gone up the hill
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Not even on a mixed farm working a rotation?
Most people go into Organic to claim the extra subs you can get for the first 3/5 years, most then find in these years that they either don't have the skills to do it/ they cant keep enough stock on there ground as its so hungry etc without Fert and with very little extra premium for organic stock ( unlike Milk for example ) and when the extra sub money stops the figures don't add up and they then go back to conventional farming.
Most beef/sheep farms around here are low input on their grassland but without the spring application of fert/ being able to intensively farm the arable area on the farm they would have to massively reduce stock numbers and then you are on the start of a slippery slope.