insecticide

I was just at the point of applying for SFI with the hope of a 1st March 24 start date. I had applied for IPM4 on parcels which would not receive an insecticide between 1st March 2024 and 1st March 2025. However having seen the webinar from Friday it would appear my insecticide free year should...

The current offer for horticultural growers and farmers Written by The Team Credit: Michael Brown The horticultural sector is a vital part of the UK economy. It contributed £4.3 billion in 2022. Ornamental growers make a significant contribution to promoting wellbeing and contribute £1.5...

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:

Does anyone have a rough idea what the cost of growing broccoli / ha or acre? what sort of spraying regime would usually occur? I'm assuming pre em - post em herbicide and regular insecticide / fungicide sprays at a higher water rate? what sort of fertilizer rate would be standard ? Thanks in...

Finding SFI slightly confusing in terms of its scope and requirements especially for a predominantly grassland dairy farm which is geared towards production. 65 acres, two fields of pp approx 15 acres total, the rest temporary grass in roughly 5ac blocks reseeded on 6-7 year rotation, one 5ac...

Brighton Council, that bastion of the Green movement and all things trendy thought it would be a good idea that they should ban the use of glyphosate on the city streets to help the environment. Roll on four years and having tried all the green alternatives the place is a jungle and they have...

so sfi is here and it seems there are several threads where posters are asking about the possibilities of combining options/crops to leverage more money 'whats stopping me?' 'ahl2....wild bird food'....after winter wheat 'sam3 and num3'....claim both in same first year any others?......good...

AHL2 new rate £853/ha DD option £75/ha Plant a mix of 6 seeds but with spring wheat in it. AHL2 rules state you can use fertiliser to make it grow and herbicides to control weeds. Direct drill in March. Apply 150kg N and a pre-em. Run the combine through it in August just taking the heads...

Hi We only have a small farm that until now the land 40 hectares was rented out to a local dairy farm for about £200/acre, it is all currently down in short term grass leys and they were claiming all the BPS. Is there any SFI options that would be better than this? I am waiting for a call back...

Looks like she’s left the building, does anyone have her defra email, guessing it’s [email protected]??

After a meeting with an advisor it reads as though you could establish AHL2 winter bird feed after harvest, it then has to be in place for the winter months, nov, dec, jan and feb. After this could you then follow with a spring crop? If you were to do this and add the no insecticide payment you...

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...