Groundswell: The No-Till Show

[Henarar]

I see they have a wright up on this in farm contractor

 

[llamedos]

At least they mentioned the name of the show, which is more than the FW managed. Nice profile of Andy Howard as finalist of Arable Farmer of the Year though. And someone called Tim Bullock being beastly to slugs

Tried to redress the balance a little apologies for my typo though. Nick spotted it on Facebook

 

[martian]

I see they have a wright up on this in farm contractor

Good magazine Farm Contractor. Never heard of it before, but their correspondent actually went to most of the talks and listened to what was said...we've posted their coverage on Groundswell website for those who are interested: www.groundswellag.com/news

 

[Henarar]

Good magazine Farm Contractor. Never heard of it before, but their correspondent actually went to most of the talks and listened to what was said...we've posted their coverage on Groundswell website for those who are interested: www.groundswellag.com/news

yes it is
jacks diary is great @farmerclare knows the chap who does the illustrations for it
best of all its free

 

[martian]

We have now uploaded a lot of the presentations on the website and some photos that Dave Francoisy took on the day

www.groundswellag.com
and click on resources

Most of the speakers didn't want to be filmed talking, but they have released their slides to give you some idea of what it was all about. Handy if you didn't take copious enough notes...

 

[bovrill]

Plenty of write up in my Practical Farm Ideas, which arrived this morning.

 

[martian]

Plenty of write up in my Practical Farm Ideas, which arrived this morning.

Yes it's got Clive being 'Soil Farmer of the Year' in it too. Cracking read

 

[Brisel]

Farmers Weekly have actually run another story on the event! The reporter must have been to a couple of the talks. Tony Reynolds & Sarah Singla were mentioned.

 

[SimonD]

Any credit given to the show this time round?

 

[clbarclay]

Any credit given to the show this time round?

It mentioned the Cherry family as a side note and its in Arable section rather than Machinery so they may be improving although a way to go before they mention the name.

 

[Jim Bullock]

Its a pity FW cannot mention the word Groundswell.... I bet they have never heard of BASE-UK...!

 

[Acke]

I cannot get my head around why FW cannot mention the word Groundswell...? The Cherry family went to great lengths to put this event on and yet it appears if the reporters went out on their own to report an event that 500 of us attended... I just don't get it....!
A useful lesson for BASE-UK don't invite the press to our meetings...they will take away stories to fill their pages without giving us any mention.

You find those people everyvere, who dont want to give the credit to who deserve it! They dont want to cope with others, just try to make others in bad light! You find them in UK and in Sweden and everyvere !

 

[martian]

We have booked David Montgomery to talk at next years show (29th June 2017). He has a new book coming out in May: Growing a Revolution - Bringing our soils back to life and will be talking about this as well as The Hidden Half of Nature and Dirt, the Erosion of Civilisations which have both been well reviewed on this forum. I am thrilled that he has agreed to come all this way from the West Coast of the USA, and I can't wait to hear him talk. He's also looking for other speaking gigs whilst he's over here, so if anyone wants to book him, PM me and I'll put you in touch.

Meanwhile, we've posted on or two new articles on the website www.groundswellag.com/news about last years show. A good one by Brian Sims from Landwards magazine.

 

[SilliamWhale]

We have booked David Montgomery to talk at next years show (29th June 2017). He has a new book coming out in May: Growing a Revolution - Bringing our soils back to life and will be talking about this as well as The Hidden Half of Nature and Dirt, the Erosion of Civilisations which have both been well reviewed on this forum. I am thrilled that he has agreed to come all this way from the West Coast of the USA, and I can't wait to hear him talk. He's also looking for other speaking gigs whilst he's over here, so if anyone wants to book him, PM me and I'll put you in touch.

Meanwhile, we've posted on or two new articles on the website www.groundswellag.com/news about last years show. A good one by Brian Sims from Landwards magazine.

Fair play to you.

Have you tried my beetle friend again too?

 

[Clive]

Its a pity FW cannot mention the word Groundswell.... I bet they have never heard of BASE-UK...!

it's no mistake or oversight Jim - publishers make lots of money from shows and awards now, they will not help what they will see as competition

you never see them mention the farming forum either, which considering its the source of a lot of their content is also hard to believe that something with 20,000 farmers attention is not in any way relevant !

they will no all about Base as well but if your not paying then they are not going to mention you

 

[Knockie]

We have booked David Montgomery to talk at next years show (29th June 2017). He has a new book coming out in May: Growing a Revolution - Bringing our soils back to life and will be talking about this as well as The Hidden Half of Nature and Dirt, the Erosion of Civilisations which have both been well reviewed on this forum. I am thrilled that he has agreed to come all this way from the West Coast of the USA, and I can't wait to hear him talk. He's also looking for other speaking gigs whilst he's over here, so if anyone wants to book him, PM me and I'll put you in touch.

Meanwhile, we've posted on or two new articles on the website www.groundswellag.com/news about last years show. A good one by Brian Sims from Landwards magazine.

Top job......well done.

 

[Daniel]

How about this for no till into trash, drilled with, wait for it, a Claydon! (Remembering Tony Reynolds pop at Jeff Claydon at groundswell!)

Winter linseed

Most of it wasn't that trashy, can a pre-em work with no actual soil to contact?

 

[martian]

Fair play to you.

Have you tried my beetle friend again too?

She's on my list! We are going to try to have fewer speakers this time to get people out of the shed and looking at the drills and other stuff. And chatting to each other...

 

[Daniel]

She's on my list! We are going to try to have fewer speakers this time to get people out of the shed and looking at the drills and other stuff. And chatting to each other...

That's a good idea. Maybe two speakers in the morning 9.30-11.30 and two in the afternoon 2.30-4.30. Have all the demonstrations in the 3 hr 'lunch break'?

 

[Louis Mc]

I'd like more heated arguments and character attacks as mentioned above
And a popcorn stall