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farming is a business, and in my view, businesses should adapt to changing times, whether weather, financial or practical. Things change, all the time.I'm probably "a purist" in some respects.
In that, we do grazing, not farming.. we feed animals by giving them pasture, not pasture plus this and this and that
the problem with this this and that isn't the inputs, but it allows us to take our eye off the ball, and I'm enough of a purist to want my eye firmly on the ball at all times - this is how I'll improve/learn the fastest
not so much learning what works, because it works - I need to know what doesn't work so well
the changes we have made, major changes at that, but they have made us more resilient, or l hope they have!
but so many farmers, fall into a rut, they do this, or that, because that's always been done, that way. Or, they get 'hooked' onto a new system, ie grazing, plate metres, plans etc, and won't deviate from the 'rules'. But everything changes over time, and we have to change with it.
And this year, is the biggest changes since the 4 course rotation ! Can't imagine many farmers have kept to their budgets, no one could have foreseen, all the price movements that have occurred this year. But it is those, that are flexible, that can exploit those changes, to their benefit.
actually think the regen farming, is one of the most flexible systems out there, we can use the whole spectrum of modern farming tools, - if, we have to, which gives you confidence, that if you cock it up, its easy to 'tidy' up. But, to be honest, we haven't really had a serious cock-up, and those modern tools, haven't been used, as normally would have been.