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Flatland guy

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Location
Lincolnshire
For the UK market, an early harvest is playing into the hands of the trade, rather than purchase expensive old crop hope fully call upon the well bought ( to them) new crop that they have contracts for and hopefully things might have settled down when they really need to get buying or prices will drastically rise. The trade is on a knife edge hoping that harvest exceeds all expectations but are ignoring farmer concerns about less fertiliser use and the effects of a drier year on yield, which must point to lower yields, anyway soon find out now.
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
Why not compare with mixed farm that DDs? Comparisons are meaningless with two variables.
I'm currently not DD I'm mine till yields haven't increased, on average, since going min till and costs have obviously decreased. If my no till drill arrives I will go the next step, I do know it's without issues and am contemplating bringing the plough out of the long grass/nettles to tackle some resistant Ryegrass.
 

thorpe

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I'm currently not DD I'm mine till yields haven't increased, on average, since going min till and costs have obviously decreased. If my no till drill arrives I will go the next step, I do know it's without issues and am contemplating bringing the plough out of the long grass/nettles to tackle some resistant Ryegrass.
DONT DO IT !!!!!!! keep it on top , the further down you put the longer youll have it. keep it shallow, spring barley , maize,. spuds , when it seeds your back to sq 1. i think blackgrass is awalk in the park.many will laugh at me but they wont in the future, ryegrass is a plant of the devil!
 

Renaultman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
DONT DO IT !!!!!!! keep it on top , the further down you put the longer youll have it. keep it shallow, spring barley , maize,. spuds , when it seeds your back to sq 1. i think blackgrass is awalk in the park.many will laugh at me but they wont in the future, ryegrass is a plant of the devil!
I certainly won't. Sterile brome court become a bigger issue but Ryegrass is my current nightmare
 

Renaultman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
ryegrass nightmare , i mean sleepless nights , cotinuos spring barley no viable seed its the only way. B4STARD STUFF! its a long job we thought we were getting there and this year its come back and bit us on the arse ! BACK TO BASE!
Same here, it's everywhere, wholecrop plus 2 other cuts really helped, but the problem fields are even resistant to Kerb and Falcon
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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