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  1. J

    Combinables Price Tracker

    Unfortunately ours is down 100%
  2. J

    How much isn’t getting planted

    One field has gone into sfi, osr will be dropped and hoping to put it into the 2024 sfi ab6 option. Rest will be worked up June/July ready for winter wheat next year
  3. J

    Spring cereal seed

    7 weeks, give over. if you want to make a profit there's not 7 weeks to plant it on heavy land
  4. J

    How much isn’t getting planted

    no spring drilling for us, too wet and not going to puddle in barley late April may. 60% of winter wheat failed/not drilled, the 40% left is sh!t. Lost 75% of osr to flea beetle by November the other 25% has had all its fertiliser but think thats knackered by beetle in the stem (last time we...
  5. J

    Combinables Price Tracker

    How did you get a £50/t bonus for notill??
  6. J

    Your current weather.

    Chucking it down here all morning. 5mm overnight
  7. J

    Management payments

    Anyone?
  8. J

    Management payments

    Did you ask if it would be upped automatically?
  9. J

    Management payments

    When other people have had an offer is it still only being offered at £20/ha not £40. If I accept will they up it automatically?
  10. J

    Fertilizing winter cereal

    I've been ready to go later for 2 months
  11. J

    Reduction in arable acreages

    This is bang on, we've decided to drop all break crops except vining peas for now and when the 2024 sfi offer comes in all break crop ground will be enhanced overwintered stubble and concentrate solely on winter wheat and rotate each year. This year we will have approximatly 60% fallow anyway...
  12. J

    Irelands farm machinery auction

    Anyone know if I can see the results for this?
  13. J

    IPM2 seed price

    £70/acre jesus, is it gold coated??!!
  14. J

    IPM2 seed price

    He prefers me
  15. J

    IPM2 seed price

    Anybody had a seed price for this yet?
  16. J

    Combinables Price Tracker

    at least its not just us who decided to fallow instead
  17. J

    Defra now looking at capping SFI

    I can with wheat and could with osr until flea beetle arrived. If it wasn't for flea beetle I would carry on with wheat osr vining peas etc but without osr sfi is a no brainer
  18. J

    Defra now looking at capping SFI

    you are wrong about sfi not being attractive on good land. yes none of the options compare with winter wheat but the break crops are so poor these days that sfi is looking increasingly more attractive. we are thinking of taking out of production around 25% with different options all on grade 1...
  19. J

    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    quick question. i have options i could/would like to apply for now from 2023 sfi, however long term i would like to use ab6 which is being added in 2024. i presume if i apply for 2023 now to plant this spring i would not then be allowed to apply for 2024 sfi?
  20. J

    Combinables Price Tracker

    ditto
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