Alastair Trickett

👨‍🌾 Farmer 🐑 Nuffield Scholar 🌾 Founder Grassroots Farming

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Plenty of worms, but plenty of compaction after harvest too.

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@loosecollie @NFUtweets @KapilaSandy Thanks Martin 🤞

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Does anyone know if the FETF #farming equipment and technology fund is likely to open again in 2024? @NFUtweets ? Or has all the money been spent? 🙏

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@tomallenstevens @NFUtweets Thanks Tom

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@farmerpratty Olly, we’ve grazed for a few years. Happy to share what we’ve learned. Biggest thing has been to move them every day with a back fence, and have a plan B if you get heavy rain. You can graze really hard for that one day though. They do well on it too.

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@WhitriggsStuart Thanks Stuart 👍

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Baled hay vs silage for feeding 🐄 cattle indoors over winter…? Is there a preference if the weather would allow either to be made? From a ley of clover, cocksfoot, chicory and plantain…

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@angusgowthorpe Whichever is most profitable… would be looking to sell finished off grass in the Autumn.

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@angusgowthorpe Whichever is most profitable… would be looking to sell finished off grass in the Autumn.

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@No1FarmerJake Thanks Jake. Normally don’t have problems on these fields, guess it’s all the rain. Hope yours gets away

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Frustrating start to a new herbal ley. 45Ha direct drilled. Very slow to emerge but had plenty of moisture. Then when it does, gets eaten 😞

[John Pawsey 🌞 @hanslope]

Finally our new website is finished. Thank you to @AdrianBarber01 and @MediaEssex for your hard work and patience!
https://t.co/p7QyJD0r9N

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Almost half of global wheat production at risk from water scarcity and drought.
From the ⁦@FT⁩

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Herbal ley slowly emerging after 10 days in the ground. Nail biting stuff with £8,500 spent on seed.

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@DavidAglen We have a winner. That was also a good bit of field to start with strong plants, but the sheep certainly did no damage

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Yield map of oilseed rape. Where did the sheep graze? 20Ha field.
#harvest23

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Beetle vs Slug
#IPM

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@driverfarms1 Couldn’t agree more

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

Interesting: left me wondering what would've happened had Labour just said, "If you think we're going to give up on a policy that will improve thousands of kids' lives just to try to win a by-election, forget it. We're just not that kind of party." https://t.co/hIQ8XzI74f