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By what percentage have cover crops increased the bottom line of your business?
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<blockquote data-quote="warksfarmer" data-source="post: 7138571" data-attributes="member: 192"><p>They are a pain in the ass to be honest but we need to accept it’s part of modern farming. ELMS will be based around things like cover cropping so it’s part of life. Another £20-£40/ha spend time tick some boxes. I know people putting fertiliser on cover crops and spraying them with herbs. Serviced agronomy companies have sold them expensive seed and then fool them into applying inputs to get the things to grow. All because they’ve lost income through later wheat drilling so reduced herbicide spends and no osr about.</p><p></p><p>They keep clay soils very wet so you get wheelings from toppers mowing them down. Or you invest in expensive disc drills to drill straight into them.</p><p></p><p>You need more glyphosate because on bad grass weed soil you need to glyphosate pre drilling the cover otherwise grass weeds out compete the cover crop, then you glyphosate again before drilling the next crop so we’ve gone from using 4l/ha/year to 8l/ha/year.</p><p></p><p>It’s also the current trend like ‘min till’ was in the 1990’s.</p><p></p><p>ELMS will dictate what we do moving forward if you want to stay in business competing against cheap imports. As I’ve said before the U.K. will only be producing organic food down the line running alongside ELMS. All other food will be imported.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="warksfarmer, post: 7138571, member: 192"] They are a pain in the ass to be honest but we need to accept it’s part of modern farming. ELMS will be based around things like cover cropping so it’s part of life. Another £20-£40/ha spend time tick some boxes. I know people putting fertiliser on cover crops and spraying them with herbs. Serviced agronomy companies have sold them expensive seed and then fool them into applying inputs to get the things to grow. All because they’ve lost income through later wheat drilling so reduced herbicide spends and no osr about. They keep clay soils very wet so you get wheelings from toppers mowing them down. Or you invest in expensive disc drills to drill straight into them. You need more glyphosate because on bad grass weed soil you need to glyphosate pre drilling the cover otherwise grass weeds out compete the cover crop, then you glyphosate again before drilling the next crop so we’ve gone from using 4l/ha/year to 8l/ha/year. It’s also the current trend like ‘min till’ was in the 1990’s. ELMS will dictate what we do moving forward if you want to stay in business competing against cheap imports. As I’ve said before the U.K. will only be producing organic food down the line running alongside ELMS. All other food will be imported. [/QUOTE]
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