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The emperor has no clothes….
Not for the first time have I read of a direct drill comparison and found the best margins were obtained by quite a large percentage by a more conventional approach. ( This weeks FW ) Is it possible that DD and cover cropping can work and can be successful but if you are not bothered about being...- Alfred the average
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Strip/ paddock/ mob grazing
Further to the improving pp thread , a few said without proper management then reseeding would not necessarily be the answer , so … One block we farm is 60 acres about 18 of which is mowing meadow, the fields are basically walled ( or remnants of walls) or well fenced and consist of the...- Wood field
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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Growing for the Environment (Wales)
Growing for the Environment Welsh Scheme Growing for the Environment, Welsh Scheme Seed Mix 07415121700 [email protected] 7kg Fojtan Festulolium 2 kg Toddington Late PRG 2 kg Boyne Int diploid Ryegrass 2 kg Minto Meadow fescue 2 kg Timothy 3 legumes 5 kg Red Clover 2 kg White clover 2...- Derrick Hughes
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- Forum: General For Sale - £350 and under
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The science behind the Sustainable Farming Incentive
The science behind the Sustainable Farming Incentive Written by Bethan McGregor Alison Day Through the Sustainable Farming Incentive, we're paying farmers to carry out actions that support both a sustainable farm business and a healthy natural environment. Food production relies on...- Defra Farming
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AB7 Whole crop cereals flexibility
We usually grow pea and barley silage and follow on with winter cereal. I am considering switching to the AB7 option with spring sown cereal. In this situation I would be looking to plant something either with the crop or after harvest (no cultivation is allowed with this option after harvest)...- Jimfandango
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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Create and maintain herbal leys 2023-03-07
Find out how land managers can improve soil health and provide food for pollinators in arable rotations by creating and maintaining herbal leys. If you’re completing this action as part of the Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot, how you do it is up to you. The advice on this page can help you...- TFF
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Our daily bread: The key to resilience is diversity
The importance of bread in the UK is revealed in our everyday language. From the church, ‘give us our daily bread’; to social relations, ‘bread winner’; from economics, ‘below the breadline’; to innovation, ‘best thing since sliced bread’. Bread is ingrained in our society. Yet, despite being at...- TFF
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- Category: Regenerative Agriculture
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Genome Editing: A Promising Path Toward More Sustainable Agriculture
As the global farming community tackles the challenge of feeding the world’s booming population while reducing agriculture’s environmental impact, scientists and farmers see help arriving from an emerging technology: genome editing. Genome editing, also known as gene editing, works with a...