David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺 @RTKfarmer Twitter profile

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

My wildflower margin looking spectacular this morning. It makes every day a sunny day. 💚Farming.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Oak tree planted in memory of a friend. Long may it grow.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

So unbelievable I watched it 4 times.

Aurélien Perier

@Aurel_Grains

5 years

On me dit dans l'oreille qu'un @Fragritwittos s'est fait plaisir Class Xerion 5000 😉😉😉 #farmer #ag #agri #yield

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Almost adjacent fields. 20 years conservation agriculture vs tillage after 300mm of rainfall. #WorldSoilsDay #rootsnotiron @baseuk tour.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

If you know you know 😠

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Productive farming and a diverse environment for 🦋🐞🐝🐜🐛working side by side.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

10 months

2024? be more sheep 💪

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@x4_mat

10 months

Bonjour X. Humeur du jour. 😄

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 months

Anyone else stuck 2 fingers up to the cost of Ag ATVs.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

2 days worth of litter at one of the busiest areas ⁦ @Groundswellaguk ⁩ site. Big 😘 to everyone that attended👏.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Phacelia, Buckwheat and Linseed in my cover crops now flowering for #Bees 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐛🦋🐞🕷🦗🐜 Farmers, the original Friends of the Earth #FarmersForWildlife #ThePeoplesWalkForWildlife

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

8 months

This ad popped up earlier, they seem to have forgotten to add in the fossil fuel powered processing factory 🏭 🤷🏻‍♂️

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

14 acres of 🏘🏡🏠 coming here soon because Cambridge needs more houses and the University needs more money, apparently🤷🏻‍♂️

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

Value of milling wheat (uk av yield @ £245/t) from a field area the size of a football pitch £1,250. Value of 11,500 loaves (Warbs 800gm farmhouse @ £1.60) £18,400. Wheat value = 1 slice. Production turnaround of wheat crop 16 months. Did we do well?

National Farmers' Union

@NFUtweets

1 year

Did you know... 🍞🍞🍞 #BackBritishFarmingDay

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

@NightSkyLantern PLEASE, WE DONT WANT SKY LANTERNS FOR THE NHS.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Oilseed Rape. Planted July 28th 2017 Harvested July 14th 2018 Marketed through the next 12 months Payment due Aug 1st 2019 Not a business model that Peter Jones #DragonsDen is likely to say “I’m in” to. #YourHarvest

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

Sorry to disappoint but I won’t be relying solely on soil biology for harvest 23.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Schoolboy error, minus 10 NRoSO points 😊

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

8 years

Caught this on the news this morning. What a fabulous way to remember #wearehere #LestWeForget

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

@jean_yvon @24hPujadas @emma_ducros You will ban it in your own country then import grains from around the globe where it is still safely used, the same as neonicotinoid seed dressings. This is to the disadvantage of your own farmers and with no increase of public safety. It’s mad.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Proving theres not much new in farming 🔄

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

Hands up I had a wobble when we had a massive Black Aphid attach on spring beans a few weeks ago. No insecticide used and these guys sorted it out. Sometimes the balance takes a while to swing in our favour but we need the keep the faith. 💚Farming

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Conservation Agriculture summed up in a single paragraph in 1949. You either get it or you dont.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

The OSR has turned out nice 😕 rolling it today.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

If twitter did smell 🥰

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

@hemmynorfolk Shocking, you should never put a JD weight on a Fendt, the colours clash.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

A watermill was recorded at Hawk Mill Farm in the Domesday book 1086. A watercourse diversion in 1937 caused a lack of water to drive the mill meaning it fell into disuse. Today for the first time in 85 years corn grown on the farm was milled again, a history spanning 936 years.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

7 years

Wheat production meets nectar production. Maintaining an ecological balance 🌱🐝. #Farm365

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

After 8 months of work the worms just had their third top up of vegetation. #wormsnotiron

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

7 years

Taken Nov 5th and April 13th, OSR with Spring Bean companion crop. No insecticide, no visible CSFB larvae damage.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

Can’t believe how many hours we wasted in the black & white years topping rape stubble so the ploughman didn’t have the embarrassment of some sticking out of the top. Establishment now done in full colour.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

Whilst many will be abroad looking at machinery ⁦ @AGRITECHNICA ⁩ some of us will be more interested in something that is affordable and needs little horsepower 🪱🪱🪱

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

7 years

Companion spring beans in rape dying nicely now following AstroKerb on Dec 16th and some useful frosts. Panic over ☺️ #GiveChangeaTry

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

26kgs/ha Vetch stitched into zero nitrogen wheat trial today, thanks @BaseIreland earlier tweet for inspiration and @OakbankGame for chat re seed rate 👍

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Hand pulled this volunteer rape plant from a cover crop this morning, guess it got lucky with a worm hole.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Half width shutoff working nicely on assist strip 🌻🌸🌼🌺🌹🐝🐞🦋🐛🦟🕷🐌

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

We didn’t get 4mm overnight, only 1.5mm, it’s not heavy Essex clay and I’m not doing 20kph but it’s going well. Good to reacquaint myself with @Simtech_TSEM drill.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Soil sampling, a little unorthodox but it works.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Just been blocking some of my dodgy looking followers. If you’re still able to read this then your probably not;- Dodgy Dishonest looking Single without children & looking for love After my bank details Dressed appropriately😳 Or I haven’t got down to you in my followers list yet

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Like a boss.

Aurélien Perier

@Aurel_Grains

5 years

Cours de conduite 24h/24h 7j/7j DM! #ag #agcommo #farm #tractor

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

8 months

Job satisfaction doesn’t get much better

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Unmoved for 5 years, this land has never been in better shape. Less is more.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

Finished #harvest2022 today with a couple of ha of linseed. Loving my little combine purchase, she went well 😘

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Farm safety. It’s in your control. Entering a grain barn 👀 #SeeAndBeSeen #FarmSafetyWeek

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

If Carlsberg did hedge planting.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 months

Breakfast. Sown, grown, harvested, cleaned, milled, baked and now consumed at home from pesticide free @wildfarmed #harvest24 spring wheat blend. Farming is life 💚.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

Take my money 😍 I know a couple of boys that would love that for Christmas.

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@Krommsan

2 years

Some parents get their kids a metal Tonka dump truck, and some are extra. This kid is set! #dozer #HeavyMetal

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Drilled to early, no essential cultivations, wrong seedrate, no essential seed dressings, no glyphosate, no insecticide no fertiliser placement and grown with all that fancy fashionable companion cropping crap. This crop will obviously always be compromised.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Winning in #farmlife 👌

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

We have an Integrated Pest Management long term strategy here.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

7 years

Whilst the self-appointed internet Eco Warriors sit in the warm behind their keyboards many of us are actually making a difference. #wildbirds #thehungergap

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

I’m sure this year’s expensive nitrogen has made the wheat look better than last year’s cheaper stuff. #Ikeeptellingmyself

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

A cover crop mix of 9 different plant species being sown to restructure the soil, capture CO2, help feed our🪱🪱 and provide 🌻🌼🌸🌺🥀 into the autumn for 🐝🐞🕷🪲🦋. #Farm24

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Taken from a very well respected newsletter “…. the idea of reducing N is disturbing to most individual farmers and agronomists as there is an understandable worry of reduced yields.” Am I strange that I look upon this as an exciting challenge?

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Ready for VE Day evening 🔥 Sign of a mis-spent youth doing Young Farmers competitions. 100% recycled. JD750a.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Tomorrows’s lunchtime loaf is my first Hawk Mill Farm 100% wholemeal blend of #RegenAg Solstice, Zyatt and Skyfall. Proud 😊

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

Rarely has a wheat field looked so pretty #wildfarmed Colleymore Farm @baseuk visit.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Grandad duty 2. This bundle arrived at the weekend, meet Lydia, Gen3 v3, #harvest21 compleat.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Annually managed by mechanical flail hedge cutter this hedge has an abundance of flowers and will be full of berries this winter #industrialfarming #hedges #birds #bees

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

9 months

Bi-crop wheat beans (Wheans) and clover enjoying 12° today.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

I left a patch on purpose to monitor something, now I can’t remember why! 😩

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Result.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Seeds £27.50/ha, fuel 3lts/ha, ~16kph= average of 5.6ha/hr drilled, that’s it until the spring. #ConservationAg

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Up early in -4° temperatures, this #RegenAg is not as laidback as people think.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Note in diary. Spring drilling. Don’t panic, conditions get just right on April 11th.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Drilling + 5 weeks.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

Magic

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Sprayed a 24 acre field of wheat 🤔 It contained many partridge, pheasant, skylark, hares + a hunting short eared owl It produced flowering catch crop for foraging 🐝🦋 between Aug & Oct It’ll produce wheat for ~250k loaves Grown & into store on ~5 car tanks of fuel #PublicGood ?

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

Found an old @FarmersWeekly Did your know that in 1988 you could buy an @ErnestDoeSons ex demo Ford 8210 (a big tractor then) for £19,100 and pay for it with 160 tons of June milling wheat sold at £119/ton. Do your own modern comparison.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

10 years

“ @magicxanadu : High precision. http://t.co/wPftqWb98M�� Plant art.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

When you watch the celebrity dross that sit on tv chat show sofas on a Friday and Saturday night remember what the real men did for us.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

3 variety GP1 wheat blend + 3 species of companions and 3kgs of slug pellets going into a 6 species cover crop today. Sequestering carbon, fixing nitrogen and producing 🇬🇧🍞 #regenerativeagriculture #lovefarming

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 months

Seedbed prep for spring oats harvest 25. 4mts @ 15kph 5+ ha/hr 3 lts/ha fuel 40 kgs/ha seed 9 species mix Making farming work without support.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Field walking today, rape not looking short of nutrition in now “exhausted” beans.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

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Aurélien Perier

@Aurel_Grains

5 years

Le genre d'idée qui mène à la fortune.... #agriculture #agriidea

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

The commentary around this slide demonstrated perfectly why we need to be producing crops from seed off our own soil.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Diverse habitats alongside intensive food production providing a thriving wildlife rich sustainable environment.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Adjacent fields, same soil type, same rainfall, different systems. Headland and tramline of each.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Unproductive headland planted with meadow grasses and wild flowers. No cab heater or gps today.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

7 years

Taken earlier this week my wild bird margin still supporting a wide range of feathered friends. Wheat screenings now being added too.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Grandad duty. Gen 3 - 1 & 2. #harvest21

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

When it starts to come together. Oct 14 and May 22, Horsch CO and 2” Dutch. There’s a odd bit of brome as it only had a pre-em.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

The David Dowler gantry system has moved on.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 month

For no other reason than to cheer up a dull damp day.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

Grasses can be just as beautiful as flowers.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

8 years

When there's that much going on in the top 6" in year 2 you know you are starting to make a difference.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

The legally required first day pic

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

It’s a privilege to be able to do this stuff. #❤️Farming

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

It’s on the little extras that a manufacturer makes his margin.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

I remembered why I left a bit unseeded.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

On Oct 12th I questioned if I’d done the right thing. Today, no question about it being the right thing. Horsch CO, 2nd wheat.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Planted 2nd wheat into this today, 11 weeks growth has got to count as a break crop surely.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

5 years

Seedbed, seems a shame to have to plant it with wheat.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

Cover crops coming on nicely and will quickly develop into a pollen and nectar source for autumn foragers 🐞🐝🦋🕷. #FarmFact Last year 100% of my arable land had one flowering “crop” in the growing season, another 43% had two (beans and rape).

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

@glasgowcathcart What a sad person you are, I hope I never have the misfortune to meet you.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

2 years

Group 1 blend wheat #harvest22 fresh from the combine. Wholemeal flour was still warm from the @mockmill Baked by @panasonic Tastes as sweet as cake 😋 #TeaTimeLoaf 💚Farming.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

4 years

Today I’ll be mostly drilling Boats

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

No tillage and virtually no base P & K for 4 years. The thinnest land on the farm. Catch or cover cropped at every opportunity, residue always returned. Not a bad way to enter a crop’s rapid growth stage IMO.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

1 year

Beans, the only mono-crop on the farm this year because I ran out of creativity 😕.

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

6 years

💡That saved a long walk with a heavy load😎

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David White 🇬🇧+🇪🇺

@RTKfarmer

3 years

Just spoken to the service department of a large East Anglian Ag machinery dealership. Their engineers go home at 3.30 on a Friday. It’s Aug 6th #Harvest2021 FFS 🤯 #speechless

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