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  1. GOV.UK RSS

    Coverage of £180m of investment fast-tracked to prevent sewage spills

    Coverage of £180m of investment fast-tracked to prevent sewage spills Written by defrablogs There has been widespread coverage, including in the Independent, ITV News, the Evening Standard and others, of today’s announcement on accelerated investment to prevent sewage spills. Following the...
  2. 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
  3. Agriland RSS

    Tyrone farm business fined for water pollution

    Written by Agriland Team from Agriland A Co. Tyrone farm business has been fined in court for water pollution. Hillside Dairy Farms Ltd., Camderry Road, Dromore, Co. Tyrone was fined a total of £5,000 plus £15 Offenders Levy at Omagh Magistrates’ Court. The waterway impacted was an unnamed...
  4. D

    Reduction in Combinable Crops Output as a Result of SFI

    One for combinable crop growers.
  5. P

    How to quantify the abilities of a PMA before attatching it to the turbine.

    Hello everyone, I am new here so please allow me to introduce myself. I am your neighbor from the NL. And I have been spooked a bit by the pandemic and wars breaking out around us and such. So I thought it important to learn how to be self reliant. So I took up (indoor) farming of nutrient...
  6. Environment Agency

    Environment Agency Q&A - Agricultural Regulations

    Welcome to the Environment Agency Q&A event on The Farming Forum. For the next two days, this thread will be open for questions for our team at the Environment Agency to answer farmers questions on agricultural regulations. The Environment Agency are aiming to engage with the community on the...
  7. Mythoughts

    Food security is a silly argument…

    Perception and perspective are very different things. Generally individuals and old farmers see food security as an existential threat eg if we had a major war (see WW2) and we struggle to have enough food in the UK. Retailers and governments see food security along the lines of “are the supply...
  8. Agriland RSS

    Machinery Focus: Delving into the history of Deutz-Fahr

    Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland To delve into the history of Deutz-Fahr, is to delve into the history of the internal combustion engine itself. The company can trace it’s roots back to the first engine factory in the world, which was established by Nicolaus Otto and Eugene Langen in...
  9. Vader

    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    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...
  10. paul&mandy

    Sad looking farms

    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...
  11. S

    Runoffs from farms?

    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...
  12. Agriland RSS

    Water company inspections to quadruple to combat non-compliance

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Water company inspections will more than quadruple as the government aims to crack down on poor-performing companies in new plans announced today (Tuesday, February 20). There will be up to 500 additional staff for inspections, enforcement and...
  13. Grass And Grain

    FG Interview with Minette about Red Tractor

    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...
  14. will_mck

    Emtpying oil Via spool valve query

    Hello, I'm about to change the back end oil on a mf 6265, would it do any harm to empty the old stuff by pumping it out until empty via a spool valve?
  15. Humble Village Farmer

    BFU signs up 25 new members in a week.

    Thanks to all who have joined.
  16. ladycrofter

    Ending the copper network

    So the plan is to use our routers for calls . . . which of course said router requires electricity to function. Discussing it re: power outages this afternoon with a friend. Felt the need to let my paid representative know what I think: Hello Kate, Discussing this with a friend. So...
  17. Andrew_Ni

    Where is the food going to come from ?

    With most western & developed nations turning against agriculture in an attempt to please the environmentalists and the cop agreements they’ve signed up to, I just wondered where they expect the future food supplies to from? Africa has the land but a rapidly expanding population and...
  18. B

    Bit wet now

    Wettest I've seen it round here I recon!
  19. The Guardian RSS

    Brexit border checks and badly planned farm subsidies could plunge the UK into a food crisis

    Brexit border checks and badly planned farm subsidies could plunge the UK into a food crisis Written by Jay Rayner from the Guardian EU producers and hauliers find it’s ‘too hard’ to trade, just as Britain has been quietly destroying its farming sector The announcement last month by the Port...
  20. Panicnow

    Protest cancelled due to lack of interest

    Two weeks ago I asked for volunteers to help organise a farmers protest. To make the risk-reward of farming worthwhile. JUST ONE FARMER STEPPED FORWARD! In the face of this level of apathy I give up on trying to get (English) farmers to do anything. Indeed, the vast majority of comments on...
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