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Whitewalker

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Surprised how the silage ground has sprung. Ground is still just about there to travel on . I’m just putting watery slurry on but some fields just won’t be spread now .
anyone else finding they are mixed emotions about spreading now ?
only for the price of fertiliser I think I’d probably pull out of spreading now .
 
Does anyone do their silage ground with a spring tine harrow routinely? There's bit off slurry crust still about from the dribble bar and was thinking it would break the crust up abit. Would it be any good or just a waste off time and diesel?
 

Happy at it

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Location
NI
Surprised how the silage ground has sprung. Ground is still just about there to travel on . I’m just putting watery slurry on but some fields just won’t be spread now .
anyone else finding they are mixed emotions about spreading now ?
only for the price of fertiliser I think I’d probably pull out of spreading now .

Very similar, for the first time I kept our ewes of alot of it, and I'm not exactly sure its been a good idea, that little bit of frost a few weeks back hurt it and would've been better cleared. Surely bound to be enough rain before cutting, it's never far away....
 

Whitewalker

Member
Does anyone do their silage ground with a spring tine harrow routinely? There's bit off slurry crust still about from the dribble bar and was thinking it would break the crust up abit. Would it be any good or just a waste off time and diesel?
Neighbours have dribble bared the slurry and tbh it doesn’t look too appealing to me .slurry dried in white lines
 

yin ewe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Antrim
Surprised how the silage ground has sprung. Ground is still just about there to travel on . I’m just putting watery slurry on but some fields just won’t be spread now .
anyone else finding they are mixed emotions about spreading now ?
only for the price of fertiliser I think I’d probably pull out of spreading now .

I've nearly all our silage ground to do yet, going to use slurry from the store as it's thinner. I'd think there will be enough rain to wash it in between now and the 3rd week of May.
 

The Agrarian

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
Neighbours have dribble bared the slurry and tbh it doesn’t look too appealing to me .slurry dried in white lines

I've nearly all our silage ground to do yet, going to use slurry from the store as it's thinner. I'd think there will be enough rain to wash it in between now and the 3rd week of May.

All in all, regardless of method, it's tough weather for spreading slurry. When it goes on dry and gets baked like this, no rain is going to touch it in the near term. Fairly tricky spring for applying - wet land but plenty of grass on it. Still, it's not the end of the world if it doesn't all go on now.
 

cowboysupper

Member
Mixed Farmer
Can sfp be claimed off land covered in heather,is heather protected

Yes, to a point as per attached image. DAERA proposing to do away with all land eligibility rules in the new scheme..
 

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A benchmark which none of our processors measure up to!
This is why we are meeting with farmers to show them the full system and ask you to talk to your processors. The processors are realising that they are having to change the way they are working because all their input costs are rising as well and are not managing that risk as well as they could be. Rather than pass losses back to the farmers by reducing the milk price they can insulate themselves in the background in the market. That's where we help the milk processors on the other side. For farmers to win the processor also has to win.
 
Exactly, so what difference is this new app going to make🤷‍♂️
The app and the risk management platfrom behind it, will at least give processors a chance to be able to hit these benchmarks. Milk processors were initially set-up to process milk into, milk, butter, powders, cheese etc. and not be commodity traders. Since the abolishion of the quotas and new tools becoming available processors haven't been given the tools and the training to manage this risk. The easy option is, if they make a loss is to reduce the milk price to compensate for it, so the farmer ends up absorbing all the price shocks in the market.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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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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