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On Friday 26 January, we're holding a webinar for farmers where we'll be going through the actions and payments available through our Environmental Land Management schemes in 2024. The Farming and Countryside Director Janet Hughes, the policy lead working on the Sustainable Farming Incentive...

So i wonder what announcements / new standards we might get re SFI today ? any guesses ?

Arable and Horticulture webinar follow up Written by Becky Briggs Credit: Bs0u10e0 We recently held a webinar for arable and horticulture farmers. Our aim was to go through the 2023 Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for those farm types and answer your questions. You can watch a...

What machine do people use for planting cabbages and brussel sprouts please?

With potential £229/Ha on the table for s barley under sfi, are we about to see the return of the barley baron. Been looking at sfi, i guess like many farmers, weigh up all the options, ipm1, sam1,2,3, num 1,2,3 …..hrw…..ahl… so on and so on , a bit of this and a bit of that, and it all starts...

A potential anaerobic digester just up the road from me had its Planning Committee meeting yesterday. They had already approached me to grow crops for them & take digestate back. I would prefer a break crop if possible. The farm has a significant blackgrass burden. Mostly brashy soils prone to...

It’s been briefly discussed on various SFI threads but has anyone been able to make any headway with RPA about transferring options from a CS agreement to SFI ?

The budget for SFI is the same as when SPS first started. It was about £100/ acre then, which would be worth about £55/ acre now. So if everybody that claimed BPS, claimed SFI on the same area as before, and on similar value options, that is what we would all get paid. This would probably not...

Hello, I hope somebody can help me with this. My family own a small arable farm in East Anglia. Since my dad died we now contract all the land work out to our larger neighbouring farm, including all the spraying. We no longer own our own sprayer. We do however still purchase the chemicals and...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF It’s that time of year again – Christmas is fast approaching and therefore AHDB releases the latest iteration of its Recommended List for cereals and oilseeds. CPM reviews the changes including a BYDV-tolerant six-row hybrid winter barley...

I am a trainee agronomist who is currently reading Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland. One part reads, “In sugar beet, monogerm pelleted seed is now the norm and has enabled the crop to be precision drilled, removing the need to hand single.”. What does the term “hand...

I have been asked to put a tender in for 65 acres on a 5 year FBT but the landlord will not allow Glyphosate to be used . The landlord wants to see the land farmed and not entered into SFI It is heavy land best suited to winter cereals and grass has BG and is over the hedge from me I...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has just published the online edition of its Recommended Lists (RL) of cereal and oilseed rape varieties for 2024/2025. They feature shorter lists for most major crops. Specifically included...

following on from the thread about JD getting too expensive and someone claiming mccormick were dearer cost of ownership per clock hr than fendt or deutz i thought it could be worth discussing some actual figures, ill go first NH 210 bought 2020 for 88k trade in 2015 NH 210 10k hrs, 24k

Just had a message from APHA to let us know that they have found a case of Bluetongue near Canterbury with a 10km temporary control zone in place.

Anyone doing an aphid spray? Agronomist thinks I should on the early stuff (drilled end of Sept), but I think only to cover his arse. I’m not convinced, especially with all this rain, wind and now cold we’re getting. Be hard enough to find a day to even spray it.

Have put up a new grainstore and this is the first year of using it and it’s dry and cooled down . There is a lot of small bugs that have wings and can fly in heap and idea what they are?

Anyone been listening? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0glvxc3

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Adding placed phosphate fertiliser to seed beds at time of planting will help boost root development in newly established cereal crops. Ben Haste, an East Anglia-based agronomist with Farmacy said: “This is particularly so in cases where crops are...

What price is it this year