Cover crops/ploughing

Discussion time....I am a sprayer driver and haven't had much to do with ploughing/cover/direct drilling. However I try to stay up to date. I understand every area. Soil type is different. What I see when watching ploughing is all the birds come down to eat the worms but aren't they good for the soil? I also understand ploughing is good for other reasons. Would it be a good system to have ground on a rotation maybe plough a certain amount of fields every year to break up the soil? and the rest cover crop it/direct drill maybe some light cultivation?
 
Discussion time....I am a sprayer driver and haven't had much to do with ploughing/cover/direct drilling. However I try to stay up to date. I understand every area. Soil type is different. What I see when watching ploughing is all the birds come down to eat the worms but aren't they good for the soil? I also understand ploughing is good for other reasons. Would it be a good system to have ground on a rotation maybe plough a certain amount of fields every year to break up the soil? and the rest cover crop it/direct drill maybe some light cultivation?
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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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