Like I say , what ban
Glyphosate - Bayer calls Force Majeure
- Thread starter Steevo
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As @delilah was saying though . Many on here, including the forum owner , have been telling Defra how bad the plough is .
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Well, for me I'd suggest the govt steps in then and secures a supply of glyohosate for the UK from July onwards or expect some ploughs out.
I'd better check my stock.....then get down to b&q!
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Rumour has it one local supplier is now £180/20L 
I think Hutchinson’s said they wereRumour has it one local supplier is now £180/20L
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
yep that's the one I heard about....
Going to be a lot of unsold stock , and serves them right , greedy f##kers
There is no public good in using public money to favour one cropping system over another. It really is that simple.
@Janet Hughes Defra
Flexibility is and always has been, the name of the game in farming...
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Better get long on ploughs, triple ks and grain driers
- Location
- Somerset UK
How will that effect North and South America with all their roundup ready crops, will they plant less?
with recent inflation in everything It is not cost effective to grow crops with extra cost of ploughing followed by numerous cultivator pass on all the farm unless you own all the land and dont factor in a rent - unless we were to go organic and get higher prices and a load of environmental payments.
glyphosate and chemicals are still used extensively by those who do plough around here anyway. This isn’t really good for anyone. Apart from those with broken calculators who don’t factor in their own time or a rental value.
glyphosate and chemicals are still used extensively by those who do plough around here anyway. This isn’t really good for anyone. Apart from those with broken calculators who don’t factor in their own time or a rental value.
So everyone who ploughs makes a loss?!?!
That’s not what I said. If we essentially had to farm organically to control weeds, without getting an organic premium margins wild be even slimmer.
Just trying to shed some reality on the situation of glyphosate goes or cannot be gotten hold of, for this area.Edited for you
editing peoples posts to put words in their mouths and make digs makes you look even more pathetic than most on here already think you are.
the problem on this land is that it doesnt really plough well enough to get away without using glyphosate most of the time, it also usually takes atleast 2, often 3 or 4 extra passes to make a seedbed. Lots of extra machines, fuel and labour. i am not anti ploughing i just dont think its particularly valuable agronomicaly here. i get if you can plough then drill it is a different kettle of fish.
Lol. 'Make digs' Really ? 8105 posts, show me one where I have had a dig at how anyone else chooses to farm. You can't. Whereas you constantly have a dig at how others choose to farm. Won't lower myself to comment on the 'pathetic' bit.
you are the forums biggest hypocrite. consistently berating anyone who defends their own farming system, claiming they are pervertin defras views on farm whilst simultaneously consistently hassling Janet Hughes with what you think is right. its so hypocritical.