Let’s start a harvest 23 thread! So how far do we all think we are from starting? Winter barley rapidly ripening here early start is on the cards. First week of july maybe, rape just starting to lose its greenness also!
So it’s clear from many other threads that SFI seemingly offers very little or nothing that’s attractive to livestock / grassland
so what do you want ? Use this thread to outline your own livestock / grassland SFI standard that both delivers public goods and natural capital for tax payers...
Whats this AB6 he was on about, leaving stubble over winter and get £522 pounds a hec. Been trawling through dozens of gov. uk pages where they say a lot but typicaly tell you nothing. :rolleyes: :facepalm:
Is there an industry standard for the above term? Nowadays it seems to encompass a wide range of drilling techniques/ systems but other than being called a one pass system cannot see the difference between doing some elements separately. Is hooking up a subsoiler in front of power harrow combi...
Usually loads of potatoes around these parts but hard to spot a single field this year ?
I guess the economics don't stack up vs sales price so areas reduced ?
The next supermarket shortage ?
I am a retired farmer and I see that the ewes and young lambs on grass leys, near me ,can no longer get tight to the Cotswold stone walls or hedges to get some shelter from the prevailing winds and rain due to the environmental grass margins being fenced off!!!!!
Perhaps those academics that...
Anyone else seeing a big grass weed explosion with this wet weather? So depressing rampant ryegrass and blackgrass in fields that looked clean post Christmas.
I’ve got some ancient PP with a good thatch that I’m hoping to reseed this year, would it be worthwhile after spraying off, to apply lime and rotovate first to chop up the old sward, help it break down, easier ploughed?
Has anyone had good or bad success with stitching new grass seed into an existing high input/output silage sward? We have a block of land in its 5th year ley, fairly open sward with no thatch due to the hybrid/perennial ryegrass mix but it has thinned a bit and we want to rejuvenate it. It's...
We’ve never really seen it before but what started as a small patch on an environmental strip has now swamped 4 acres of crap OSR. It’s a carpet of small yellow flowers atop a small dark green plant that looks like a tomato plant type leaf.
I think I will glypho the 4 acres soon as the OSR isn’t...
Got a 5-6acre grassland meadow that's Rigg and furrow. Not massive ones but are very close together so can be a pain to mow and tends to leave it a bit long in the bottom. What have people done to level them out ideally without ploughing, thinking heavy disks or something along them lines but...
As I have done for a few years now, I sprayed off a grass field and direct drilled in a forage brassica mix. What I normally do once it's grazed off is, leave it a few weeks and spray glyphosate. Once that's had enough time to work I disc it, sow straight away and roll.
This year I am planning...
Hi,
Just after some advice about how people feel their lambs perform on root crops. After last summer, I'd like to get something in the ground as likely need a back up due to increase in stock. We've done redstart (rape/kale) in the past and lambs performed very poorly vs. those on PP, but it...
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I’m sure like many we’ve used luximo as pre em and now needing to spend more of the profits !!!! On a contact
Used in the past Atlantis -good whilst it worked
Broadway star- now no good here as we have black grass as well as Italian
Proverb- didn’t see much diff if any to Atlantis
Monolith -...
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