Harvest blues

bankrupt

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Location
EX17/20
less trailers to get stuck in the mud.:eek:

Down here in Devon and Cornwall, mikep, not everyone, not even some of our many economists, agronomists and nutritionists, have yet realized that by trading in three or four cuts of grass for the usually much more productive one of maize, livestock farmers have been inadvertently encouraged to take on the equivalent of an arable farmer's risk.

Interesting times.

:bigtears::bigtears:
 
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David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
Surprise, surprise, first bit Irina yesterday just about 2t ac.
62kg sp wt ,14.2 mc. Nice lot of straw, not bad for 92 days growing time.
Worse to come.
 

Bob lincs

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Arable Farmer
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Love your positivity! Can you find something good about our shocking maize crop this year please? Less plastic sheeting needs buying I suppose!

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This is our nieghbours maize , should make you feel better . It’s for ad though not food but they have hundreds of acres of maize and S Beet like it .
 
Visited coastal Suffolk and some beet there is not going to be that much bigger than carrots. Must say that the rain has now germinated the rest of the Canary seed that lay too dry. Now got a crop ranging from flowering to one leaf emerged in the same field. May be a late hay cut......
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 77 43.5%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 62 35.0%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 28 15.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.3%

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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