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Anyone that's started down the road of using some land for BNG unit creation? The initial selling price of the units looks attractive but I'm trying to get some idea on what the ongoing costs and management restrictions are? Putting in a mixture of Other Neutral Grassland and Lowland Meadow...

How many people are dreaming all this crap up. What are they being paid , ?? It's ridiculously complicated, unnecessary bulls**t , just finding themselves highly paid jobs whilst trying to f**k us up in the process. Agents will be laughing again. . Makes my blood boil , this country is...

Please excuse the direct question. But if you were given the chance to enter a contract share farming agreement on a block which would have to be regeneratively farmed, would there be a margin to be split , so as a contractor I would see a profit to pull on first charge after doing it for cost...

Personally I think the agricultural industry in the uk and other western countries is being run by an academic led doomsday cult. The brainwashed individuals in positions of power everywhere are being led by anti meat eating and climate change snake oil salesmen that have no business deciding...

Looking at a KV TS for a specific project drilling mainly into unmoved ground. I see they can be fitted with a narrow tungsten point. Are they worth the extra spent?

I have just put the 4 worded question,above,into the search TFF search box facility ( search titles only) and after browsing quickly through the 7 pages that the search facility comes up with, I can’t see one that directly answers my question. So I ask “What is regenerative farming” and how does...

Lots of pics and videos of flooding around the country from storm Henk and plenty of flooding here too but why? We only had 20mm which isn't usually enough to cause widespread flooding. Using Wundermap to look around at rainfall elsewhere it appears to have been similar, even in areas with...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine The Soil Farmer of the Year 2024 competition is now open for applications from any UK-based grower. The competition, run by Farm Carbon Toolkit and Innovation for Agriculture, finds and champions farmers who lead the way in improving soil health and...

Well isn’t it?

on channel 4 plus one right now , what shower of b.........

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine How to embrace the many disruptions farms may face was the theme of a recent conference delivered by the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM). The outcome was, that adoption of appropriate technologies in tandem with the rediscovery of...

Weaving sabre tine, KrM Sola Drill SM-P there the ones I’m aware of That will go in direct but also on previously stirred ground. What other options are out there that are similar in layout etc? thanks

So, this week Abi Kay Deputy Editor of Farmers Weekly wrote this article... https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/compliance/independence-of-red-tractor-review-under-threat Now Abi posted the below tweet. For those not on Twitter, here's what Abi wrote.... My name has been dragged through the mud...

Might interest a few. Can someone post it on here?

What % of your intended winter crop have not been planted or damaged by flood/slugs/ flee Beatle?

Do we have a seed drill mindset? Some years ago Clive Bailye arranged a trial of 10 or so different direct drills on a level uniform 50 acre field. There was a spare plot which they seeded with a fertiliser spinner and then scratched over the surface. It performed far better than expected...

So we’ve modified, developed and pimped the rear tine based coulter bar of our Horsch front tank based twin outlet drilling rig as far as we can like triggers broom and it’s now time to produce the next evolution to take it to the next level from what we’ve learnt and utilising newly parts and...

Thought I'd start a poll on whether any/many members are planning on chucking the towel in given the multi faceted sh!t we seem to be dealing with at the moment. And whether you could be persuaded against it.

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF How can growers cut greenhouse gas emissions on farm? Agronomist Chris Taylor’s Nuffield scholarship looked at how regenerative farming could help. By Mike Abram Enough carbon footprints have been carried out on arable farms over the...