The positive thread

Clive

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Arable Farmer
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Lichfield
Is that lines of fruit trees a combine width apart, and is there a market for the apples?

a simplified view of it there really, I learnt today it can take many forms or have various output streams or sometimes just advantages to stock or crop

Currently very little understanding by most of us of what it is or can do for us potentially

really interestIng
 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
There was someone with cherry trees in double lines across arable fields on countryfile last sunday, had an interesting machine to pick the cherries to
 

Hilly

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My pigs cheer me up , they are so funny at times 😂
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DRC

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a simplified view of it there really, I learnt today it can take many forms or have various output streams or sometimes just advantages to stock or crop

Currently very little understanding by most of us of what it is or can do for us potentially

really interestIng
Wait until the roots get in your drains . Then you won’t be so keen
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Wait until the roots get in your drains . Then you won’t be so keen
this is “ the positive thread”. didn’t think it world take long to turn negative

maybe you should invest time in learning (or maybe I should start a separate thread ? roots are pruned each year by a knife like subsoiler blade so go down not out) so you plan layout to suit drains. tree roots also don’t go into running drains, only broken ones (backed by proper research i was told when this very question was asked yesterday )

Farm i visited was below sea level so I guess his drains are pretty good and rather important to him - still working fine 13 years in
 
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DRC

Member
this is “ the positive thread”. didn’t think it world take long to turn negative

maybe you should invest time in learning (or maybei should start a separate thread ? roots are pruned each year by a knife like subsoiler blade so go down not out) so you plan layout to suit drains. tree roots also don’t go into running drains, only broken ones (backed by research )

Farm i visited was below sea level so I guess his drains are pretty good and rather important to him - still working fine 13 years in
obviously not done much draining in your lifetime then
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
obviously not done much draining in your lifetime then
ive done plenty thanks

maybe you should go visit a agroforestry farm and ask your questions / see what actually happens in practice vs making totally uninformed assumptions

as I say this is the POSITIVE thread
 

DRC

Member
ive done plenty thanks

maybe you should go visit a agroforestry farm and ask your questions / see what actually happens in practice vs making totally uninformed assumptions

as I say this is the POSITIVE thread
You need to calm down a bit
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
this is “ the positive thread”. didn’t think it world take long to turn negative

maybe you should invest time in learning (or maybe I should start a separate thread ? roots are pruned each year by a knife like subsoiler blade so go down not out) so you plan layout to suit drains. tree roots also don’t go into running drains, only broken ones (backed by proper research i was told when this very question was asked yesterday )

Farm i visited was below sea level so I guess his drains are pretty good and rather important to him - still working fine 13 years in
I remember in Australia, they told me when they reclaimed Mallee scrub in WA, they pulled a blade plough through the field after pulling up the scrub with a ship anchor chain between two dozers (basically a knife that cut the roots at a foot down) so a similar idea I think
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I remember in Australia, they told me when they reclaimed Mallee scrub in WA, they pulled a blade plough through the field after pulling up the scrub with a ship anchor chain between two dozers (basically a knife that cut the roots at a foot down) so a similar idea I think

That doesn’t sound like the magical ‘no-til’ to me.;)
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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