would anyone be looking for a general farm worker ideally on in cambs beds or herts areas but relocation is an option .. I am Mid 40s and looking to make a full time job from a more recent harvest role.. currently taking my pa’s and keen to gain more experience . Trailer work . Secondary and...
Job Opportunity – Skilled Arable Operator
We are looking for an experienced arable operator to work on a 770 hectare farm based in South Essex. Tillingham Hall Contracts is a family run business, farming combinable crops, producing haylage for the equine market, countryside stewardship...
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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.
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Now I read this before somewhere and thought what a great idea, tell the welsh government to stick their schemes up their hole and just sell our carbon storage pasture credits in an open market to wealthier businesses looking to store carbon on pasture or whatever and only take the price we want...
I had a chat with a mate today about year end valuations. Both of us despite being 30 years in the job are pretty niave doing this. As I expect to make a £ I wonder if I am doing it to my benefit or not.
For growing crops it's contractor costs plus variable costs to date.
For crops in store...
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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:
Has anyone else been notified that Natural England intend to place their land in SSSI ? This feels like legal theft to have to beg permission to farm our own land, any ideas how to fight it?
https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/nfu-officeholder-elections/#culley
So what’s the REAL story as to why Andrew Ward, Ollie Harrison and Martin Williams are not running for positions. Have they been told they are not allowed to because it would upset the gravy train?
I have just put the 4 worded question,above,into the search TFF search box facility ( search titles only) and after browsing quickly through the 7 pages that the search facility comes up with, I can’t see one that directly answers my question.
So I ask “What is regenerative farming” and how does...
Well isn’t it?
If you can grow 4t per acre of wheat then isn’t the carbon footprint per ton less by virtue of the fact you’ve spread the fixed part of the carbon cost in growing the crop over more tons.
This fact begs the question of what to do with marginal land. It would suggest it should be...
Over wintered cover crop mostly voluteers and a few oats with a footpath across
no cultivations
the foot path officer wants use to reinstate the path
what have others done
An open question. Normally, when selling farmers receive the agricultural value of the land plus enough to entice them to part with it. But in today's world where achieve Net Zero is the priority, and where there is less available farmland, what is the cost of land in this world?
For example...
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Having a couple of seasons under my belt as the main decision maker with two polar opposite years, I’m looking at what min-till cultivations would be best. We took on this arable farm which was direct drilled with a 750A year after year, heavy clay ground which was tight as hell. We are...
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With wet weather hammering autumn-sown crops and ground travel remaining limited, spring planting may seem more appealing than ever. CPM looks at different options.
By Janine Adamson and Rob Jones
The Met Office first started naming...
We are likely to be soon looking to hire a new full-time person to join our arable farming business due to retirement of existing people. Given how long our guys have stayed with us we haven't had to go through the process of finding someone new for decades. Long, long before my time.
I was...
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