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isn't farm carbon toolkit a benchmarking tool-so tells you all emissions associated with your production, rather than a trading tool? so you don't take ownership of the emissions but acknowledge their existence in your decision-making process. if you don't buy the product there are no production...

Red Tractor assurance is not covered by organic certification-a separate inspection is needed. the organic one covers the organic standards only and not the additional requirements' of RT such as when did you worm your cat or when did you clean the telehandler bucket.

But if you are not registered with an organic certifying body you cannot sell as organic-it would be a trading standards issue and is based on law. the certifier issues the certificate based on inspection and verification. the standards of all certifiers are based in law although there is some...

@beef 1 -about £6000 if you do soil organic matter assessments have no bare soil over winter and 15% of land into herbal leys plus BPS payment (which is reducing) plus any other payments for other standards that are yet to be announced which you can get-such as hedges etc £3400 if you don't...

The SFI is a short term scheme to replace BPS money and are originally meant to be a form of stepping stone to the ELM schemes, but then all advisors started calling SFI ELM which added to the confusion. the test and trials are looking at what ELM itself will look like, how it can be managed...

This thread has become a typical TFF thread already-no one has looked at the details-but kicked off on a rant about something else LOOK AT THE LINK-the project is nothing to do with ELMS but is a European funded project which ADAS are paid by a European research organisation to run.

It is the link with GM that makes drift an issue, but the use of that chemical increased massively when the GM gene was introduced-because it wasn't previously able to be used on the crops. You cannot just say 'oh its drift' and pretend it isn't an issue because the court case came about AFTER...

An explanation of the point about lack of varietal selection-this was specifically answering @delilah question and does only relate to the dicamba issue, but it has created a massive issue in places like Missouri and Arkansas where the question has come down to the influence, and lack of concern...

Recent court case in US with GM dicamba resistant crops (could have been corn or cotton)-sprays drifted and killed fruit trees in neighbouring farms-chemical company lost and has huge pay out for loss of crops and future sales. New regulations introduced to control spraying of dicamba (whch is...

Peas don't respond well to harrowing, they break off at ground level but allelopathy effect you mention should deal with a lot of weeds anyway. Oat straw will also be lower energy than barley straw, as well as dilution effect on grains so there will be a lower feed value overall but more bulk.

carbon cutting tool kit do an on-line form which calculates it for you , based on standard figures from your inputs https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/carbon-calculator

Are you actually trying to kill the clover in the crop, or leave it as a semi permanent understorey? If the later then low rate glyphosate will take out other annual weeds and leave the clover in your scenario. I have heard that it works in year 1 but if the clover is needed to provide fertility...

yes, it can be 3 crop rule doesn't apply to organic farmers but could be done with oats barley and beans as well if

Approved by OF and G means its production and ingredients satisfy legal basis of organic certification, it doesn't prove that it works. Same as a pesticide is regulated as safe, but not that it works.

ADAS have done some research on this, and there is an Innovative farmers trial on this starting now https://www.innovativefarmers.org/news/2018/october/31/new-field-lab-flea-beetle-control-in-oilseed-rape/ . trial results from this are on AHDB website...

Landis.org.uk UKSO.org and soils.org uk are websites which show soil types etc all via cranfield university

Heard that it is so they can sell imported US chicken marinated in chlorine, and growth hormone treated beef,as a discounted product if we sign trade agreements with US -whilst pretending to source high quality for main stores. They can then say that there is a demand for it and the population...

I think that you will find that the SA believe that what you are doing is good but they cannot condone the use of Glyphosate-not want you want to hear but still the truth. O F and G are a certifying company like red tractor so enforce the rules of organic farming, same rules as SA use, and same...

Because Glyphosate is a man made chemical it is not approved under Organic rules whether you are SA or O F and g approved so your statement about OF and G supporting a hybrid is rubbish. SA do not approve any chemical products on crops nor do OF and G. organic rules are covered under legal...

true but that doesn't mean they cant try, and maybe min-till or occasional plough is the compromise.