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...
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Hi there been covered before but ofcourse each farm is different. Never had soil testing done for decades as only a small suckler farm but trying to get things more productive with the 60 acre we farm. I will be getting advice from the company who did the soil testing however I expect this to be...
Welcome to the Environment Agency Q&A event on The Farming Forum.
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Now I read this before somewhere and thought what a great idea, tell the welsh government to stick their schemes up their hole and just sell our carbon storage pasture credits in an open market to wealthier businesses looking to store carbon on pasture or whatever and only take the price we want...
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In a year where cereal crops will be hungry thanks to suboptimal conditions, plus continued nervousness around conventional input prices and supply, interest in alternative products continues to rise. CPM learns how biostimulants can help...
Had a meeting with an agent about SFI. Thought it was worth the hours charge as she deals with this stuff day in day out. Anyway we put together a plan that will replace 75% of our SFP but she has two issues with the whole thing.
The first is she thinks the money will run out which will reduce...
Finding SFI slightly confusing in terms of its scope and requirements especially for a predominantly grassland dairy farm which is geared towards production. 65 acres, two fields of pp approx 15 acres total, the rest temporary grass in roughly 5ac blocks reseeded on 6-7 year rotation, one 5ac...
Following on from a thread about mole ploughing, how many of you plough with draft control turned off?
I’ve always ploughed with it off, not wanting to jack the plough out a bit through a tough patch just for a bit of extra grip, having a tractor properly ballasted and on top of the job.
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We only have a small farm that until now the land 40 hectares was rented out to a local dairy farm for about £200/acre, it is all currently down in short term grass leys and they were claiming all the BPS.
Is there any SFI options that would be better than this? I am waiting for a call back...
I'm helping someone measure all the fields. There is about 130 fields to measure hedges. I'll be the 1 cutting and managing what and how it's cut.
We have decided incremental trimming probably suites best so a light trim every year leaving 4inches every yr. Some might go every other yr.
1. When...
The budget for SFI is the same as when SPS first started. It was about £100/ acre then, which would be worth about £55/ acre now. So if everybody that claimed BPS, claimed SFI on the same area as before, and on similar value options, that is what we would all get paid. This would probably not...
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I hope I haven't missed the forum.
I've recently become part of a project that's trying to develop innovative micronutrient testing in agriculture, particularly focusing on iron and manganese. Our main goal is to enhance soil analysis and overall crop health.
So, I'm super...
Hi - I'm looking for some advice. We have several fields that through neglect have built up dense rushes over the last 15-20 years. A couple were drained in the 1980's / 90's, one was not although does not seem overly wet. Soil PH around 5.6-5.8. P&K fine. Some although not all of the land may...
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