cereals

Written by Rubina Freiberg from Agriland Higher international quotations for vegetable oils, dairy products and meat have more than offset lower quotations for cereals and sugar last month. This is according to the latest Food Price Index by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the...

Just wondering if there's any further information out yet as to what constitutes no till in the eyes of SFI? Is it a dts/mzuri/claydon direct into stubble? Or is it going to be lower disturbance tine or disc? Supposedly a claydon grain and fert meets the grant spec with the leading tine applying...

Is anyone undersowing cereals with grass this year in England (ideally midlands)? I'm looking to conduct a trial on herbicide performance. Thank you Joe

Just read this article in the Washington Post, about how the multinational food companies are encouraging dieticians in the "anti diet movement" to encourage people to stop dieting and just eat whatever they want when they want. I didn't even realise there was an anti diet movement! As...

Unfortunately I have a reasonable sized area which is not going to get drilled with cereals in the near future. I am planning to put it into a summer cover and then back into wheat next year. Does anyone know what date we will be able to apply for the summer covers from? I already have a live...

In the past 2 weeks alone I've lost a good part time job at local distillery because of SEPA rules on the spreading of Pot Ale on land. It was a well paying job 2 shifts a week for me giving a welcome boost to my income. Few days later muirburn has effectively been banned in Scotland although...

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/farm-assurance-review-member-survey/?utm_source=crops_newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=crops&utm_content=010424 Just to let those who don't get the NFU emails that there is a survey for NFU members "to help develop and inform the...

Production of some crops has been decimated due to the loss of insecticides over the last 20 years, sorry 45 years. Has the bee population increased, if not why not?

Mohamed Mansour has given the Tories £5 million and is to 'coincidentally' receive a knighthood. But I on the other hand have this year helped to supply well over 3 times as much to the public purse, simply by selling feed wheat (fag packet maths ensues, feel free to correct): 1 tonne of wheat...

Another soaking yesterday and not looking like any planting in the next two weeks with 170 acres unplanted which might not get done , how much is left to do , I recon most people around here are 1/2 to 3/4 planted at best.

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland According to College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) crops advisors, spring barley seed may be in short supply this year. This is a direct consequence of the widespread poor harvest conditions that characterised last year. According...

We are wondering whether to just clean and not dress it just incase we don't use it.I know others do it what are your thoughts?

Received an email today from NFU welcoming SFI cap and was a result of their lobbying. Can you believe it. !!

With the cut off date looming we have managed to spread most of the urea in store however we have a bit left that was destined for sp crops post emergence .We have a field of sp barley to go in and another of failed/drowned wheat to replace ,some has been ploughed and some cultivated earlier...

Changing from 600 65 38 to 580 70 38 with appropriate fronts. How much will it lift the tractor? Want to make sure its not a lot as it needs to be an emergency backup feeder wagon tractor with not much roof clearance. Other than this issue I'm sold on the change as its for ploughing, can do...

As a dairy farmer who plays at arable I'm thinking of getting a mounted 3m dd for over-seeding, cover crops ect. Mounted and 3m as we have some truly steep land. Discs to allow me to drill into grass, I'm aware of the weaving and moores options i'm generally looking for recommendations.

I am growing 25 acres of new crop this year, weed control is challenging so looking for an interview cultivator. As no-one grows veggies this far north on scale I have little knowledge need a 6 row 45 cm spacing. Not sure whether it's rotary or tine front or rear mounted would like to mount on...

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...

Any thoughts on this new group 1? Anyone been growing it?

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...