Richard Tagg

Well @DefraGovUK Looks like we’ve been offered SFI 26 agreement ! shame it is only a fraction of what we initially intended due to a glitch in the system not allowing us to put all the flower rich margins and grass strips in🤬 Never mind the plough is mightier than the keyboard!

As the Arable chapter begins to draw to an end for the year, another one opens !! the miracle of new life coming into the world never gets old !! even if it does keep you up all night when you’d planned to go drilling at 5.00 in the morning to beat the rain !!

I’m convinced we’ve had such a dry drilling time this backend we’re going to get caught out with a wet spring ! that’s why we’re working together with @elonmusk and @BenBurgessAg developing this prototype @JohnDeere 6R185 and @VaderstadUK rapid so we can go over the wet holes !🤣

Penultimate field of wheat going in, it’s the middle of october and i can’t believe i’m saying this ! “drop of rain wouldn’t go a miss ! But be careful what you wish for !

Well there is naff all on the tellybox to interest me on a saturday night so might as well spend it with @JennyPowellTV and @greatesthitsuk !!

i’m trying not to see it as a demotion,more of a sideways move but i’ve been taken off the drill ! so @tagg_23 is now drill man and i am now head of soil consolidation and moisture retention and have been tasked with the very important job of improving soil to seed contact !!

You can’t beat a bit of recreational drilling in the evening to take your mind off the events of the day !! that’s the first 60acre of wheat in ! shoehorned into the day between nipping back to the office to try to get the SFI 26 in and waiting on the RPA helpline 🤬

Window 2 not open yet then !!

Big job on last week !! @tagg_23 graduation at @HarperAdamsUni in Rural Enterprise and Land Management,lovely day out at Newport for a very proud mum and dad 👍👍 definitely over qualified for for a position here now.🤣

Incredibly proud of @tagg_harry finishing with a very respectable time in the @greatnorthrun_ on sunday!!! just been waiting to get hold of the photos 👍

How’s that for service ! @UnitedOilseeds area manager Lucy Jackson caught on camera dropping off a bag of Duplo seed to keep us going before 8.00 on a sunday morning having driven down from Rotherham! i’m sure she’d got other drops to do but they must be keen for us to grow OSR👍

While i do think @LincolnshireCC fix my street is a good thing,i’m not sure taking the credit for swiftly and efficiently clearing a fallen tree when @tagg_23 moved it with the farms telehandler within 20 minutes of it happening is cricket 🤣 Farming the fourth emergency service!

Duplo OSR and Buckwheat @UnitedOilseeds going down the spout with liquid P,K,S,Mn,B,Zn,Humics/Fulvics,Silicate @AivaFertiliser @EutremaUK ,and molasses @EDandFMan into land limed and dressed with @FibrophosPK variable rate by JSE @HutchinsonsAgUK @omniauk what could go wrong ??🤣

WTF is this ??? say what you want about @andyburnham when he says he’s going to help farmers with the heat and drought with a £35million support package he really does make change happen !!🤣🤣🤣

Managed to get a couple of pictures of the #Eclipse 👍

Well that’s it ! another year done and another year deeper in debt !! but i have never known such an easy harvest, combine cleaned down and put away and all yield map data downloaded and taken home 👍 and because i can i’ve given myself the rest of the day off !!

I can only hope @VanessaTagg hasn’t parked her trailer at the end of this run!!