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Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Tillage is one of the most important sectors within Danish agriculture with 75% of the country’s farmers growing cereal crops.
In addition, home-grown forage maize is a key component of the rations fed to ruminant livestock in Denmark.
Improving...
Warning: some elements of this post are a bit of a rant.
I think many if not all farmers assume that they need to grow their business. The mentality is that if you are not expanding, then you are standing still or even going backwards.
Where does this notion come from?
Take it to the logical...
Keir Starmer and Labour are considering scrapping agricultural and business property relief.(The Times).It would be devastating for family farms requiring the next generation to borrow huge sums or sell up to pay inheritance tax bills.What a disaster this would be for so many farms where the...
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Under request from @Bokey I have decided to dedicate a thread to the trials and tribulations on the farm, I shall endeavour to splice the good with the bad. A bit about us, 600 acres all told, 450 cropable, 8 years into organic, mainly arable with a few wooly critters, an impatient old man and...
Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April?
Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
5.45 am this morning rec email from defra saying as youve registered your interest you can now start your application. ok thinks me will try .
First thing to do will be go get some more ink and a couple of reams of printer paper as will have to download the 40 pages of the new guidance of how...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
GSC Grays has said the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), despite its problems and delays, may prove to be a “game changer” for farmers.
Rural director at the rural land and property specialist, Greg Ricketts, said the scheme has the potential...
Hello
I am looking into utilising livestock, to help an arable farm manage its blackgrass. I would like to know what crops people have worked with, found useful, or any advice/tips. It is fairly heavy clay.
What I came up with as possibilities-
grass/clover ley
spring barley/oats
maize...
What would a suggested seed rate be, normally 100kg wheat per acre
So 10/15kgbeans? And drop wheat or not?
Plan is to spray beans out in spring and combine wheat.
Pre em suggestions?
Normal wheat pre em is my suggestion as if I plough beans down pre em be weaker by time they are through?
Putting it in this forum due to the wider implications. Lots of livestock coming up for sale in Ireland it seems.
239million euro loss to the economy per year or they need an extra 69 million acres to spread existing livestock numbers over to reduce the nitrogen usage...
Probably won't be looking at SFI until next year, but wondering if anyone has a plan for companion crops.
What companion in which crop, will it work with herbicides, will it leave any profit? Payment rate is only £55/ha.
Seen the latest proposals and I think it's better to be in than out , also learnt today mid tier will be incorporated in to SFI
So what are you doing , think I'll have a pop .
Defra have announced that farmers can sign up for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) from 18 September 2023. Potential applicants can register their interest from Wednesday 30 August 2023. Following this announcement, ADAS has prepared a package of support to help farmers get the most...
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Intercropping, bi-cropping, companion cropping – call it what you like, but interest is increasing. An EU project aims to transform this from a niche to mainstream. CPM reports.
By Mike Abram
It’s perhaps unlikely a workshop about a bi-cropping project would have attracted nearly...
ADM, global leader in nutrition, and the leading flour miller in the UK, has for the first time calculated the emissions from the production of wheat in its UK supply chain.
The pilot – undertaken by ADM Milling – is also one of the first led by a major food manufacturing company in the UK...
UK farmers embark on a crucial agricultural practice that is pivotal to the success of their livestock management and forage production: autumn reseeding.
This is one of the most cost-effective on-farm investments. It involves establishing new pasture or fodder crops during autumn to ensure a...
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