Recent content by Bramble

Yes still here

How about this one, I think it’s still in the weeds somewhere. Located Warwickshire

Power shift gearbox is more expensive to repair than the vario, but they are both mega ££s to fix if they go wrong, mainly because of the labour charges. Buy the one you like/most suitable for the job

AIC would say imported crops are ‘tested to equivalent standards’. @Grass And Grain @Clive

Good old Jim needs to refer back to the CT report then https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/red-tractor-stakeholder-survey-on-governance.402172/post-9174149

I’ve got a spare, have sent you a PM

35.5p base plus volume, plus 1ppl sustainability bonus. Somewhere around 37.5p for me

Freshways up 2ppl from 1st June

Rang to pay for my farm assurance yesterday (another £330 wasted). Greeted by an automated message, no thank you for calling or anything pleasant. First bit of message ‘if you subject any members of our staff to any abuse you will liable to suspensension from our scheme’, then the various...

3 years of errors and £250,000 of errors, someone should be resigning/sacked

Given that government policy has just done a complete U turn regarding their green credentials, with their limits to SFI, I would suggest that it is becoming clearer that no one actually wants to pay for greening. Either it’s important, has a value and someone has to pay for it, or it doesn’t...

Given that the government has just seriously slashed its premier environmental scheme, SFI, should we even be bothering about our green credentials?? Neither government policy or market forces seem to know what they want, or are willing, to pay for now there is no subsidy safety net. On a...

TB test and read for 450 animals takes about 40 man hours for me, every 60 days One person on the crush/paperwork, one getting cattle in crush/race, one or two more moving cattle around.

RPA are already on to that. ‘Unable to connect to webpage’, either everyone is logging on now or they have decided to take down their login website for the night

Whats do you think an ‘open’ claim please? I registered for it and have done a HEFER assessment but not filled in any options. One of the DEFRA press releases says the old rules scheme will be closed to new applicants at midnight tonight