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    AHDB recruiting farm assurance lead

    AHDB need to stop sucking up to BRC / AIC and understand they are not on our side feels to me very much like nfu and ahdb have become subservient to retailers and this needs to change
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    AHDB recruiting farm assurance lead

    this is the problem that’s going to flaw any respect for this review before it’s even started. - the presumption that uk statutory law is not fit for purpose and farm level assurance is needed at all in a market where imports often have no farm level assurance that is a rather fundamental and...
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    higher selling prices …… the ones are upset about apparently you make absolutely no sense whatsoever
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    wheat after summer multi species cover here out yielded wheat after osr by 3t/ha and the field did consistently better than historically for several years after the wheat no one size fits all but on my soils i have absolutely no doubt of the benefits to cash crops, especially when i have...
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    how about if covercrops become your spring crop ? and your break crop even winter covercrops are useful here but WAY less useful than the benefit of a summer or full season cover it’s soil type dependant however, they seem far more beneficial on light, low som soils
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    remember what happened to these guys ?
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    yes, have used it and it worked well / quickly etc, easier than RLE1
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    i bet you are - tax payers cash for being a landowner - who doesn’t love a dole cheque maybe you can spend it on buying more land ……. so you can get a bigger dole cheque ?
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    none - because its history now ! how about you rely on the HIGHER prices you seem to think are a problem ?
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    there is no beef shortage - all the supermarket around me have plenty and McDonalds definitely hasn't sold out Higher prices =. GREAT NEWS .............. now go make some money !
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    I have no view on the beef and sheep industry - as I say I know nothing much about it I do know a LOT about BPS however and it WAS possibly the most morally corrupt use of tax payers cash ever conceived by any government, pointless discussing it though because its no more than history now...
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    Too fat to farm?

    I tell my children to eat well, keep fit and not spend too much time in a screen and within 10years they will be superhuman vs the average fat idiot I'm 50 and its likely I will outlive the average 20year old today
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    Too fat to farm?

    actually Ozempic will ! buy shares in them 🙂
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    there is loads of substance, test , trial and metrics ……… FACT i’m not going to bother debating that with some one so clearly uninformed as for increased food price - WTF are you complaining about ! food is too cheap, farmers need higher food prices
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    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    yes 100% so on OUR SOILS - in fact i don’t think combinable crop production would be viable without them in the climate we have now
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