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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 7956763" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>Let's hope the LNR pays better than SFI. Afraid SFI asks for too much inflexibility with little choice of options to suit individual farm circumstances, and pays too little.</p><p></p><p>If you are already farming in that way, then fine, claim the cash. If you have to alter YOUR system which suits YOUR land, then fulfilling the prescriptions won't cover the payment or inflexibility. Not really anyway.</p><p></p><p>[USER=2119]@DrWazzock[/USER] talks of badgers and buzzards etc.. He's right, they're taking the ground nesting birds. Oh hum.</p><p></p><p>On a positive note, I've some AB11 Cultivated Areas For Arable Plants [USER=153068]@Janet Hughes Defra[/USER] . Prescription is to leave until 1st of September, bit it's going a spring crop, so I left it all winter. The corn marigolds grew as per desire of the option, but also lots of fat hen. Now full of yellowhammers and linnets (or something), enjoying the fat hen.</p><p></p><p>Just as a suggestion, we've some AB15 2 year legume fallow, which is fine, but plays havoc with arable rotations. If there was a 1 year option, to autumn drill afterwards, that would he great. Think now enhanced overwinter stubble can have a cover sown on it??? That sort of thing would be a good option. Singe year in the rotation, adding OM, keeping weeds like broke and black grass smothered, all good. Maybe some flexibility to mow or spray any patches of such weeds would he a good idea. Weed seed return is a big issue, and can do more harm than good. We might be talking about 6m around the edge, or a little patch, hit that flexibility could save A LOT of herbicides in the following crops.</p><p></p><p>Thanks Janet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 7956763, member: 23184"] Let's hope the LNR pays better than SFI. Afraid SFI asks for too much inflexibility with little choice of options to suit individual farm circumstances, and pays too little. If you are already farming in that way, then fine, claim the cash. If you have to alter YOUR system which suits YOUR land, then fulfilling the prescriptions won't cover the payment or inflexibility. Not really anyway. [USER=2119]@DrWazzock[/USER] talks of badgers and buzzards etc.. He's right, they're taking the ground nesting birds. Oh hum. On a positive note, I've some AB11 Cultivated Areas For Arable Plants [USER=153068]@Janet Hughes Defra[/USER] . Prescription is to leave until 1st of September, bit it's going a spring crop, so I left it all winter. The corn marigolds grew as per desire of the option, but also lots of fat hen. Now full of yellowhammers and linnets (or something), enjoying the fat hen. Just as a suggestion, we've some AB15 2 year legume fallow, which is fine, but plays havoc with arable rotations. If there was a 1 year option, to autumn drill afterwards, that would he great. Think now enhanced overwinter stubble can have a cover sown on it??? That sort of thing would be a good option. Singe year in the rotation, adding OM, keeping weeds like broke and black grass smothered, all good. Maybe some flexibility to mow or spray any patches of such weeds would he a good idea. Weed seed return is a big issue, and can do more harm than good. We might be talking about 6m around the edge, or a little patch, hit that flexibility could save A LOT of herbicides in the following crops. Thanks Janet. [/QUOTE]
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