ELMS terms & conditions re Red Tractor

[BrianV]

DEFRA have a tender out at the moment for Satelite Imagery monitoring for environmental schemes

Satellite Imagery Proof of Concept for Agri-Environmental Monitoring [Notice]

Proof of Concept for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) standard monitoring and crop mapping using ... A Tender Notice by DEFRA Network Etendering Portal. Value £100K.

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Big Brother is just around the corner if we let it happen!

 

[DRC]

I was stirring. As someone else said it’s already expensive to do.

Worth it though for the lovely smell of the soil and the seagulls swooping overhead .

 

[BrianV]

Worth it though for the lovely smell of the soil and the seagulls swooping overhead .

One day I'm convinced I will catch up with one of those feathered rats in the furrow eating my worms!

 

[Bruce Almighty]

I was stirring. As someone else said it’s already expensive to do.

Perhaps, but in Autumn 2020 we had a demo with a strip till drill, wheat after beans yielding a disappointing 6.75t/ha

On similar land, wheat after beans either ploughed or Trio'd yielded 10t/ha.
The extra 3.25 T/ha @ £200/t = £650/ha.

So I guess you're right, as a result of ploughing we made more profit meaning we pay more tax.

 

[ajd132]

Perhaps, but in Autumn 2020 we had a demo with a strip till drill, wheat after beans yielding a disappointing 6.75t/ha

On similar land, wheat after beans either ploughed or Trio'd yielded 10t/ha.
The extra 3.25 T/ha @ £200/t = £650/ha.

So I guess you're right, as a result of ploughing we made more profit meaning we pay more tax.

Fair enough. I do enjoy reading peoples accounts of simply not doing a cultivation or ploughing and doing one bit of direct drilling. The system is far more than just the absence of soil movement. But each to their own.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Fair enough. I do enjoy reading peoples accounts of simply not doing a cultivation or ploughing and doing one bit of direct drilling. The system is far more than just the absence of soil movement. But each to their own.

We really wanted the strip till drill to work, we were looking to buy one. Then the rain came, the Rapid stayed in the shed & the Weaving saved the day.

A neighbour had a contractor DD a lot of wheat after beans with a JD, I don't know what the yield was but there was a lot of blackgrass. He was offering it as arable silage at one stage but got no takers so it was combined. This Autumn it was ploughed.

 

[ajd132]

We really wanted the strip till drill to work, we were looking to buy one. Then the rain came, the Rapid stayed in the shed & the Weaving saved the day.

A neighbour had a contractor DD a lot of wheat after beans with a JD, I don't know what the yield was but there was a lot of blackgrass. He was offering it as arable silage at one stage but got no takers so it was combined. This Autumn it was ploughed.

Like I said each to their own.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

my plan for a renewal of stewardship is more than £70 and acre but would then exclude us from growing osr till 2029

if the inspection regime is less onerous than els /hls then that will be a bonus

Why would it stop you growing rape?

 

[7610 super q]

One day I'm convinced I will catch up with one of those feathered rats in the furrow eating my worms!

Trapped a few over the years. Think of all that carbon capture.....
I did rescue them all. Surprisingly nasty birds. Carried welding gloves in the cab in the end.....

 

[neilo]

no chance
my redtractor inspection takes less than a morning
the last 2 stewaredship inspections took over a week on the farm

Am I correct in thinking RT inspectors are paid per visit, whilst DEFRA staff are on salaries?