Farming Interests

Soil and Environment Farming Ideas

Tillage, soil management, soil nutrients, fertilisers

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Livestock Farm Ideas

Dairy innovations, suckler management, bull beef, sheep and lamb ideas, pigs and poultry, shed ventilation, flooring, slurry and fym, bio-gas, cattle shed air flow, diet feeders, milking parlours

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Arable Farming Ideas

Conventional seedbed ideas and innovations, No-till planting methods; seed drills, planter modifications, spraying, combining, crop cleaning, drying, cereals, oil seed rape osr, beans, break crops, cover crops

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General Farming Ideas

Ideas which apply to all farms whatever their size or enterprises: farm trucks, farm sheds, roofs, farm workshop and more.

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Financial Farming Ideas

Independent and focussed advice on farm financing is hard to get. Accountants today need to be far more than book keepers. Editor Mike Donovan has a degree from reading University in Agricultural Economics and before he started farming worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and then the Financial Times. 

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  • Recent Financial Focus articles

    • Looking ahead for opportunities. New ways to get into farming; expand with another farmer; purchase a good truck  (PFI 31-2)
    • Investing for the future means getting to grips with pensions. Contributions through your limited company; Pensions benefits; Are you getting the right allowances? (PFI 31-1) 
    • The crazy finances of farming:  debt management; how to involve a financial advisor; the vital need to plan the farm.  (PFI 30-4)  
    • Tax advantaged share schemes have all round benefits for Ltd businesses (PFI 30-3)
    • Thinking of investing? Small Self-Administered Pension Schemes give big tax benefits.  Avoiding Woodford.  Collecting tractors. (PFI 30-2)
    • Managing assets for an agricultural loan (PFI 30-1)
    • Fixing the farm: why now is the time to act. A time of change. A time to change. (PFI 29-4)  
    • Adding value for a bigger more profitable business. As farmers struggle to find ways to increase farm income, interest in “adding value” to raw agricultural products has grown tremendously. (PFI 29-3)

Harvesting Farming Ideas

Cereals, roots, grass… the harvest is of vital importance. Innovative farmers apply their skills to make this crucial part of the job work without a hiccup. Storing machinery over winter so rats and vermin don’t get in (how about an electic fence for rats and mice put round the combine? Crazy but it works, every year). Getting sprockets off round baler roller shafts, cameras inside combines.

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