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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag General Discussion
Arable operations to do myself instead of contractors
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<blockquote data-quote="SpottedFlycatcher" data-source="post: 8961689" data-attributes="member: 158736"><p>We are taking on our arable operations ourselves, having been in CFA for 12 years (we are livestock/grass farmers historically). We have 90 ha of cereals, 60 ha of GS4 herbal ley in the arable rotation. We have subsoiler, discs, basic tine drill but not really set up for arable, plus grass harrow and air seeder for GS4. No suitable sprayer and no combine. We wouldn't justify buying a combine, but I'm interested to know what people would prioritise in terms of doing it in-house vs contracting. I have all the PA quals and do stewardship and grass spraying, but we would need to buy a new sprayer - current contractor bill will be £8k/yr. I drill all the cover crops and GS4, but still need winter wheat, winter barley and spring wheat drilling (£6k/yr).</p><p></p><p>So main question is, do we prioritize investing in spraying and sprayer or doing the drilling ourselves, probably buying new drill?</p><p></p><p>We are aiming for min till/low cost system not necessarily big yields as we use most of the barley and all of the straw ourselves.</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SpottedFlycatcher, post: 8961689, member: 158736"] We are taking on our arable operations ourselves, having been in CFA for 12 years (we are livestock/grass farmers historically). We have 90 ha of cereals, 60 ha of GS4 herbal ley in the arable rotation. We have subsoiler, discs, basic tine drill but not really set up for arable, plus grass harrow and air seeder for GS4. No suitable sprayer and no combine. We wouldn't justify buying a combine, but I'm interested to know what people would prioritise in terms of doing it in-house vs contracting. I have all the PA quals and do stewardship and grass spraying, but we would need to buy a new sprayer - current contractor bill will be £8k/yr. I drill all the cover crops and GS4, but still need winter wheat, winter barley and spring wheat drilling (£6k/yr). So main question is, do we prioritize investing in spraying and sprayer or doing the drilling ourselves, probably buying new drill? We are aiming for min till/low cost system not necessarily big yields as we use most of the barley and all of the straw ourselves. Thanks in advance [/QUOTE]
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