To introduce myself: my name is Peter Martens, we operate 1900ac/760Ha of Organic land roughly 400km north west of New York City. Most of our ground is loamy though we have areas of heavy clay made up of weather shale. We have plenty of round rocks but not too many flat rocks.
We currently...
The average UK human consumes approx 575g of food per day (see chart below)
There are 60 million people in the UK.
Approx 50% of all food consumed is imported into the UK.
That means over 30,000 tonnes of imported food is required per day, on average.
Is that right?
If so, this equates to over...
Hi folks, looking for some advice. Due to a mix up in the co-op the wrong seed ended up being put into the contractors seed drill. We were meant to be putting in Winter Wheat after Winter Oilseed Rape, instead we got some Winter Barley seed.
Obviously this makes a total mess of our rotation...
Hi,
I have an abundance of oats available they didn’t make milling 🫠
Due to there currently being “no market” for feed oats it seems like it could be a good feed source for my ewes and next years lambs. I wouldn’t make a dent in what we have in the grainstore but it seems a cheaper feed source...
17 acres of May drilled spring barley to harvest here, praying for Saturday to be as good as forecast. 14 acre of it looks ok, 3 acre in a remote corner not seen it so hope so.
Am I the last?
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