It will probably be the route we all get forced down eventually so hearing it works is handy.
How did we farm before 1974. I supposed we used Paraquat but peolple have farmered without either
Not all years are the same, some good, some bad, some excellent.if your not in tou WONT win
Same grave will hold us, I seen a man who was drunk most of his life, live longer than the man who never was in the house because his farm was so big
It’s coming. Small robot company are working with another company to put a zapper on an autonomous robot that can be left. They actually had the robot on my farm a few weeks ago as I think they are trying to teach the algorithm to recognise blackgrass from wheat, we have plenty of blackgrass!
the opposite is true infact it has kept smaller guys going, most havent sold because they "had" to but for other reasons such as sucession and with land prices good it has given them a comfortable retirement
No-till appeals to me but can I produce good yields from no till on fairly heavy ground, without roundup and can I afford the drill for a meagre 170Ac of arable?
By burying weeds with a horse and plough, then later sending a dozen people to weed with hand hoes...
defra are being slightly more than patronising here, why would you not include depreciation? if you take depreciation out you must put annual machinery payments on hp in, a big farm which is being hit hardest with the cuts will be racking up a lot of hours on machinery and cant just ignore these coststhis presentation outlines defras thinking
https://assets.publishing.service.g...-bill-evidence-slide-pack-direct-payments.pdf
Long term vs. short term impacts of removing Direct Payments Depreciation is used to account for declines in value of a tangible asset, by allocating it a cost over its useful life. It does not alter the day to day cash flow of a business. Therefore in the short term, when looking at the impact of instantly removing Direct Payments, depreciation costs can be excluded, and so only 19% of farms would not be able to cover their production costs. In the long term farm businesses need to consider their depreciation costs as they will need to replace and maintain machinery and buildings. Therefore on page 25 we will consider the necessary adjustments for the 42% of farms that make a loss on their accounts without Direct Payments but with depreciation.
pg25
On average, farms who would have made a loss without Direct Payments in their accounts had £90 in outputs for every £100 they spent on inputs. In order for them to break even without Direct Payments they would need to reduce their costs by 10% to £90 to match their output, or increase output as well as reducing costs.
its simple, defra says we just need to spend 10% less on everything while maintaining output.
why haven't we thought of that before!
The glyphosate thing isn’t part of the argument imo. I’ve visited enough zero till farms on all soil types to know it works, the main difference between failure and success being the attitude of the farmer.
Plough /combi never seems to fail, regardless of my attitude
this presentation outlines defras thinking
https://assets.publishing.service.g...-bill-evidence-slide-pack-direct-payments.pdf
Long term vs. short term impacts of removing Direct Payments Depreciation is used to account for declines in value of a tangible asset, by allocating it a cost over its useful life. It does not alter the day to day cash flow of a business. Therefore in the short term, when looking at the impact of instantly removing Direct Payments, depreciation costs can be excluded, and so only 19% of farms would not be able to cover their production costs. In the long term farm businesses need to consider their depreciation costs as they will need to replace and maintain machinery and buildings. Therefore on page 25 we will consider the necessary adjustments for the 42% of farms that make a loss on their accounts without Direct Payments but with depreciation.
pg25
On average, farms who would have made a loss without Direct Payments in their accounts had £90 in outputs for every £100 they spent on inputs. In order for them to break even without Direct Payments they would need to reduce their costs by 10% to £90 to match their output, or increase output as well as reducing costs.
its simple, defra says we just need to spend 10% less on everything while maintaining output.
why haven't we thought of that before!
how well does no till work in a 1200mm rainfall area? 1500mm in 2012
how well does no till work in a 1200mm rainfall area? 1500mm in 2012
It's been on borrowed time since they first made a plough to be connected to a tractor, really; and I'm not just talking a UK context but largely everywhere where 'production agriculture' takes place.
You'll be delighted to know that a huge amount of 'Irish' beef is really just beef coming through the ROI from elsewhere in the EU. This being so, it is something that we shall soon be able to rein in.
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Excellent news; this is the way forward, like the coming of electric vehicles - ag and domestic - it will be here before we know it and then we'll wonder why it wasn't here sooner.
Really well, because your soil structure will improve and then be able to maintain its integrity.
