Plastic free farming - somebody needs to do something.

cousinjack

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Its made me think why folks just done do half size quadrants for all there silage bales tho?
poss as in a round bale it suits there feeding system maybes?
round balers much much cheaper for the smaller outfits to justfy having there own?
but yeah its quite easy to remove string from all the bigger sq bales when they are straw is it much diff if in silage & wrapped?
Round balers are much cheaper to buy, run and maintain than the big square balers...

And have you seen the price of square bale wrappers ? o_O
 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Had someone phone up today doing a long survey for one of the net manufacturers looking at the problem of plastic and asking for opinion on what the best way forward would be as to recycling or biodegradable or edible net. also asked if I would be happy to pay more for it or pay for kit so the baler would use it or if I would except more downtime in it taking longer to change rolls of having to change rolls more often.
From what I could gather the net manufacturer is working on the problem or at least thinking about ways to solve it
 

Barleymow

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Ipswich
@Clive please approach somebody like kelvin cave or biotal and tell them you have the leverage of 41,000 members of TFF who are going to chase them around their office water coolers until they provide biodegradable /edible silage wrap / sheet / string
what's wrong with tap water rather drink that than water from a plastic container
 

O'Reilly

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These bits of string can't be good for the environment. There must be eight on a four string bale, but you rarely see all of them. I try to pick them up, but I bet I'm in the minority. There must be billions of these bits spread across fields worldwide every year.
 

Turkish_FR

Member
Mixed Farmer
Hemp/Cannabis could be used instead of plastic bags and could be used for many other things provided from oil but oil companies dont like the idea. I have read that before 1920's it was a widely used plant and then about 1930's the use of it restricted by court decisions.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
Hemp/Cannabis could be used instead of plastic bags and could be used for many other things provided from oil but oil companies dont like the idea. I have read that before 1920's it was a widely used plant and then about 1930's the use of it restricted by court decisions.
if you used bale net, made from hemp/cannabis, would that mean, if, you left the net on, would you have 'happy' cows?
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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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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