- Location
- Lincolnshire
I'd not grow a contracted crop and use inputs it prohibits in good conscience.
Warburtons Contract
- Thread starter Banana Bar
- Start date
- Location
- Essex
You wonder whether the premium from Warburtons somehow gets "held up" on its way back to the farmer.
- Location
- Essex
Is Hereward still grown and what problems does it have?
I believe they moved to frontier because they wanted a company that would supply the imported wheat too.
Open-field don't import .
Never used nufol, just stuck 300kg n from urea mainly, with some liquid AS for the Sulphur. Often made in excess of 13, average probably about the 12.5 required. Yielding 10 - 12.5t/ha Crusoe and Skyfall.
I did like it, but not with frontier.
Open-field don't import .
Never used nufol, just stuck 300kg n from urea mainly, with some liquid AS for the Sulphur. Often made in excess of 13, average probably about the 12.5 required. Yielding 10 - 12.5t/ha Crusoe and Skyfall.
I did like it, but not with frontier.
Won’t do it because I refuse to buy new treated seed from frontier for absolutely ZERO reason, it is unjustifiable and they know well my thoughts on it. Sadly though plenty of farmers won’t even think twice on it so it would make no difference to them at all.
spider mike
Member
Would never by frontier seed on any circumstances anymore. I bought some off them a few years back when I couldn't get the variety I wanted elsewhere. It looked like it was only fit for hen feed and contained a more than a few seeds of black grass. Looking at some of their seed farms on the wolds later that year I wasn't totally surprised
ollie989898
Member
Too much control of the supply chain is only ever a bad thing for farmers but it doesn't stop all too many getting into the shoulder rubbing brigade, must be easily distracted by shiny.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I was told the premium cost of seed was because they had installed some fancy cleaner to remove all weed seeds blah blah blah!
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Talk about shifting responsibility....
I think I will put in a state of the art grain drying and cleaning system, then charge the merchants a £30t premium as they are getting a better quality product, even if they never asked for it.
I've been told by the contracting merchant that Quaker Oats don't have any grain cleaning machinery in their factory whatsoever, which I find utterly bizarre.
It is up to the grower to guarantee that the oats are completely free of any OSR contamination. If they find one OSR seed in the bulk then the load will be rejected, because it can be mistaken for a mouse dropping in the finished product.
You'd think they would have machinery that could grade it out, sieves, gravity bed separators or colour sorters, but apparently not. And as I grow OSR it's a risk I can't afford to take.
- Location
- Northumberland
- Location
- S.E
just look at the control british sugar has over that market, such a shame
ollie989898
Member
Look at the USA if you want a glimpse of how the future may unfold!
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
They need to be talking to the new Navara oat plant in Northampto shire, apparently can supply whatever oat product you want.
The 280 miles of haulage might be a problem. But oats apparently do go from this area to Morn at Crewe, which is 230 miles.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I guess the imported grain is grown from certified seed, and all the other protocols, obviously.
- Location
- East yorks
It’s only when I did my basis did I realise how much shite is allowed in certified seed
But of course dear boy.........
