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SFI - What % have or where you going to taking out of production?
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...- Phil P
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- agronomist ahl1 ahl2 ahl3 application beans beef beet break crop break crops buffer calving cattle cereals corteva cpd defra direct drill direct drilling dressing drilling environmental establishment fertiliser grass grassland grazing harrow harvest health hedge herbal herbal ley igl1 igl2 insecticide insecticides ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm4 lambing legumes levy maize malting management market milk num1 num2 num3 oats osr pesticide ploughing pollinator potatoes rpa ryegrass sam3 second wheat security seed sfi sheep silage soil health soil sampling soil test soil testing soil tests solar stress urea varieties weather wheat
- Replies: 108
- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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New limits to SFI.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ensures-food-production-remains-primary-purpose-of-farming- Yale
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- accident ahdb ahl1 ahl2 ahl3 analysis application bank account beans bedding beef biodiversity blackgrass boom bovine break crop break crops brother btt buffer calf calves carbon carrots cattle cereals chickens cover crop cover crops cows cultivate cultivating dairy death defra development diesel direct drilling disease drainage dressing drilling drills ear tag elms environmental establishment ewes family farmyard fertiliser fertility financial fire flea flock fodder forage forecast fuel gate glyphosate grain store grass grass leys grassland grassweed grazing groundswell handling harvest health health and safety hedge herbal herbal ley hoof horsch hrw1 igl1 igl2 injury insecticide insurance ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 irrigation lambs land agents landowner landowners legumes lifeline lig1 lig2 liming maintenance maize management market markets methane milk milking natural capital nettles nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients oilseed oilseed rape online organic organic matter osr overdraft parasites parts peat pension pesticide pesticides pests pincer plough pollinator position potato potatoes premium range rover rapeseed red tractor repair reseed residual resilient robotic rpa ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 satellite security seed sequestration sfi sheep silage soil carbon soil health storage stores storm stress stubble sustainability sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive telehandler trading urea variable rate variety velcourt weather weed control wheat winter wheat worms yielding yields
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Thoughts please
Apart from not grazing calving has gone well. very little mastitis none at all in the heifers. However we have around 8% with a blind quarters. I was unable to test seal the quarters in question before Christmas. Suggesting the problem had occurred earlier In their lives. thoughts on what...- lazy farmer
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- bedding calf calves calving cows dairy gate genetic grass grazing insecticide jersey mastitis milk mycoplasma teat teats weaning
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- Forum: Dairy Farming
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Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster
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...- Wigeon
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- ahdb aphids application beans bedding beef beet biodiversity bourgault break crop brother buffer carbon carbon sequestration carrots cattle cereals clamp claydon co2 compaction cover crop cover crops cultivate cultivation cultivator dairy defra development diesel direct drill direct drilling disc disease drainage dressing drilling drills environmental establishment fertility financial fire flea fodder forage fuel gas grass grazing harrow harvest health hedge herbal herbal ley horsch insecticide insecticides landowner landowners learning legumes maize management market methane microbes mounted mzuri natural capital nitrogen num3 nutrition oats oilseed oilseed rape orchards organic organic matter osr parts peas performance pesticide pesticides pests pig plough ploughing pollinator potato potatoes poultry rainfall rapid resilient roots roundup rpa rye ryegrass sam2 sandy security seed sequester sequestration sfi sheep silage slug slug pellets slugs soil health soya sprayer spring beans stubble supplement sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive teat topdown trading triticale vaderstad vaderstad rapid varieties weather weed control wheat winter wheat worms wosr yielding yields
- Replies: 232
- Forum: Cropping
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OSR weed control: Smooth operator
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...- CPM RSS
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- adjuvant adjuvants ammonium application belkar calcium carrots cleavers clopyralid corteva de sangosse drainage drilling environmental establishment fertiliser fertility fluroxypyr foliar forecast glyphosate halauxifen harvest herbicide insecticide korvetto legumes magnesium maintenance management mapping mayweed nitrogen nutrients nutrition oilseed oilseed rape operator organic organic matter osr performance pesticide pesticides phosphorus pixxaro poppy potash potatoes rainfall rapid residual residuals roots seed soil testing soyl sprayer sulphate sulphur thistles urea variety weather weed control yielding
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Grain maize: Take a chance on grain maize
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Maize is fast growing in popularity with increasing numbers of arable farmers believing it capable of delivering significant production, economic and even environmental benefits. CPM evaluates its potential. By Rob Jones With the...- CPM RSS
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- agronomist agronomy aicc beef blackgrass cereals compaction cultivation cultivations dairy diesel digital downland drilling environmental establishment eyespot fertiliser foliar forage fuel genetics grassweed harvest harvesting insecticide integrated pest management ipm3 ipm4 kws maize management market nitrogen online organic parts performance plough potash rainfall rapid roots rye ryegrass sam2 sandy security seed seedbeds sfi sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive varieties variety water infiltration weed control wheat yields
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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BBRO BeetTech: Yield lag closing
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Growers learned about progress being made to find solutions to virus yellows in sugar beet at the recent BBRO BeetTech 24 event. CPM joined delegates to hear the latest updates. By Mike Abram The yield penalty from sugar beet varieties...- CPM RSS
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- aphids beet bydv candidate genetics grass immune insecticide ipm kws loader performance recommended list roots rye sfi varieties variety weather yielding yields
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Looking grim .......
10th of March , next 10 days is shite , turning in to the year of shiteness , El Nino can fo .- bobk
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- agronomist agronomists amazone application atlantis avatar baling baling hay beans beef beet blackgrass boots break crop brome brother calves carbon cattle cereals children claydon combi cover crop cows cultivations cultivator dairy dff diesel direct drill disc disease drainage dressing drilling drills drought environmental ewes family fendt fertiliser financial fire flail flock flooding forage forecast fungicide fusarium gates grass grass weed grassland grassweeds grazing hail harrow harvest harvesting health hedge herbal herbal ley herbicide horsch insecticide insecticides lambing lambs lattitude learning maintenance maize malting management market markets minerals mounted mower nitrogen nroso nutrients oats oilseed oilseed rape osr paddock parts pgr pig plough ploughing pollution poultry quad rainfall range rover rapid red tractor repair roots roundup rpa rye sandy seed seedbeds seeding sfi sheep silage slug slug pellets slurry solar sprayer spring bean spring beans sprinter stubble teat teats thistles tillage treated seed triticale upl urea vaderstad vaderstad rapid vicon weather wheat wild oats winter wheat yielding
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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SFI and Potentially not achieving aims
If you've entered into SFI but potentially cant meet aims due to weather difficulties / ground conditions , what options do you have ? I've entered SFI with a start date of Feb this year and one of the options was no insecticide (IPM4) which is planned for fields coming spring barley. The...- Rookie
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- beans cover crop cultivations drilling drought grass grassland insecticide ipm4 plough seed sfi slugs weather yielding
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- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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no till
if no till becomes a sfi option will we be able to claim twice a year ? for instance if doing over winter cover crop then a spring crop just a thought- Billboy1
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- 750a amazone avatar cereals claydon combi coulter coulters cover crop cultivating cultivation cultivator deere defra diesel direct drill direct drilling disc drainage drilling drills environmental fertiliser fuel grass grassland herbal herbicide insecticide mzuri plough ploughing quad roots rpa seed sfi slugs sprinter stubble tillage weather wheat winter wheat
- Replies: 69
- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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Reduction in arable acreages
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- Kevtherev
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- agronomy ahdb ahl1 ahl2 beans break crop break crops cabbage calving carbon cereals cover crops cows dairy defra diesel direct drilling disease dressing drilling environmental establishment ewes fat hen fertiliser fertility finance flea flock flooding forage gold grass grassland grazing harvest health health and safety herbal hse insecticide insurance ipm1 lambing lambs legumes loader management market milk milking num1 num2 num3 osr overdraft parts peas pesticides plough pollinator premium red tractor repair rpa ryegrass sam1 sam3 seed sfi sheep soil test storm stubble trading variety weather wheat winter wheat
- Replies: 197
- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Beet 2024
Being as its the first of March. I'm sure British Sugar would like us to start drilling.....! Anyone started yet. (We haven't lifted last year's yet🤐) I know @Breckland Boy likes an early beet thread 😉😄- carbonfibre farmer
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- agronomist agronomy ahdb analysis aphids application arylex azoxystrobin bayer beans beet blackgrass break crop carbon cereals charlock clomazone clopyralid coulter coulters cover crop cover crops cranesbill cultivating cultivations cultivator dairy development dff diesel difenoconazole disease dressing drilling drills drought environmental establishment fastrac fat hen fendt fertiliser flea fodder fodder beet foliar forecast fungicide fungicides fusilade futures gate glyphosate gold gps grass grassweeds grazing hail harrow harvest haulage heat stress herbicide horsch hse insecticide insecticides insurance investment kws levy magnesium management manganese market massey massey ferguson mcpa milk minerals nutrients oats omex online operator opus organic osr parts pdm peas performance pesticide pesticides pests plough ploughing position potash potato potatoes poultry pre-em premium rainfall red tractor revystar roots rust rye sandy savings security seed seed treatment seedbeds sfi sheep slugs software speedwell sprayer storm stress stubble su sustainability t1 thistles treated seed varieties variety weather weaving wheat yields zypar
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- Forum: Root Crops and Vegetables
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Reduction in Combinable Crops Output as a Result of SFI
One for combinable crop growers.- DrWazzock
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- ahdb ahl2 bank account beans bedding break crop break crops cereals cover crop defra drainage electricity environmental flooding fodder fuel grass grassland harvest hedge herbal igl2 insecticide ipm ipm4 lambs learning legumes operator osr parts peas pesticide pollinator potato potatoes pulses rainfall reseed roots sam2 seed sfi sheep sprayer spring beans storage storm tillage weather wheat yields
- Replies: 53
- Forum: Cropping
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Food security is a silly argument…
Perception and perspective are very different things. Generally individuals and old farmers see food security as an existential threat eg if we had a major war (see WW2) and we struggle to have enough food in the UK. Retailers and governments see food security along the lines of “are the supply...- Mythoughts
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- accident ahdb animal feed bank account beef beet biodiversity brewing brother calf candidate carbon carbon capture cattle cereals chainsaw chickens children co2 cows cultivation cyber dairy death defra development direct drill disease drilling drills drought electricity elms environmental establishment ewes family feed wheat fendt fertiliser fertility financial fire flail fuel gas gate gold grass grassland grazing harvest harvesting herbal herbicide horticulture hydrogen insecticide insurance knight lambing lambs land value landowner landowners levy maintenance maize management market milk milking mycorrhizal natural capital nitrogen nutrients operator organic osr parasites parts pickup pig pollution potato potatoes poultry premium pulses quad quadtrac rapid red tractor repairs resilient roots ryegrass savings security seed sequester sfi sheep slurry software stock feed storage storm stubble sustainable farming tower trading transport variety water quality weather wheat yielding yields
- Replies: 541
- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Sad looking farms
As I finish off hedging for customers I found myself getting really depressed looking at all this cs and sfi sh!t. Once fields I mowed and baled in some fallow weeds. Fields I fert spread the arable on either fallow stubble or bird seed. The whole lot looks unloved. Then onto hedges. Got most...- paul&mandy
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- ahdb ahl2 bedding beet buffer carbon carbon sequestration cattle cereals dairy defra development docks environmental financial flail fodder gas gate gold grass grazing harvest health hedge herbal insecticide lambs landowners legumes malting management market milk milking mounted natural capital nettles nutrition pesticides plough pollution poultry pulses quad repairs ryegrass sam2 security seed sequestration sfi sheep silage slurry storage storm stress stubble telehandler weather wheat woodland yields
- Replies: 150
- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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French prime minister unveils new law to support farmers
Written by Francess McDonnell from Agriland The French Prime Minister has told French farmers that their “heartfelt cry” has been heard as he unveiled details of a new law today (Wednesday, February 21) to support what he described as “those who feed us”. As some French farmers continued...- Agriland RSS
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- fertiliser health insecticide nitrogen pesticides security
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Runoffs from farms?
Hi all, We are a high school research team looking into potential ways of improving farm run-off treatments and we were wondering about the runoff systems on your farms, where does it lead and how does waste water get transported around? PS. Hypothetically speaking, in the stream coming from...- shehhna
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- beet cows drainage energy environment farming fertilizer flea grassland insecticide insecticides learning maintenance market pesticide pesticides pollution rainfall runof runoff silage storm stress turbine water
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- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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Crop nutrition: Zoning in on net zero
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Managing crop nutrition is a nuanced subject at the best of times but add in net zero goals and it becomes a whole new ballgame. CPM explores how crop nutrition can go hand-in-hand with environmental goals. By Melanie Jenkins and Rob...- CPM RSS
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- agronomist agronomy aicc analysis calcium carbon carbon capture chickens compaction cover crop cover crops crop nutrition croptec drilling environmental establishment fertiliser fertility fuel gas gold harvest health herbal hydrogen insecticide legumes magnesium mycorrhizal nitrogen npk nutrients nutrition organic organic matter performance phosphorus platform potassium potato roots savings seed sfi slugs soil health soil test sulphur sustainability sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive technology tillage training water quality weather wheat winter wheat yara yields
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Who has dreamed up all this rubbish
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...- Boomerang
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- agronomist ahl2 application banking beans blackgrass boots cabbage carbon dairy defra development drift elms environmental family flea grass grassland grazing groundswell hail insecticide landowner lick num3 oilseed oilseed rape online organic osr pension pig plough pollution quad rpa security seed sfi sheep storm sustainability technology turbine wheat
- Replies: 148
- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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Defra now looking at capping SFI
https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories- jackrussell101
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- ab8 accident agreena agronomy ahdb ahl1 ahl2 ammonium analysis application avatar bank account banking beans beef beet biodiversity blackgrass boots break crop break crops brother buffer calf carbon carbon sequestration cattle cereals children cover crop cows csfb dairy defra diesel direct drill direct drilling disease docks drainage drilling drought electricity elms environmental establishment ewes family fat hen feed wheat fertiliser finance financial flea forage forecast fuel fungicides gas gate gates glamping glyphosate gold grain store grass grassland grassweed grazing handling harvest harvesting health hedge herbal hoof igl2 insecticide insecticides interest rate ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 kwh lambs land drain land value landowners legumes levy lig2 maize management manganese market milk milking mounted nitram nitrogen num3 nutrients ofc online osr overdraft paddock parts peas pension performance pesticides plough pollinator potash potatoes premium range rover renewable energy renewal reseed rpa ryegrass sam2 sam3 sandy second wheat security seed sequestration sfi sheep silage slurry soil health sprayer storage storm stress stubble sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive technology thistle thistles trading training turbine variable rate varieties variety water quality weather weed control wheat winter wheat woodland worms yielding yields
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- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
