How cheap chicken ran rampant across Britain
Poultry farming boom blamed for housebuilding delays and turning rivers green
Daniel Woolfson17 February 2024 • 12:00pm
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📣 It is planting time of the year for our local farmers!
However, bird scarers safeguard our farmer’s crops but overuse can be a disturbance to our residents
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Heard this said plenty of times, but really if you have a small farm turning over a relatively small amount say £1-200k you are only ever going to be able to make so much money no matter how efficient you are or how well you sell your produce. The only way to increase profits is to increase...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has set 10,000ha of peatland as part of a recovery journey through the rewetting of sites.
It is estimated that, when fully recovered, the 10,000ha will permanently bring about emissions savings of 87,800t...
Just a thought
Straw shortages for the livestock industry
Less cereals for feed
Less acreages for the spraying contractors
Less agronomy and chemicals
Les’s fertiliser sales
And so on
Hearing big acreages of SFI
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The Environment Agency has launched a campaign to highlight the risks of growing high-risk crops in the south west of England.
The agency said the high-risk crops, which include maize, fodder beet and potatoes, can lead to pollution and flooding...
Yamaha 350 grizzly, we’ve managed to get water in the fuel tank and now she won’t start. Turns over but won’t fire up.
So far- all fuel drained out of tank and up to carburettor
tanks been taken off and cleaned and replaced,
New clean fuel in
Spark plug is sparking
Heated spark plug and used...
https://www.farminguk.com/news/former-mp-neil-parish-launches-new-farming-podcast_64254.html
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/we-can-do-both/id1733057691
Neil has just been on the local radio about that , sounded well .
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for the spring budget to increase the ability of farm businesses to deal with volatility and build stability.
The union wrote to Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, who will present his spring...
Some guy that tried to fix my carb haven't succeeded yet, and now my kodiak is still not running.. The man is quite old and has some health issues so I can't push him too hard :rolleyes: But finally the weather is getting better so hopefully I can go in the field for surveying within a few...
Welcome to the Environment Agency Q&A event on The Farming Forum.
For the next two days, this thread will be open for questions for our team at the Environment Agency to answer farmers questions on agricultural regulations.
The Environment Agency are aiming to engage with the community on the...
Just seen in FW that RT plan to press ahead.
RT(and so NFU) have now come out with it.
So that's the battle lines drawn..
If you want GFC, then stay in nfu
If your again it, join BFU
Also looks like we need to talk with NSA
Anyone with contacts at top of NSA?
Updated on 8th March following 2...
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...
Arable farmers need to rethink herbicide strategies following 2024’s wet start
With some fields still under water following widespread flooding in January, farmers will need a robust herbicide plan in place as they battle to catch up this spring.
A wet autumn delayed drilling of many winter...
I’m next door to a rewetting project that’s a combined effort or “non effort” between the Forestry Commission, Natural England and the Wolds Chalk Stream project or something like that.
And I’m fairly angry about it as fetid stinking water is sometimes pouring across their plantations onto the...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is asking which political party will back British farming and deliver the right plan for British food ahead of a General Election at its annual conference.
The union’s annual conference kicks off today (Tuesday...
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