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    Farmer protest in London, read the comments !

    "No idea why they are special. Any Kent’s want to explain themselves?" One Kent here explaining ourselves The organiser of Fairness for farmers and a lot of the attendees are all from Kent. Why its formed here, a couple of reasons I think, one being that there are/we're a lot of fresh produce...
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    Nz super crook

    Mide did the same ended up buying a whole new crook Sounds like it might be a common fault
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    Permanent Pasture into Arable

    If the PP has had enough manure, sprays and fert on it or a reseed in the last few years then it is classed as improved pasture and you don't need an environmental risk assessment before cultivating it. You have to have evidence of these actions though if anyone comes asking. Spray records fert...
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Has anyone been using the new "request rural land changes" tab on the RPA website rather than RLE1 forms? I want to remove a couple of land parcels and split some other land parcels so I can take whole parcel SFI options on just the areas I want to. Would I perform both of these options on the...
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    Little Introduction into our family and if there’s a way to connect at all?

    It might come across as negativity a lot on the replies on here but it's just people being honest and trying to give helpful feedback and keep things realistic
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    Little Introduction into our family and if there’s a way to connect at all?

    For anybody to give you an opportunity with some kind of work for portion of the rent deal there would have to be a serious level of trust between the landlord and yourself. You've got to put some time into building those relationships and proving yourself. No one is going to give you such a...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    So what is everyone's theory on what is causing these record hogget prices? I've heard a theory that it is the Houthi rebels disrupting shipping meaning the NZ product is going to take too long to get to the UK ahead of Easter & EID so the retailers are panicking and stocking up on UK produce...
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    Land Prices South East

    It depends if the fields have strong non agricultural use potential, mobile home, horses etc if so then the figure quoted could been seen as quite cheap. If there is a right of access over a hard standing track then road access is irrelevant. How big the fields are plays a big part too, the...
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    Impossible position AHA advice please

    Well that's simple then, if they need vacant possession they better bloody well hurry up and get you your agreement then. If they don't do this they are trying to pull a fast one, if you vacate without your desired agreement you have just given away your strong position for nothing. A...
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    Impossible position AHA advice please

    If the development potential is serious you withholding access for a few months will make no difference to the development going ahead or not. Sounds to me like they are trying to spook you into a weaker position, I wouldn't budge its their problem they haven't come up with the final legal...
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    The temptation is that it's not no input, so you could run over it with a fert spreader, what comes out of said fert spreader and at what rate, well only the operator will ever know...
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    Bluetongue near Canterbury

    Anyone else get a letter today stating restrictions will be lifted for most in the zone from Monday?! Looks like you'll still be under restriction if you have any animals that haven't been tested or any positive animals that haven't been culled though
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    So if you were applying AM in the spring how many KG/ha could you apply?
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    I thought I'd read the ~70kg/ha figure somewhere too. I think Andrew M might have gotten the decimal point in the wrong place?
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    I couldn't see any "new" options that would be relevant for general lowland permanent pasture? We haven't applied any N to these fields since the fert prices shot up a couple of years ago and realised we are often fine without any, before we had only applied a low early dose to try and speed up...
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    I'm looking at putting a lot of our permanent pasture into LIG1 at £151/ha its not far off what BPS used to be and doesn't seem too restrictive - rather like GS2 except you can supplementary feed so long as you don't poach. Can anyone see any reason why I shouldn't commit a large area to LIG1...
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    Paraquat

    There are going to be a lot of people that were exposed to paraquat and will be absolutely fine, some individuals will just never be affected by such things. It's classic survivor bias though and doesn't mean it's safe for all. My Grandmother smoked for decades and is still going strong in her...
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    Paraquat

    There's been strong evidence linking Paraquat to Parkinsons for years, very glad it's been banned here since the 2000s. I always thought it was mad that they can manufacture it here to sell to the rest of the world when they know its too dangerous to be used in this country, but its ok to make...
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    Bluetongue near Canterbury

    From what I understand of the new rules you can move animals out of the control zone now, but you still need your movement approved and this will only be done if pre movement testing is passed? So there's still a lot of restrictions in place. Has anyone tried to apply to for a movement licence...
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