peas

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/08/uk-scientists-could-make-poisonous-grass-pea-a-valuable-food-crop

How can we become carbon neutral? Progress update from Bishop Burton Net Zero iFarm A recent review of the carbon footprint at Bishop Burton, one of our Net Zero iFarms in East Riding, Yorkshire, has shown a carbon reduction of 2,441 tonnes of CO2 e between 2020 and 2022. Despite the farm being...

I have joined the ACRES environmental scheme and one of the options that I have picked is arable fallow in which I have to establish a cover crop, that I can graze after 1st January. This area is fixed to the same area for 5 years. So would it be a problem if I grew continuous brassicas or what...

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. Here, Becky reflects on the thriving biodiversity on their hill farm and the interconnectedness of the farm and nature. This...

Intercropping, sometimes known as polycropping, is the practice of growing two or more plant species simultaneously in the same field. It can boost crop yields by up to 30%, reduce weeds, improve soil health and increase biodiversity. In a field lab run in 2019, intercropping beans and wheat...

So folks. Who's done it? Who's making it work? What seed rates? What management? What crops? Outputs? (It was mentioned that it's 1.3 times the monocropping option, but was that just oat or both added up because a few beans in an oat trailer would add a lot of weight due simply to them being so...

Afternoon all, Today we've published a handbook containing all the detailed information about the sustainable farming incentive offer for this year. The handbook is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfi-handbook-for-the-sfi-2023-offer An overview blogpost is here...

There is another thread running onTFF about tragic fatal farm accidents. To try and help farm safety, would it be an idea to have sticky thread entitled “how I nearly had a fatal accident today on the farm”. TFF members can just say what happened and how they are be lucky to be still alive ...

Obvious title but the more I read and hear, the more I feel the politicians don’t seem to value food security aka home production at all. Many farmers rightly considering taking the environmental package not to grow a break crop (apologies I can’t recall its title) but to grow wilding type...

...has given you 100% control? There are plenty of dirty fields out there, but also some very clean ones. Is that cultural as well as chemical? Interested to know others chemical inputs. Me; 1l/ha Liberator 2l/ha CC National F/b 0.4 Sunfire peri-em

Let’s start a harvest 23 thread! So how far do we all think we are from starting? Winter barley rapidly ripening here early start is on the cards. First week of july maybe, rape just starting to lose its greenness also!

I know we import fruit and veg from some far off countries, but this was a new one on me (along with Indian baby corn).

Users are being accused of causing cancer for people and the loss of bees. Is the use widespread on farmland?

Looking around where we live the amount of unproductive land continues to increase. Now I know we are very different in the south east as other factors come into play, especially cost and lack of labour. There are hundreds of acres not being farmed now. Very large areas of ungrazed grassland...

Really interesting book on processed food, it's effect on our diets and increasing corporate control of the human food supply chain. Listen to Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken on Audible. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BL1M9XCL?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R

Meatless Farm set to enter administration as all staff made redundant

Whats this AB6 he was on about, leaving stubble over winter and get £522 pounds a hec. Been trawling through dozens of gov. uk pages where they say a lot but typicaly tell you nothing. :rolleyes: :facepalm:

Got storage issues this year so I will have to mow my spring barley and bale it. The plan was to do arable silage from the headland, and then whole crop the rest. The question is, at what stage does it become ‘proper’ whole crop and I have to worry about the bales being attacked by vermin? Going...

As above hot here today breeze still has a chilĺ in it though