Morning all, (edited to include links)
I'm sorry not to have been here for a while.
Today we've published some information about what we'll be paying for in the Sustainable Farming Incentive this year, and everything else we'll be paying for through Environmental Land Management schemes.
Here...
Farmer Focus - Neil White
As I write on this very wet December day (yes very last minute) it’s nice to look back on such a dry year. I wrote in June that the area looked the best it had ever looked, crops were full of potential, and for once they carried that into what was our record-breaking...
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Market slipped £6 last week to set a new low for the current move. It’s not the positive mood we were hoping to see in the New Year that’s for sure but at least there is plenty of activity going on. The UK appears to have a gaggle of bigger wheat vessels in the line-up for the next few weeks...
After a very easy and early harvest, followed by a few stressful weeks of unbelievably dry conditions when most drilling and land work was impossible, we finally had the autumn we had all been waiting for. For us the rain fell little and often from mid-September until the beginning of November...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe
Just thought it deserved its own thread really. Courtesy of @CornishTone
Currently we're using a sinar AP6060 with decent results in average harvesting conditions.
But results following very hot days give more variable results.
We think this is due to the outside of the grain being drier than the middle.
Testing grain 24 hrs after it has been harvested can give a...
Probably a controversial thread this !
Over Christmas I was talking to a friend ( well more a friend of a friend !) on a night out who claimed to be vegan, he really thinks hes single handedly solving global warming and ending all animal suffering !
Closer questioning (after I pointed out...
I would like others views on the reduction of Bps payments and the un fairness of this when Scottish farmers are seeing no change in their payments aswell as European countries. I am getting really annoyed at the lack of any union that is really standing up for us. The Nfu may as well be called...
It has been highlighted most recently by the Red Tractor apples thread and the words "abusive relationship" have been raised by a few posters on here.
Whether it's the government bodies (DEFRA, Environment Agency, Natural England, Forestry Commission etc.), local councils, supermarkets, Red...
Can someone elaborate about being able to sell carbon credits through regenerative farming. Does that mean you are carbon negative and supposedly locking up more C than you are producing?
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Brew-only spring barley varieties don’t come along that often and although it’s only currently provisionally approved by the Malting Barley Committee (MBC), Skyway appears to be carving a path for itself. CPM finds out what elevates it...
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The AHDB’s updated Recommended List for cereals and oilseeds was revealed as last month came to a close. The new varieties across the different crops are delivering large yield increases, especially in barley and oilseed rape. CPM takes a...
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Growing beans has a multitude of known benefits, be it improved soil health or retained nitrogen for the following wheat crop, but what about replacing soya in laying hen feed to produce a carbon neutral egg? CPM investigates.
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Whats folks doing as in approx costs for every arable field you plan too put in this?
one quote ive had is £90 for every field.
Which is pretty much going to wipe out 80% of my first years payment
So thats deffo not happening.
Looking for a cheaper way of gathering this info.
I allready soil...
thinking of buying a few tonne. would be interested if anyone has grown it a how it got on with it. I’m getting that I’ve had enough with planet and would like something different. Would grow as feed from now on!
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Research into a biological seed treatment is suggesting it could both increase yield and potentially help farmers reduce nitrogen requirements. CPM finds out more.
By Mike Abram
Finding ways to cut synthetic nitrogen requirements, or...
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