break crops

  1. D

    Michael Gove and the Conservatives did this.

    Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.
    • DrWazzock
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  2. CPM RSS

    Sugar beet: When opportunity knocks

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With grassweed pressures rumbling on, one way to achieve sufficient control is by taking advantage of sugar beet in the rotation, even if there’s a limited armoury of effective herbicides. CPM finds out more. By Janine Adamson and Rob...
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  3. Mad Farmer

    NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap

    Received an email today from NFU welcoming SFI cap and was a result of their lobbying. Can you believe it. !!
    • Mad Farmer
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    • Replies: 180
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  4. topground

    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    SFI unravelling as the policy makers realise food might be in short supply and as of yesterday (25th March) not taking land out of food production is suddenly important to the government. Is it important to the population as a whole to have home grown food production subsidised? What should SFI...
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  5. Phil P

    SFI - What % have or where you going to taking out of production?

    Going off the back of the recent news from Defra and reading the current thread about it it would be interesting to see exactly how much land people where actually considering taking out of production. Thers a lot complaining about not being able to enter more than 25% into the 6 options that...
    • Phil P
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  6. spin cycle

    SFI....FUBAR

    starting a new thread so i can have a 'rant' sfi.....Fekked Up Beyond All Recognition what happens now?,,,,are we? 1/supposed to put 25% of land into conservation then take that money and subsidise food ergo putting it mr tesco's pocket? 2/ have 'bird cover entitlements' been created so...
    • spin cycle
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  7. Yale

    New limits to SFI.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ensures-food-production-remains-primary-purpose-of-farming
    • Yale
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  8. Jerry

    Hogs at £200 plus….what price shearling ewes?

    I’ve a number of last years ewe lambs running , the plan was to sell half as shearling breeding ewes as they are decent sorts. But the price of hogs at the moment means they need to be £250 plus as shearlings……
    • Jerry
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  9. tullah

    Land in SFI and Agricultural Property Relief

    Have we had clear confirmation from HMRC whether land in SFI qualifies for APR.
  10. CPM RSS

    Pushing Performance: Winning ways

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Amid a constant battle with declining chemistry and catchy weather windows, including an adjuvant in the spray tank is proving essential for one Wiltshire spray operator. CPM finds out more. By Charlotte Cunningham At Clarendon Park...
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  11. Y

    Salmon 'farming'!

    Imagine if these sort of losses and "death events" were occurring in commercial pig or poultry units, the public outcry would be horrendous. But then, the middle class urbanites just love their smoked salmon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68502267
    • yoki
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  12. Kevtherev

    Reduction in arable acreages

    Just a thought Straw shortages for the livestock industry Less cereals for feed Less acreages for the spraying contractors Less agronomy and chemicals Les’s fertiliser sales And so on Hearing big acreages of SFI
    • Kevtherev
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  13. S

    SFI Options and Grassweeds

    What are people's thoughts on how they will manage Blackgrass and or Rye Grass in options like Wild Bird Food or Legume fallows? I've been reading through the SFI handbook and have found some options that would be a good fit for us, but I'm nervous of planting something that becomes swamped by...
    • sahara
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  14. D

    Reduction in Combinable Crops Output as a Result of SFI

    One for combinable crop growers.
    • DrWazzock
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    • Replies: 53
    • Forum: Cropping
  15. Scrambler

    Is SFI panicking farming suppliers?

    From some conversations I’ve had recently, I’m getting the feeling there’s some panick in businesses that rely on farming customers that large scale SFI options could become very popular. For instance, suggesting that it wouldn’t be moral, or that you wouldn’t be a real “farmer” if you take...
    • Scrambler
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  16. O

    Spring beans.

    Looking at spring beans as a break option for some failed OSR this coming spring. Has anyone experience growing? Heavy land. Understand a fairly low input break crop and have a market for them local. Toying between that and a kings soil structure mix saw good results five years ago the...
    • OcmPark
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    • Forum: Cropping
  17. jackrussell101

    Defra now looking at capping SFI

    https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  18. P

    Winter wheat gross margin

    Anybody actually done a winter wheat gross margin recently vs sfi?
    • Pottersfarm
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  19. W

    Straw now more expensive than grain

    Straw price in n.ireland
    • Woody j
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    • Forum: Cropping
  20. F

    SAM2 Mulitspecies cover, who is doing it and what's your plan?

    I had previously been overlooking SAM2 mutlispecies cover. Is it really as simple as we drill autumn cereal crop as usual, give it a light sprinkle of some other species and claim it as Sam2? Seems to have the potentially to be the most reward for least cost/effort option of all SFI...
    • farmerm
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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