I keep looking and currently am drawn toward South America Chile, Argentina and Brazil. but where else should I be looking?
And who has actually done it and how is it going.
My sister married a Kiwi and has farmed out there for the last 20 years but they no longer have the cheap land and are...
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Suggestions please how to do a graphic presentation to show varying gross margins for various SFI schemes, that one is considering for different fields and also to show what effect over the whole farm scenario.
The above will be shown to family members who are not connected with the daily...
Victory. Social media and farmer pressure, BFU, etc. we've all come together and pressurised change.
NFU and AHDB originally backed the GFC, but changed their tune after the backlash. Tom Bradshaw and AHDB listened 👍. Thank you.
And Farmers Weekly helped massively with excellent reporting. I...
Anyone managed to grab bits? I grabbed some real light bits but any clay and it’s a wet shitty mess. Not sure when to throw the towel in and go for sfi
My ab15 been in close to a year and topped couple times last year as in the regs.reading through regs again it says to cut before end of March in year 2 but even though it all looks great and is growing away nicely none of it is more than 2/3 inches tall and my batwing mower won’t really touch...
Piece in today's Times:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/17c78956-926a-4336-82b8-b7d03280abab?shareToken=b7c5cad963ae805bbdbe135f542df425
In case link doesn't work:
FWIW, my thoughts are that farms DO need to cut water pollution. If the water industry finally sort their act out then...
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Farming Podcast: improving animal health and welfare on your farm
Written by Martin Jenkins
In this episode of the Farming podcast, our lead for healthier animals, Martin Jenkins, talks to dairy farmer Karen Halton. They are joined by infectious disease expert and vet James Russell...
After failing to plant some of my winter wheat land, I’m still looking for 4 tons of spring wheat seed. I realise that it’s pretty late now to be trying to source some but is there anyone out there who’s got some for sale?
My farm’s on the Hereford/Glos. border.
Nearly everyone ive asked to do a "job" is at or over retirement age, busy as hell? Examples, metal worker/welder, blacksmith, motorcycle dent, classic bike painter, thatcher, motorcycle seat recoverer, maker, etc etc etc? Just named a few, i bet others can name many other skills/ trades, that...
Looking at AB10’as an option under mid tier at £1072 ha it’s an interesting option. Continuous Spring cereals which you never harvest.
Just wanted to know of anyone who could tell me the pit falls?
What's the value and are entitlements worth buying at the moment?
Taken on 20 acre hoping to go and buy off the previous renter.
Want to make sure I can claim sfi on it later
So as we are all aware the weather patterns we are seeing are becoming a little more extreme
We are all losing days/weeks due to bad weather.
For me I seem to lose more and more working days each year for the last few years due to bad weather, this is obviously having a knock on effect in...
I was walking one of my "herbal leys" yesterday, and it looks as if the herb constituent has given up the ghost, bar a bit of white clover. The wet winter with the heavy clay lying wet for weeks on end is not conducive to the ley's survival I find. The easier land has seen a better success long...
We don’t use a huge amount of straw. Maybe 40 tons a season. For large calf pens. (7) calving pad and colostrum group. Would the savings in straw usage given the ever rising price warrant the dust and cost of some
Sort of straw chopper/shredder? all but one pen would be easy access.
Animal Health and Welfare grants now available
Written by Laurren March
Credit: Christopher Dart
You can now apply for an Animal Health and Welfare grant through the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024.
Last month, I blogged about the FETF and improvements we've made to it...
I have been approved for a grant and after a year of going through the planning process I am going backwards not forwards, with a June deadline approaching for the next paperwork I dont know my next step.
My questions are, has anybody actually made it through the grant application process and...
This isn't an attack on or criticism on Islam for being a 'religion' in the general sense, because to me as a rational atheist all religions are as absurd in that regard. But I'll be interested to know the views of others about the nature of Islam itself.
Many religions have and have had...
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I have 6 acres of land that has been grass for about 25 years. It never cropped very well so it been down as grass, which the neighbour grazes sheep on.
I was thinking of getting it into SFI. So my plan was to take it from grass to a cereal crop for a year and then enter it into SFI.
Is anyone...
Im thinking about what to put on the fields before ahl2 next year after wheat ,some sort of cover crop or offer it to local dairy men to puts some westerwolds in a bit like they do before maize
I have been considering organic conversion for various reasons. I see there isn't a grant under sfi but there was in countryside stewardship. I'm starting My 3rd year of a mid tier agreement. Can I apply to add organic conversion to my existing agreement? And will countryside stewardship be...
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