Tom Chanter

Farm manager of large scale Beef finishing and arable unit in sunny East Devon. Farmers weekly columnist, Farmers Weekly Farm manager of the Year finalist.

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@DairyConsultant Looking at doing this with separated digestate. Would be interested to hear more from others

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@ThrimbyFarms Have you checked/changed your knives and paddle rubbers on your Keenan. We were taking longer and longer to process straw through ours. Changed the knives and rubbers and now smashes it very efficiently.

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New assistant manager is working out well… keen as mustard!!

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Fingers crossed for a warm wet spring. Silage clamps won’t fill themselves….

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@duffy1972 Yes but done on a per head basis rightly or wrongly rather than per kg DLWG. For us it seems to be better to do it per head as the number housed fluctuates more than DLWG. It’s also an economy of scale thing. The more you have the more there are to divide the costs over.

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@mendipfarmer Too much uncertainty in the trade support high prices of animals that require a long time on farm. That calf will have months and months of feeding ahead of it with no guarantee of what it is worth at the end.

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@LMBateman79 @molevalley

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After around 250,000 weighting’s in the last 11 years we have replaced our Bateman squeeze crush….with a new Bateman Squeeze crush! Loads of subtle design improvements making it even better to operate! Here’s to the next 250,000 cattle weighing!! #bateman #molevalley #finishing

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@farmermat1 Very happy with it. It’s amazing how a few little tweaks in design have made such a difference.

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@PickwickLodgeFm Weighing each bullock a minimum of 3 times in the average 100 days that they are with us.

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Serious Sunday Snoozin (No G). Nothing better than a nap after lunch

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Maize off and cereals going in. And so we roll the dice once more….

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I’m asking the question of ⁦@RishiSunak⁩ and ⁦@trussliz⁩ - who will be the PM to Back British Farming? It’s high time government took food seriously; UK Food Security should matter just as much as Energy Security. Please RT 🐄🐑🥕🌾 https://t.co/XSmHA6ExkH

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@richardpayne94 I would love to know what paint thinner they were sniffing when they came up with this!

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My future wife! Thank you ⁦@Countrylifemag⁩ A very lucky lad indeed

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@fairleigh_ag Out of interest what’s the issue with your Keenan or why are you looking at a tub?

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@snellpeter2 @maizegrowers What seed rate and is that an Einbok (spelling?!!) tine drill? Thanks

[Tom Chanter @ChanterTom]

Very Honoured to win this and a great fun evening for a very important cause. Well done to all those involved and to my team at Greendale for their continued hard work to make this happen!

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Boris Johnson recovering after minor operation on his nose. Unconfirmed reports suggest he’s had about 2ft taken off.