"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

awkward

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kerry ireland
quick one as ive finally got the go ahead to book an agronomist in for minerla soil tests - anything worth specifically asking for.?.. so far - Soil OM, PH , then P, K, Mg
being on limestone i wonder if Ca is also worth looking at? anything worth NOT getting?
Cation exchange ,ratios of micro nutrients, all could be good but for one excess or shortage and you lose balance, boron for one is overlooked in grassland, but is vital for calcium which is important for nitrogen and so on
 

Treg

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Does anyone have experience of

I was going to rubbish it until I seen the name at the end....
Top bloke.
Done farm inspection s all over the world.
Coolest farmer I ever met ....by far.
If anybody can make a difference in farming it would be Wayne .
I wish him the best of luck in this venture (y)
 

Tim W

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
I was going to rubbish it until I seen the name at the end....
Top bloke.
Done farm inspection s all over the world.
Coolest farmer I ever met ....by far.
If anybody can make a difference in farming it would be Wayne .
I wish him the best of luck in this venture (y)
I can find their standards for welfare & grassfed but not for their definition of ''Regen'' ?
 

awkward

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Location
kerry ireland
I always question these things, why , I do my best but admit I have more to do and probably will always , but putting standards in place ,who decided where the baseline is, we aim to improve all we do little by little as we can afford it, but find regulation changes to often and is impatient, and easily ignores the progress we make, I'm afraid this will become another stick to beat ourselves with.
 

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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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