potatoes

To all those involved in the Sugar Beet industry, I would appreciate approximately 15 minutes of your time to answer the below survey for my dissertation project titled: ‘Does sugar beet fit into a regenerative agricultural future with a focus on striving for net-zero?’. If you have any further...

I'm way behind on the current threads on SFI and protests etc so if this is more suitable for one of them mods please move. Had an interesting conversation with a guy from my village over the weekend and it's got me thinking how the public understand the scale of whats happening. Conversation...

Dear Farmers, I have had my eye on farming for a few years now, due to family ties (my dad's a trained agronomist but made his money elsewhere and my mum comes from an active farming family but wasn't involved in the day to day affairs of the farm, a fairly largescale operation in south of...

I saw a complete wind turbine in an auction, but have no idea of the power of this kind of windmills. I know similar small turbines with a shaft height of 12-15 meter have a max. power of 10-15 kW. Does anyone recognize this turbine? How about the foundation of these kind of turbines? The EAZ...

No sh1t Sherlock, but at least people are noticing the truth at long last. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/nutrition/full-fat-milk-dairy-better-for-us-all-along/

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/sack-the-board-if-you-sack-me-says-red-tractor-boss Can't say I disagree with him on that, fire the lot of them... Get some people in that care about the farmers they are supposed to be working for, not the supermarkets which they have decided to work for instead.

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The government’s response to the House of Lords Horticulture Sector Committee Report does not “adequately address the significant challenges facing the sector”. This is according to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), which said that the...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68215777 I can think of two sprayer operators who got to early 60s but no longer with us, both with chemical related body conditions, is this a national wide scandal?

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Is there much more left to say on potato storage and life after CIPC? CPM speaks to recent industry award winner, Adrian Cunnington, to find out his thoughts on what could happen next. By Janine Adamson It’s important to give credit...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With the landscape of agriculture changing vastly over recent years, CPM explores the place for biostimulants in a new era of farming. By Charlotte Cunningham When you think about biostimulants as being any substance, other than...

Just found an old will from 1974 £4,000 mentioned was that a lot of money in 1974? what would it buy?

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Agriculture depends on a large and thriving supply industry to keep its everyday operations going, and in a country where livestock predominates the provision of animal feed, it is an important segment of that business. Feeding stock the by-products of...

this is proably been done to death at this stage but my son is of tractor ted age so we bought him all the dvds but was most of that filmed on the one farm as in the older looking ones as in goes miliking the bread making one and the potatoe then it seemed to change to being no farm inpaticular...

Anybody actually done a winter wheat gross margin recently vs sfi?

Having a go at fodder beet for first time in my "career"... South coast, dry sandy free-draining soils. Beet is for grazing store cattle over winter. Have bought a grazing variety. Any useful advice for a first-time grower? Thanks in advance 👍

Over here lime spreading is not really a big thing. Only some gypsum is spread over heavy clay. Usually 2 spreaders and an excavator go to the field for spreading only 5 tons/ha. In future I would like to have a tractor with mounted crane for chipping, loading roadside hay etc. and during...

Hi This is a very general question I know . I’m trying to work at a figure for something we are working on ,we would love to know what is the average cost of an acre to be fertilised per year on average . We are working on something that may be able to produce This at no cost to the farmer ...

Written by Francess McDonnell from Agriland A new package of proposals which will guarantee “unfettered access to the UK’s internal market” and reduce post-Brexit checks and paperwork for Northern Ireland have been unveiled today (Wednesday, January 31) by the British government. The...

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes: