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  1. Janet Hughes Defra

    Defra SFI Answers - January 2023

    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...
  2. Chris F

    Farmer Focus - Neil White

    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...
  3. Clive

    New information about what Environmental Land Management schemes will pay for

    Moderator notice OK we have done this now in the resource section to try separate he questions and answers from the general chat - we will update it as new questions and answers are added to this thread...
  4. Bartholomews

    Monday Market Briefing - 23rd January 2023

    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...
  5. Trinity AgTech

    Farmer Focus - Rob Raven

    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...
  6. D

    Carbon offsets are worthless - amazing, absolutely amazing

    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
  7. S

    Whole or ground sample for grain moisture

    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...
  8. Clive

    How Vegan are you ?

    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...
  9. JrGreen

    Loss of Bps

    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...
  10. Sailorsam

    So How was Everyone's Harvest in 2022? Are the Final Results in?

    how did all the farms and gardens do in 2022? record highs? record lows? average? too wet? too dry? please share.
  11. Steevo

    Abusive (commercial) farming relationships

    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...
  12. D

    Red Tractor start 2023 with another embarassment😂

  13. Farmer Fin

    If you generate carbon credits are you carbon negative?

    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?
  14. D

    Cefetra

    Has any one sold or bought grain from Cefetra what are like to deal with
  15. CPM RSS

    Taking the Skyway

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF 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...
  16. CPM RSS

    The movers and shakers

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF 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...
  17. CPM RSS

    Eggs and beans

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF 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. By Melanie...
  18. Farma Parma

    SFI Soil Management plan?

    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...
  19. Green oak

    Skyway spring barley.

    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!
  20. CPM RSS

    Biological solutions to nitrogen challenges

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF 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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