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The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
I umbillicaled slurry onto wheat ten years ago. Problems are heavy patches at the turns, green backward heads under the spreader wheel tracks at harvest, and sometimes just too sticky in winter and gathering around those huge wheels, meaning a big cleanup job when he hit the road. But you guys have better weather and might get away ok.
 

Hilly

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According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.
Interesting 🧐 good for 1790 I’d say
 
According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.
Of the top of my head that works out to be the equivalent to £100/acre rent for £130 of grain. That doesn’t seem that good
 

Fendt516profi

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
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glasshouse

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Location
lothians
According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.
Uk wheat production will fall to 6 m tons
 

B'o'B

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Arable Farmer
Location
Rutland
According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.
I think organic farms are doing significantly better than that nowadays and I think on shorter rotations.
 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
Of the top of my head that works out to be the equivalent to £100/acre rent for £130 of grain. That doesn’t seem that good
That’s only part of the story. If you divide the parish totals by acreage (this farm at that time was about 350 or 360 acres) it would have had 70 head of cattle and about 150 sheep on the half of the farm in grass.
The record states that it was the highest rent in the parish, but a productive farm.
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
everybody would starve
No, dont be silly, we'll just import it!!! I actually hope the world harvest is very poor next year, then it may bring it home to these deluded MP's that "just in time" just simply doesnt work, and home grown production is king and should be looked after at all costs. Maybe I am the deluded one.......!!
 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
Nitrogen is a drug
Prepare to get the shakes!!
One day soon the media will realise we are farmers, not alchemists.
We can’t manufacture enough food for 6 billion people from good intentions and thin air, we need artificial nitrogen, and that drug you refer to is the one thing keeping the worlds population well fed and not at each other’s throats.

The day after the global panic sets in, all the ‘experts’ currently slagging off farming (Guardian / Monbiot, BBC, vegans, urban ‘environmentalists’) will be screaming at farmers for not producing enough food, and letting millions of acres of grass go to waste….
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


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

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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