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    Disastrous winter crops - cultivate out how?

    Several fields of hybrid rye where the crop has only really survived on top of drains. Maybe 20% of field areas actually growing, so no point patching. No spring fert or autumn herbicide at all. What to do? Ground/soil is sadder than I’ve ever known it, and we’ve had some sad springs. Possible...
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    Spring barley or wheat for wholecrop silage?

    We’ve always grown s barley for wholecrop, but last year‘s efforts were horrendous. Sodding wet spring (after dusty Feb/March), followed on by many weeks of no rain. Barley got sown late, established then gasped for water. None of it managed to get over 12 inches high. This year’s heading the...
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    S Barley or S Wheat for wholecrop silage?

    We’ve always grown s barley for wholecrop, but last year‘s efforts were horrendous. Sodding wet spring (after dusty Feb/March), followed on by many weeks of no rain. Barley got sown late, established then gasped for water. None of it managed to get over 12 inches high. This year’s heading the...
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    Where did it all go so wrong for oat milk?

    https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/oat-milk-blood-glucose-bloating-dairy-vegan-b1150362.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CBecause%20the%20oats%20%5Bin%20oat,to%20eating%20whole%20oats%20themselves.%E2%80%9D
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    Any Apple wizards? iMessage issues iphone and ipad

    We got An iphone for our daughter’s birthday and I tried to set it up yesterday. She’s been using my ipad for imessaging up to now, to her friends at primary school. My ipad has no SIM card so it’s been messaging over wifi, no probs at all. We got the iphone thinking it would work exactly the...
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    … exposing Britain’s Net Zero agenda

    Nothing to see here folks, honest. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/big-net-zero-lie-britain-060100746.html
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    Go on then Jim, we’re all ears…

    More than 350m metric tonnes of plastic waste is produced a year, and by 2060 plastic waste is set to increase to 1bn metric tonnes. The UK government argues its financial guarantees are in line with its support for a global transition towards net zero. UKEF said Ineos had promised to become...
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    Scrap subsidies to Scotland’s conifer forests, urges report

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/conifer-forest-subsidies-tax-breaks-should-be-scrapped-report
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    Telegraph - Why full fat milk and dairy was better for us all along

    No sh1t Sherlock, but at least people are noticing the truth at long last. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/nutrition/full-fat-milk-dairy-better-for-us-all-along/
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    Lab meat - not gonna happen any time soon/ever - real shame

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/opinion/eat-just-upside-foods-cultivated-meat.html Mike Tyson :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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    Copying a Twatter link

    I’ve seen a lot of Twatter links on here in the last few days. I’ve done a couple myself but it only looks like a line of text as a hyperlink when I do it. What am I doing wrong? Eg https://x.com/persephvoice/status/1755684451126739127?s=61 And here is the screenshot of how I’ve tried to do it;
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    Can anyone recommend me an agent for a battery storage proposal?

    As mentioned in another thread, I’ve been approached to host a battery storage park. I need someone to advise me. North of Eng but I want a good agent preferably rather than a local novice. May not be mutually exclusive of course. TIA.
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    FT - The dubious climate gains of turning soil into a carbon sink

    Posted elsewhere but might as well post it here too. FT today. Bit of a read, but just shows how utterly fekked up all of this is. One bit stands out: Smith, the University of Aberdeen professor, says carbon sequestration can buy food suppliers “time to decarbonise the rest of their supply...
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    Battery storage - Noventum Power

    Anyone been approached or had dealings with Noventum Power about battery storage sites? TIA.
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    Slurry crust additive

    I’m sure there have been many threads on this in the past so apols for not searching. What additive have people had success with for dealing with slurry crusting? We get a fair crust on our slurry tower, it’s currently over a foot thick. Fine sawdust used and a small amount of silage inevitably...
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    Toyota 4x4 advert

    The world just gets madder and madder. From the Times;
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    Wind. Hmmm.

    Snippet from Money Week. Article by Merryn Somerset Webb.
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    SFI Select Committee

    Accidentally pressed the wrong buttons on my TV remote and was confronted with Coffey going through the numbers this evening 😟 1216 applications 577 agreements offered 330 accepted 52 started
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    It’s like Gordon Brown never left - Telegraph

    Sunak’s stealth tax raid equivalent to extra 6p on income tax, IFS says Think-tank says the Government is in a ‘fiscal bind’ amid low growth and high debt servicing costs Tim Wallace 17 October 2023 • 6:00am Rishi Sunak has presided over the biggest increase in the tax burden in any parliament...
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    Er, no it isn’t

    How tf do they get away calling this product by this name?
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