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"The UK could have hosepipe bans and water shortages this year despite experiencing the wettest eighteen months on record, experts have warned."...

"The failure of the Cop meetings is baked in. We need to break the power of the Earth-devouring industries before they break us. The two decisive measures . . . . agreements to leave fossil fuels in the ground and to end most livestock farming – have never featured in the final outcome of...

" 8 billion people to feed and a planet to restore, and neither can be achieved with retentive fantasies. I’ve found myself contesting a cruel, polluting and self-destructive mainstream farming model on one hand and, on the other, an idyllic reverie that would lead us to the twin disaster of...

Last time i can recall harvesttime winter barley prices being below our cost of production was in 1971. Then, costs had risen fast but yields turned out to be low because of drought, as they will do this time because of the appallingly wet March. Things can only get better. :ROFLMAO...

Thanks to an unusually wet March here, the early signs are all too prominent. May be a disaster this time, maybe not. :nailbiting: :nailbiting:

155mm here in March, so far. Agronomy now facing an unfortunate combination of surface waterlogging and subsoil moisture deficiency, with current root death likely to restrict scarce moisture uptake later on. Combining that with last autumn's much higher cost base and next harvest's lower...

Traditionally, tomorrow's the day when successful farmers, having banked their final bumper crop, retire into luxury, whilst still allowing their hardworking successors time to get their SB planted. Don't suppose this works much any more.

Things currently not looking too good for SW Water, and particularly not at their star site.

2022/2023 looks all too like being a repeat of 1975/1976, unfortunately, even if not having to call the IMF in. Widespread drought in the south in 1975, but record-breaking yields and profits all over the Chalk. Dry winter failed to replenish underground water reserves resulting in record low...

WB still looking three weeks away, so probably not starting here until 4th July, much later than in 1984. Crops here were set back by early drought, so yields not likely to match those of 2019. Nominal prices now at a record high but not yet approaching the £650/tonne in today's money...

Long life, well lived. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/04/15/lord-plumb-president-national-farmers-union-1970s-later-led/

Starting 17th March. Given current circumstances, it's all far too much for anybody to worry about now - so no posts, please. 🤕 🤕

Tonight marks the 75th anniversary of the start of 1947 blizzard. By 14th March, when it ended, 2100mm of level snow had been measured in County Durham, 4m sheep lost in Wales and potato rationing introduced for the first time ever. My personal recollection is of dozens of our cows being...

Kicking off today on Hybrid WB. As to profitability, recently seen lot of advisory nonsense about reduced applications due to the price of cereals having risen slower than the price of N. Here, straw yields linearly correlate with N (up to the point of lodging) so straw sales still finance N...

"my farmer mates keep telling me that the only person who understands them is Jeremy Clarkson." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/person-understands-farmers-days-jeremy-clarkson/ Let's wait to see what happens in series 2 when yields are better, prices improved, mishaps...

Not much more than three weeks now to the NVZ earliest for nitrogen on the hybrid WBs - potentially the best return available from what is now, apparently, a scarce resource. Will 30kg do? (60kg last year).

What's the best free software currently available to calculate the dreaded footprint? We're carbon negative here, and always have been, but to profit from this it seems we shall need to put all the data into a "pdf" format, whatever that may be. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

"Over the years she has received millions of pounds in taxpayers’ subsidies . . . . . last year the subsidy amounted to £936,000. " https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/how-archaic-process-of-queens-consent-is-still-used-on-modern-laws

The HGCA has completely copped out on septoria nodurum for years past - currently every variety on their list is given a provisional (lack of information) [6], except Bennington [7] and Extase [-]. Hopefully, they'll now be quick enough on their feet to see that this year's extreme weather...

In my day, we knew FMC as the Fatstock Marketing Corporation, last generally heard of in a bitter pension funds dispute where they were nationally acclaimed as being the good guys. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/high-court-orders-pounds-184m-pension-bill-for-hillsdown-1328506.html...