“But a veteran has a story that does affect their mental health in the same way the struggles and pressures of agriculture affect a farmer’s mental health.

“There are thousands of service leavers each year, but Forces Farming bridges the gap for the pool of talent of robust, resilient, reliable and hardworking individuals who would otherwise overlook farming.”

Martin says he has found some colleges ‘completely unsympathetic’ to individual circumstances, especially for mature students.

Journey He is now in a position he enjoys, having soaked up as much as he can through various voluntary roles since starting out on his farming journey.

He has been working with agricultural suppliers, dealerships, contractors and farm/estate managers to gain a better understanding of how he can transfer his skills. He has been working in the arable sector, contract farming combinable crops, had three weeks experience working in a service technician/engineering environment at T.H. Whites and working at Cotswold Farm Machinery as an assistant service manager/general manager.

He started the 2023 harvest season working at the Boddington Estate in Cheltenham. But he hopes more veterans will be considered, especially with the help of Forces Farming.

He says: “As of late I am contracting while completing John Deere’s Military Hiring programme to be a mobile service technician/engineer, which has been a great success.

“I started with the Talis Amos Group in December 2023, and I cannot thank John Deere enough for being the first enterprise to understand a veteran’s needs and fabricate meaningful employment for me.

“Otherwise, it would have been a struggle. All I would ask is more people to take a small risk.”

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Army veteran finds his feet in farming

Forces Farming

After 17 years in the military, Martin Frodsham has found a passion for agriculture.

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JEREMY Gibbs, founder of Forces Farming, will be in the Career Zone at LAMMA, along with some service leavers, to talk about the initiative. See also p14-15 of the Machinery and Tractor Magazine, free with this week’s Farmers Guardian, for more on careers in agriculture.

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IN YOUR FIELD

Every week we follow the ups and downs of farmers around the UK IAN GARNETT

Cheshire Ian farms in partnership with his family near Knutsford, Cheshire. They manage 700 commercial pedigree Holstein/Friesians on 445ha (1,100 acres). Replacements are home-reared and cows are on a composite system.

Ian is a representative for Sainsbury’s Dairy Development Group and sits on the AHDB Genetics Advisory Forum.

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irstly, I would like to wish a Happy New Year to all those reading this article.

The dry weather break in early December felt like it was over within hours.

Grazing the youngstock on kale has proved challenging with far from ideal conditions, however good fencing saved the day and, so far, we have managed to keep the local landscape gardeners on their winter breaks.

That said, the cattle look well and will be housed soon to allow for them to be cubicle trained as they should be calving before next winter.

Those odd snippets of good autumn weather allowed one or two local arable farms to sow wheat, but the deluge of rain has left many Cheshire arable fields looking patchy and the question will inevitably arrive in the coming weeks of whether to re-drill or patch up.

Either way, yields for cereals for next summer are unlikely to be setting new highs here in our little corner of England.

The Christmas turkey campaign has come and gone.

Birds seem to have done well in

‘If the theory proves correct, we are due some typical spring weather’ their new housing and the quality was nice. As touched on last month, the marketplace proved reasonable with spare birds selling at sensible prices.

Fortunate A few of our regular farm shop and butcher customers’ orders were slightly lower this year, perhaps reflecting the cost of living crisis.

However, we were fortunate in gaining a few new customers via recommendations from our existing customers which compensated for these

reductions quite nicely. Politics is never far away and it seems that a General Election will be upon us. Early indicators suggest a change at the top, possibly to a Labour Government.

I have heard it said by someone older and far wiser than me that agriculture tends to do well under a Labour Government – whether this is due to policy changes championing British agriculture, or policies to deliver a weak currency to keep importers at bay remains to be seen.

We will perhaps get the chance

to see for ourselves in due course.

Anyone who has read this article over the years may recall how I heed the folklore that the first 12 days of January can predict the weather for the entire year.

So, the weather on the first, good or bad, will reflect January’s weather, the second-day forecasts February and so on.

If the theory proves correct, it should mean that we are due some typical spring weather, followed by a significant dry spell. Watch this space.

Farmers Weather by Dr Simon Keeling

Cold and wet, but not necessarily extreme WHAT a wet start to the year. Lots of statistics about rainfall are bouncing their way around the media right now, proving that you can make a statistic say anything.

That is not to play down the impact of the rainfall through December and the first few days of January, or the accompanying flooding, but more a statement of frustration at the label of ‘extreme’ being applied to what are wet winter conditions.

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to those dry/wet spells and our wondering when the rain would start/ stop. In my experience farmers have an incredibly sensible approach to this, and, when talking on our WeatherLIVE service, while expressing frustration, farmers generally have a very accepting approach to what the weather will throw at them; more so in my experience than any other customers for whom we forecast.

And that is why this week I was, initially, so incensed to see the new Canon of Tewkesbury Abbey claim that the flooding around the Abbey was a ‘wake-up call’ to climate change.

My immediate response was that

Tewkesbury has a well documented history of flooding back to Roman times. It should not be a surprise that it has flooded again and that the floodplains around the Abbey are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.

However, on further reading it seems that The Guardian’s headline was not the full story. What the Canon was pointing out is that we should look at all actions of our lives and examine what impact these may have on the human element of climate change. On this he has a point. So apologies to Canon Davies and a symbolic finger-wag to The Guardian for twisting a headline to suit a pre-conceived narrative.

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NEXT WEEK Cumbria James Robinson Yorkshire Helen Stanier

‘We should do more of what makes us happy’ Monmouthshire Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122ha (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. She is a mum of two, runs Kate’s Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees.

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lwydden Newydd dda (Happy New Year) to you all. Last year was not the best to be honest, but I have a feeling that 2024 is going to be a good one.

We had a great family Christmas.

Lunch had to be punctual on Christmas Day as farm vet Lauren was on

call in West Wales until 8am and police officer Greg was on duty in the afternoon, but we managed to sit and eat together.

On Boxing Day, Sam and Lauren headed up to Lauren’s home in the Highlands for Hogmanay to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

It is always a long drive from here, but due to the weather, it took them three days to reach their destination after snow caused road closures.

Sociable One of my resolutions is to be more sociable. We joined the village New Year’s Day Walk, (something we have not done for a few years) and also offered to host it next year.

I have signed up to the local book club (it helps that it is held in the pub), joined a rock choir (long story) and accepted invitations to see Bruce Springsteen and Tom Grennan in concert (on separate dates, they have not collaborated). We also had a spur of the moment Stump staff party in

the farmhouse last week with only one day’s notice. Turkey curry for 17 with unlimited cider and an unruly table tennis tournament – great fun.

Our ewes scanned at 160 per cent.

Nothing special, but it could be worse, with not many barren ewes among them. Lambing courses are full, but new dates and new events are being added to the website for 2024.

It is tree planting season and not a great time for my back to playing up, I am off to the docs this week for some WD40 or whatever it is they are treating bad backs with these days. At the time of writing, I have just returned from a site where, as a team, we planted our 250,000th tree. Many of these

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trees are in hedgerows and shelterbelts around South Wales.

We have two tree planting events on the farm next week as we continue to plant up old hedgerows. Fencing has been challenging on the wet ground but should be completed this week, fingers crossed.

It was daughter Celyn’s birthday on Sunday and Jim made a special present from a fallen oak tree on the farm – a beautiful coffee table. With my job planting trees and Sam’s job chopping them down, Jim now completes the circle of tree life making furniture. He thoroughly enjoys working with wood and we should do more of what makes us happy.

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‘A resilient food system must work with nature’

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boveall, what we need in 2024 is a kind spring. At our farm, we decided to use the good weather post-harvest to deal with widespread compaction issues.

Completing this loosening work would dovetail nicely with later autumn sowing to help get on top of what is quite a considerable weed burden. We imagined going into winter with the roots of cereal-legume bi crops descending through newly accessible layers of the soil profile; a biological seed drench getting them off to a flying start. The reality was somewhat different, thanks to the sixth wettest October since 1836.

Perhaps because only 0.2 per cent of the UK population are farmers, there is a general underestimation of how fragile farming in a changing climate can be. At a recent AHDB presentation (and excluding 2017 at 54 per cent), the percentage of UK

Soil biology and plant diversity are of foundational importance in restoring resilience and health to landscapes.

milling wheat reaching specification over the last 10 years averaged 78 per cent, but recent erratic weather has seen the three-year average fall to 52 per cent.

The evidence, not just from soil scientists but as seen on roadside verges or in any undisturbed natural ecosystem, is that soil biology and plant diversity are of foundational importance in restoring resilience and health to landscapes, as well as the plants, animals and people who live in them.

But making this transition during a seemingly never-ending sequence of shocks presents a terrible irony; the need to transition is ever more apparent while actioning it is even harder.

Sudden shifts in global commodity prices in either direction can derail strategic farm planning.

In response, we need to transition supply chains towards stable field-to-plate networks. Yet, these price shocks make this kind of

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transition even harder to implement.

Persistent shifts in weather patterns add a further layer of complexity.

Faced with lost autumn crops, eye-wateringly expensive spring seed, the extraordinary price of farm machinery and the farmer’s traditional lack of any input or output price stability, who fancies taking on radical system change? Except, perhaps, to plant flower mixes. Maybe this is why the Rural Payments Agency computer is so overloaded?

In this context, removing as many unknowns as we can has to be first on the New Year wish list, and a clear and functional Sustainable Farming Incentive is an obvious start.

Fixed prices Our Wildfarmed community operates on prices fixed before planting to try and further reduce farmer variables.

With any fixed price contract, you may lose out on a commodity market casino moment, but many would swap the possibility of a winning lottery ticket for the certainty of a fair price and ability to plan.

Society has decided that, after decades of demanding yield at all costs, it now wants something radically different from its farmers. But the burden of that change has been left entirely on us, with the rest of the extractive food system remaining unchanged.

Coming together, we can not only

benefit from collective practical experience, but it also gives us the power to create a collaborative supply chain.

Currently, these customers are paying a premium for the environmental services farmers are delivering. This is because there is a pervading narrative of food versus nature; on a given piece of land, it is a choice between one or the other.

In the UK today, rewilded land can attract biodiversity payments of about £1,000/hectare. Defra payments for flower mixes on non-productive land are close to £700/ha.

The maximum payment for plant diversity on land where food production is taking place is £55/ha. My great hope for 2024 is the success of all our efforts to get financial recognition for cropping techniques which combine food, diverse habitat, clean water and soil health.

Back in 1938, Lord Northbourne wrote a brilliantly prescient book entitled Look to the Land. Nearly 100 years later we are still wrestling with the same fundamental problem: a resilient food system must work with nature rather than against it.

As Lord Northbourne put it: “Nature will not be driven. If you try, she hits back slowly, but very hard.”

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Welcome to this edition of Machinery and Tractor Magazine. With the UK’s biggest machinery show, LAMMA, starting in a few days’ time, we have some insights on what to expect with machinery launches and updates.

Volatile markets – and weather – are likely to be key topics of conversation at this year’s event, as agricultural businesses look at their machinery changes and investments for 2024.

As wider global events have brought increased unpredictability to commodity markets, many growers will be looking at what types of crops they produce – and how they grow them – for the coming seasons.

Combining these factors with a very wet autumn and winter, spring crop establishment and grassland management may require a change of system and machinery investment to maintain effective output.

This year’s event is the largest ever staged and offers opportunities to look at new equipment and technology alongside industry-led discussions at the LAMMA Live theatre, indoor demonstrations in the demo zone and the latest products and machinery to receive one of the prestigious Innovation Awards. of classified a In addition to all the new machinery and technology on show, you can also starts after ds have a look at some of the used machinery in the bumper classified section.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR The size and the range of machinery at LAMMA offers something for all businesses in all agricultural sectors. Toby Whatley and Jane Carley pick out the top 10 products to see during your visit.

Top 10 machines you need to see at this year’s LAMMA CASE IH QUADTRAC 715 CURRENTLY holding the title as the world’s largest production tractor, the 715 Quadtrac is the new flagship tractor in the Case IH line-up which offers a peak power output of 778hp and a rated power of 715hp.

Shown for the first time in the UK since its launch last autumn, the 715 uses a new 16-litre FPT engine, which claims a 23 per cent greater displacement than the comparatively smaller 13-litre block fitted to the

lower-powered models in the range.

Fuel capacity has been increased by 11 per cent to nearly 2,000 litres, split between two saddle tanks across the rear of the machine. Buyers can specify the optional 10,092kg lift Cat 4 three-point linkage, alongside a Cat 5 drawbar. Hydraulic options extend to a maximum of eight rear spools with a standard output of 216 litres/minute or an optional twin-flow system with a 428 litres/minute capacity.

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JCB LOADALL 542-100 VISITORS will have the opportunity to see JCB’s new high-lift agricultural telehandler with a new 9.8-metre reach, 4.2-tonne lift capacity. The 542-100 is supplied in an Agri Pro specification which uses a 173hp version of the manufacturer’s four-cylinder, 4.8-litre engine.

Using a combination of a hydrostatic and powershift drive, the DualTech VT transmission claims to offer users a functional spit between a hydrostatic drive for lower-speed applications and a powershift for higher speeds and road travel.

Aimed at businesses rehandling and stacking large quantities of bales, the 542-100 is capable of a maximum road speed of 50kph, with hydraulic outputs of up to 160 litres/minute.

The combination of lift height and road speed capabilities makes the 542-100 one of the highest reach and fastest handlers currently offered in the UK market.

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THE new CR11 combine has been introduced as the largest in the New Holland’s portfolio. The machine is new from the ground up and incorporates a unique driveline layout which involves moving the engine into a longitudinal position and redirecting the drive around the twin 600mm rotors.

This layout has increased the internal space within the chassis and subsequently has allowed for a wider threshing system without increasing the overall machine width.

New Holland says the development of the machine was driven by a zeroloss goal, which includes the creation of a double cleaning shoe. The twincleaning design uses a primary and secondary cleaning system, creating a design with two upper sieves, two lower sieves and two grain augers.

Control and adjustment of the multi-stage cleaning system is fully automated, providing the claimed zero grain loss at maximum throughput capacity.

POLARIS RANGER KINETIC PRESENTED as the first UTV to actively compete with petrol- or diesel-powered counterparts, the all-electric Ranger Kinetic from Polaris will be shown to UK audiences for the first time at the event. Offered with a choice of batteries, a maximum operational range of up to 72km (45 miles) is claimed.

The Kinetic uses several of the established features from the wider Ranger models, with upgrades including LED lighting, increased ground clearance and a greater payload capacity. The motor drive is connected to the 4x4 transmission, with a claimed 35 per cent more

power than any other UTV on the market. The operator cabin is offered with full glazing with heating, with multiple external options for transportation and storage, plus front and rear winches.

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GT BUNNING LOWLANDER 120 NARROW BODY VADERSTAD TOPDOWN WITH E-SERVICES THE latest versions of the TopDown and Opus cultivators can now be equipped with the iPad-based Vaderstad E-Control system, along with the ability to apply prescription map tillage via IsoBus task control.

The operator can programme how the working elements are engaged at specific spots on the map based on soil type or field

characteristics. E-control will also allow setting of depth and intensity of discs, tines, levellers or packer on the go.

The operation of the TopDown can be changed to position the machine in four individual stages, with changes made to each of the cultivation processes based on specific in-field conditions.

GT BUNNING and Sons will show the Bunning Lowlander 120 Compact Narrow HBD spreader which is positioned as part of a new range.

The four new models feature narrower bodies while retaining the two 1,100mm spinning discs as standard on HBD machines.

They are designed to allow the use of wider tyres to reduce compaction while staying within a three-metre road width; lower application rates

can also be applied due to a narrower aperture.

The Narrow range features a 1,250mm-wide body compared with the 1,500mm body on standard HBD machines. Especially suited to applying heavy products, a larger floor drive gearbox, increasing torque from 5,000Nm to 8,000Nm, and larger motors on the gearbox to increase torque at low floor speeds have also been added to the range.

VALTRA S-SERIES DUBBED ‘the Boss’ by the company, the S-Series is now manufactured at Valtra’s home in Suolahti, Finland, and ranges from 280-420hp. The production change back to Finland is a key part of its brand identity with the previous generation S-Series

assembled in Agco’s Beauvais plant in France. Power is supplied by an 8.4-litre AgcoPower engine with a continuously variable transmission said to produce 5 per cent lower revs and a 10 per cent decrease in fuel consumption compared to its predecessor.

McHALE FUSION 4 VARIO THE new McHale Fusion Vario Plus is a fully automatic variable chamber baler wrapper which can apply film

or net wrap to the barrel of the bale.

The new Profi-Flo pick-up has a heavier driveline to reduce chain load and increase bale chain life; a tapered feed channel encourages the crop to flow from the pick-up, towards the rotor and into the bale chamber, maximising throughput. Adaptive intake allows the intake area to automatically adjust up and down to changes in material flow for improved intake regardless of conditions and reduces risk of blockages.

KUBOTA HYDROGEN ENGINE CONCEPT RENOWNED for its diesel engines, Kubota steps into the hydrogen power arena with a prototype 3.8litre four-cylinder power unit, based on the WG spark ignition engine. It produces 85kW (114hp) at 2,600rpm.

The need for alternative fuels to replace hydrocarbon variants is everpresent across multiple sectors, with Kubota highlighting the possibility of using the engine in a range of compact machines within the 100-120hp range.

MASSEY FERGUSON 9S FOLLOWING the launch of the smaller 8S range in 2020, an obvious gap had been left to replace the brand’s flagship machine which was occupied by the increasingly dated 8700S. The new 9S line-up uses a 8.4-litre, six cylinder AgcoPower engine and

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR Established in 2016 in East Yorkshire, Grange Machinery is making a name for itself in the cultivator toolbar market. Farmers Guardian reports.

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ith a family farming business at its heart, Grange Machinery was established by Rhun Jones and his wife Lucy in 2016, and was initially based in a small corner of a farm shed at Sproatley Grange, East Yorkshire.

Fast forward to 2023 and the company is producing about 145 cultivation machines a year and exporting across the world, having recently established a partnership with Carrfields – one of New Zealand’s leading machinery and agronomy suppliers.

Mr Jones says: “My background is agricultural engineering and having been initially involved in technical service training for John Deere, I was working for a company producing a soil loosening toolbar for Vaderstad drills. When that company folded, I was keen to progress the concept while adding versatility and flexibility in cultivation systems.”

Inspiration came from the family’s own farming experience – black-grass was rife and establishment costs high.

“Farming was very reliant on sprays and costly cultivations, but I could see a place for a machine that could offer loosening to improve soil structure while preserving the surface to help with black-grass control. Most farms had the drill armoury they needed, so we could add a loosening implement to it,” says Mr Jones.

Goals for the system became clear: reducing passes to a single operation if required, making establishment more efficient to improve margins and

Company profile: Grange Machinery

Left to right: Production team Toby Tennant, Ian Ripley and Tyler Franciosy; manufacturing manager Lee Carter; accounts and administration manager Sally Peterson; and managing director Rhun Jones.

improving soil health while tackling black-grass.

The initial design was for the Low Disturbance Toolbar (LDT) to be fitted in front of the drill, and after developing prototypes, Mr Jones began an agreement with local business Agriweld to build the machine.

“We launched at LAMMA 2017, and with the style of leg and working depth, we saw it as an ideal tool for oilseed rape. The aim was to sell 10

units in the first year, but we sold 19 – the biggest challenge was to develop the mindset of potential customers,” he says.

With the LDT initially launched in three and four-metre widths, Grange Machinery soon had to meet a demand for wider units, working with a greater range of drills and cultivators.

“The toolbar has always been the nucleus for our developments.

Going from 4m to 6m saw a folding

Meeting customers at events such as LAMMA is very important. We have a lot in common with them – we are a family-run business and always will be RHUN JONES system introduced to avoid fouling on headland turns, and this was the version that put us on the map,” says Mr Jones.

Another key development was a loosener for the growing number of farms pioneering the latest wave of direct drilling.

Mr Jones says: “We identified a

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The Strip-Till Preparator, which was launched at LAMMA 2023.

Rhun and Lucy Jones attending their first LAMMA at the East of England Showground in 2017.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR need to separate the passes and offer a solution to relieve compaction at four to five inches. The Low Disturbance Loosener gives good soil shatter and lift, but then uses a roller to firm the surface ahead of the drill.”

Production As business began to ramp up, changes were needed. To achieve more production capacity, Mr Jones joined forces with Polydon Industries in Doncaster.

“This company has a history in agriculture but has moved on to heavy engineering. Fortunately, their team relished the opportunity to revisit their heritage,” he says.

Fabrication, shot blasting and painting now takes place in Doncaster, with assembly split between there and Sproatley.

“We would have loved to have production in Hull, but the specialist expertise is no longer available, although frames are fabricated and painted locally,” says Mr Jones.

“We can now build three to four machines a week between the two facilities, and plan to expand our

assembly capacity at Sproatley for 2024.”

In common with many manufacturers, Grange Machinery hit supply issues in 2022.

“Fluctuating costs and availability made it difficult to plan, so in the end we brought forward two-thirds of our year’s requirement for raw materials.

It was a big step financially, but as farmers ourselves, we wanted to be able to offer realistic prices and supply quotes to customers,” says Mr Jones.

Distribution After initially selling directly, Grange Machinery has also built up a distribution network, with seven dealers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and more to come. Importers cover France, Germany and Denmark, and an agreement was recently signed with Carrfields in New Zealand.

A key task going forward is to clarify to the market that the company is not just about toolbars, says Mr Jones.

“It is an area where we have a clear advantage over our competitors – we do not just understand manufacturing, we are also knowledgeable about

Frames are fabricated and painted locally; a bold purchasing move secured components in 2022’s difficult supply conditions.

The Low Disturbance Loosener is aimed at operations moving to direct drilling but wanting to tackle compaction in a separate pass.

Left to right: Rhun Jones with territory managers Stuart Butterworth and Sam Edmunds.

soil and how to set up and use cultivation equipment to best effect in different conditions and soil types.

It is especially relevant as farmers themselves become more invested in soil health,” he says.

Working closely with farmers has also helped with the development of the latest product line: the Strip-Till Preparator.

Devon farmer and contractor James Lee has pioneered min till establishment for maize and, using the Close Coupled Toolbar as a base, has helped Grange Machinery come up with a prototype strip-till cultivator which uses a disc and tine to work just the strips where the maize will be planted.

Mr Jones says: “We started in 2019 and have progressively improved the Strip-Till Preparator with input from James. The dry, hard conditions of 2022 were a real test, but we were able to launch the production version in January 2023.”

Work has continued to improve the implement, increasing working width and row centre options plus adding fertiliser application.

“We wanted to add unique features,

and also the ability to adjust it in the field according to variable soil types and conditions. It is a genuine one-pass cultivation, with no need to ‘freshen up’ before drilling. We are looking forward to unveiling the results of our developments at LAMMA,” says Mr Jones.

Future With a turnover of £3.8 million in 2022, Grange Machinery is looking forward to a bright future. The team now numbers 13, including territory sales managers Stuart Butterworth and Sam Edmunds, who work closely with the dealer network to help them get the best out of the range and ensure that it complements other tools in their portfolio, such as cultivators and drills from Vaderstad and Horsch.

“We will do more roadshows to help farmers connect with our products in 2024, especially the Strip Till Preparator, but meeting customers at events such as LAMMA is very important,” says Mr Jones.

“We have a lot in common with them – we are a family-run business and always will be.”

With production and assembly sites at Sproatley and Doncaster, Grange Machinery has expanded from small beginnings on the family farm.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR You may have seen a SIP mower or rake and although somewhat unknown in the UK, the 70-year-old business has a complex history with some technological firsts. Farmers Guardian finds out more.

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nyone who has attended a grassland demo in the last few years will recall SIP’s striking red and black highcapacity mowers, rakes, tedders and mergers, and at LAMMA 2024 the company will stand out again with new machines aimed at contractors and larger farms.

Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, SIP (full company name: Strojno Industrijsko Pogjectje) has evolved from an agricultural engineering and service business to become a manufacturer of equipment for mountain farms and, more recently, grass harvesting machinery for larger businesses.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR machinery. But by the late 1960s, the focus had changed to manufacturing, and the company became known as SIP. The first product was the hay harvester Rake Soncek, and staff numbers grew to 130.

Following this was the Favorit belt rake, and then a forage loading wagon in 1971 – many of which are still in use today.

A major milestone was the first drum mower, built under licence to Piet Zweegers in 1975. Rotary rakes followed in 1979, and in 1982 SIP patented the first side delivery twin-rotor rake. Rotary tedders demonstrated a notable trend towards wider working widths and the eight-metre, six-rotor Spider tedder was launched in 2000.

UK subsidiary SIP Distribution’s sales director Martin Holden says: “SIP has always had innovation at its heart. In 2004, a patent was secured for a tandem chassis for single- and twin-rotor rakes which offered improved ground following. Modular rotors were also installed from this time.”

Mower combinations joined the portfolio in 2004 as farmers and contractors looked to make the best use of the higher horsepower tractors that were being developed.

Features on these mowers included hydropneumatic suspension to maintain ground adaptation across wider widths and on undulating ground.

The innovations continued with the 15m working width Silvercut 1500T five-bed mower, launched as the largest mowing combination in the world.

SIP also developed belt mergers in 2018, and launched the 9m Air 900 T in 2022.

This progress has required considerable investment in production

Once the business had outgrown the original service workshop, production facilities were built which now cover eight hectares.

Inset: SIP Distribution sales director Martin Holden.

facilities, and with the original machinery workshop outgrown by 1973, a 8,400sq.m production hall was built.

Expansion Expansion continued as the product range grew and, in 2021, an additional 2,700sq.m production hall was added. The site now covers eight hectares in total, with 300 staff employed by the business.

In 2023, the new SIP Centre was opened adjacent to the factory, designed to showcase SIP machinery, provide training facilities and offer a community congress space.

Machines are manufactured from the ground up where possible.

“SIP aims to maximise the components built in-house to have greater control over supply chains,” says Mr Holden.

“However, some proprietary

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suppliers are used, including SKF, and Bondiol and Walterscheid drivelines.”

“Products are developed to keep pace with the demand for greater hourly output and minimal maintenance, and offer some unique features including DDSS disc mower protection, hydraulic suspension on all bigger mowers and rakes, and walking tandem axles on two-rotor rakes.

“Our customers require greater reliability, higher output and ease of set up and operation, and that is what we are striving to achieve with the current product range.”

Product range This range includes flagship products from the HD line for contractors and large-scale farms, with a new range of Disc HD mowers to be launched at

LAMMA 2024, alongside the high-tech Star rake series.

Mr Holden affirms that SIP’s specialisms are in mowers, tedders, rakes and now crop mergers – and that there are currently no plans to expand into other grass machinery or other sectors.

About 5,000 units per year are produced, with 20 per cent for domestic sales and 80 per cent for export into 35 countries worldwide. The top five markets are France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

While the company historically supplied OEMs such as Krone, it now focuses on producing machines for its own ranges and for the Swiss company Knuesel.

SIP exhibits at most major events in the UK, including LAMMA, the Royal Highland Show and, for the first time in 2024 at the Royal Welsh.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR Whether you are looking to progress your career in agriculture or interested in apprenticeships, James Huyton looks at what LAMMA’s Career Zone can offer.

Career ideas and progression

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eturning to LAMMA the Career Zone is aimed at inspiring and attracting the next generation of agricultural innovators.

Linked with some of the industry’s most progressive businesses, anyone looking for career or industry progression will have the opportunity to speak to several organisations, build connections and, for those starting on the career ladder, to find out more about the industry.

Agco is to showcase its manufacturer-led apprentice-level training schemes.

Next generation The zone will feature some of the show’s leading exhibitors including Agco, as well as companies outside the machinery manufacturing sphere, such as Carr’s Billington, who, among others, are seeking the next generation of talent to join their teams.

Visitors can expect to see stands offering helpful advice and several live sessions, with questions and answers from some of the sector’s industry experts.

THE INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE

CITY AND GUILDS FROM new entrants to students and industry professionals looking to expand their skill sets for future career progression, City and Guilds is there to help.

The market-leading organisation has a long history of helping develop skills in the land-based sector.

HOT TOPICS THROUGHOUT the two-day event, speakers will be covering several career and industry development-based topics.

Visitors can find the talks both at the LAMMA Live and Career Zone stages in Halls 18 and 17.

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AGRICULTURE has always demanded adaptable individuals to lead in the sector.

With an ever-increasing importance on understanding and implementing technological developments, policy and ways of working, it is never too late to learn new skills. The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture aims to be the home of skills and careers support for agriculture and horticulture.

Regardless of age or experience, members receive personalised training support, practical toolkits and recognition of achievements to support them throughout their professional careers.

AGCO HOLDING a portfolio of leading agricultural machinery brands, Agco is to showcase its ‘manufacturer-led’ apprentice-level training schemes via land-based colleges in the UK and Ireland.

Learn more about this bespoke

technician training course for industry newcomers in the LAMMA Career Zone.

CARR’S BILLINGTON LOOKING to develop careers for the next generation, Carr’s Billington will be showcasing some of the roles available across its agricultural supply business, which supports farming and rural communities with a range of products and services, including fuels and machinery.

The company produces more than

half-a-million tonnes of animal feed each year and has country stores across the UK.

MCHALE FORAGE equipment specialist McHale will be holding several one-to-one discussions, showcasing a number of new positions available in the UK team.

Visit the manufacturer’s

recruitment team at their stand in the zone to find out more.

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REASEHEATH REASEHEATH College is one of the UK’s leading specialist landbased colleges.

Based in Nantwich, Cheshire, it offers a range of full-time diplomas, degrees and apprenticeships, well-placed for those looking for a career in the land-based sector.

Advisers from the college will be there to help guide prospective students and individuals looking to expand their industry knowledge through a full range of full- and part-time courses.

Visitors can expect several live sessions, with questions and answers from some of the sector’s industry experts.

G’S FRESH FRESH produce supplier G’s Fresh produces a wide range of salads and vegetables for several European retailers.

With the fast pace of industry change, the company is always striving to be at the forefront of innovation.

Visitors will have the chance to hear from the supplier’s innovation team showcasing some of the technology they are

LAMMA Live speaker slots using and opportunities to discuss career possibilities within the business.

The Career Zone stage will cover a number of topics aimed at encouraging young people into a career in agriculture.

CAREER ZONE

Career Zone speakers

AT the Career Zone, a number of speakers will be taking to the stage over the two days to discuss employment opportunities in the sector.

Keep up-to-date with the latest topics up for discussion on the Jobs in Agriculture social media pages.

DAY ONE ■ 11am – City and Guilds: T Levels – how and why you should engage with City and Guilds ■ 2pm – Agco DAY TWO ■ 11am – G’s Fresh: The Revolution of Farming ■ 2pm – Carr’s Billington

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DAY ONE ■ 2pm – Attract and retain talented employees: Finding the next generation of farmers and experts in the agriculture industry is becoming difficult. A panel of experts from Jobs in Agriculture discuss how to attract and retain employee talent

DAY TWO ■ 2pm – Young farmers and the role they play in inspiring others: Jobs in Agriculture ambassadors discuss what life is like for young people in the industry and why they see social media as an important channel to inspire others

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR LAMMA is the ideal opportunity to see the latest and greatest machinery innovations from companies large and small. From tractors to harvesters, there is something new for everyone. Jane Carley looks at some of the launches.

A show of innovation TRACTORS

KIOTI HX TRACTOR TWO new models take Kioti’s HX tractor range to 140hp. The HX1301 and HX1401 deliver 130hp and 140hp, respectively, produced by a Kioti stage V four-cylinder turbo-charged and inter-cooled diesel engine.

A 32-speed power shift transmission produces a maximum speed of 40kph.

Direction change is provided via a power shuttle and E-shift allows gear changes on the move without using the clutch pedal.

Cab spec includes mechanical suspension, a fully adjustable air suspension seat, LCD dashboard and ergonomic controls.

As with the previous HX models, the 1301 and 1401 feature a CAT 2 rear hitch with a 4.4-tonne lift capacity and two rear double acting services.

The rear pto with 540, 540 ECO and 1,000rpm options can be engaged manually or via the automatic mode linked to the rear linkage.

McCORMICK X5 AND TECH McCORMICK will show a number of new tractor developments.

With three models of 95, 102 and 114hp, the latest incarnation of the McCormick X5 tractor range is now available with a new P3-Drive transmission.

Developed in-house by parent business Argo Tractors, P3-Drive provides 36 forward and 12 reverse speeds (48F/16R with creep).

Control is via the SmartPilot joystick, with an Auto PowerShift function that automatically engages the gear as speed increases in both field operations

and road travel. A brake-toclutch feature enables right foot only stopping and holding of the tractor at junctions and during loader work.

Tractors on the stand will also showcase McCormick’s technology including IsoBus connections, precision steering management (PSM) guidance and digital solutions, including fleet management and the McCormick Farm package, which records and manages agronomic data from operations performed by the tractor via the AgriRouter cloud-based system.

LOVOL TRACTORS AND EXCAVATORS THE Lovol machinery range — previously known as Foton and manufactured by the Weichai Group in China — is now being imported by Severn Farm Machinery and will be shown alongside other machinery from the country in Hall 12.

Tractors are currently from 25-130hp with ROPS and cab versions, plus the option to specify Lovol front loaders and on smaller models, turf tyres.

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Topping out the range at 130hp, the P5130 has a three-range 45-speed powershift transmission and air-conditioned cab.

With an operating weight of 1,810kg, the FR18E2-U mini excavator is powered by an 11.5kW Yanmar engine and has a side shift boom, zero tail swing and enclosed pipework. Lovol also offers a selection of attachments.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR LOADERS, LOGISTICS AND VEHICLES

RICHARD WESTERN SF24HS TRAILER

MX U500 THE U500 will replace MX’s U400 loader series and has been developed as a mid-range product for tractors from 80 to 180hp.

Three-section jib design improves visibility and follows the profile of the tractor’s bonnet and the loader can be fitted with optional working lights.

The range includes larger, more powerful models at a mid-range price level for operations not requiring the sophistication of the company’s T and TX series.

Also new is Easy-Plug, a manual button which decompresses the third service line, making it easy to fit attachments.

RICHARD Western will show a new short-chassis version of the flagship 24-tonne capacity SF24HS Plus Suffolk trailer, reducing height when tipped from 9.5 to 8.5 metres. This allows a reduced cylinder size for tipping, resulting in a reduced tractor oil demand of only 56 litres.

The SF24HS Plus features three axles, with standard mechanical or optional hydraulic

or air suspension. Passive rear-axle steering is standard and there are options for front steering and forced steering.

Further specification includes a new hydraulically-damped drawbar, a first on this type of Richard Western trailer, for enhanced shock absorption.

It is fitted with 600/55 R26.5 BKT Ridemax tyres and a hydraulic rollover sheeting system.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR LOADERS, LOGISTICS AND VEHICLES JCB TELESKID UPDATES

MERLO TURBOFARMER 30.7 MERLO will showcase the new Turbofarmer 30.7, the successor to the P32.6 model. It is just two metres wide and 2.1m high, which can be lowered further still to 1.9m high with the Low Cab option.

The Turbofarmer 30.7 is powered by a 100hp Deutz TCD 4-cylinder Stage V diesel and offers 7m reach and a three-tonne lift capacity.

It features EPD-managed

hydrostatic drive with a maximum speed of 40kph and the optional CS Cab Suspension can be specified to enhance comfort over rough terrain or potholed roads.

Performance load-sensing hydraulics complete with flowsharing are standard, giving the operator the ability to make simultaneous multiple boom movements at once, such as when mucking out or loading bales.

NEW Stage V versions of JCB’s 270 and 270T Teleskid models will be on show with powertrain and cab updates for this compact telescopic boom loader.

The new models are powered by the JCB DieselMAX 430 engine delivering 74hp with more torque output and greater fuel economy.

In the cab, a 177mm (seveninch) display provides quicker and easier access to more machine settings.

Operators can select maximum forward and reverse speed, acceleration rate and power management settings.

Other features include electro-hydraulic auto bucket

levelling when both lifting and lowering the boom and improved visibility forwards, to left side and upwards achieved by cab structure changes.

The JCB Teleskid 3TS-8W has the single-boom feature of all JCB wheeled and tracked skid-steer loaders, ensuring safe and quick access to and from the cab via a door on the left side.

The 3TS-8W wheeled model lifts a maximum of 1.45 tonnes and to a full height of more than four metres with a radial or vertical lift path.

It features JCB’s Smooth Ride System boom suspension as standard.

HI-SPEC PD20 DUMP TRAILER KTWO TRAILERS KTWO will show the latest version of the Compact and Push trailer, with the Curve tipper-style body to enhance the trailer’s longitudinal strength, maintaining squareness and rigidity during compaction or ejection. This feature is designed to

ensure tight seals on the headboard, keeping the pusher grain tight.

The new design also reduces the trailer’s overall weight, enabling larger loads to be transported while complying with the 31-tonne gross weight limit.

CAN-AM OUTLANDER THE Can-Am Outlander 500 and 700 (HD5 and HD7) ATVs will make their debut at the show.

The entry level Can-Am Outlander BASE PRO HD5 T features an all-new 40hp Rotax engine, along with 330mm ground clearance, 260mm suspension travel, 830kg towing and 54.4/109kg rack capacity for farm work.

For more power, the Can-Am Outlander PRO XU HD7 ABS delivers 50hp and 56Nm of torque for improved performance on hills and when towing or lugging loads.

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HI-SPEC will introduce the PD20 push-off dump trailer at the show which uses the push-off technology originally designed for the company’s Kompactor range.

The PD20 dump trailer, which has a carrying capacity of about 20 tonnes, is offloaded using a hydraulically operated moving floor type headboard that clears the load from the body once the up-andover tailgate has been raised.

The moving headboard has a push-off capacity of 28,000kg.

By avoiding the need for a hydraulic tipping ram and hinge points, the centre of gravity is lower than for a conventional dump trailer, allowing it to be safely used and offloaded on slopes or at an angle, or where there are height restrictions.

Once the trailer has been emptied and the tailgate closed, the operator can move off while the headboard is retracting and, as a result, turnaround times are reduced.

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09/01/2024 13:46

MACHINERY AND TRACTOR SPRAYERS KNIGHT RED LINE SPRAYERS KNIGHT Farm Machinery will introduce a new entry-level sprayer range. The new Knight RED line mounted sprayers span 600- to 1,500-litre capacities and 12- to 28-metre boom widths.

All incorporate Knight’s MAXImizer E fluid control system.

The new range is sourced from Belgian manufacturer Beyne, with whom Knight has a longstanding relationship as a supplier of skid units for its SP sprayers.

The PA range is available with booms from 12-18m and tank capacities of 600-1,000 litres.

It features manual boomfolding and a simple switch box

to control pressure and boom switching.

The 600-1,000-litre/18-21m PLS range, meanwhile, has hydraulic-folding booms with suspension and, if required, a more advanced controller.

Further up the scale are two Gecko model sprayer versions, the PLK (1,500 litres/21-28m side-folding) and the RF (1,800 litres/18-28m rear-folding).

A basic control switch box is standard, as is Knight’s MAXImizer-E fluid control, with the Spraymat 2 controller, IsoBus, auto-boom height sensing and rate control all optional.

KVERNELAND IXFLOW-PULSE KVERNELAND joins the ranks of manufacturers offering a pulse width modulation system with the iXflowPulse, available on iXtrack T4, T6 and iXdrive S6 sprayers.

The iXflow-Pulse controls the opening and closing of nozzles to alter flow dependent on forward speed, maintaining droplet size and the

required application rate.

Pressure is kept stable and there is no under or overdosing on hills or curved lines. Pressure and flow can be adjusted separately and during application and one nozzle can be used for a wider range of applications.

The system will also be capable of per nozzle variable rate in the future.

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CHAFER UPDATES CHAFER is showing a range of updates to Guardian and Sentry trailed sprayers.

These include the ePlumbing RinsePro system which adds a secondary 120 litres/minute piston diaphragm pump to control the sprayers’ rinse water, leaving the 1,100 litres/minute centrifugal for filling and spraying.

The induction hopper will now receive a constant supply of clean water when in use, whether the ‘eFill’ automatic filling system is drawing from an external bowser

or in its pause state. The additional pump can also be used to prime the main spray pump.

The Chafer eControl system is now fully IsoBus compatible to integrate with the tractor’s IsoBus terminal. New trailed sprayers will be available with Hypro Prostop-E individual nozzle control on all boom sizes.

Chafer also has boosted the compressed air volume in the trailed range for customers looking to use functions such as AirPurge and central tyre inflation.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR GRASSLAND

SIP STAR RAKES SIP introduces a new generation of rotary rakes.

The Star R 870 26 TC (8.6-metre maximum working width) and Star R 930 28 TC (9.25m) centre delivery rakes can be supplied in H line specification which offers hydro pneumatic suspension (HPS) and hydraulic rotor height adjustment.

On the Star R 930 28 TC, H line specification includes a central hydraulic swath curtain ensuring the production of uniform trapezoidal swaths, regardless

of the amount of forage. This central curtain stays in working position during partial rotor lift ensuring a uniform swath is formed even when only one rotor is in work.

A pivoting linkage with a 155-degree turning angle integrated with a robust steering mechanism improves manoeuvrability.

Rotor suspension and the 3D+ rotor linkage, in combination with SIP’s patented triple-walking tandem on the rotor chassis, enhance ground adaptation and tracking.

HOLARAS SILAGE LEVELLER NORFOLK Dewulf distributor AgVantage added two new product lines to its offering this year — Dezeure overloader trailers and Holaras clamp loading equipment, and both will be on show at LAMMA. The Holaras silage leveller helps to distribute harvested maize on the clamp quickly and efficiently, avoiding trailers stacking up waiting to unload.

The hydraulically operated

leveller spreads silage across the clamp surface using folding sideboards to push crop across the surface.

Slots in the frame maintain a good view of the clamp from the tractor seat and the levelling boards have replaceable edge wear strips.

Operating widths are from three metres to 5.3m, with versions for front or rear mounting and for wheeled loaders.

KRONE VENDRO TEDDER

POTTINGER NOVACAT V 8400 ED MOWER THE new Novacat V 8400 ED is set to make its UK debut at the show.

This model is available with tine conditioner, roller conditioners or as a plain mower with a maximum working width of 8.4 metres.

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lighter-weight configuration with the centre of gravity closer to the tractor. The cutter bar at just 40mm high for optimum crop flow while maintaining a clean cut.

The centre pivot mounting on the mower units provide a floating travel of +20-degrees/-16degrees to ensure accurate ground tracking.

KRONE will introduce the new Vendro C 1120 10-rotor tedder, complete with OptiTurn rotor technology, designed to be compact in size.

Available with either a drawbar or three-point linkage attachment, the trailed version has a working width of 11.2 metres but can work well with smaller tractors, says Krone.

OptiTurn rotors overlap to allow

the curved 3D tines to lift the crop cleanly and spread it uniformly; the lightweight plastic deck offers effective self-cleaning.

Working height can be easily adjusted by either via a hand crank or an optional electro-hydraulic system from the cab.

A defined headland position allows operator handling with ease, even across unlevel ground.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR GRASSLAND VICON FASTBALE PREMIUM VICON unveils the latest version of its FastBale non-stop balerwrapper.

FastBale Premium features an upgraded crop cutter, with a cassette system allowing for easy removal of the knife bank for maintenance.

It is now connected to the hydraulic load sensing system

for easier knife extraction and automatic monitoring of the drop floor position and knife cleaning cycles.

Other enhancements include an upgraded pick-up crop roller press and a resigned drawbar allowing shorter turning angles.

It can also be fitted with film-on-film technology.

DRILLS

MZURI PRO-TIL IGEN MZURI introduces the iGEN version of its Pro-Til drill, designed to be an affordable, linkage-mounted direct seeding solution.

The Pro-Til iGEN features staggered tines and row spacing from 320-250mm depending on model, allowing crop residue to flow easily through the drill.

It can be fitted with a secondary hopper to deliver

nutrients within the seeding zone.

Leading tines also act to clear residue from the seeding zone, before being reconsolidated via a full-width steel packer to remove air pockets. Independent seeding coulters each with its own depth wheel deliver seed at a predetermined depth.

Working widths are 3-6 metres with 2,200-litre main hopper; power requirement is from 180hp.

WEAVING LYNX DRILL WEAVING Machinery will introduce the Lynx minimum tillage drill, said to be similar in make up to the Sabre drill but on a lighter, more compact frame.

The drill uses four rows of 12mm tines at 166mm spacing with tungsten tips and stainless steel adjustable seed tubes, ahead of a double row of

z harrows and has a 2,000-litre hopper. Control is via the RDS Artemis Lite system with GPS forward speed monitoring, and the specification includes flotation wheels and LED road and work lights.

Working widths are 4.8 metres and 6m, folding to 2.95m for transport and power requirement is from 150hp.

BEDNAR DIRECTO NO BEDNAR introduces the Directo NO direct drill which offers a double-chamber pressurised hopper with a capacity of 5,000 litres, and an additional hopper, the Alfa Drill 400 seeding unit, is available on request, allowing grain/fertiliser, up to three different products or micro-granule application.

Inter-row distance between the drill coulters is 167mm and they are arranged in two rows to accommodate post-harvest residues or plant material.

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machine width and follow ground contours; a coulter pressure of 250kg per unit can be exerted in difficult conditions.

There are two fertiliser placement options— seeds and fertiliser from the individual chambers are mixed in the pipeline and the final mixture is delivered to the distribution head.

Alternatively, fertilisation discs can place the fertiliser under the seed.

Further options include a screw auger for filling the hopper or additional weight to maintain down pressure on the drill coulters in drier conditions.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR DRILLS VADERSTAD PROCEED AND TEMPO VADERSTAD will introduce the WSX electronic system for the Tempo precision drill, featuring brushless motors and the integration of three new features.

Automatic seed singulation ensures precise singulation in the seed meter without manual setting, while active hydraulic row downforce ensures exact planting depth in all conditions.

The third new feature is curve compensation to ensure consistent metering output across the planter width when turning. The Proceed drill, designed to establish crops from wheat to maize and sunflowers, enters

the final stages of its production before launch at the end of the year and can be viewed.

Before seed placement, individual pre-consolidation wheels firm the seedbed ahead of row units using the Vaderstad PowerShoot system to precisely place each seed, with a stop wheel to ensure optimal seed-tosoil contact across the working width.

Trials of winter wheat at a seed rate of 150 seeds/sq.m show an increase of 102 per cent in plant biomass, 72 per cent in root biomass and 62 per cent more shoots per plant, compared to a modern seed drill.

DALE DRILLS MTD THE Dale MTD (Mounted Tine Drill) is now available with a split tank for seed and fertiliser. Each tine is fitted with a narrow coulter which blends the two products. The tank has a 1,500-litre capacity and is split 50:50, each half of the hopper fitted with an Accord

seed metering unit, controlled via the RDS Isocan control system. Available in working widths from 3-8 metres, customers can also choose their own row spacing from 125, 166, 187, 200 or 250mm. Dale will also show new options for the flagship Eco Drill.

STOCKS MAXI JET COMPLEMENTING the Stocks Turbo Jet range, the Maxi Jet applicator is designed to distribute material to working widths of 15 metres and at rates of between 1kg/ha and 200kg/ha.

The Maxi Jet can be used to apply seed and granular products at up to 200kg/ha on machines up to 6m wide or to 15m at more conventional application rates, making it the widest-spreading Stocks applicator to date.

One of the key features of the new model is a move to the use of external

distribution heads sited along the toolbar, says Opico, which distributes Stocks. This means the lengths of small-bore pipework are kept to a minimum with the result that airflow and material flow is constricted as little as possible.

Two and four-outlet metering units supply the eight-outlet distribution heads allowing up to 32 spreader plates to be fitted to the host machine.

Twin high-capacity electric fans are fitted on two-outlet versions, although there is the option of a hydraulicallydriven unit, standard on the four-outlet Maxi Jet 4 designed for machines up to 15m wide.

Control is via Stocks’ i-CON touchscreen monitor or the tractor’s on-board IsoBus controller.

Variable application rates are also possible with a feed from a GPS control box.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR CULTIVATIONS RYETEC RESTORER ALD-E THE new Restorer ALD-E range has been developed in response to customer demand for a Restorer low disturbance subsoiler without the functionality of a toolbar system.

Ryetec says that ALD-E versions offer a more competitively priced stand-alone unit, which still has all the most important features of the Restorer range, including steering legs and 500mm diameter cutting discs.

Restorer ALD-E is available in

three-, four-, five- and six-metre versions; 4 and 5m versions offer the ability to fold and operate at 3m when ground conditions or horsepower availability dictate, or to work a tight headland properly at full depth.

Toolbar Restorer versions get a modular disc unit to operate between the legs and packer to give some surface cultivation, as well as the deeper soil conditioning of the standard Restorer leg.

STANDEN POWAVATOR HS400 STANDEN Engineering will show a new version of the Powavator HS400 rotary tiller, available in two-bed straddle and triple bed options.

It has redesigned, narrower side drives, minimising soil disturbance, and making them simpler to maintain, plus a deeper hull design for reduced tine wear and fuel use. The new main gearbox is rated to 400hp and above and offers rotor speed of 330rpm, giving a finer finish and allowing a faster

forward speed. The HS 400 can be fitted with 10mm or 12mm ‘L’ or speed blades and is available with shear bolt or auto-reset legs. There is also a rear hood option for planting systems that do not require a destoner.

A bed tiller version incorporates the Standen BX Bedformer series.

There is a choice of working widths from 1.8 metres to 6m, to suit 1.8m and 2m wheelings, plus different bed forming body/rear wheel configurations.

KRM CARRE KLINEA HOE KRM has expanded its range of mechanical weeding solutions from Carre, with the addition of the Klinea, a mechanical inter-row hoe for cereals.

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for a constant working depth over the whole width of the hoe, using an oscillating parallelogram and independent ground wheel.

There are two rows of comb harrows at the rear to improve finish and to ensure that the roots of weeds are exposed on the soil surface.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR CULTIVATIONS GRANGE STRIP-TILL PREPARATOR GRANGE Machinery is expanding its Strip-Till Preparator range.

Designed to cultivate in strips for the establishment of maize, sugar beet and oilseed rape, the implement uses three rows of 450mm diameter hydraulically adjustable cultivation discs ahead of a low disturbance tine and point.

The seedbed is then finished with a Guttler prism roller ring. Options

include the application of granular or liquid fertiliser down the low disturbance tine. To adapt to different crops and conditions, the Strip-Till Preparator can now be specified in 0.45-metre, 0.5m, 0.6m, 0.75m and 0.8m row spacing and with either shear bolt or hydraulic auto-reset leg protection.

A 6m version of the Strip-Till Preparator has been added alongside 3m, 4m and 4.5m models.

OPICO HE-VA TOP STRIGLE STRAW HARROW

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WORKING directly behind the combine, the Top Strigle’s five rows of heavy-duty harrow tines spread trash and create a micro tilth to prompt a flush of growth.

The harrow also disturbs slug eggs, exposing them to sunlight and destroying the next generation of mollusc pests before they emerge.

Hydraulic tine angle adjustment means it is possible to vary the harrow’s aggressiveness on the move

as conditions change. A Stocks seeder unit is an option for those that plan to use the Top Strigle as a tool to establish cover- and catch-crops.

Available in working widths of three metres to 10m, the new HE-VA straw harrow is designed to be operated at speeds of 15-25kph, generating multidirectional oscillation from the 16mm diameter long-fingered spring tines, creating a fine surface tilth ideal for weed seed and volunteer germination.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR MUCK AND SLURRY

NEW RANGES FROM RILEY RILEY beet harvester has added several new slurry equipment ranges to its offering, complementing the self-propelled slurry applicators from long-term brand Vervaet.

A Vervaet Quad 550 self-propelled slurry applicator equipped with a 24m Vogelsang boom will be on show. The Quad 550 uses a 13-litre 550hp Volvo Penta engine and hydromechanical transmission.

A Kumm Technik KTR-series trailed slurry tanker will also be

displayed, fitted with a Bomech trailing shoe type injector.

The KTR range spans volumes from 16,000 to 31,000 litres with one, two or three axles.

Bomech is a Dutch manufacturer with more than 25 years’ experience making trailing shoe slurry applicators. The current range goes from 7.5 metres to 30m and includes models suitable for mounting on trailed slurry tankers, self-propelled machines and directly on to the tractor linkage for umbilical work.

TRAMSPREAD EDPU SLURRY management specialists Tramspread will debut a range of uprated and improved engine driven pump units (EDPU).

The EDPUs feature a new chassis that is 200mm wider and 400mm longer than previous models, enabling extra pipework and valves to be accommodated, and 500-litre fuel tanks which will reduce the need for daily refilling.

Trailed EDPU models also benefit from uprated sprung axles

and larger 355/60 R18 tyres and wheels. A further new option of air or hydraulic brakes and LED lights on the contractor units have been incorporated to improve safety when the units are in transport.

Operators can choose from ultra-high frequency or GSM remote control systems which feature improved screen graphics, repeater stations and automatic sponge launchers.

SLURRYKAT WIDER MODELS SLURRYKAT has launched wider models of its Farmline trailing shoe.

The new models, nine metres and 10.5m, incorporate many of the features of the previous models, including the lightweight design, but also some new upgrades. The extra width for the new models was achieved by adding a novel

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flip-over end section on the side arms, which is operated by a hydraulic cylinder. Flip-up shoes on the central section are also now standard, so headland turns are easier and the machine does not have to be folded to reverse. The new Farmline models use the SlurryKat ventilated macerator

distributor head, designed to deliver equal slurry distribution from every shoe along the boom.

Spacing of the shoes on the new models is SlurryKat standard 250mm.

All models are fully galvanised and fitted with new Italian-manufactured UV resistant flexible hoses.

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SHELBOURNE REYNOLDS ADDS WEIGH CELLS THE Shelbourne Reynolds range of Powerspread Pro side-discharge manure spreaders is now available with a new weigh scale system, increasing the accuracy of applications.

Developed from the system established on the Shelbourne Reynolds Powermix diet feeders, the installation on the Powerspread machines consists of three 90mm load cells, with two on the axle and one on the drawbar, each with a maximum 10-tonne load capacity.

These feed data to a scale head

which can be mounted either on the spreader or in the tractor cab, while a wireless remote scale is also available for the machine loading the spreader.

The weigh cell option is available across the six-model Powerspread Pro range, offering capacities from 8-14.5cu.m.

A data transfer system to help users maintain accurate application records for farm record-keeping, and a GPS mapping system to allow variable rate application are also in development.

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TEAGLE TOMAHAWK 8200 SPREAD-A-BALE NEW HEADER SPREAD-a-Bale is launching a new option to its M range of straw spreading machines. Called the ST (Side Throw), the header allows side discharge of straw either to the left or right, or forwards, and can be fitted to any Spread-a-Bale model.

The header, which has been

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specifically designed for buildings with narrow access doors and passageways from two-metres wide, features one vertical rotor offering a longitudinal spread pattern of 1m wide and up to 7m throw. Left or right-hand side or front discharge is facilitated by the turn of a valve and canopy.

TEAGLE introduces its new Tomahawk 8200 line, replacing the 7100 and 8100 models, and available as the 8200 for feeding and bedding, or the 8250 for precision straw processing.

Both are available either mounted or trailed and feature the Synchro control system, with pause and resume functions and automated or manual modes for bedding or precision chopping,

all managed via Teagle’s WiFi control desk.

The 8250 Dual Chop design for processing short material has been updated with a 36 per cent increase in the speed of the chopping system to provide a fine and consistent chop length, designed specifically to suit the needs of total mixed rations and poultry/cubicle bedding applications, says the company.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR ESTATE MAINTENANCE

MAJOR MJ39 MAJOR Equipment is launching the MJ39 hedge cutter head, based on its Cyclone rotary mower design.

The gearbox driveline powers twin rotors and eight overlapping blades on the 1.43 metres deck to deliver a tidy finish when thinning material or clearing dense brush, all in one pass.

The hydraulic motor is fitted with an overrun clutch, and fewer wearing parts are said to reduce downtime compared to a flail head.

The full-length roller controls the cutting height between 40mm and 100mm for verge work and

can be moved up and away for hedge cutting. An adjustable front hood, hydraulically or manually enabled, controls the amount of material entering the cutting chamber.

Deep deck sides ensure mulch is retained in the hedgerow.

The main components are made of Strenx 700MC structural steel and the skids are made of Hardox steel.

The MJ39-143 has a universal connection for simple and quick attachment to most hedgecutters.

The MJ39-143D has larger gearboxes and fits booms on excavators in the 10– to 14-tonne range.

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SILOKING SYSTEM 500+ FEEDER WAGON MAKING its LAMMA debut, Kverneland’s Siloking System 500+ 2519 self-propelled feeder is offered with four capacities — 19, 22, 25 and 27cu.m.

This model offers an air-suspended chassis with four-wheel steering and a choice of four road speeds of 20-50kph.

Power comes from a 252hp Volvo six-cylinder engine.

Loading from the clamp is via a 2m wide milling head leading to a 700mm wide belt conveyor, and the System 500+ uses twin vertical augers with adjustable,

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hardened knives and an integral FlowPlus hopper ring for bale processing.

While overall machine height sits below 3m for the 19cu.m capacity model, the loading height available across the range is 5.3m through the working range of the milling head. Discharge options can include a hydraulic crossconveyor, and high-capacity HD rear doors for rapid emptying.

An integral straw chopper is an option, sitting behind the milling head, and activated by push-button control from the cab.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR Farmers and contractors are demanding more from both trailers and manure spreaders in terms of operating speeds, turnaround times and longevity. Farmers Guardian takes a look at how one LAMMA exhibitor is evolving its processes and products to suit.

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n producing some 500 trailers and muck spreaders annually, Suffolk-based manufacturer Richard Western uses 2,500 tonnes of steel and 27,000 litres of paint, plus numerous wheels, tyres, hydraulic hoses and pto shafts.

In addition, the trailer and spreader designs to match today’s bigger harvesters, faster tractors and higher demands, require considerable investment in people and in technology that would have been unimaginable 10 years ago.

Richard Western employs 60 staff, sells its products through 16 UK dealers and exports to eight countries. Like many farm equipment makers, the firm began as an alternative enterprise on the family farm, which today has been transformed into a rural factory close to Framlingham.

In the 1960s, Richard Western began using the farm workshop to produce steel items, such as feed troughs for local farmers. Requests came for more complex items, and in 1968 the company was founded producing its first trailer.

With demand growing, trailer production soon became Richard’s full-time business, and he began developing the farm facilities to enable the adoption of faster and more professional production methods. The trailer product range expanded with the acquisition of long-established UK company Weeks Trailers, and later the Coleman manure spreader and forage box ranges were acquired.

The company latterly began to diversify, buying Bamlett’s seed drill and cement mixer product

Company profile: Richard Western Farmers and contractors tell us they are looking for long-life products, fuel efficiency and maximum possible payloads in both trailers and spreaders ANGUS WESTERN lines, developing green waste shredding equipment and the Greenburner chemical-free weed control system, and moving into areas including road-rail trailers alongside excavator and dumper conversions.

Today, the business is focused largely on trailers and muck spreaders, using design principles that Angus Western, Richard’s son and

Muck spreaders and grain/silage trailers represent the bulk of the firm’s output.

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now company managing director, says are based on blending lightness with strength for longevity.

Manufacturing He adds: “Farmers and contractors tell us they are looking for long-life products, fuel efficiency and maximum possible payloads in both trailers and spreaders, so that influences our design and manufacturing.

“In terms of product creation, it means we have invested significantly in software for design and fabrication, four new robotic welders and, most recently, a new fibre-optic laser cutter.

“To achieve these aims of lightness with strength in our tipping trailers, we press and fold the bodies, with the body runners and chassis roll-formed from Finnish

The Richard Western factory was developed on the site of the family farm, near Framlingham, Suffolk.

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Richard Western has been manufacturing agricultural equipment since 1968.

355MC and 500MC steel. Weld seams run from the front to the rear of the body, so the loadbearing structure runs with the flow of the load.

Longevity “Product longevity is also important, and in 2017 we made a £1 million investment in new paint facilities, to ensure we get the finish required to maximise trailer lifetime.

“Shotblasting products before painting means we work with clean, primed steel to which paint strongly adheres. After this, a two-pack zinc undercoat is applied, followed by a high-quality two-pack paint.

“Customers are also seeking a wider range of options to help trailers meet today’s demands. We have broadened our offering of cover systems, wheel equipment, running gear and braking options.”

Today, trailers represent 80 per cent of Richard Western’s business, with 400 units produced annually.

Most are grain or silage trailers, but the company also produces stone and rubble, root crop and sugar beet models, plus wide-body trailers for export.

Richard Western’s core line is the Suffolk grain and silage trailer range, marketed as a high-specification product for heavy-duty cycle operations. Available in 11-24t capacities, with the largest model on triple axles, they use a tapered monocoque body with 3mm steel sheet sides and a 4mm floor plate.

“Many tipping trailer applications go beyond grain and grass, so we have developed other specially designed trailers for specific tasks. Beet Wellington trailers feature a single, five-stage, anti-corrosive tipping ram with a 60-degree tipping angle to maximise heaping, and a heavy-duty, double-acting, hydraulic bulldozing tailgate with high clearance.

“We also offer root crop trailers with a long and low profile for minimal crop fall height,” says Mr Western.

The company has invested in technology, including robotic welders and, most recently, a new fibre-optic laser cutter.

To further match the greater demands placed on today’s trailers, the company uses single displacement cylinders on all tipping models to minimise tipping cycle times. Higher gross weights and road speeds are also matched by the standard fitment of load-sensing air or hydraulic brakes, with a dual brake option for air-braked trailers.

Comfortable ride Mr Western adds: “A comfortable ride with minimal shock transfer from the trailer is essential, so all trailers are equipped with mechanical steel suspension, with hydraulic or air suspension options.

“Steering axles can also be specified, and working with BPW components for brakes and axles means longer life and minimal failures.”

More than 10 per cent of the company’s annual factory output comprises manure spreaders; mostly Delilah and FBS rear discharge

machines with vertical beaters and spinning discs, with the remainder being SDS side discharge models for semi-solid material.

Mr Western says: “With users increasingly looking to maximise application accuracy, we are seeing growing demand for technology to aid this, such as using IsoBus that works in conjunction with the tractor’s in-cab screen or a stand-alone independent controller. Weight cells and ground speed data are used to control the conveyor belt speed and the material application rate.

“We are also seeing greater demand for spreaders to work in growing crops. A spinning disc option for models of 15t and above improves the accuracy and spread width of all materials and densities, and also enables the spreading of suitable material at up to 24m.

“The use of materials to boost soil organic matter is increasing, as is the use of manure on growing crops to cut bought nitrogen needs,” he adds.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR With the bright lights and buzz of LAMMA offering a change to the dark winter months, Jane Carley provides a guide to the venue and how to get the most out of your visit.

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LAMMA 2024: What to expect and how to get there

More than 600 exhibitors will attend LAMMA 2024 at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre.

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AMMA takes place at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham on Wednesday, January 17, to Thursday, January 18, with 11 halls of exhibits offering the very latest in machinery, products and services for farmers and contractors.

More than 600 exhibitors will be at the LAMMA 2024 show, from multinational manufacturers to individual entrepreneurs.

The wide range of machinery on

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show – from tractors, combines and self-propelled applicators to specialist potato and vegetable equipment, plus precision farming devices and crop storage solutions – means that there is something for every farming sector.

For many companies in the engineering, component and technology sectors, this is the only major agricultural show they attend, so it is a unique meeting place for the manufacturer, trade and end user. There are also plenty of new

and returning exhibitors this year.

A number of features at the show provide an informative and thought-provoking insight into the industry.

Demo Arena After its successful debut last year, the Demo Arena returns with machinery action from Malone, Merlo, Case IH, Valtra, New Holland and JCB. LAMMA is renowned as the birthplace of new developments,

which will be recognised with the Innovation Awards, presented to the most exciting developments at the show. The Young Engineer Award also reaches its climax, recognising the achievements of young individuals or groups in agricultural engineering.

LAMMA Live gives access to industry leaders and agricultural pioneers in a number of seminars, discussions and debates throughout the show.

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MACHINERY AND TRACTOR Admission and parking ■ Admission and the show guide are free, but all visitors are encouraged to pre-register at lammashow.com ■ There will be a £17.95 charge (credit card only) for parking this year, but you can book ‘Early Bird’ parking in advance on the NEC website for a reduced price of £12.95; visit thenec.co.uk/ visitors/parking-at-the-nec

farming industry and community to come together, with the NAAC Contractors Lounge and Health and Well-being Zone, and with the Farming Help charities.

The Career Zone, powered by Jobs in Agriculture, is returning to LAMMA for 2024. Businesses from machinery giant Agco to leading grower G’s Fresh will be available to discuss opportunities in the industry.

Operators can try out their skills at the Farming Simulator tournament as LAMMA becomes the first show to host its Farming Simulator League esports game.

Visitors wishing to clock up BASIS, NROSO, TIAH or Dairy Pro CPD points will be able to do so on both days of the show.

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Venue There will be maps to guide visitors around the halls, which all interlink – no need to walk back out into the elements to get to the next hall.

Halls open at 8.30am, but the NEC Atrium will be open early, enabling visitors to meet up and get a coffee or an ‘Early Bird’ breakfast. Catering comes from wellknown brands such as Starbucks, Subway and Wetherspoons.

Each hall also has its own catering and toilet facilities, and cloakrooms allow visitors to store coats or luggage, making for a more comfortable visit to the show.

The NEC offers free visitor WiFi and enhanced mobile networks, so it is easy to keep in touch with home and business contacts or to check social media; the LAMMA Show X feed will keep you updated with all the news and new products from the show.

Excellent transport links and access are among the main benefits of the venue’s location.

Birmingham International train station is located within the NEC, with direct services all day.

Connecting trains from Birmingham New Street are less than a 15-minute journey away.

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Multiple outlets for food and drink are offered, including an ‘Early Bird’ breakfast.

are numerous clearly marked taxi ranks.

The closest airport is Birmingham International, which is connected directly to the NEC by a free and fast air-rail link to Birmingham International train station, located at the upper level of Terminal 1. The train runs every two minutes and takes 90 seconds; the NEC is clearly signposted from the station.

Flights operate into Birmingham from a number of regional airports in the UK as well as the Republic of Ireland, so it may be worth investigating flying as a travel option.

Access Road access is also directly from the motorway network with ample free, hardstanding parking.

Frequent shuttle buses link to the halls, or it is a short, clearly signposted walk for those who want some fresh air – all walkways are hard surfaces, so wellies will not be required.

All routes, buses and halls have disabled access, and mobility scooters and wheelchairs will be available to hire.

For visitors travelling some distance or wishing to make the most of the show by taking in both days, there are multiple accommodation options in the area, including leading hotel brands for all budgets on the NEC site itself.

There is also plenty of entertainment outside of show hours at Resorts World – part of the NEC complex – which has a spa hotel and casino, an IMAX cinema, restaurants, bars and outlet shopping.

Pre-registration is advised to miss the queues.

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LxWxH (mm) exc.VAT inc.VAT MECHANICS RANGE 1 CTC600C 6 Dr chest 600x260x340 £89.98 £107.98 CTC900C 9 Dr chest 597x257x380 £89.98 £107.98 CTC500C 5 Dr cabinet 675x335x770 £149.98 £179.98 CTC800C 8 Dr chest/cab set 610x330x1070 £149.98 £179.98 2 CTC700C 7 Dr cabinet 616x330x880 £169.98 £203.98 PROFESSIONAL RANGE 3 CTC103C 3 Dr step up chest 691x310x256 £74.99 £89.99 CTC109 9 Dr chest 662x305x421 £139.98 £167.98 4 CTC105 5 Dr cabinet 685x465x790 £239.98 £287.98 CTC107C 7 Dr cabinet 739x461x953 £259.00 £310.80

Strong

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279

FROM ONLY £ DOUBLE .99 EXC.VAT DOUBLE FOOTER £51.59 inc.VAT

42

£310.80 inc.VAT

WAS £322.80 inc.VAT

£FROM ONLY .98 DOUBLE exc.VAT 89 1 £107.98 DOUBLE FOOTER inc.VAT

169

£ FROM ONLY .98 DOUBLEexc.VAT DOUBLE £203.98 FOOTER inc.VAT

Easy to assemble, providing valuable working space and plenty of additional storage capacity.

Strong

150 9mm fibreboard

mm 350 12fibreboard

PER SHELF

PER SHELF

shelves

2

WORKBENCH WITH PEGBOARD

BOLTLESS SHELVING / BENCHES CHOICE OF 5 COLOURS

£ FROM ONLY .00 DOUBLEexc.VAT DOUBLE £334.80 FOOTER inc.VAT

PRICE CUT

DOUBLE.00 exc.VAT 259

£

2

MECHANICS/ PROFESSIONAL quality & value TOOL CHESTS/ •forSuperb DIY & Professional workshops CABINETS

KG

189

NOW inc.VAT £163.19 £203.98 £286.80 £310.80

FULL EXTENSION ROLLER RUNNERS FOR SMOOTH OPENING ACTION

Simple fast RED, BLUE, GREY, assembly in minutes SILVER & GALVANISED using only a hammer STEEL

£ FROM ONLY .98 DOUBLEexc.VAT DOUBLE £227.98 FOOTER inc.VAT

30KG

MAX DRAWER LOAD

inc.VAT

PRO394 PROFESSIONAL 90 PIECE TOOL KIT WITH CANTILEVER TOOLBOX

649

DOUBLEEXC.VAT 259.00 FOOTER £203.98 inc.VAT

DRAWERS WAS NOW PRICE CUT £DOUBLE.99 inc.VAT inc.VAT 56exc.VAT £107.98 £104.39 WAS £68.39 inc.VAT DOUBLE £191.98 £179.98 PRO378 WAS £71.98 inc.VAT Model Desc.

LxWxH (mm) exc.VAT inc.VAT £191.98 £185.99 PROFESSIONAL CLB600 6 Dr chest 660x305x365 £135.99 £209.99 £203.98 1 CLB900C 9 Dr chest 685x305x474 £169.98 £322.80 £310.80 1/2" DRIVE CLB1005 5 Dr cabinet 685x465x795 £239.00 £346.80 £334.80 SOCKET SET 2 CLB1007C 7 Dr cabinet 740x465x955 £259.00 £322.80

PRO396 222 PIECE TOOL SET WITH 7 DRAWER TOOL CABINET

£ FROM ONLY .00 DOUBLEexc.VAT DOUBLE £778.80 FOOTER inc.VAT

169

£ FROM ONLY .98

Combines premium quality with fiercely competitive pricing & super smooth ball bearing roller drawers

• Extra heavy gauge double wall steel construction

£

1

KG

Dims exc. inc.

Model WxDxH(mm) VAT VAT 150kg 800x300x1500 £42.99 £51.59 350kg 900x400x1800 £59.98 £71.98

• Dimensions (LxWxH) - 1150 x 560 x 1440 mm • Pegboard back wall with 30 hooks supplied

shelves

CWB-R1B

Available in Red or Galvanised Finish

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AIR. DISP MOTOR AIR MODEL CFM (HP) RCVR EXC.VAT INC.VAT XEV16/100 (OL)†* 14 3 100ltr £589.00 £706.80 XEV16/150 (OL)†* 14 3 150ltr £659.00 £790.80 XEV16/200(OL)†* 14 3 200ltr £719.00 £862.80 XEV16/150(400V)† 14 3 150ltr £699.00 £838.80 XE29/270 (OL) 28 6 270ltr £1399.00 £1678.80 SE46C270 (400V) 40 10 270ltr £2129.00 £2554.80 XE37/270 (OL)* 36 2x 4 270ltr £1479.00 £1774.80

NG

32' LO

40'

£

CDP102B

Motor (W) model Speeds exc.VAT CDP5EB 350 / 5 £99.95 CDP102B 350 / 5 £115.95 CDP152B 450 / 12 £209.00 CDP202B 450 / 16 £269.00 CDP352F 550 / 16 £339.00 CDP452B 550 / 16 £299.00 CDP502F 1100 / 12 £699.00

WAS inc.VAT inc.VAT £119.94 £139.14 £251.98 £250.80 £322.80 £406.80 £406.80 £358.80 £934.80 £838.80

WORKSHOP CRANES

exc.VAT 1099 DOUBLE FOOTER £1318.80 inc.VAT

size (LxWxH) 9.7x4.3x3.65m 12x4.9x4.3m

DUAL VOLTAGE

Offering low cost, efficient heating

VOLT IN STOCK FROM £226.80 inc.VAT

230&

110

CFC100

219

£ FROM ONLY .98 DOUBLEexc.VAT DOUBLE £263.98 FOOTER inc.VAT

PRICE CUT £ DOUBLE.00

529exc.VAT

£634.80 inc.VAT DOUBLE

WAS £682.80 inc.VAT

Model CFC100#

Desc. exc.VAT 1 Tonne Folding £219.98 Workshop Crane CWGC1000‡ Gantry Crane 1T £529.00

inc.VAT £263.98 £634.80

MIG WELDERS

Propane gas fired Max. Output kW exc.VAT inc.VAT 10.3 £94.99 £113.99 15 £119.98 £143.98 24.9 £159.98 £191.98 36.6 £189.98 £227.98 49.8 £269.00 £322.80 131 £479.00 £574.80

5 TONNE FORKLIFT/TRACTOR JACK - CFT5B PRICE CUT £ DOUBLE.00

239exc.VAT LOW HIGH

£286.80 inc.VAT DOUBLE

WAS £298.80 inc.VAT

HUGE RANGE OF JACKS IN STOCK

LIFTS FROM 70mm

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IG2200A

ALSO

.00 exc.VAT 249 £298.80 inc.VAT

135TE * WAS £356.39 inc.VAT Model Min/Max Amps exc.VAT PRO90 25-90 £249.00 135TE Turbo* 30-130 £289.98 151TE Turbo 30-150 £345.00 160TM 30-150 £359.00

inc.VAT £298.80 £347.98 £414.00 £430.80

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Honda engine models available

DIESEL GENERATORS UP TO 125kVA exc.

Model Volts HP VAT PG2500A 230 5.6 £219.00 PG3800A 230 5.6 £269.00 PG3800ADV 230/110 5.6 £299.00 PG6500ADVES 230/110 9.7 £539.00

DIESEL/PARAFFIN HEATERS

WAS inc. inc.VAT VAT £270.00 £262.80 £346.80 £322.80 £370.80 £358.80 £658.80 £646.80

FAN HEATERS 2.8kW

Ideal for fast efficient heating Extra-long run fuel tanks – up to 53 litres Variable heat output with thermostat control

2850

LIFTS

exc.VAT 189 £227.98 inc.VAT

PW50A * WAS £358.80 inc.VAT # WAS £478.80 inc.VAT Max Outlet exc.

Model Type Flow Size VAT inc.VAT PW50A Standard 550L/min 2" £189.98 £227.98 PW80A Standard 1100L/min 3" £199.98 £239.98 PS75A* Semi-trash 750L/min 3" £279.00 £334.80 PF75A# Full-trash 1300L/min 3" £379.00 £454.80

ELECTRIC HEATERS

FROM ONLY

EXC.VAT 69 DOUBLE BEST FOOTER £83.98 inc.VAT

£ DOUBLE .98

model XR60 XR80 XR110 XR160 XR210

DOUBLE £274.80 FOOTER inc.VAT

FROM ONLY £ DOUBLE .98 EXC.VAT DOUBLE FOOTER £35.98 inc.VAT

inc.VAT £274.80 £334.80 £394.80 £478.80 £550.80

Max. Model Output exc.VAT inc.VAT DEVIL 2000PTC-B 2kW £29.98 £35.98 Devil 2850 2.8kW £42.99 £51.59 Devil 2800PTC-B 2.8kW £49.98 £59.98

FROM ONLY £ DOUBLE.00

229exc.VAT

XR80 MAX output 14.7kW 20.5kW 29.3kW 46.9kW 61.5kW

exc.VAT £229.00 £279.00 £329.00 £399.00 £459.00

SELLER

2800PTC-B

FROM ONLY £ DOUBLE .98 exc.VAT DOUBLE FOOTER £107.98 inc.VAT

Superb range ideal for DIY, hobby & semiprofessional use UP TO 7938KG CAPACITY IN STOCK

Model Motor 8/260 2HP 11/550 2.5HP 16/550 3HP 16/1050 3HP

CFM 7 9.3 14.5 14.5

Heat Model Voltage Output exc.VAT Devil 6003 230V 1.5-3kW £69.98 Devil 7003* 230V 3kW £76.99 Devil 7005# 400V 5kW £98.99 Devil 6009 400V 4.5-9kW £124.99 Devil 7009 400V 9kW £152.99 Devil 6015 400V 5-10-15kW £189.98 Devil 7015 400V 15kW £229.98

inc.VAT £83.98 £92.39 £118.79 £149.99 £183.59 £227.98 £275.98

FOOTER £116.39 inc.VAT

Starting Peak Boost Amps exc.VAT 400 900 £96.99 500 1100 £96.99 1100 2200 £164.99 1000 2000 £179.98

inc.VAT £116.39 £116.39 £197.99 £215.98

Tank 24ltr 50ltr 50ltr 100ltr

FROM ONLY DOUBLE.98 exc.VAT DOUBLE £143.98 FOOTER inc.VAT

119

£

exc.VAT £119.98 £179.98 £249.00 £309.00

inc.VAT £143.98 £215.98 £298.80 £370.80

PETROL & DIESEL

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Provides essential home, garage and roadside assistance Integral work light 910 /JS1100C include air compressor FROM ONLY Long life battery £ DOUBLE .99 exc.VAT 96 DOUBLE EXTRA LONG 1m LEADS

Model 910 JS1100C 4000 JS12/24

DEVIL 7003

TURBO AIR COMPRESSORS

20SPS12

89

29

CAN DRAW OWN WATER PRESSURE

WASHERS

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HEAVY DUTY SUBMERSIBLE WATER FROM ONLY PUMPS £ DOUBLE .98 exc.VAT 89 DOUBLE

FOOTER £107.98 inc.VAT Honda & Diesel engine models *Pumps solids in stock up to 35mm dia. #Clean/ dirty water FROM ONLY HEADER (solids up £ .00 to 5mm exc.VAT 279 £334.80 inc.VAT dia.) †Sewage PLS265B *Diesel Diesel cutter pump Pressure Engine Model BAR/Psi HP exc.VAT inc.VAT Tiger1800B 110/1595 3 £279.00 £334.80 PVP11A HSEC650A Tiger2600B 180/2610 4 £379.00 £454.80 Max Flow Max Tiger3000B 200/2900 6.5 £399.00 £478.80 LPM Head exc.VAT inc.VAT PLS195B 180/2640 5.5 £499.00 £598.80 Model 258 11.0m £89.98 £107.98 PLS220 230/3335 9 £679.00 £814.80 PVP11A* 140 7.0m £119.98 £143.98 PLS265B 225/3263 13 £769.00 £922.80 HSE130A# 290 9.5m £249.00 £298.80 248/3600 13 £998.00 £1197.60 HSEC650A PLS360 430 13m £389.00 £466.80 DLS200AL* 200/2900 8.5 £2399.00 £2878.80 HSE1400A†

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* WAS £466.80 inc.VAT Max Weight model Output KG exc.VAT inc.VAT IG950D 800W 9.3 £219.00 £262.80 IG1200D 1100W 12.4 £279.00 £334.80 IG1700F 1700W 22 £259.00 £310.80 IG2000D 1800W 19.4 £399.00 £478.80 IG3500AF* 3400W 35 £379.00 £454.80 IG2200A 2200W 26.6 £429.00 £514.80

NEW

2.8kW

Model Capacity exc.VAT inc.VAT 20SPS12 907kg £89.98 £107.98 25SPS12 1134kg £124.99 £149.99

Delivery & Suction hose in stock *Can pump solids up to 15mm dia. #Can pump solids up to 28mm dia.

FROM ONLY HEADER

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PETROL ENGINE FROM ONLY HEADER WATER PUMPS £ .98

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DEVIL 6003

FROM ONLY £ DOUBLE .99 DOUBLE exc.VAT FOOTER £113.99 inc.VAT

Model Little Devil II Devil 700 Devil 900 Devil 1600 Devil 2100 Devil 4000

ONLY INVERTER £ FROM .00 DOUBLE exc.VAT 219 GENERATORS DOUBLE £262.80 FOOTER inc.VAT

LON

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standing

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CIG1432

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Ym 2011. 1 farm from new.

Proper job!!

Price: £16000

Price: £6000

Price: £6850

Price: £5600

IFOR WILLIAMS 14’ TRI AXLE CATTLE TRAILER. No middle vents. 1 Partition.

Front wind deflector.

Ym 2021. Tidy trailer.

Price: £6250

GRAHAM EDWARDS 12’ CATTLE TRAILER. C/w decks. 3 partitions.

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Wide angle pto. Ym 2021.

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BUNNING 105.

Slurry door. Wide angle pto.

Air brakes. Steel mudguards.

Spinner deck ready.

Flared extension sides.

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BUNNING LOWLANDER MK4 120 HBD SPINNING DECK. Weigh cells. Ym 2015 on 650/65R 38 Alliance wheels.

Wide angle pto. Good order.

Price: POA

KTWO 10T REAR DISCHARGE. Wide angle pto. Slurry door.

C/w wood Extension sides.

Ym 2009.

Price: £12500

HARRY WEST 1300 DUAL SPREADER

AS MARSTON 15 CUBE TWIN HISPEC 1000 ROTOR SPREADER. AXLE ROTOR SPREADER. On 560/60 22.5 wheels.

On Sprung axles.

Ym 2011.

560-45/22.5 wheels.

C/w new chains. Ym 2011.

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HISPEC 3000G SLURRY TANK. Sprung d raw bar.

6” auto fill. Air/hyd brakes.

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Ym 2014. Tidy order.

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Sprung draw bar. Ym 2019.

Nice tanker.

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Alliance tyres. Ym 2014 Good order

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REDROCK ROCK 2000G TANK on 30.5 wheels.

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Tidy order.

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2 fill points. Tidy order.

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TRAILED MOWER 30 cube tub mixer. Tandem conditioner. Ym 2019. 1 farmer axle. 2 doors. 2 speed box. from new. Nice machine!!!

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PRICE: £3000

FLEMING MS 1000 ROTOR SPREADER. 9.5 cube. On 560-60 R 22.5.

Price: £5000

MAJOR 3500G TANDEM TANK. Galv. Ym 2020 On 560/60 flotation wheels. Sprung draw bar. Steering rear axel. Sight tube. Hyd drive pump.

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TEAGLE TOMAHAWK 8100 STRAW BLOWER. Electric controls blue tooth connection. Ym 2018.

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2019, 208 Hrs, 47 HP 2 Spools, Hydrostatic Transmission

LESS THAN

1500 1000 HOURS

2020, 3095 Hrs, 110 HP Tyres: 440/65R28 540/65R38

2020, 4183 Hrs, Efficient Spec Dyna 6 Transmissio

2021, 2599 Hrs, 205 HP Tyres: 540/65R30 650/65R42

MF 6S.145 ESD6 2022, 805 Hrs, 150 HP Tyres: 480/65R28 (95%), 600/65R38 (95%)

LESS THAN

1000 500

Dyna-6 Transmission, Spec. Package: ESSENTIAL, Air Con, Cab Suspension

HOURS

FENDT 516

FENDT 720

FENDT 724

FENDT 936

£108,000.00

£155,000.00

£92,000.00

£133,000.00

2022, 560 Hrs, 165 HP Tyres: 480/65R28 520/70R38

£82,000.00

2022, 332 Hrs, Tyres: (100%), Radar Vario Gen6 Transmission

2019, 6664 Hrs, 250 HP Tyres: 600/65R28 (35%) 650/75R38 (35%)

2017, 6503 Hrs, Tyres: 710/60R34 (95%) 900/60R42 (75%)

FENDT 828 2022, 2100 Hrs, 280 HP Tyres: 600/70R30 (70%) 800/70R38 (70%) VALTRA T174

VALTRA T174D

VALTRA T234D

2017, 5886 Hrs, 180 HP Tyres: 480/70R30 (50%) 620/70R42 (30%)

2020, 2971 Hrs, 180 HP Tyres: 600/65R38 (70%) 650/65R42 (70%)

2018, 6450 Hrs, 230 HP Tyres: 600/65R28 (30%) 650/75R38 (40%)

£59,500.00

£74,500.00

£62,250.00

Profi Plus Spec, VARIODRIVE Transmission

£155,000.00

VALTRA T235D 2022, 1123 Hrs, 220 HP Tyres: 600/65R28 (100%) 650/75R38 (100%) DIRECT CVTTransmission, CLOSED Centre, Radar

LESS THAN

1500

£126,500.00

HOURS

LESS THAN

1000 500 HOURS

JCB 531-70

JCB 532-60

JCB 535-95

2017, 3050 Hrs, 145 HP 3100kg lift, 7m Reach Tyres: 460/70R24 (40%)

2023, 270 Hrs, 109 HP 3200kg lift, 6.2m Reach Tyres: 460/70R24 (90%)

2012, 6400 Hrs, 75 HP 3500kg lift, 9.5m Reach Pallet Tines/Carriage

£59,500.00

£70,000.00

£45,000.00

LESS THAN

1500 HOURS

MERLO 42.7 CS

MERLO TF42.7-140

MERLO TF38.7

MANITOU MLT 634

MANITOU MLT840

2017, 6275 Hrs 7m Reach, 4200kg lift Tyres: 460/70R24 (50%)

2020, 1350 Hrs, 140 HP 7m Reach, 4200kg lift Tyres: 460/70R24 (95%)

2015, 4498 Hrs, 120 HP 7m Reach, 4200kg lift Tyres: 405/70R24 (5%)

2014, 4902 Hrs 6m Reach, 3400kg Lift

2019, 1500 Hrs, 141 HP 8m, 4000kg Lift Tyres: 460/70R24 (50%)

£44,500.00

£69,950.00

£48,750.00

£38,500.00

£69,750.00

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LANDINI 5-120 COMPLETE WITH FRONT LOADER £36,000

KIDD 450 BALE SHREDDER EX DEMO £12,950

FLEMING MS100 MUCK SPREADER OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE £7500

KIDD TWY 200T HL POST DRIVER £7500

MALONE 14 TONNE LOG SPLITTER £1050

REDROCK VM16 VERTICAL FEED MIXER £14,999

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Call 01772 799500 and place your ad today Hardwick Agricultural Engineers Ltd Main Road, Brompton-By-Sawdon, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO13 9DP Tel: +44 (0)1723 859785 / 859698 Sales: Eric - 07836 630558 Cameron - 07946 335030 Thomas - 07538 390091

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New Deutz Fahr 6165TTV 6-cylinder, 165hp, 50kph, Full TTV, 4 spools, front links with spool, HMS

New Deutz Fahr 6230 RC 6-cylinder, 230hp, 50kph, RC shi 54/27, 4 spools, GPS compa ble, front links with spool

Used Deutz Fahr 6205 RC 6-cylinder, 205hp, 50kph, RC shi 54/27, 4 spools, front links with spool, year 2019, 4000hrs

Used Same HI-line 155 Iron Powershi transmission (40x40) 4 electric spools, ASM 3,150 hours, year 2012

Used New Holland T6030 6-cylinder, 115hp, 40kph, 24/24 powershi , year 2010, 5435hrs

New Kubota M -­­ -cylinder, hp, kph transmission, / powershift

New Kubota M -­ ­ Utility -cylinder, hp, kph, / powershift

Used Kubota M -­ ­ -cylinder, hp, kph, / powershift, year , , hrs

Used McCormick MTX­ -cylinder, hp, speed + creep, Year , hours

Used Case MX­ -cylinder, hp, kph year , hours

New Merlo 33.7 – 115 Boom suspension, 40k-2 speed hydrosta c drive, reverse fan, pick up hitch, DAB radio

New Merlo 35.7 – 140 Boom suspension, 40k-2 speed hydrosta c drive, reverse fan, pick up hitch, DAB radio

Used Kuhn 2060M Polydrive system, 300° swivel spout, stone strap, 18m blow distance, 2 m3 capacity, year 2018

Used Teagle Tomahawk 1010sc Swivel spout, in cab controls, twin cross beaters, 280° spout, HI/LO, 22m blow distance, Year 2019

Used Kuhn VKM 280 Rotor balanced, new flails, 2.8m working width, offset side shi , rear mounted roller, Year 2007

New Kuhn GA7501+ Rake 6.7m-7.5m working width, 1.3m1.9m swath width, 11 nes per rotor, 3D bogie axle

New Kuhn RW1610C Two pre stretch film rollers, RF- Remote control, auto stop

*Don’t miss out on Kuhn’s 0% Finance on grassland machinery* New Kuhn VB 7160 4 belts, weigher, I-dense system, 0.80m-1.85m diameter bales, 2.3m pick up reel with 14 knifes Used LC402 Hector 3000 box, quick fit nes, suffolk coulters, side markers & pre-em markers, PTO driven fan

New Kuhn FC3115 D 3.1m working width, fast fit blades, ver cal fold - GMD 280/310 – FF244/284/314 in stock

Used Amazone Ad-P403 special Amadrill+ control box,quick fit nes near new, Power harrow year 2018, Drill year 2014

Used Amazone Ad-p 403 Special Amalog+ box, double disc coulters.

Year 2014, Worked 3516 hect

New Kuhn Sitera 3m drill 24-disc coulters (12.5cm spacing), 780L hopper, electric metering, seedflex seed unit

New Kuhn Espro 4m disc drill 26-disc coulter (15cm spacing), 3,500L hopper, electric metering, 32 work discs, crossflex coulter

Used Vaderstad Carrier 300 HE-VA sheer bolt legs, hydraulic depth adjustment

New Kuhn 500R Prolander 5m working width, 4 ne rows, 33 S-Tines, crumbler roller

New Kuhn L6000 Op mer 510mm notched discs, hydraulic depth adjustment, + L300& L400

Used Kuhn Hr304D Quick fit nes, levelling board, year 2014

New DalBo 630&830 minimax 55cm snowflake rings, both Cambridge and breaker ring

New AW 16T mono trailer Commercial parabolic sprung axles, air brakes, ULTIMA SPEC

New AW 14T mono trailer Commercial parabolic sprung axles, air brakes, ULTIMA SPEC

New AW 12-ton mono trailer Sprung drawbar, sprung axles, hydraulic back door, body prop

New AW 26£, 10 Ton trailer Sprung axles, rear pivo ng goal post, LED lights

AW 12T bale trailer Storage shelf, 445/45R19.5 tyres, sprung axles

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John Bownes Ltd 01606 592639 Court House Farm, Winsford, Cheshire CW7 4BS

2019 VALTRA T254 VERSU Twin Trac, Front Links & PTO, Guidance, Front & Cab Sus, 4098 Hours ........................ £85,000

2022 VALTRA T235 DIRECT, 57kph, Auto Comfort, Front Links & PTO, Guidance, Premium Interior, Warranty, 1828 Hours.......£119,500

VALTRA T234 DIRECT, 57kph, Front Links, Auto Comfort, 4 Spools & PB, Warranty, 1705 Hours ......................................... £105,000

2020 VALTRA T234 ACTIVE, 57kph, Auto Comfort, Front Links & PTO, 4 Spools, 3093 Hours ........................................... £85,000

2018 VALTRA T214 DIRECT, Twin Trac, Front Links & PTO, Front & Cab Sus, Power Beyond, 4474 Hours ...................... £78,500

2022 VALTRA T195 VERSU, 57kph, Front Links & PTO, Trimble Guidance, 2104 Hours… ....................................... £103,000

2021 VALTRA T174 ACTIVE, 50kph, Front & Cab Sus, Front Links & PTO, Power Beyond, 2271 Hours ...................... £79,000

2015 VALTRA T163 VERSU, 50kph, Front & Cab Sus, Front Links, Air Brakes, 9272 Hours ......................................... £42,500

2000 VALTRA 8550 HITECH, Delta Power Shift, Front Sus, 2019 Botex 570C Roof Mounted Crane, 8311 Hours......................... £45,000

2002 VALTRA 8350 HITECH, Delta Power Shift, Front Links, Front & Cab Sus, Air Brakes, 10456 Hours....................... £24,000

2015 VALTRA N143 HITECH, 50kph, Front Links, Valtra 56 Loader, Front & Cab Sus, 4 Spools, 8892 Hours......................... £49,500

2008 VALTRA N101 HITECH, 40kph, Air Con & Air Seat, 16.9 x 38 Tyres, 4780 Hours ............................................ £35,000

2021 CASE PUMA 240 CVX, Front & Cab Sus, Front Links & PTO, Guidance Ready, 4 Spools, 1134 Hours....................... £108,000

2019 JOHN DEERE 6145R, Auto Power, TLS & Cab Sus, Front Links & PTO, Guidance, 5295 Hours ........................ £69,000

2021 NEW HOLLAND T5.140, Dynamic Command, Front Links, Loader Brackets, 4 Spools, Only 456 Hours .......................... £58,000

2005 MASSEY FERGUSON 5465,

2021 JCB TM320S, 150hp, Stage 5 Engine, Pin & Cone Headstock, 1544 Hours .............................................. £85,500

2020 JCB 542-70 AGRI SUPER, 145hp, Q-Fit Headstock, 2841 Hours .............................................. £72,000

2019 JCB 532-70 AGRI SUPER, 145hp, Q-Fit Headstock, 1561 Hours .............................................. £72,500

2019 JCB 526-56 AGRI PLUS, 40kph, Q-Fit Headstock, Air Con & Air Seat, 2504 Hours.................. £52,000

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......................................£POA .............................£18,500.00 Power Decks.......£16,000.00 ............................. £5800.00 ................................£6000.00 .............................£5800.00

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FROM £93,000 TO JOB DONE Legendary since 1945 Unimog is available in two types:

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AM Agri Ltd, Garthfield, Padanaram, Forfar, DD8 1PF, Tel 01307 462081, www.alanmackay.co.uk Arthur Ibbett Ltd, River Lane, Great Paxton, Saint Neots, PE19 6RD, Tel 01480 473452, www.ibbetts-unimog.co.uk Ferndown Commercials Ltd, 14-20 Haviland Road, Ferndown Industrial Estate, Wimborne, BH21 7RG, Tel 01202 877345, www.ferndowncommercials.co.uk Lloyd Ltd, Ponteland Road, Throckley, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 9EP, Tel 01912 677555, www.lloyd.ltd.uk/mercedes-benz-unimog Rygor Commercials, 23 The Broadway, Westbury, BA13 4JX, Tel 01373 440122, www.rygor.co.uk/trucks/new-trucks/unimog South Cave Tractors Ltd, Common Lane, Brough, HU15 2RD, Tel 01430 424233, www.southcavetractors.com Models shown above are the range of vehicles we have produced from 1945 to 2024. U219* and U535** as priced are variants of the Unimog UGE model shown in the image. The price is the indicative retail price of the vehicle available to purchase from a Dealer including PDI and delivery. Prices are correct at time of publication 01/2024. All final prices are subject to any model specification, fiscal or legislative changes. and Mercedes-Benz are trademarks of Mercedes-Benz Group AG.

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