I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving.
I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous.
Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
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A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...
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Although it’s been a while since the loss of desmedipham, finding a similar level of annual broadleaf weed control in sugar beet has proven quite the head-scratcher. However, the answer could lie in a specific type of adjuvant. CPM reveals...
What has changed, nothing we were all moaning about it when it came out , and we are still discussing options 24 years later, come on give us an option stop just moaning!
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
English hedgerows will be protected in law as the government sets out its plans for domestic hedgerow regulations including the protection of farmland wildlife.
The regulations were backed by over 95% of consultation responses.
The regulations...
The future of hedgerow protections in England: consultation response
Written by Richard Harrison
Credit: Peter O'Connor
Hedgerows are a vital part of our countryside. They benefit our wildlife, the environment and our landscapes.
Hedgerows play an important role in farming. They slow...
I just want to know your thoughts on: If farmers should be allowed to shoot protected wildlife that are killing or are a threat to livestock?
I've had some of my hens and a duck taken away by buzzards that were free range. I have had to move them to a protected run, but the buzzards are still...
Mulling things over … now I love farming ( mostly) and as some of you know, I’ve said it’s all I ever wanted to do .
But times are changing and with the weather on top of poor ground plus my age and aches and pains, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to say enough
Part of me feels guilty as if I...
Just a thought
Straw shortages for the livestock industry
Less cereals for feed
Less acreages for the spraying contractors
Less agronomy and chemicals
Les’s fertiliser sales
And so on
Hearing big acreages of SFI
Being as its the first of March.
I'm sure British Sugar would like us to start drilling.....!
Anyone started yet.
(We haven't lifted last year's yet🤐)
I know @Breckland Boy likes an early beet thread 😉😄
Just seen in FW that RT plan to press ahead.
RT(and so NFU) have now come out with it.
So that's the battle lines drawn..
If you want GFC, then stay in nfu
If your again it, join BFU
Also looks like we need to talk with NSA
Anyone with contacts at top of NSA?
Updated on 8th March following 2...
As I finish off hedging for customers I found myself getting really depressed looking at all this cs and sfi sh!t. Once fields I mowed and baled in some fallow weeds. Fields I fert spread the arable on either fallow stubble or bird seed. The whole lot looks unloved.
Then onto hedges. Got most...
Written by Francess McDonnell from Agriland
The French Prime Minister has told French farmers that their “heartfelt cry” has been heard as he unveiled details of a new law today (Wednesday, February 21) to support what he described as “those who feed us”.
As some French farmers continued...
Hi all,
We are a high school research team looking into potential ways of improving farm run-off treatments and we were wondering about the runoff systems on your farms, where does it lead and how does waste water get transported around?
PS. Hypothetically speaking, in the stream coming from...
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted
Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)...
Did I hear right!!!? Millions coming our way to improve our IT etc so that we have less reliance on foreign workers? and better outlets for food we can't sell? Apart from installing robots, I can't see, on the face of it, what impact this would have on the dairy industry. What about other sectors?
Watch video using link at bottom of this post.
Right at the end, talking about CEO of Red Tractor, if the job came available, Minette says "who would want that job if it did come up". Not only that, but Minette, who's known for being a big supporter of RT, says she wouldn't want the job either...
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