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how long before we're all organic?
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<blockquote data-quote="Al R" data-source="post: 5973628" data-attributes="member: 7565"><p>I’m organic, [USER=441]@Poorbuthappy[/USER] came around the farm for a visit back in August.</p><p>Extremely minut amounts of sheep muck are spread on the farm, 1/3 of the organic farm is under HLS equivalent so can’t plough/reseed/muck. </p><p>Selling a similar number of lambs than when we were conventional. Prices are a tad better organic at the moment but last week sold 60odd conventionally due to how they’d grade and weigh as the organic grid is very small.</p><p>SB last year did 2.7t/acre and 6.5bales/acre of straw. SOats were disappointing, under-sown like always and yielded 1.3t/acre. The 10 year average on undersown Oats would be nearer 1.7t/acre.</p><p></p><p>Organic doesn’t fit many farms, I wouldn’t want to have to do it with a lazy neighbour who didn’t dig their thistles etc. I spend roughly 1 man hour/acre digging thistles by hand, that’s without topping a few times a year. </p><p></p><p>It’s all well these environmentalists/lobbyists/vegans shouting from the rooftops we all need to be ........ but when the country starts starving people will start swinging!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al R, post: 5973628, member: 7565"] I’m organic, [USER=441]@Poorbuthappy[/USER] came around the farm for a visit back in August. Extremely minut amounts of sheep muck are spread on the farm, 1/3 of the organic farm is under HLS equivalent so can’t plough/reseed/muck. Selling a similar number of lambs than when we were conventional. Prices are a tad better organic at the moment but last week sold 60odd conventionally due to how they’d grade and weigh as the organic grid is very small. SB last year did 2.7t/acre and 6.5bales/acre of straw. SOats were disappointing, under-sown like always and yielded 1.3t/acre. The 10 year average on undersown Oats would be nearer 1.7t/acre. Organic doesn’t fit many farms, I wouldn’t want to have to do it with a lazy neighbour who didn’t dig their thistles etc. I spend roughly 1 man hour/acre digging thistles by hand, that’s without topping a few times a year. It’s all well these environmentalists/lobbyists/vegans shouting from the rooftops we all need to be ........ but when the country starts starving people will start swinging! [/QUOTE]
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