fertiliser

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...

Does bedding with straw rather than slats lower or raise the emissions calculations when the production, haulage and disposal of the extra organic material created is taken into account

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?

Anyone using this compost on grassland ? I make haylage every year and have no livestock, I'm very reluctant to import Slurry or Dung as in the past I've found that it's a great way to import weeds /docks etc. It seems that at times this compost can be obtained FOC, so just thinking it might be...

As the title suggests, is the Kuhn Quantron S2 terminal capable of Variable Seed Rate (from plans i.e SOYL) in its standard form? Are there any users of the S2 with any advice/experience of this? Or is it only possible to achieve variable seed rate sowing through ISOBUS? Drill in question is a...

This year being extremely wet, tramlines are deep rutting what are people proposing to use after harvest to pull them out, subsoilers or ripper cultivators? We have some deep ones on heavy soil so wondering what is going to be best

How effective will mine be if I fit the mulching bracket to the deck? I'd like to stop collecting the grass and having to dispose of it. Has anyone tried mulching but keeping the sweeper brush on, without the box, to spread it about a bit?

As per title is there any way to do this easily and without making a mess. Will be spreading a good bit of urea this year as opposed to blends, urea has more nitrogen in it so I think this situation will arise. Would like to be prepared

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.

How late have people gone, and still got a successful crop, obviously so many variables but interested in experiences had....direct drilled into terminated cover crop too.

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/scotland-new-calving-interval-of-410-days-added-to-ssbss.407024/ Current Scottish calving index figures

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

Do people wash their spinners out after every use i.e if you're using it for a week solid would you wash it at the end of every day or just at the end of the week? I've always done it every day but someone said recently to me they don't see the need to. I do sometimes have the issue of the...

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...

As above really. New to me Kuhn spreader, otherwise very lovely.

AIC welcomes Defra cap on SFI actions in move to sustain food production Farming Minister Mark Spencer MP made the announcement on SFI. The amount of land farmers in England can take out of food production under the Government's flagship environmental scheme will be capped, following concerns...

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...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Little to no winter crop has been sown out on farms, according to College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) crop specialists. This is a direct consequence of the atrocious weather that characterised the harvest of 2023 in Northern...

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...

Sorry for moaning but I'm fed up of the rain.. We have had one or two days where it's been nice. Land dries up then rain again and it's saturated.