If there’s ever an advert ......

[warksfarmer]

For grazing livestock on arable fields. Pics don’t really do it justice but on the right it had stubble turnips planted in September and sheep went on in Dec - end of Feb. On the left was just a mustard cover crop.

 

[Wooly]

Sheep wern't called the golden hoof for no reason !!

I think we should start charging these arable farmers for using our sheep to graze their crops. Us sheep farmers have been conned into thinking the arable farmers were doing us a favour ...............

That's two costs saved; sheep keep and FA ....... I love this internet and TFF

 

[Barleycorn]

Used to be called farming!

 

[roscoe erf]

Used to be called farming!

Some still do

 

[DrWazzock]

For grazing livestock on arable fields. Pics don’t really do it justice but on the right it had stubble turnips planted in September and sheep went on in Dec - end of Feb. On the left was just a mustard cover crop.

The mustard has tied up the nitrogen. The sheep have released it in useable form.

 

[DrWazzock]

But let’s make life as difficult as possible for mixed farmers.

 

[Hindsight]

But let’s make life as difficult as possible for mixed farmers.

Nitrogen in mustard residues will mineralise over coming weeks.

 

[David.]

Did the turnips have fertilizer put on them, guess the mustard didn't?

 

[warksfarmer]

Did the turnips have fertilizer put on them, guess the mustard didn't?

Both had sewage cake only.

 

[delilah]

But let’s make life as difficult as possible for mixed farmers.

SFI/ ELMS as it stands has managed to perform quite a feat.
It is both horrendously complicated, in the prescriptive nature of the options, and at the same time naively simplistic, in the way in which it puts 'arable farmer' in one box and 'livestock farmer' in a quite separate box.
I still don't know whether to laugh or cry at the different payment rates for a tree according to whether it stands in a field of wheat or a field of grass.
@Defra Farming
@The Man from the Ministry

 

[Bury the Trash]

Nitrogen in mustard residues will mineralise over coming weeks.

Looks like it wants it now

 

[Stuart J]

Is this new??

 

[Bury the Trash]

Nope.

 

[robs1]

They are great if it's not heavy clay and or they dont overstay their welcome