Recent content by Bramble

£564 for 15t load last week from Thomas Bell

Spot milk mid 30’s and scarce. AHDB milk delivery figures are 2% behind last year. Not much of a spring flush yet

What a load of rubbish that report is. Tries to make out RT is a ‘cheap’ cost as it is only £500/year audit cost plus £100 sprayer testing cost. What about all the other costs associated with complying with RT, either in time or direct actual costs?? Probably a few thousand ££s per year for...

Yes still here

How about this one, I think it’s still in the weeds somewhere. Located Warwickshire

Power shift gearbox is more expensive to repair than the vario, but they are both mega ££s to fix if they go wrong, mainly because of the labour charges. Buy the one you like/most suitable for the job

AIC would say imported crops are ‘tested to equivalent standards’. @Grass And Grain @Clive

Good old Jim needs to refer back to the CT report then https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/red-tractor-stakeholder-survey-on-governance.402172/post-9174149

I’ve got a spare, have sent you a PM

35.5p base plus volume, plus 1ppl sustainability bonus. Somewhere around 37.5p for me

Freshways up 2ppl from 1st June

Rang to pay for my farm assurance yesterday (another £330 wasted). Greeted by an automated message, no thank you for calling or anything pleasant. First bit of message ‘if you subject any members of our staff to any abuse you will liable to suspensension from our scheme’, then the various...

3 years of errors and £250,000 of errors, someone should be resigning/sacked

Given that government policy has just done a complete U turn regarding their green credentials, with their limits to SFI, I would suggest that it is becoming clearer that no one actually wants to pay for greening. Either it’s important, has a value and someone has to pay for it, or it doesn’t...

Given that the government has just seriously slashed its premier environmental scheme, SFI, should we even be bothering about our green credentials?? Neither government policy or market forces seem to know what they want, or are willing, to pay for now there is no subsidy safety net. On a...