Recent content by yellow belly

Ready to hit the submit Sfi 24 alongside sfi 23 and mid tier Want to amalgamate to one sfi 2024 Stopping mid tier and sfi 2023 But I fear that is too far beyond the capabilities of defra Rpa and the labour ministers Although the admistrative savings would be considerable

put in wild flower option more flexible on widths

Imho The problem of deep tramlines is Too heavy a sprayer Going on in too wet conditions The longer the notill I find the less the depth of the tramlines Mole out wet places When we cultivated /ploughed we had very deep tramline in wet years I notill Heavy clay based soils predominately...

I aim to drill on the deep side for avadex safety This also means the early drilled wheat takes longer to emerge Allowing glyphosate to be sprayed later The weeds on the surface are often susceptible to the later glyphosate spray before the wheat has emerged In warm conditions this can be a...

When I did it in 2001 1 year old dressed new dressed and new undressed there was a days difference between emergance Undressed new up 1 day earlier than new dressed old dressed a day after newbdressed Since then usually drill untreated seed grown from treated new seed this avoids having treated...

The big advantage I see is being able to get 2 swaths next to each other one left hand deposited one right side Using gps so you can pick 2 up at once with a 3m pickup

3rd sfi payment today now had 3 payments ontime sfi much better than stewardship where payment are 11 months after the start at the earliest 2023 stewardship also now paid this week 23 months after the start the sooner the rpa gets stewardships onto sfi the better

Get a wider cutter 6 to 7 months 10 cuts minimum Fuel usage will be low 1000 a cut

Tractor left in field over night Any one else seen this type of damage

any one had a extended sfi approved if so then rumours spread by others are wrong 100 million saving can be got by not extending the farm investment fund any cut in environmental payments will be headline in the Guardian with the environmentalists kicking up a fuss the sfi is virtually...

i have just checked the hedgerow lenghts on the rpa land register at some point the rpa have updated the hedgerow measurments they are now for my farm much more accurate under the greening we had one block that had very little hedge recorded this is now rectified so my comments above are...

One acre plots will help the mobile wildlife and help the raptors and corvids Larger plots will help all the wild life above and below ground level Insects birds and mammals thousands of species

you can increase and reduce the area of each rotational action to suit each years areas

the iacs sfp and bps were all for income forgone aswell originally land had to be setaside and then import protection and intervention was stopped for cereals and oil seed rape later this was extended to milk butter sugar