Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
Cutting-edge UK agri-tech tools are coming together with research and development expertise to help farmers discover more about the role roots play in maintaining healthy soils.
Soil degradation currently costs England and Wales £1.2Bn every year, but...
Firstly, sorry I keep disappearing on here without replying, particularly to those who have sent messages, I do appreciate it, Im just not up to speaking to anyone at the moment, I will get back to you at some point but it may take a while, sorry
Anyway, everyone around me is pushing for me to...
Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland
In 2023, UK sheepmeat imports totalled 37,900t from New Zealand (NZ) and Australia.
According to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), NZ and Australia provide the UK with the majority of its sheepmeat imports.
While trade deals with...
Whats everyone elses position. The wheats looking really hungry now and its so wet wondering whether just go and make a mess or be patient?! Must be loosing yield surely.
I’m a new farmer, been farming in my own right for 10 years now. Successfully grown a good business through contracting and growing our sheep flock. The time has come that I have paid my current tractor off. I have never like the idea of buying a new tractor as they depreciate so much! I have...
Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction
Written by Ottavia Spaggiari from the Guardian
After drought devastated prized arborio and carnaroli harvests in the Po valley, new rice varieties offer a glimmer of hope. But none are yet suitable for use in the...
As the title suggest considering going down this route with the cattle.
Mega simple system, no breeding stock, one stock class. 12 month old bought in 400kgish animals, groups of 40 grazed from March to November on good free draining ground. Fresh cell every day, grazing herbal lays, no corn...
Hello, i am a pasture manager / sheep worker from Saskatchewan, Canada. I care for approximately 3200 head of mixed ewes, that are brought to me from many different ranches, for about 6 months on 6240 ac of native prairie / mixed grasslands on what is know as "crown agriculture lands". During...
Perception and perspective are very different things. Generally individuals and old farmers see food security as an existential threat eg if we had a major war (see WW2) and we struggle to have enough food in the UK. Retailers and governments see food security along the lines of “are the supply...
Well I have succumbed and spent day crawling around under the drill swapping it over to wet weather kit.
I moved all my land to become spring barley after harvest as combines made a bit of mess and needed to reset. Hoping the twin tune kit will get a bit of air in the soil without peeling up...
Not wanting to depress folk but another one or two big rains and looking around a lot of spring stuff won’t be going in , Europe in pjaves can’t be much different , fert and chemicals not gone on on a lot of winter crops and gone backwards in places , what’s folks farms looking like and what’s...
Feel like i need to make a decision on what to do with this SFI. What are your plans?
There are quite generous payments on offer. I have heard of several local farmers putting everything into SAM3, £360ish/Ha, buying some seed and throwing it around and thinking it's easy money. Even the...
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...
Just wondering, one block of farm with main buildings and sheep yard .
Normally bale the 15 acres ( 12+3 )and also a 4 acre field of the bit marked 16.
We get nice short cut sweet green hay but not so much of it , so you wise sheep men and women … to buy in fodder and rotate the sheep or to make...
Protests in India -
Farmers' protest: Delhi turns into fortress as thousands march to India capital https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-68271356
Told they will have to cut livestock numbers
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/6/worst-drought-recorded-hits-spains-catalonia-sparking-fears-and-ingenuity
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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