herbal ley

Looking for examples of tenanted farms or land taken back in hand for SFI or other greenwashing. Press are interested

wanting to claim on existing herbal leys hoping 1/may start date but some of them are to plough out sept 23 some sept 24, can I claim the the herbal payment in the same scheme year that I am ploughing them out? they'll still be down for 4/5 months of the scheme year where as if I was...

What combinations are allowed.

Has anyone done it? I can’t see anything in the specification that says I can’t but don’t want to run into any problems if I get an inspection. Fields are going into a herbal ley and if I’m fencing the fields anyway it would make sense to keep 200 fallow deer out at the same time! I don’t have...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Growers committed to herbal leys as a 2023 Sustainable Farming Initiative option should pay particular attention to the suitability of seed mixtures, warn experts. While Defra has issued guidelines as to what constitutes a ‘herbal ley’ under the...

I have a herbal lay but I'm wanting to put a cover crop in over winter for spring barley next year, What's my best bets for claiming, can I claim them both in this year?

With a supreme bout of optimism, I walked a couple of my grass fields today as I thought, foolishly as it turned out, that maybe I could travel with the baby compact tractor and the even smaller single rotor disc spreader. 100kg at a time. It really would be great to spin a bit of fert on to get...

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.

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

Sam 3 SFI Other mixes available 07415121700 SAM3 50 % Aston Crusader Hybrid Ryegrass 10% Meribel Italian Ryegrass 10% Lofa Festulolium 7% Timothy 3% Cocksfoot 3% Crimson , 4% Balansa, 4% Red Clover 8.15% Vetch 0.30 Chicory 0.40 Plantain 0.05 Yarrow 0.05 Burnet 0.05 Sheeps...

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...

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...

starting a new thread so i can have a 'rant' sfi.....Fekked Up Beyond All Recognition what happens now?,,,,are we? 1/supposed to put 25% of land into conservation then take that money and subsidise food ergo putting it mr tesco's pocket? 2/ have 'bird cover entitlements' been created so...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ensures-food-production-remains-primary-purpose-of-farming

Anyone else panicking, hasn't rained all morning! 😱😱😱 Also wtf is that yellow thing in the sky?

Anyone managed to grab bits? I grabbed some real light bits but any clay and it’s a wet shitty mess. Not sure when to throw the towel in and go for sfi

Piece in today's Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/17c78956-926a-4336-82b8-b7d03280abab?shareToken=b7c5cad963ae805bbdbe135f542df425 In case link doesn't work: FWIW, my thoughts are that farms DO need to cut water pollution. If the water industry finally sort their act out then...

I was walking one of my "herbal leys" yesterday, and it looks as if the herb constituent has given up the ghost, bar a bit of white clover. The wet winter with the heavy clay lying wet for weeks on end is not conducive to the ley's survival I find. The easier land has seen a better success long...

I’ve a number of last years ewe lambs running , the plan was to sell half as shearling breeding ewes as they are decent sorts. But the price of hogs at the moment means they need to be £250 plus as shearlings……

I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving. I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous. Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...