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  1. Clive

    Mark Spencer Knighted

    i’m a big fan of his prawn mayo sandwiches tbh so well deserved 👍
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    NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap

    i reckon uncapped sfi would have ended up circa 25-30% anyway poor land farms would have done big %’s in and productive soils would have done very little. - surely it’s better the unproductive land ends up out of production than the good stuff ? and surely it’s the lower productive land...
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    urea spreading date cut off fast approaching

    if you do it again does Jim Mosley make you stand on the naughty step ? 🤣
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    Outpourings from Ben Goldsmith recently

    i saw he’s wanting brown bears reintroduced to the uk countryside now ! honestly thought it was a April 1st the man is a utter lunatic
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    NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap

    ^ this exactly what the uncapped sfi was doing, it was very attractive on poor soils, interesting on less productive bits of average soils and a none stater on the good higher yield productive soils, overall i very much doubt much more than 25% of production would have gone - defra had it...
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    NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap

    how can removing choice for farmers be a good thing ? more food production means lower prices = less profitable farmers are either of those thing in farmers best interest ……… or are they simply better fir supermarkets / processors arguments that this protects tenants are flawed while num3...
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    New limits to SFI.

    ummmm …….. 🤣 i really should be billing you for your education 🤣
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    New limits to SFI.

    it paid the mortgage on land i bought, gave a dividend on land bought by previous generations and it kept landowners i rented from in range rovers my farming business never saw a £ of BPS in reality as was the case for most that understand the important difference between a trade ( farming) and...
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    New limits to SFI.

    @Bossfarmer - question for you ? have you ever visited a farm in any of these countries ? Romania Russia USA Ukraine Poland Canada Australia South america
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    Kind invitation to Participate in 5minutes Questionnaire Survey

    all very good questions ^^^
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    New limits to SFI.

    evidence please ? UK farm income has never set a cereal price, global markets have and i'm pretty sure there was no BPS in the Ukraine or Canada etc BPS paid mortgages on land or gave owners dividends on their land
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    New limits to SFI.

    This ^^^ we really need to get over ourselves / self importance !
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    New limits to SFI.

    not got time to give you another economics lesson 🤣
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    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    my post says clearly “from an arable point of view “
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    Wet heavy clay ground could be helpful info

    50x more like really
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    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    it’s not easy and that why it hasn’t been done yet i’m sure despite desire to do
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    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    my guess is the 60 new options for sfi would be a merger of CSS into sfi doing that would simplify a lot
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    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    sometimes it takes a look from a distance to really see you nailed it in that post !
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    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    sfi doesn’t complete with root rents, never has ( neither did bps)
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    New limits to SFI.

    i’ve got a lot of expensive seed sat waiting to drill with a very expensive drill and tractor to get my “money for nothing” bps was beyond argument money for nothing - i’ve seen the BNG that sfi option deliver on my farm already and it’s a dramatic and positive thing that tax payers are...
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