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  1. D

    Michael Gove and the Conservatives did this.

    Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.
    • DrWazzock
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  2. D

    Who counts the bee population

    Production of some crops has been decimated due to the loss of insecticides over the last 20 years, sorry 45 years. Has the bee population increased, if not why not?
    • Devil's advocate
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    • beans beet cereals dressing fertiliser fertility fungicides glyphosate grass insecticides osr peas pesticide pesticides pollinator potatoes rye seed spraying variety weather
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  3. Phil P

    SFI - What % have or where you going to taking out of production?

    Going off the back of the recent news from Defra and reading the current thread about it it would be interesting to see exactly how much land people where actually considering taking out of production. Thers a lot complaining about not being able to enter more than 25% into the 6 options that...
    • Phil P
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    • Replies: 107
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  4. spin cycle

    SFI....FUBAR

    starting a new thread so i can have a 'rant' sfi.....Fekked Up Beyond All Recognition what happens now?,,,,are we? 1/supposed to put 25% of land into conservation then take that money and subsidise food ergo putting it mr tesco's pocket? 2/ have 'bird cover entitlements' been created so...
    • spin cycle
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  5. Yale

    New limits to SFI.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ensures-food-production-remains-primary-purpose-of-farming
    • Yale
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  6. Wigeon

    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    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...
    • Wigeon
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    • Replies: 232
    • Forum: Cropping
  7. P

    Fertilizing winter cereal

    Whats everyone elses position. The wheats looking really hungry now and its so wet wondering whether just go and make a mess or be patient?! Must be loosing yield surely.
    • Plough on
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    • Replies: 336
    • Forum: Cropping
  8. Kevtherev

    Reduction in arable acreages

    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
    • Kevtherev
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    • Replies: 197
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  9. S

    SFI Options and Grassweeds

    What are people's thoughts on how they will manage Blackgrass and or Rye Grass in options like Wild Bird Food or Legume fallows? I've been reading through the SFI handbook and have found some options that would be a good fit for us, but I'm nervous of planting something that becomes swamped by...
    • sahara
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  10. D

    Reduction in Combinable Crops Output as a Result of SFI

    One for combinable crop growers.
    • DrWazzock
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    • Replies: 53
    • Forum: Cropping
  11. jackrussell101

    Defra now looking at capping SFI

    https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories
    • jackrussell101
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  12. R

    Changing their minds?

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24101112.norfolk-farming-conference-hears-defra-minister-mark-spencer/
    • rijowi64
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  13. Bald Rick

    Protests: what do YOU want?

    I see there appears to be some momentum to protest but @delilah is right... what are YOU going to protest about? I suspect we all want something different as we are often divergent from each other even within each sector. If I was in Cardiff with a banner, it would be focused on the dash to net...
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  14. P

    Winter wheat gross margin

    Anybody actually done a winter wheat gross margin recently vs sfi?
    • Pottersfarm
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  15. mikep

    Glyphosate, retreat of the antis pt1

    Brighton Council, that bastion of the Green movement and all things trendy thought it would be a good idea that they should ban the use of glyphosate on the city streets to help the environment. Roll on four years and having tried all the green alternatives the place is a jungle and they have...
    • mikep
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    • agronomist dff disease drainage fungicide fungicides glyphosate gps herbicide insecticide management pesticide pesticides pig pollinator residual spraying
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Cropping
  16. Bignor Farmer

    SAM2 and NUM3

    The variable start date lottery! It looks relatively simple to meet the aims of NUM3 (legume fallow) by sowing in the spring and keeping until the end of August. If my field is currently in wheat and my SFI agreement starts 1st March then I could presumably sow the NUM3 seed mix after harvest...
  17. G

    The rewilding con

    • glasshouse
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  18. Agriland RSS

    DAERA extends pilot Protein Crop Scheme until 2026

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced a further extension of the Northern Ireland pilot Protein Crop Scheme to the end of 2026. The extended pilot scheme will run for the 2024 – 2026 scheme years, with...
  19. Stephensonlouis

    AHL2 - Winter Bird Food

    Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April? Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
    • Stephensonlouis
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  20. yellow belly

    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Starting a thread with solutions to application please keep it to practical solution there are other threads for rants and complaints
    • yellow belly
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