It’s a good question - I would argue it’s perfectly safe at the moment into April and I’d be justified in a recommendation. However, the guidance on the RT website states :
In England, unprotected/uninhibited liquid fertiliser containing urea can be applied between 1 April and last application...
As a FACTS registered advisor I would much rather recommend urea goes on in April in cool and damp conditions than rush to apply it before end of March and see it all pee off into the ditches / ground water!? The metric on safe urea spreading should be day time temp and if the soil has adequate...
I can’t understand how RT have ended up the ones policing the urea stewardship!? Spreading urea after 1st April is not a food / feed safety issue, it’s purely a political move reduce ammonia emissions as part of net zero. It’s a bit like saying you can’t drive a diesel car between April and...
‘Farming Britain’ are organising the protest in video I put up against unfair imports . My main question was ‘who are farming britain’? They seem to exist on YouTube but I can’t find a website for them stating their claims?
The amount of money I worked out our hedges to be across all 3 options isn’t worth the hassle of being limited to cut in Jan/Feb. And I would say we’re short on hedges either at 21km of them! I’d rather sacrifice the few £££ and crack on with the hedges in the dry Sept / Oct.
Our experience on clays is not to bother with cover crops - you’ll get a yield deficit more often than a yield lift. The theory checks out, reality is a different matter. If you do cover crop on heavy land they want destroying the first opportunity you get after your Christmas dinner has gone...
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