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  1. Agriland RSS

    Farm walk to showcase the use of Miscanthus

    Written by William Kellett from Agriland The Elwes Estate in Lincolnshire comprises 1000ha and in 2021 it took the decision to plant Miscanthus on six fields which were making a loss in the arable rotation. These fields will be showcased on a farm walk taking place on Wednesday, June 1, 2022...
  2. B

    selling up

    anyone seriously considering it ? with land prices where they are its tempting if you've no successors and you're a certain age . but !! people selling for 3/4 grand an acre doesn't seem that long ago to me AND what do you do with all that lolly ?
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    • Replies: 272
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  3. Dolomite

    Building with straw.

    I know it's nothing new, been done for hundreds of years and will be done into the future. My thoughts are that as we need to be green it makes ideal insulation to put between two skins of bricks or blocks. To which, are chemicals available that can be applied to stop or slow decay. As an...
  4. W

    Cutting the fertiliser budget

    A couple of years ago i was invited to a farm visit by a friend , and we had Joel Williams on hand.I have also listened to him at Groundswell talking about folia feeding a 4-5 % urea solution with added carbon and nickel to cereals after an initial application of N.Has anyone had a go at this ...
    • wurzell1976
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    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Cropping
  5. Cope Seeds News

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio In an industry first, Cope Seeds and Grain is partnering with Miscanthus specialist, Terravesta, to market its rhizome hybrid Terravesta Athena. The new opportunity has been launched to help support the growing need to decarbonise the...
  6. Cope Seeds News

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio In an industry first, Cope Seeds and Grain is partnering with Miscanthus specialist, Terravesta, to market its rhizome hybrid Terravesta Athena. The new opportunity has been launched to help support the growing need to decarbonise the...
  7. Cope Seeds News

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio In an industry first, Cope Seeds and Grain is partnering with Miscanthus specialist, Terravesta, to market its rhizome hybrid Terravesta Athena. The new opportunity has been launched to help support the growing need to decarbonise the...
  8. Overby

    Miscanthus in AD?

    Anyone any knowledge on the potential for Miscanthus to be used in anaerobic digestion? I know it has it's uses as a fuel source elsewhere, but what about AD? Misc may not be as high carb yielding but is much cheaper to grow, more enviro friendly and suits marginal land. Anyone any ideas where...
    • Overby
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    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  9. Janet Hughes Defra

    New information about local nature recovery and landscape recovery

    Morning all and happy new year. Further to the information we published about the Sustainable Farming Incentive in December (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-farming-incentive-how-the-scheme-will-work-in-2022), today we're publishing information about the 2 other new...
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    • Replies: 1,632
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  10. Janet Hughes Defra

    Sustainable farming incentive details published today

    Morning all Today we'll be publishing some information about how the sustainable farming incentive will work when we start rolling it out from next year in England. I'll post the links here as soon as they're online, and will be here on this thread over the next few days to answer your...
    • Janet Hughes Defra
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    • Replies: 1,643
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  11. Cope Seeds News

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio In an industry first, Cope Seeds and Grain is partnering with Miscanthus specialist, Terravesta, to market its rhizome hybrid Terravesta Athena. The new opportunity has been launched to help support the growing need to decarbonise the...
  12. Agriland RSS

    UK miscanthus research gets government funding to help meet net-zero

    Written by Rachel Martin from Agriland A project to facilitate more planting of the bioenergy crop, miscanthus, has been awarded over £150,000 of funding. The money has been made available through the UK government’s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme to help contribute to 2050 net-zero...
  13. Farm Business RSS

    Cope Seeds adds Terravesta AthenaTM to its portfolio

    Written by John Swire from Farm Business In an industry first, Cope Seeds and Grain is partnering with Miscanthus specialist,Terravesta, to market its rhizome hybrid Terravesta Athena™. The new opportunity has been launched to help support the growing need to decarbonise the UK economy with...
  14. B

    300 acres starting from scratch

    Hello all, Hypothetical question here. What would everyone do if they had a 300 acre greenfield site of grade 3 land? Build a dairy? Go all cereals? Sheep? Location; Northumberland Cheers Steakeater
    • Baling Hay
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    • Replies: 104
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  15. Phil P

    Selling carbon credits

    @Clive can you tell us some more about it? How does it work?
    • Phil P
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    • Replies: 841
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  16. jackrussell101

    Miscanthus - carbon sequestration tonnes per ha

    Just watched the latest Harry's Farm episode on YouTube, and he said that miscanthus sequests nearly 30t of carbon per ha per annum. So based on some of these carbon offset exchanges that have sprung up and pay between £30 and £40 a tonne a year of carbon sequested, isn't that nearly £900 a...
    • jackrussell101
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    • bedding carbon carbon capture cover crop elms establishment grass grassland grazing harvesting methane miscanthus organic red tractor roots roundup sandy savings sequester sheep terravesta transport yields
    • Replies: 30
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  17. Farm Business RSS

    Miscanthus key to Shropshire Farmer’s net zero ambitions

    Written by John Swire North Shropshire farmer, Jim Mullock, has been growing Terravesta AthenaTM Miscanthus as part of the farm’s net zero strategy. “When deciding to grow Miscanthus we were mindful of the ‘net zero’ ambitions of agriculture and the need for every farm business to take an...
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