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  1. Clive

    Capital grants - Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024

    So to get our heads around how useful this support offered by Rishi yesterday, who plans to take advantage of the FETF capital grants this year ...
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  2. Wigeon

    Broadcasting spring corn.....

    This is written in the hope that it will induce drought like conditions... But anyway, anyone regularly broadcast and harrow spring corn in? I have barley and oats to go in, and the spring tine is going to be the only machine that will go, if it carries on anything like this.. I know, I...
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    • Forum: Cropping
  3. L

    Building the perfect direct drill

    Come on you farm engineers if you were to build one from scratch what features would be an absolute must. Would you choose discs or more of a knife like coulter? How would you go about designing a drill which would cope with a mixture of cropping from Cereal,rotational grass ,into cover crops...
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    • Forum: Machinery
  4. Try to succeed

    SFI SSSi consent from Natural England

    Hi all, Just after some information on how long it took to get your consents back from NE if you were subject to this upon submission of your application? I do not farm in a SSSi but the system told me I am upon submission of my application. Will they waiver it if you are obviously not in one...
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  5. B

    Outwintering in the floods

    How's everyone getting on keeping sheep and cattle outside. Pretty biblical round here. Thinking will have to house the multiples for a month to give us half a chance of getting through to spring.
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  6. CPM RSS

    Spring establishment: Springing forward

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Following what’s been a miserable autumn season, the pressure is undoubtedly on to ensure spring crops successfully overcome potential weather extremes that come their way. CPM looks at some of the options on the table. By Janine Adamson...
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  7. Roderick1st

    Drilling maize in August as a game bird cover

    Just debating if its worth drilling maize as game cover after harvest so mid to late August (Hopefully). Anyone done it? Or is it best to stick a mustard crop in instead?
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    • Forum: Cropping
  8. CPM RSS

    Crop nutrition: Zoning in on net zero

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Managing crop nutrition is a nuanced subject at the best of times but add in net zero goals and it becomes a whole new ballgame. CPM explores how crop nutrition can go hand-in-hand with environmental goals. By Melanie Jenkins and Rob...
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  9. Agriland RSS

    Recent study confirms best way to destroy cover crops

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A recent ADAS study has confirmed that cover crops can both refine nitrogen (N) usage and protect water quality. This work was co-funded by Affinity Water and Portsmouth Water under the aegis of a project known as ‘Nitrogen release from Cover Crops’...
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  10. 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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  11. P

    Winter wheat gross margin

    Anybody actually done a winter wheat gross margin recently vs sfi?
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  12. J

    Sunflowers?

    Has anyone grown them on a field scale? Wondering about seedrates, nutrition, varieties, that sort of thing.
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    • Forum: Cropping
  13. yellow belly

    Urea spreading without inhibitor after March with facts advisor recommendation

    Any one looking at what is needed ie temperature soil type and rainfall I would say the science backs very low volatilisation when spreading with temperature below 12 c on a clay soil with rain forecast do we just need the evidence it was the correct conditions under these conditions...
    • yellow belly
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    • Forum: Cropping
  14. skye @ bofin

    Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Project

    What has already been done? Last year, a project to establish the level of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in arable soils across a range of locations, soil types and management systems was carried out. The project, led by Dr Tom Thirkell of the Crop Science Centre, complemented work...
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  15. Defra Farming

    The current offer for horticultural growers and farmers

    The current offer for horticultural growers and farmers Written by The Team Credit: Michael Brown The horticultural sector is a vital part of the UK economy. It contributed £4.3 billion in 2022. Ornamental growers make a significant contribution to promoting wellbeing and contribute £1.5...
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  16. Bigsingle

    Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme AND Protests

    This is the number someone has come up with for the Welsh government for losses down to the new agriculture policy. Great news. Not.
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  17. 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...
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  18. Bury the Trash

    Will No till put paid to the plough ? asks a piece in the FT.

    https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  19. Defra Farming

    Spotlight on new actions for arable and horticulture farmers

    Spotlight on new actions for arable and horticulture farmers Written by The Team Biddenden Vineyard At the beginning of the month, we published a post which summarised the recent Agricultural Transition Plan update. The update includes the full range of new and improved actions plus the...
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  20. Bignor Farmer

    SAM2 and NUM3

    The variable start date lottery! It looks relatively simple to meet the aims of NUM3 (legume fallow) by sowing in the spring and keeping until the end of August. If my field is currently in wheat and my SFI agreement starts 1st March then I could presumably sow the NUM3 seed mix after harvest...
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