elms

  1. whindy

    Who's bottled it ?

    How many dd guys have gone cultivating? Out next door neighbours practices a full range of cultivating and has 95% crop cover after a hard winter we dd a majority of ours and a currently re drilling 50% .cultivating a fair bit as the top is solid from rain. Any one else feal like abandoning...
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    • Replies: 74
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  2. S

    Andersons Seminars - Thoughts?

    I received an email the other day promoting Andersons Seminars as there's now an online one apparently. Has anyone on here attended these Seminars in the past? If so, what are your thoughts on their value for money? https://theandersonscentre.co.uk/shop/andersons-2024-seminar-online-version/
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    • agronomist calf cereals defra diet feeder elms financial land agents online sfi sheep silage slurry soil testing testing
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  3. E

    another farm gone

    Reports the 970 acre 'Sibleyback farm' on Bodmin has been sold to rewilders....£10 million to turn it into native woodland and bog. Where does this all end?
    • egbert
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    • Replies: 163
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  4. G

    Private eye nails it

    • glasshouse
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    • beet cereals chickens cyber dairy death defra diesel drones electricity elms flooding fuel gate genetics grass grassland irrigation landowner landowners management market markets milk nitrogen oats organic parts repairs security sfi sheep solar soybeans stores sustainable farming testing turbine weather wheat
    • Replies: 126
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  5. nivilla1982

    European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598
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    • application banking defra development elms environmental family fertility financial futures gate market milk pollution security sfi sheep slurry variety weather
    • Replies: 43
    • Forum: Politics, Covid19 and Brexit
  6. Badshot

    SFI 24 no till payment

    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...
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    • Replies: 145
    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  7. Ffermer Bach

    Our country has gone fudged

    Just phoning a contractor, he said, got to go, Police have just arrived, will call again when they have gone. He called back, umbilical spreading slurry, someone called the police to say, slurry being pumped into the river. Police had to attend to check. What has happened to this country, when...
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    • candidate carbon children crime diesel elms family fire flooding forecast insurance landowners markets online organic pollution slurry sustainability umbilical
    • Replies: 65
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  8. Mad Farmer

    NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap

    Received an email today from NFU welcoming SFI cap and was a result of their lobbying. Can you believe it. !!
    • Mad Farmer
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    • Replies: 180
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  9. topground

    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    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...
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    • Replies: 156
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  10. Yale

    New limits to SFI.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ensures-food-production-remains-primary-purpose-of-farming
    • Yale
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    • Replies: 834
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  11. JP1

    Outpourings from Ben Goldsmith recently

    Too many deer in East Anglia justifies re-introduction of lynx and wolves .......... BBC report on floods on Somerset Levels that may make farming impossible amplified by Goldsmith to become as iconic as the Camargue in France : Wolves thriving across Western Europe, time to bring them...
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    • Replies: 202
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  12. Henery

    Farmer protest in London, read the comments !

    Read the comments if nothing else.
    • Henery
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    • beef boots brother carbon chickens children cows dairy death elms family finance grass grassland grazing management market methane milk milking nutrients organic organic farming pollution poultry regenerative agriculture sfi sustainable farming turnout varieties woodland
    • Replies: 96
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  13. Agriland RSS

    Spring budget does not offer stability for agri businesses – NFU

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The 2024 spring budget has not offered enough stability for agricultural businesses, according to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU). Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered his spring budget on Wednesday, March 6, and announced an...
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    • Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
  14. Punch

    SSSI and SFI Agreements

    Anyone successfully applied for SFI where there is an SSSI on the land? We have had an email asking for a notice and consent for planned activity even though we are not applying on the SSSI itself. It’s a wood in the middle of the farm and no options available. The helpful NE answer the phone...
  15. G

    Tim Farron doing battle in H o C

    Very good speech tonight on parliament tv. Trying to upload a link to farming debate
  16. L

    Budget next week !

    It's the budget next week, what can we expect in it ? Pre election one so will it all be hot air !
    • Landrover
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    • builders children co2 death developers elms environmental establishment financial fire landrover management market orchard sfi
    • Replies: 79
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  17. Mythoughts

    Food security is a silly argument…

    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...
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    • Replies: 541
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  18. onesiedale

    Food Security Index

    Well, it looks like government are now going to have a Food Security Index. What could possibly go wrong? What would you all like to see benchmarked in the forthcoming new target that will be set for the industry? What metrics will be used to measure it? Should it include environmental stuff...
  19. A

    Management payment increase announced

    Prime Minister just announced at nfu conference that they are increasing the management payment from £20 to £40 a Ha for first 50ha. not very exciting but better than a poke in the eye. Can't be out of money yet.
  20. L

    SFI second quarterly payment

    Have I missed something? First payment came in early November, I thought it was quarterly from then but no confirmation letter or payment has been seen. Are we now in line for another 3-4 month wait as the first payment came pretty soon after signing although now the SFI says 1st payment after...
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