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Quadrants 4 or 5ft long about the easiest size to shift. Agree they are best the size the user wants. 5ft cheaper and quicker to wrap when averaged over whole field as there is correspondingly less of them.

Might be singing from same sheet. Whether it’s location, soil type (clay it’s even in the field name!) or just the flipping amount of rain?

Talking to an agronomist and stating our spring wheats been slow to get going and he reckoned all the rain has pushed the oxygen out the soils. That is then slowing root & shoot development. I was just saying it’s the continual rain that’s keeping soils cold and slowing growth. Not sure who’s...

Spray off before planting. Pile on plenty of woodchip mulch. Seek out a local tree surgeon or gardener with small chipper. It will keep moisture in and keep weeds down.

Owen Paterson when he was DEFRA SoS granted extra funding and they dug out the river Parrott IIRC. There will always be flooding but the recovery is a lot quicker when a man made/managed river is working to its full capacity.

Bit off topic! Mostly, went up but grassland went down to account for new calculations. IIRC those were decided by ADAS too! In any negotiation both sides will argue their case and will want to win something, be it concessions or financial outcomes.

Or just stick at GMT and change timing of work/school depending on daylight and weather. The time is now and nobody can change it.

& RT!

Micheal Gove has a lot to answer for. “Public money for public goods” was the mantra but the definition didn’t include food as that’s not a public good! :banghead: :mad:

Underspending as been due to slow roll out of SFI. Had a pilot and 2022 scheme which they’ve now cancelled. Torys did make a manifesto commitment to maintain Ag budget at same level until 2024. Therefore they politically had to roll those funds forward into this year or would be berated by Ag...

We haven’t had support for food production since 2004. The introduction of SFP in 2005 was a payment to keep land in good agricultural and environmental condition. Food production support needs either deficiency type payments or IACS type payments paid on a productive area. Deficiency payments...

SFI was never was going replace BPS. It’s still based on an income forgone funding mechanism. If your get better than average yields, SFI should not be benefit. It’s just that very few are on better than average yields with this years weather. The flexibility to reduce or increase has led to...

I said in another thread about SFI cap that the weather has reduced our production by around 25%. 15% from unplanted and 10% by reduced yield expectation! :banghead:

Found it! This is the summary of NT26. Blame IGER & ADAS for the research! I’ll edit my other post!