Agrimart February 2025 Issue

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www.edwinthompson.co.uk

www.edwinthompson.co.uk

Berwick: 01289 304432 | Galashiels: 01896 751300

Berwick: 01289 304432 | Galashiels: 01896 751300

2025 Basic Payment Entitlements

2025 Basic Payment Entitlements

2025 Basic Payment Entitlements

The trading window for BPS Entitlements is now open. At Edwin Thompson we offer a comprehensive service in the trading of Scottish BPS Entitlements.

The trading window for BPS Entitlements is now open. At Edwin Thompson we offer a comprehensive service in the trading of Scottish BPS Entitlements.

The trading window for BPS Entitlements is now open. At Edwin Thompson we offer a comprehensive service in the trading of Scottish BPS Entitlements.

We have a number of Region 1 and Region 2 units available, please contact Jack Frater or visit our website for more details.

We have a number of Region 1 and Region 2 units available, please contact Jack Frater or visit our website for more details.

We have a number of Region 1 and Region 2 units available, please contact Jack Frater or visit our website for more details.

j.frater@edwin-thompson.co.uk | 01896 751300

j.frater@edwin-thompson.co.uk | 01896 751300

j.frater@edwin-thompson.co.uk | 01896 751300

Edwin Thompson Affiliates:
Edwin Thompson Affiliates:
Edwin Thompson Affiliates:

Tel: 01555 811645

Here at Glendale Engineering, we are proud to be

• Special offers available on Cattle & Sheep Hurdles, Gates & Water Troughs •

Suppliers of:

Suppliers of:

-Cattle Handling & Feeding Equipment

• Cattle Handling & Feeding Equipment

-Sheep Handling & Feeding Equipment

-Sheep Portarace

• Sheep Handling & Feeding Equipment

- ATV Trailers

• Sheep Portarace

- Agricultural Buildings

• ATV Trailers

-Electronic Cattle & Sheep Weigh Systems

• Agricultural Buildings

- Large quantity of box section and pipe, Phone for special offers

• Electronic Cattle & Sheep Weigh Systems

• 9”x3” Timbers & 6”x3” Timbers In Stock

• Big Six Fibre Cement Sheets In Stock

Wooler : 01668 281464

Hexham : 01434 603078

Email : info@glendaleegineering.co.uk

Wooler : 01668 281464

Graeme Wilson : 07971 880275

Web : www.glendaleengineering.co.uk

John Common : 07981 890999

Bob Clapham : 07954 363979

info@glendaleegineering.co.uk www.glendaleengineering.co.uk

Octoposts
Calf Creep

Agriparts Borders Ltd

MOSA GE SX-9000 KDM 230/110V Super Silenced Diesel Generator Kohler Engine @ £6395.00

PRAMAC ES8000 Petrol Generator, Long Run Tank, Honda Engine, 230v, Max 6.4kw @ £1085

SIP T5500 Medusa Silenced Diesel Generator, 15 hour run time, 110v & 230V,AVR @ £1399.00

PRAMAC P3500i Suitcase Inverter Generator, 3kw Petrol, 2 x 13amp Sockets @ £525.00

Tecarc

C1-250 Inverter Mig Welder 1ph & 3ph GYS Multiweld 250T 3ph Mig GYS Easymig160 GYS Easymig 180 All prices exclude vat @ 20% All 3 Ex demo machines with large discounts

Agriparts Borders Ltd. Spylaw Road, Kelso TD5 8DL - 01573 226 526 - info@agriparts.co.uk - www.agriparts.co.uk -

2021 MASSEY FERGUSON 8S.225 DYNA-7 EXCLUSIVE

54KPH, Front Axle & Cab Suspension, Front Linkage And One Hyd Service, Rear Linkage, 4 Electric Services, Air Over Oil Trailer Brakes. Guidance Ready with ISOBUS, 600F & 50R Tyres.

Warranty to 04/05/2026 or 1800 Hours.

1,286 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£114,000+VAT Serial No. 328001

2023 MASSEY FERGUSON 8S.305 DYNA-VT EXCLUSIVE

54KPH, Front Axle & Cab Suspension, Front Linkage And 2 Hyd Services, Rear Linkage, 4 Electric Services, Air Over Oil ABS Trailer Brakes. Trimble Cenrimetre Radio Guidance, 2nd ISOBUS Screen, 600F & 710R Tyres.

Warranty to 05/08/2026 or 1200 Hours.

334 Hours, Tractors in use, hours might change.

2024 MASSEY FERGUSON 6S.155 DYNA-6 EFFICIENT

54KPH, MF4327 Front Loader Ready (FL.4327 Loader Prices Separately), Front Axle & Cab Suspension, Front Linkage And One Hyd Service, Rear Linkage, 4 Manual Services, Air Over Oil Trailer Brakes, 480F & 580R Tyres. 12 Months Warranty, 272 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£104,500+VAT

2023 MASSEY FERGUSON 7S.180 DYNA-6 ESSENTIAL

54KPH, Front Axle & Cab Suspension, Front Linkage And One Hyd Service, Rear Linkage, 4 Manual Services, Air Over Oil ABS Trailer Brakes, ISOBUS and Novatel Submetre Guidance. Warranty to 04/06/2028 or 1200 Hours, 473 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£103,500+VAT Serial No. 011014

2023 MASSEY FERGUSON 7S.180 DYNA-6 ESSENTIAL

54KPH, Front Axle &Cab Suspension, Front Linkage And One Hyd Service, Rear Linkage, 4 Manual Services, Air Over Oil ABS Trailer Brakes, ISOBUS and Guidance Ready, 12 Months Warranty, 264 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£109,500+VAT Serial No. 011019

2024 MASSEY FERGUSON 7S.180 DYNA-6 EXCLUSIVE

54KPH, Front Axle & Cab Suspension, Front Linkage, PTO And 1 Pair Of Hyd Service's, Rear Linkage, 4 Electric Services, Air Over Oil Trailer Brakes, ISOBUS, Guidance Ready. Warranty to 15/08/2026 or 1200 Hours. 225 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£127,500+VAT Serial No. 318023

Front

&

And One Hyd

Rear Linkage, 4 Manual Services, Air Over Oil ABS Trailer Brakes, ISOBUS and Guidance Ready, 12 Months Warranty, 129 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£103,500+VAT Serial No. 011005

2021 MASSEY FERGUSON 8S.205 DYNA-7 EFFICIENT

54KPH, Front Axle & Cab Suspension, Front Linkage and One Hyd Service, Rear Linkage, 4 Electric Services, Air Over Oil Trailer Brakes, ISOBUS and Guidance Ready, 600F 650R Tyres. Warranty to 17/11/2024 or 3000 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£97,000+VAT Serial No. 25908

2023 MASSEY FERGUSON 7S.180 DYNA-6 EXCLUSIVE

54KPH, Front Axle &Cab Suspension, Front Linkage And One Hyd Service, Rear Linkage, 4 Electric Hyd Services, Air Over Oil ABS Trailer Brakes, Novatel Centimetre Radio Guidance, 540F & 650R Tyres.

Warranty to 1200 Hours or 15/03/2027, 609 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£116,000+VAT Serial No. 023001

2023 MASSEY FERGUSON 6S.180 DYNA-6 EFFICIENT

54KPH, MF4327 Front Loader With Euro Carriage, Manual Locking And One Service, Front Axle & Cab Suspension, Front Linkage And One Hyd Service, Rear Linkage, 4 Manual Services, Air Over Oil ABS Trailer Brakes, 540F & 650R Tyres, Warranty to 15/03/2027 or 1200 Hours, 277 Hours, Tractor in use, hours might change.

£106,500+VAT Serial No. 300018

Loader sold separately

Wide range of AutoPerfekt cleaning & detailing products in stock now

For all enquiries and prices contact:

• Thomas - 07549 498853 • info@bwe-engineering.co.uk • www.bwe-engineering.co.uk

Plan for Posterity

Inheritance tax planning may require changes to title deeds or registration of land with Registers of Scotland:

With over 20 years of experience, Landmaps specialises in creating detailed, precise land registration and title deed plans tailored to meet its customers needs.

Other services include:

• GIS Mapping Solutions

• Custom Mapping Services for Farmers & Landowners

• Land Registration Plans

EWE FEEDS 2025

SUPER EWBOL 21 NUTS/ROLLS (bulk/bags)

Best of the very best. Formulated to feed housed ewes being fed straw. Contains Levucel, Megalac, Addarome, Extraguard and special ewe premix mineral/vitamin package. Very high energy.

EWBOL GOLD 18 NUTS/ROLLS (bulk/bags)

Top of the range 18%. Highest energy. High in DUP. Contains Levucel, Addarome, Extraguard and special ewe premix mineral/vitamin package. Formulated to feed ewes un excess of 200% lambing. A real milky ration that now has the extra benefit of a rumen specific live yeast.

EWBOL 18 NUTS/ROLLS (bulk/bags)

FEATURES

MEGALAC - Rumen protected fat. Boosts energy.

LEVUCEL TITAN - Rumen specific live yeast. Stabilises pH in rumen allowing increased fibre digesting bug activity, increases intakes and feed conversion efficiency.

EXTRAGUARD - A unique combination of vitamin, anti-oxidant and minerals. Elevated levels of vitamin E, Cellguard and bioavailable Selenium.

ADDAROME - An Indian spice added to increase palatability and intakes nearer lambing.

Again, high energy ration containing Addarome, Extraguard and a special ewe premix mineral/vitamin package. Formulated to be fed to ewes carrying up to 200% lambing. For prices or for any further information please contact Performance Feeds:

Border Chainsaw, Earlston
Thorburn Group, Duns
Lower Mansfield Road, Hawick, TD9 8AW
Willowford Farm, Jedburgh
Thorburn Group, Duns
Ex-demo Ovlac XPHV 5 Furrow plough, full specification, huge saving vs a new build, warranty included. £POA Ex-demo Krone BigPack
selection of used Can-Am ATV from as little as 1500 miles, all with warranty packages. From £3,000 + VAT 2017 Case IH Maxxum 125 w/ loader, 4300 hours, full suspension, 40kph, warranty included. £43,500 + VAT
2012 Kuhn VariMaster 122 five furrow plough, good working condition. £POA New Marshall 32ft Bale Trailer front
2023 Bednar Omega FL6000 Grain & Fert Drill ex-demo unit, full specification, priced to clear. £POA
NEW Case IH Puma 165 pre-reg special discount, warranty and finance package, 2 left at price. £POA

BORED

Christmas came and went as did New Year. For over a month I have been nowhere. Bogdan occasionally starts me up and moves me away from the pile of woodchip I stare at every day to load the bunker for the biomass boiler. Then he drives me back again, slightly further into the barn which keeps the drafts out but I am still exposed to the elements. It was extremely cold last week, and whilst ‘Big M’ the sprayer was parked on the heated drying floor I was frozen to my chassis. Just because he has got pipes and pumps he enjoys preferential treatment over yours truly. I have important bits too you know and I am much older than him so why can’t I have a warm bedroom as well? I know I might leak a bit, nothing a small nappy wouldn’t absorb. I don’t know why I’m asking as it is a lost cause.

There must be someone, somewhere who wants something pulled. I have a shed to move here later this month which should stop me seizing up but hardly a journey to warm my wheels and tyres. I will ask him to go through my customer database and communicate with the most likely candidates enquiring if they have any work. The problem is he charges a lot, if it was up to me I would do it for the pleasure of the pull, but not him. Life is not all about money as I see it. It is more about a taut cable and the thrill of seeing that static object move from where it has been sat for the past year and slowly, slowly come towards me. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than a job well pulled.

Here’s hoping that when he is away yet again, orders for work will come flooding in and with a younger operator I will be out and about doing the job I love.

Quality Steel Framed Buildings

Big M on the drying floor
Looking at woodchip

GREEN, CLEAN, SERENE

DRAFT MASTER

DC Electric

Auto Drafter

✓ Automated 3-way draft crate

✓ 36V DC which is silent, stunningly powerful with amazing energy economy

✓ Silent compared to traditional pneumatic drafters requiring no external power source

✓ Labour saving device, can accurately handle up to 600 lambs / hour

DS & PW Hyslop

GENERAL FARM WORKER / TRACTOR DRIVER NEEDED

Due to growth, we are looking to employ a full-time general farm worker / tractor driver for our mixed beef, sheep and arable farm near Ellingham, Northumberland. We are looking for a skilled individual with a can-do attitude, who can work both alone and within a team. Work will primarily be based working with our store/fat lambs & cattle enterprise, taking on the day-to-day tasks involved with caring for the stock, but may include tractor work during busy times of the year.

Applicants must have full UK driver’s license.

Job Responsibilities:

• Feeding and Bedding Cattle

• Mucking out sheds

• All aspects of getting store lambs ready for sale as fat, including Dozing, Jagging, foot trimming, weighing and grading lambs. Please note there is no lambing to do within this role.

• Tractor aspects may include leading corn, bales, muck, and moving stock between sites, help with silage etc.

Full in-house training will be provided on all the above and any external training where necessary.

Hours:

The typical working week is 08.00-17.00 Monday to Friday. Weekends are rotated on a shared basis between other workers whilst stock are housed during the winter. Salary is negotiable based on experience. Please note there is no accommodation currently available with this job. All applications are dealt with in strict confidence, please send your CV and a covering letter via email to rachel@northumbrianqualityfeeds.co.uk or via post to Rachel Fife, Northumbrian Quality Feeds ltd, Easington Farm, Belford, Northumberland, NE70 7EG

£1,000

01359 250917
Stanton, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 2AD, UK

SURFACE DRESSING WITH NATURAL STONE FINISHES

SILAGE PITS, FARM ROADS, DRIVEWAYS, ESTATES

BLOCK PAVING OF PATHWAYS, DRIVEWAYS & CAR PARKS

SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS, PATHWAYS, CAR PARKS

TARMACADAM, ASPHALT, PATCHING & POTHOLE REPAIRS

DRAINAGE, KERBING, GROUNDWORKS

PRIVATE & COMMERCIAL WORK UNDERTAKEN

Warreners House, Morpeth
The Stiel, Yarrowford
Broad eld Farm, Symington
Langtonlees Farm, Duns

We are a local company with over 20 years of experience. Call us for a free estimate on work in planning, grant work & any other projects before taking the package deal as our prices are very competitive. Agricultural & industrial concrete floors. Professionally laid by laser. All types of finish. All types of groundworks & building work can be undertaken.

Proud
sponsor Event riders: Olivia Wilmot, Laura Swinnerton, Laura Mitchell, Ellie Bryce, Sarah Hutchison & Morag Sutherland

TRACTORS

John Deere 1950, K reg

John Deere 6110RC, 2016

John Deere 6120R, 2017

TRACTORS

John Deere 6215R, 2015

John Deere 6220 SE, 2007

John Deere 6250R, choice

John Deere 6145R, 2017

John Deere 6155R, 2021

John Deere 6155R, 2021

John Deere 6155R, Choice

John Deere 6155R, 2022

John Deere 6175R, Choice

John Deere 6175R, Choice

John Deere 6195R, Choice

John Deere 6195R, 2022

John Deere 6195R, 2015

John Deere 6210R, 2014

John Deere 6215R, 2019

John Deere 6215R, choice

TELEHANDLERS/WHEELED LOADERS

John Deere 6820, 2005

John Deere 6820, 2005

John Deere 6820, 2005

Kramer 5085T, 2016, Telehandler

Kramer KT357, 2019, Telehandler

JCB TM320S, 2007, Wheeled Loader

John Deere 6900, 1997

John Deere 7310R, 2020

John Deere 7310R, 2020

John Deere 7330R, 2021

John Deere 8370R, 2020

CAT Challenger 755C, 2010

Class 500 Xerion, 2016

New Holland T7.260, 2016

Valtra T194, 2019

TELEHANDLERS/WHEELED LOADERS

JCB 541/70, 2018, Telehandler C Manitou 737-130PS+ Elite Ha

TRACTOR OF THE MONTH

TRACTORS

John Deere 1950, K reg

John Deere 6110RC, 2016

John Deere 6120R, 2017

TRACTORS

John Deere 6215R, 2015

John Deere 6220 SE, 2007

John Deere 6250R, choice

John Deere 6145R, 2017

John Deere 6820, 2005

John Deere XUV865M, 2022

John Deere XUV865M, choice

John Deere 6155R, 2021

John Deere 6155R, Choice

John Deere 6155R, 2022

John Deere 6175R, Choice

John Deere 6175R, Choice

John Deere 6195R, Choice

John Deere 6195R, 2022

John Deere 6195R, 2015

John Deere 6210R, 2014

John Deere 6215R, 2019

John Deere 6215R, choice

TELEHANDLERS/WHEELED LOADERS

John Deere 6820, 2005

John Deere 6900, 1997

John Deere 7310R, 2020

John Deere 7310R, 2020

John Deere 7330R, 2021

John Deere 8370R, 2020

CAT Challenger 755C, 2010

Class 500 Xerion, 2016

New Holland T7.260, 2016

Valtra T194, 2019

TELEHANDLERS/WHEELED LOADERS

3m Front Discs

8.2m folding rollers

Kramer 5085T, 2016, Telehandler

Kramer KT357, 2019, Telehandler

JCB TM320S, 2007, Wheeled Loader

JCB 541/70, 2018, Telehandler

bale

Manitou 737-130PS+ Elite

TRACTOR OF THE MONTH

From Source to Supply

Based in the Scottish Borders for 50 years, we provide the following services to domestic clients, farms and industry throughout Scotland, the North of England and beyond:

• Well drilling

• Design, supply and installation of pumping, control and water treatment systems

• Maintenance of pumping, control and water treatment systems

• Well maintenance and rehabilitation services

• Private water supply assessments, reporting and rehabilitation

For all your private water supply needs, drilling works & more, contact us today:

info@holequest.co.uktel: 01896 752295

Holequest Ltd, Winston Road, Galashiels. TD1 2DA www.holequest.co.uk

The Old Smiddy, Graden, Kelso, TD5 8BS Telephone : 01573 430338 Email : info@walkergroundworks.com

Walker Groundworks are a long-serving company, established in 1996, covering a working area including but not restricted to the Scottish Borders, Northumberland and the Lothians.

Our highly skilled and dedicated team are here to help with any of the following works:

• Earthworks/Site Preparation/Roads

• Crushing

• Groundworks/Plotworks

• Deep Drainage

• Field Drainage & Ditching

• River Works

• Concrete Flooring for Agricultural/Industrial Shed (Laid with highly accurate Laser Screed, with finish to meet clients' requirements)

• All Timber work undertaken – including Harvesting, Hand Cutting, Thinnings & Clear Fell

• Haulage including Heavy Plant Movement, Timber Haulage & Hiab Hire

• In house Welding Engineer/Steel Fabricator

• In house setting out engineer/surveyor

MAC AVANT

MAC DROP

* MEDIUM DUTY COMPACT HOT/COLD PRESSURE WASHER

* GRP COVER ON POLYETHELINE BODY

* THERMOSTATICALLY CONTROLLED EFFICIENT

BOILER HEATS UP TO 120*C

* SEPARATE BURNER MOTOR

* ON-BOARD FUEL & CHEMICAL TANKS

* TIMED SHUT DOWN

* PROFESSIONAL PUMP WITH CERAMIC PISTONS

* INDUSTRIAL LOW REVVING MOTOR

*6 MODELS AVAILABLE IN 110, 240, 440V OPTIONS ALL WITH LOW VOLTAGE SWITCHING

* STAINLESS STEEL OR GRP COVERS ON POWDER COATED STEEL BODY

* SEPARATE BURNER MOTOR

* THERMOSTATICALLY CONTROLLED EFFECIANT BOILER HEATS UP TO 140*C WITH LOW PRESSURE STEAM STAGE

*LOW LEVEL FUEL WARNING WITH BURNER SHUT DOWN

* LARGE CAPACITY 31LT HEAVY DUTY INTERNAL FUEL TANK

* EXTERNAL CHEMICAL PROBE WITH MEETERING VALVE

* TIMED SHUT DOWN

* PROFESSIONAL INTERPUMP WITH CERAMIC PISTONS

* INDUSTRIAL LOW REVVING MOTOR

ALL MAKES SERVICED AND REPAIRED

REFURMISHED HOT PRESSURE WASHERS ALWAYS IN STOCK

VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO VIEW THE COMPLETE RANGE

MOBILE 07860 261088

AG - Bag

Sealed Storage Systems

General Contracting Services

•Two high capacity mobile mills for Dry rolling & Crimping

•Ag-bagging Services

•Direct drilling / Pasture rejuvenation

•Ploughing (4 & 5) furrow

•Fertiliser spreading

•Spraying

•Topping & mulching

•Agri Haulage

•Tubelining / Bale wrapping

•Product supply : clamp sheets, silage rings, protective nets and silage additives

GARY HOGARTH

AGRI ASSIST & GROUNDWORKS

• ALL GENERAL CONTRACTING WORK • CULTIVATIONS • BED TILLING • DE-STONING

• IRRIGATION • HEDGE CUTTING • MULCHING • TRIPLE SAWBLADE • DRAINAGE

• DITCHING • TRACK/ROAD GRADING • FOUNDATIONS • PONDS

• AGRICULTURAL & COMMERCIAL CONCRETE WORK • FABRICATION WORKS

• FENCING (WITH TRACTOR OR DIGGER OPTION) • SNOW CLEARING

FOR HIRE

• TRACTOR HIRES UP TO 360HP, GPS • DIGGER HIRE 9T, 13T, 14T

• TWIN DRUM VIBRATING ROLLER 80, 120 • D4 DOZER • DUMPER 1T, 3T, 9T • DUMP TRAILERS UP TO 20T • GRAIN/SILAGE TRAILERS UP TO 18T • FLATBED TRAILERS 32FT • LOWLOADER

Blocked Drain Services • Internal unblocking of toilets & sink traps

• External blocked drain high pressure jetting clearance

• External drain high pressure jetting of debris/tree roots/cooking fat build up

• Planned maintenance drain cleaning

Drain CCTV Survey Services • Drain defect diagnostic • Drain survey & report

• Drain network mapping • CCTV survey for local water authority pre-adoption

• Manhole/inspection chamber locating • Pre-purchase drain survey

JetVac Services • Up to 1000mm diameter drain jetting capacity

• Gully sucking/emptying • Flood water vacuum response

• Septic tank emptying/de-sludging

Drain Repairs/Installation Services • Excavation & repairs

• Public sewer connections • Adoptable sewer installations

• Pumping mains/stations installations

Tel: Kelso 01573 225249 Mobile: 07793 361023

e-mail: enquiries@gwcwateranddrainage.co.uk

UStor Business units, Unit 8/1 Spylaw Road, Kelso TD5 8DN

& SONS

SILAGE • WHOLECROP ARABLE MIXES USING 2 X SELF

FORAGERS Fitted with WHOLECROP HEADERS & GRAIN PROCESSING MILL PART or WHOLE JOB, AG-BAG or PIT MOWERS, TEDDER, RAKES TRAILERS, FRONT BUCKRAKES

H BIG SQUARE BALING H (Bale Chaser available)

u ALL ARABLE CULTIVATIONS

u DRILLING

u HIGH DENSITY ROUND BALING

u DGPS LIME & FERT SPREADING

u HEDGECUTTING

u SMALL SEEDS DRILLING – Einbock 12m (grass/kale/oilseed rape)

CONTACT:

OFFICE : 01890 840 251

MOBILE : DAVID 07971 409 367

KENNY 07971 409 371

E.MAIL : rwoodandsons@btconnect.com

WEBSITE : www.rwoodandsons.co.uk

Variable Lime Spreading

Soil testing & lime delivery also arranged

Contact Doug Thomson 07967 193438

MULCHING HEAD SAWBLADE HEAD

TREE / LOG GRAB

• WOODLAND CLEARANCE

• GORSE, WILLOW & BRASH

• TREES UP TO 300MM

• TREE ROOTS & STUMPS

USING TUNGSTEN TIP TEETH, TAKE EVERYTHING BACK TO THE SOIL

85 SPRINGWOOD RISE, KELSO TD5 8BE 07590 592300 • gbhogarth@hotmail.com

J Hepburn & Co

Film binding instead of net wrap results in more plastic where the bale needs it most on the barrel, only one recycling stream as well. 25 knife bank giving 45mm chop length with bale getting wrapped immediately out the bale chamber. Onboard bale weighing giving average bale weight and total weight of crop baled. Application of inoculants or additives.

GARY HOGARTH

OFFERING DRAINAGE WITH SOIL-MAX TILE PLOUGH WITH MINIMAL DISTURBANCE

• GPS CONTROLLED DEPTH

• DEPTH OF UP TO 1.2 METERS

• BORE OF PIPE UP TO 4 INCHES

85 SPRINGWOOD RISE, KELSO TD5 8BE 07590 592300 • gbhogarth@hotmail.com

St Boswells The friendly digger hire company

SELF DRIVE HIRE

MICRO TO MINI DIGGERS 1t to 3t

Micro/doorway excavators (new Bobcat E10) to 1.5t and up to 3t (Bobcat E27)

ROAD ROLLER Terex 1200 2.9t vibrating ride on, 1.2m wide

Drive away with our 3t trailers to suit or delivery by us

From £60+VAT to £90+VAT per day

• WITH OR WITHOUT GRAVEL Contact Stephen Amos 07584 254680

R L SMITH & SONS LTD SKIP HIRE

ASBESTOS REMOVAL

Covering the Scottish Borders & North Northumberland SAME DAY DELIVERY OFFICE: 01890 870241

MOBILE: 07970 404033

MULCHING

• Woodland clearance

• Gorse • Willow • Brash

• Trees upto 30cm dia.

TILLING / GRINDING

• Tree roots & stumps upto 30cm dia.

• Willow stumps

FLAIL TOPPING HEATHER, BRACKEN ETC. TRACTOR 285-305 HP / DRIVER HIRE

Tel 01750 32264 or 07831 505440

Email gary@garyrenwick.co.uk www.garyrenwick.co.uk

J & J Grant

Scotland’s Spreading Specialists

5 spreaders available to meet your precision spreading requirements

High output LGP machines to minimise soil and crop damage Weighing systems and auto steer fitted

We supply our own loader and fuel to minimise disturbance to the customer Blanket or variable rate lime spreading compatible with all mapping systems The following can be supplied and accurately applied Lime, Compost, Slag, Henpen, Fibrophos, FYM, Gypsum, other organic materials

Soil Mapping service

• correct variations across fields

• independent analysis

• 4 samples/ha for accurate pH maps

• all nutrients can be tested

• recommendations to suit your enterprise

Contact us to discuss how we can help reduce your costs with the use of organic products Tel 01875 320363 Mob 07703 113178 Email john@j-jgrant.co.uk

CONTRACTORS SERVICES

On Our Farm

January 15th 2025

Hugo Lee farms in partnership with his father, Guy, at Sandystones, near St Boswells. Arable crops of wheat, oilseed rape, malting barley and oats are grown, 500 Angus cattle are finished annually, 8000 organic hens produce eggs for Waitrose and 8,000 organic point of lay pullets are reared each year.

Christmas seems to get busier every year as the children get older. This Christmas had everything from a cousins wedding, reels party, Boxing Day football match, children’s meet, family shoot and a New Year’s Eve hockey match! The house never seemed to be empty with a continuous stream of cousins and friends passing through. There were some early mornings and late evenings spent on the farm to ensure all the jobs were done without clashing with the day’s entertainment. Frustratingly I always seem to get ill at Christmas and this year has been worse than ever. The cough has now gone but I have lost my voice for over a month now which is very frustrating for me and a blessing for others?!

I enjoy spreadsheets and analysing how the business is performing financially. With so many different enterprises it is important we don’t lose track of were we are. I simply don’t have the time especially during the spring and summer to do it all myself. I am very grateful to my father, as many of you know has a passion for spreadsheets, for helping. Our year end is December 31st so we always kick off the New Year with a review, the highlights of which are below. 2024 was wet, cold and dull, not good for arable farming! It was my 7th harvest since I came home and by far our worst yields across the board except for Winter wheat. Sunlight, yields and margin were all down 20%. Thankfully the hens fared much better helped by a low feed price and good egg price; it looks like it could be our best year ever. The cattle have done ok but nothing record breaking, the increase in fat price over the past few months has really helped. It has been another good year for the Treehouse. Bookings were down slightly on the year but this was not unexpected with the cost of living crisis.

Everyone is back on the farm after their Christmas break and we are getting ready to deplete, move, wash and restock one of the hen sheds. I hope that we don’t have another cold snap as it makes the whole job an absolute nightmare with water pipes freezing and sheds getting stuck to the ground. We managed to take advantage of the recent good weather and get the muck barn emptied which is always a relief. Travelling conditions were perfect and the spreader barely made a mark.

Not long to go until the start of the Six Nations, one of my favourite times of the year. Could this finally be Scotland’s chance? As always we go in with high hopes of finally winning the championship!

BYREWALLS FENCING

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Talking......from the boundary

January 15th 2025

I feel very fortunate to be asked to walk over farms and estates in the pursuit of sport. Two days ago I was on a friends farm in Northumberland, his daughter has taken over the running of the shoot with real enthusiasm and great organisation. The party was a mix of young and old, whilst we ‘Old Farts’ complain about Government and taxes, the conversation with the generation down was much more about carbon and technology. Our host works for a Natural Capital investment business, another of the junior members was involved with technology analysing carbon sequestration and crop demands using satellite imagery, one was in high end UK tourism mostly with Americans and the fourth had returned home to take on management of the family estate. They were all full of hope and prepared for the challenges of the future.

Fellow writers in Agrimart this month are all venting their anger at environmentalist and politicians. From New Zealand to Northern Europe directions and diktats are imposing regulations that are neither practical nor workable. They are dreamed up in offices or more likely ‘written from home’ with no experience of the effect of their decisions on the ground. None more so than the £100 million tunnel on HS2 to protect bats.

We have just had an excavator here digging a ha-ha between the garden and field by the house. Impossible to see from the garden side the ditch is deep enough to protect us from any invaders either 2 or 4 legged! We will put an electric fence in the bottom of the trench which will maintain the illusion and mean we will not need to build a wall to keep stock out.

We are off to Kenya next month visiting our youngest daughter and family who live in Nairobi. This time we are going on a guided seven day trek with camels carrying all the gear for sleeping and eating in the bush. With no electricity to charge devices next month’s article could be challenging, I will have pen and paper but catching a pigeon going in the right direction could be more difficult. If nothing appears from me in the March issue don’t be alarmed!

Lauderdale Agricultural Discussion Society

Chairman: Ian MacDougall, Over Blainslie 1944 2024

The last meeting of our season is being held on Wednesday 19 February, 7pm in the Lauderdale Hotel, Lauder ‘Quiz’ followed by AGM

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Quizmasters: Graham Lofthouse & Stephen Young

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Talking......New Zealand

Ian Mackenzie is an arable and dairy farmer from the Canterbury Plain in the South Island of New Zealand. He runs a number of fully irrigated intensive cropping farms, producing grain, vegetable and grass seeds with some stock finishing.

One of the things that makes the Ashburton district a great place to live is the people… when it counts, they tend to get stuff sorted.

Lake Camp is a popular water sport lake in the Ashburton high country. In its natural state the lake level varies considerably. At least 70 years ago a diversion from a small river was built to put water into the lake to keep it full. This was in the days when permissions weren’t needed other than from the landowner. In this case the landowner built the diversion.

In the 90’s bureaucracy required this diversion to be retrospectively consented. Unfortunately 2 years ago this consent not only expired but a flood destroyed the diversion.

Last year was a humdinger of a drought in the high country and without the diversion the lake dropped so low that it was unsafe for boating and the good people of Ashburton came to me for advice on how to renew the consent for the diversion.

I naively thought it should be a simple process.

The effect on the river, the environment and biodiversity values are minimal and well understood and have been acceptable for the last 70 years. The local Ashburton district council (ADC) gave their support and there was a groundswell of support from the community. The cost to reinstate the diversion was estimated to be only $2500. All good.

Unfortunately, as happens in those bloody awful zombie movies… the half dead, recycled bottle top fleecy wearing, bearded, sandalled vegan environmentalist automatons who work for regional government and the department of conservation emerged from their caves and drew up a list of reasons why the community couldn’t possibly be allowed to do anything that encourages fun… and hell is going to freeze over before they’d support an application.

The ADC estimated the cost of getting the consent renewed (including the obligatory bribery now required to buy local Māori support) to be in the vicinity of $800k thanks to this opposition.

It was agreed not to go ahead with the consent and victory was declared by the vegan zombie bureaucracy.

I went up to Lake Camp a few days ago and miraculously pipes and rock dams and channels are once again diverting water; the lake is full and what is the ultimate 2 fingered salute from Ashburton to the kale swigging zealots… we’re having fun.

January 12th 2025

Sausage rolls watching Dad sort calves. Better than the movies.
The tarn that feeds the lake.
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Talking......from Lincolnshire

Stuart returned home following a career working as an F1 car mechanic, which took him all around the world Stuart is now happy to be home working with his dad, Giles. The pair farm a total of 220 organic hectares, in which deferred grazing the Luing cows on the 110ha hill is a key part of the farming system. For Stuart, returning home has come with its challenges, however his experiences outside of farming have helped cultivate an adaptable mindset, which he tries to apply to the business.

Hugo Lee: Sandystones

Hugo and wife Jess moved back to the Lee family farm in 2017. Since returning home, Hugo and Jess have helped to transform the mixed farming business, which has grown to accommodate ~8000 organic free-range hens with eggs supplied to Waitrose and ~500 finished Angus cattle. In 2019 Hugo and Jess also designed and built a treehouse, which they now let out as a luxury destination. Change has presented challenges; however, the pair have met these head on.

Admission Fee Farmers £15.00 for the whole season (4 meetings) or £5 for a single meeting Farm staff and under 18s £3 for the whole season or £2 for a single meeting

January 13th 2025

Will Howe is an arable farmer from Sleaford, Lincolnshire. The soils are predominantly heavy. There is 1000ha of cropping including winter wheat, spring beans, spring oats and oilseed rape. He also manages a contracting business Thorpe Farming Ltd.

When is not a lot of rain, a lot of rain? On the first working Monday morning of the New Year Lincolnshire ground to a halt, literally. 43mm of rain overnight had caused every conceivable road to be flooded and matters weren’t helped with the last few mm falling as snow causing lorries to jack knife at the smallest sniff of an incline. The first school run of the year took over 3 hours with poor Vicky trying 8 different routes before finally getting home, whilst ignoring a policeman’s advice to retreat to a nearby village hall “and sit it out until the water levels drop”… Immediately global warming and climate change are to blame, government ministers want flood prevention schemes installing at enormous cost and all the while the Environment Agency are sat in warm offices achieving the square root of zero. We live in a man-made environment here, and therefore it needs maintaining which the EA sees as an unnecessary cost when they could all have a pay rise instead. The Fens are relatively well catered for by our drainage boards (not to historical standards but it is ok), but the reason for the flooding in the areas between the Fen and the “high lands” is that the EA drains can’t hold the volume of water, nor discharge the water quick enough due to being silted up. Some poor Celt dug the drains as deep as was requested by a Dutch engineer, not for fun but because it had been a calculated requirement. Our drains no longer resemble the vision of these early settlers, and as such have become unfit for purpose; and then the country floods. It would almost be funny if it were not symptomatic of a deeper malaise in society. I thought that last year the shooting field was full of despondency regarding agriculture, but this year we have moved on further to despair. There has been a lot of talk of farm investment projects being cancelled as there is no desire to add capital value to the business, crops being produced at or below the cost of production, and complete uncertainty as to what the next 5-10 years hold. I struggle to see the SFI being continued long term. I just can‘t see the government justifying wild flowers to Joe Public when Rachel “from accounts” has to wait 18 months for a brain transplant. The other side of the coin is that the next decade could be laced with opportunity. To decide upon a course, ignore the outside noise of social media, fads and governmental soundbites, and get your head down and work. Just like the Scots did after the Battle of Dunbar. When those captured were sent South to dig the drainage ditches on the Fens and in doing so created something which has stood the test of time, at least until the digger drivers started “working from home”. My own approach to water management

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Talking......North of the Forth

January 13th 2025

Tom Pate farms 240ha of arable on a tenanted farm in Angus. Cropping includes wheat, spring barley, rye and oilseed rape along with land let for potatoes and vining peas. Additionally, around 6500 pigs are reared annually under contract and 600 Christmas turkeys sold directly to the public under the KellyBronze franchise. On his wife’s 380ha family farm in the Angus Glens they also run 200 red deer hinds plus followers for venison production, along with developing a forestry enterprise.

Having ‘done’ Christmas turkeys for 14 years I struggle to recall LBT (Life Before Turkeys). What on earth did we do in Decembers past?!

The run up to Christmas is now our most pressurised time of the year and the preparation for this one immovable feast becomes all consuming. Anything not turkey related is passed into January making this month also very busy. Piles of office work, non-urgent tasks, meetings, appointments, social engagements are all postponed until after we have stopped spinning. I’m not one for New Year resolutions. The short, dark days of January are not really the time to be forming new habits or depriving oneself of the vices that make life in the cold north bearable. Selfimprovement can wait until the warmer months. I do however allow time to reflect on the past year and make a few plans for the year ahead. A key focus has been improving systems and processes to make jobs easier, safer and quicker to complete. Working alone most of the time I need to make work manageable and enjoyable and investing in things that allow that to happen is money well spent. The major problem is having the time to implement these improvements but once they are done the time savings and pleasure I get are immense. My children laugh at how excited I get over small, boring changes I make. Why do they not share my joy in new shelving for the turkey delivery van, a new access ramp to the pig shed so that I don’t need to reverse when mucking out, colour coded files to make quality assurance inspections plain sailing or even the simple pleasure of a well hung and swinging gate? Some changes are small, cheap and cheerful whilst others require more planning and resources, but all are designed so that I work smarter not harder. This mindset must continue into 2025. The recent cold snap has concentrated pigeons into large flocks that are descending on unprotected OSR crops. Our early sown and well-established crops will cope with a bit of grazing but large number of hungry doos can devour a crop in a matter of days if not vigilant. The farm is now reverberating to the sound of gas bangers.

The sprayer has spent the last month with Wull Scorgie (fabricator and namesake of the robust, custom-built Scorgie booms) getting repaired, squared-up and rebushed after 16 years of reliable service. Hopefully after a lick of paint fit again for another 16 years. It now awaits an annual service and NSTS certificate allowing it to be ready for the first liquid fertiliser application on OSR and rye as soon as NVZ and weather conditions allow.

Spring will be on us before me know it!

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Talking......Business with SAC Consulting January 2025

Christine Beaton, SAC Rural Business Management Consultant

A new year and new requirements

In preparation for the gradual transition to the new agricultural support framework, last year’s update from the Scottish Government puts some meat on the bones of the Agricultural Reform Route Map. It provided further details on how agricultural support will change in Scotland from this year, and the actions that farmers and crofters will have to take in order to be eligible for the new support payments.

For suckler cow units, currently eligible for the Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme (SSBSS), a key change will be that from 2025, calves will only be eligible for payment if their dam’s calving interval is 410 days or less. For example, a cow calving on the 1st March this year, needs to have produced her calf by the 14th of April 2026 for her next calf to be eligible for a SSBSS payment. Simple from a theoretical perspective, however, in practice, not so straightforward as the gestation period of a cow can easily vary by ~ a week from the 283 day ‘average’; heifers can take longer to get back in calf, as can cows with twins, or where there has been a difficult calving.

For businesses with two calving periods who allow ‘good’ cows and heifers to slip round to the next block; you need to weigh up giving them another chance to conceive versus the loss of next year’s calf premium, if the calving interval exceeds 410 days.

While advance notification will be given, the Scottish Government has also announced that in future years, the maximum calving interval could be reduced by up to 10 days. If you think that you may lose calf payments this year due to extended calving periods, seek advice now with regards herd nutrition, replacement heifer management and health and welfare planning.

Most people should now be familiar with Whole Farm Plans. From May this year, in return for eligibility for basic payments; farmers will have to declare on their SAF that they have carried out at least two activities that are relevant to their business from the five available options. Carbon Audits, Biodiversity Audits and Soil Analysis are required to have been carried out in the last 5 years. Animal Health Plans and Integrated Pest Management Plans (IPM) are required to be completed annually. Further details about IPM plans are available on the Plant Health Centre website.

From this year, new Cross Compliance conditions are being introduced for wetlands and peatlands (GAEC 6 – Maintenance of soil organic matter). The new standards which apply to land with peat soils >50cm in depth with a near natural vegetative cover and also wetland habitats include:

• Ploughing and cultivation – new drainage and maintenance of existing drainage systems that causes further drying out of peatland.

• Activities that cause damage to the vegetation cover exposing the soil.

Further information on changes that will be introduced in 2026 will be announced this summer.

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Talking

......Organic

January 15th 2025

Simon Bainbridge farms in partnership with his wife Claire and his parents, Ivan and Elisabeth in Northumberland. They run suckler beef, sheep and laying hen enterprises across 650 ha of mainly SDA and moorland - organically.

Every year we all try to start the year with a hint of optimism, new year, new ambitions, new challenges – well this year it’s a little different. There is optimism for the farm and what we are doing day to day, optimism for what we are producing from the farm and delivering for the environment; however, the bigger picture is significantly less pretty. The more I consider the contents of the budget and the impacts on all of us in agriculture, the more frustrated I get with this government, and they’ve only been in power for six months. Today there is a rally being held at County Hall in Morpeth. I hopefully will make it even though I have a longstanding meeting in the diary in the morning. We have definitely reached the stage where we need to keep this issue in the press, whilst keeping the public on side. The challenge is that we are a long way from Westminster and those that are meant to represent us are not prepared to step out of line. County Hall has been chosen for today’s gathering in order to reach the local councillors. Maybe the hometown of our local MP, Hexham might be a good location for the next gathering. Interestingly, our MP Joe Morris is Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Rural Services. It is a cross-party Group of MP’s from rural constituencies that come together around 4 times a year to promote debate on the provision of rural services. However, for a rural MP, with a rural role I fear his rural knowledge is significantly lacking.

I have always felt that the role of DEFRA secretary is probably one of the most challenging yet perceived as a bit of a duff cabinet position. The complexity of our industry, the links between us and other industries and sectors is complex and wide-reaching and in my opinion few ministers over the years have ever really grasped it. Irrespective of whether I like them or not the two that I felt understood how complex it was were Hilary Benn and Michael Gove. The ones that currently stand out as not having a clue are Liz Truss, Therese Coffey and our current Minister Steve Reed. How do you get someone who has no interest in our world to understand how debilitating this budget is to agriculture? Not just the APR, but the BPR, NI, etc etc. We have to keep on trying to educate them.

On a farm level, we’re chipping away at the winter jobs, finishing the vaccination programme with the cattle with the final dose of Bravoxin being administered. We’re on with stone walling repairs. Typically, I managed to get the Waller booked, but have had to wait for stone to be delivered as they’ve only just dug all the snow out of the quarry the last couple of days. Hopefully we can make progress soon. Hens are doing well and currently laying well. Sheep are looking good with scanning taking place in a couple of weeks.

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