look at about 1.10
Donāt try & educate people - they hate being ālecturedā to
Make āem laugh
The adverts you put on here are consistently brilliant. The ones we produce are consistently sh!t.
look at about 1.10
Donāt try & educate people - they hate being ālecturedā to
Make āem laugh
Iāve heard these arguments before. I feel that they contradict themselves in that ploughing introduces more air which causes the bacteria to work faster breaking down the organic matter. But a healthy DD soil allows air and water to move around more freely which ā¦..
This is backed up most of the empirical studies which show that over the full soil profile there is no difference in percentage organic matter for long term DD or ploughed land in an arable rotation.
if you take permanent pasture and plough it for continuous wheat for 5 years it is going to reduce the organic matter content. If you spray off the pasture with roundup and DD continuous wheat for 5 years it will reduce the organic matter content.
Theyāre so good at it because they are heavily invested in it and see massive potential profits, those representing us donāt have the direction or the motivation or the budget.
so come on then what creates a healthy soil? One that uses a particular establishment method or one that contains various crops including roots which are eaten by livestock returning and recycling nutrients and organic matter back to the soil, how carbon neutral is it to grow fancy seed mixes to then drill, to then spray off with glyphosate to then break back down into the soil. At least with sheep they can eat what is actually produced and then return it to the soil biosphere.Again I'm not in the DD vs ploughing row. At this point I'll only be repeating my last post above.
Unfortunately the devil is in the detail and how something in soil is measured will skew results, not all accepted methodologies are accurate.
The moral of the story is, if you do plough, that is killing a significant proportion of the higher level micro organisms in the soil. Pretty much leaving bacteria dominant. Bacteria don't have all the tools necessary to create a healthy soil, so it'll lead to problems.
Iām not sure where the non inversion farming ad at the top of this thread came from, but I have havenāt seen it on telly.
It suggests plant food adds firms are paying more to be told when to schedule adverts or vegan supporters are running the scheduling, to counter any positive adds we have.It could be a car add next but know it had to be a vegan one.Seen it many times.Well I thought the AHDB ad promoting meat and dairy that came on half through Coronation Street last night was very good. Sadly it was followed by a veganuary ad of some sort but at least AHDB are trying.
Iām not sure where the non inversion farming ad at the top of this thread came from, but I have havenāt seen it on telly.
Very true.It suggests plant food adds firms are paying more to be told when to schedule adverts or vegan supporters are running the scheduling, to counter any positive adds we have.It could be a car add next but know it had to be a vegan one.Seen it many times.
Interestingly in the same period in our area (boulder clay soil) we were the only ones able to drill because we had loads of thick cover crops which kept the drill running clean and the tractor on the surface. We consistently chipped on through October getting an extra 250ha of wheat in the ground and fully drilled up. It was quite a revelation although the slugs were a worry for a while and of course there was many comments about what a mess it looked. Resultant yield 9.96t/ha over CS weighbridge. Many ended up broadcasting, slubbing things into slop and trying to move soil to get things in on ploughed and cultivated ground end result average crops and loads of compaction visible all year that needed removing.If we hadnāt ploughed in the autumn of 2020 we would have drilled no wheat at all. We would have been Ā£24,000 down on gross income from wheat. Not sure we could have withstood that financial loss on our small farm.
Some advisers would say āoh well, part of the DD philosophy is being able to decide when itās best to not drill at all.ā Well we cannot afford to decide not to drill, and nor can the nation when you look at security of food supply. Ploughing widens the drilling opportunity on heavier land. And actually ploughs donāt do as much cultivation in terms of pulverisation as some of these heavy time based ādirect drillsā. Ploughs turn soil over, leaving a lot of the structure in tact. Thatās why they developed with a mouldboard and share rather than being just a leg and tine.
The trouble is if you look at all the 'Veganshituary' adverts they are from loads of different companies all jumping on the bandwagon of trying to sell their heavily processed, travelled across the world 'foods' the ADHB will never be able to compete but it would be good if they could make a bit more of an effort (along with the NFU etc)Compare and contrast:
We Eat Balanced fb page as per the OP, and the Veganuary fb page.
Ignore the content, just look at the effort that goes into it, the regular posts, the number of followers it has garnered and the number of shares of posts.
Why are we so bad at this ? Do we just take the cheapest quote whenever employing PR firms ? Do we actually have people working at the AHDB capable of thinking this stuff through, making sure that what we are doing is promoting all producers equally ?
And there was me thinking all lamb comes from NZ
First milk are going on a huge up to 1 meter soil core sampling for assessing carbon storage. I don't have all the details but on the first farm worst field has been ploughed and had 80 tons of carbon per hectare and the never been touched in living memory permanent pasture had over 200. Think they are going to be test every 5 years and will have data on what practices have been carried out on the field during that time.Again I'm not in the DD vs ploughing row. At this point I'll only be repeating my last post above.
Unfortunately the devil is in the detail and how something in soil is measured will skew results, not all accepted methodologies are accurate.
The moral of the story is, if you do plough, that is killing a significant proportion of the higher level micro organisms in the soil. Pretty much leaving bacteria dominant. Bacteria don't have all the tools necessary to create a healthy soil, so it'll lead to problems.
The adverts you put on here are consistently brilliant. The ones we produce are consistently sh!t.
A bit of desiccation and soil feeding for a Wednesday morning.