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    Sunflowers Schedule

    G'day everyone! I am from Australia and we have had a horrifically wet start to our cropping season I have been unable to plant 300ha or there about of my annual program. I am now looking to grow something in the early spring instead on those unspent hectares. Sunflowers seem like a good one to...
  2. N

    Sunflowers

    G'day everyone! I am from Australia and we have had a horrifically wet start to our cropping season I have been unable to plant 300ha or there about of my annual program. I am now looking to grow something in the early spring instead on those unspent hectares. Sunflowers seem like a good one to...
  3. Treg

    The Food Crisis Meeting

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/15/ministers-call-for-immigration-and-uk-food-prices-to-increase Another well written piece by the Guardian and I note it's been pointed out we have the lowest food prices in Europe, not a word arguing against increases. Not that there's a...
  4. Andy26

    AB6 Mid tier, Enhanced Overwinter Stubble, Grass weeds and Glyphosate

    AB6 Mid tier, prescriptions says: apply pesticides to the stubble, except herbicides to control problem grass weeds by spraying the affected area from 15 May https://www.gov.uk/countryside-stewardship-grants/enhanced-overwinter-stubble-ab6 It's impossible to spot spray whole fields, so if...
  5. PSQ

    George Monbiot, TFF in 'The Guardian'.

    George Monbiot loves to reference his rambling articles in the Guardian with 'facts' he's found on Google. And the week, as usual, he's pointing the finger of blame for all the worlds ills on farmers, and quoting TFF with regard to the river Lugg incident...
  6. banjo

    What a brilliantly written article 👏

  7. Muck Spreader

    Gareth Wyn Jones

    Gareth and other farmers have been getting threats on Twitter. However, this seems to be the response from a director of the Oxford Farming conference, if true is jolly bad form IMO. :(
  8. Agriland RSS

    Cold weather reduced early UK crops gain – AHDB

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A mild autumn enabled crops to establish well and develop quickly but a cold, dry winter has reduced some early gains, according to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). In its latest crop development update for England...
  9. I

    Tesco to introduce fulfilment fees

    Hello, I wanted to get in touch about the news that Tesco wrote to suppliers last week explaining it would introduce new Amazon-style 'fulfilment fees' applied to each item sold on Tesco.com, Tesco.ie and through its app to help cover rising online costs. I am looking for views from farmers...
  10. TFF

    3Keel release 2021 collective retail and food service report 2023-02-11

    3Keel’s collective soy initiative report brings together data from the supply chains of the major European retailers and food service to shed light on the challenges faced, and how to collectively work towards solutions for achieving deforestation and conversion free soy. Companies are under...
  11. TFF

    How to Capture Cash With Carbon

    NRCS Farmers across the country annually hang their livelihoods on the potential of tiny seeds to transform into cornstalks taller than the grower who planted them. The same goes for soybean plants so thick and full you can barely distinguish the rows between them. It’s this potential that keeps...
  12. Chris F

    Correcting myths around carbon markets could unlock income of thousands of pounds for UK farmers

    Correcting myths around carbon markets could unlock income of thousands of pounds for UK farmers Andrew Voysey, Chief Impact Officer, Soil Capital UK agriculture could benefit from payments worth as much as £500m every year if myths around carbon markets are corrected. But the industry must...
  13. H

    Anyone had any experience with carbon offsetting payments. Soil capital in particular?

    As the title, I have been approached by soil capital after expressing an interest some time ago. Have put the numbers into their calculator and it comes out with a quite significant payment. Has anyone had dealings with soil capital or any of the others out there?
  14. Trinity AgTech

    Wye oh Wye…?

    Wye oh Wye…? The River Wye intertwines the border of England and-Wales. Once the nations “favourite” river it now probably has more designations than actual fish and continues to regularly feature in the media as the poster girl for agricultural pollution. In this article I hope to provide some...
  15. TFF

    Local weather data aids better Agronomic Decision Making in the UK

    First deployement : Frontier's network of Sencrop ag-weather stations for precision farming Sencrop and Frontier Agriculture have joined forces to roll out a UK-wide network of connected weather stations, helping farmers and their agronomists to make better crop management decisions. Following...
  16. M

    Full time farming to part time?

    I’ve been thinking that with a few changes in stock numbers and infrastructure, I could quite easily free up enough time to generate more income away from the livestock business. However, I’ve been full time since I left school and have very few qualifications that lend well to off farm income...
  17. Farmer Fin

    If you generate carbon credits are you carbon negative?

    Can someone elaborate about being able to sell carbon credits through regenerative farming. Does that mean you are carbon negative and supposedly locking up more C than you are producing?
  18. M

    CS, SFI, ELMS, GRANTS

    Been in a meeting today with Defra and ELMS is being pulled imminently. SFI is being pulled into CS and the new scheme will be called CS PLUS. Payment rates will be increasing and grant schemes will be pulled into it also.
  19. unlacedgecko

    "No help for farmers" - Gov confirms

  20. Agriland RSS

    Datamars joins Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

    Written by William Kellett from Agriland Datamars, a global livestock management and data solutions company, has joined forces with organizations such as WWF, McDonalds, and Cargill as part of a worldwide network of people and organizations powering progress in sustainable beef – the Global...
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