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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
if russia didn't ration the gas supply to germany, there wouldn't be a problem, so much for german reliance on gas/energy from the good old ussr, l would imagine there are some heated discussions, behind locked doors, about the wisdom of that policy, russia now holds the trump cards.
The good old UK actually has vast reserves of fossil fuels, rare earth minerals, tin and much more, that we don't exploit them, is down to cost, cheaper to import, and the green zealots, many of which, may change their views, as prices surge ever upwards. 1% of UK gas, comes from russia, not 40% like germany.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
if we all reduce our fertiliser use, owing to price, and they still have to produce CO2, does that mean fert price will drop, if the unthinkable happens, and they produce to much. Just a question, once up, it wont come down a lot, in price. One doesn't really think of fert production, keeping other crucial businesses/hosp going.
 

Simon Chiles

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Anyone else ever used any of the microbe fixing products, I used Twin N in the past and you really couldn’t tell the difference on grass, I must add it needed moisture and warmth and of course didn’t have the kick in affect of AN and also i think for winter cereals needed to go on early.

I’ve used Twin N in the past. It was for a customer who had been advised to sign up for environmental schemes that limited the amount of N he could apply, as he was trying to get planning permission for a house his stocking numbers were limited so he needed more production. We applied it exactly as advised, no chlorine in the water, big nozzles at low pressure etc. He wasn’t convinced that it was successful, certainly his yields weren’t as good as he’d hoped for. However, as a contractor, I had cut lots of other grass for other customers and generally the yield for everyone else was low that year. Personally, having compared it to other people’s yields, I thought it had made a difference.
 

WRXppp

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Location
North Yorks
I’ve used Twin N in the past. It was for a customer who had been advised to sign up for environmental schemes that limited the amount of N he could apply, as he was trying to get planning permission for a house his stocking numbers were limited so he needed more production. We applied it exactly as advised, no chlorine in the water, big nozzles at low pressure etc. He wasn’t convinced that it was successful, certainly his yields weren’t as good as he’d hoped for. However, as a contractor, I had cut lots of other grass for other customers and generally the yield for everyone else was low that year. Personally, having compared it to other people’s yields, I thought it had made a difference.
It’s like everything really, the weather will be the king of the day.
I did think it was really good for grass and clover loved it, problem going forward is nothing likes no water and everything hates too much and that seems what we get now, I think I may revisit it, and you can put it on on a damp dismal day early on and then trim the bag N accordingly as the growing season progresses and weather is a known quantity.
 

Wheatyflake

Member
BASIS
Location
East Midlands
if we all reduce our fertiliser use, owing to price, and they still have to produce CO2, does that mean fert price will drop, if the unthinkable happens, and they produce to much. Just a question, once up, it wont come down a lot, in price. One doesn't really think of fert production, keeping other crucial businesses/hosp going.
The thing is that you can make the CO2 without having to produce fertiliser. You could make ammonia and then sell that to the highest bidder right now.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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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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