To drill OSR or not

[Brisel]

£100 was supposed to include your "variable" elements like fuel. No point in arguing on the detail - a big % of fallow is a game changer for most.

 

[Flat 10]

£100 was supposed to include your "variable" elements like fuel. No point in arguing on the detail - a big % of fallow is a game changer for most.

I wasn’t just thinking about the other options

 

[lloyd]

Grow your own soya,feed it
to your cattle and market
beef as being non GM fully traceability fed.

 

[Brisel]

Grow your own soya,feed it
to your cattle and market
beef as being non GM fully traceability fed.

You'd need to cook it to make it palatable but the idea is sound. It's high time we made more of the non GM story.

https://www.forfarmersfeedlibrary.co.uk/products/all-products/hipro-soya.aspx?sector=Poultry

 

[teslacoils]

Grow your own soya,feed it
to your cattle and market
beef as being non GM fully traceability fed.

It's ace. So long as

1) your soya bothers to grow at all.
2) your cows don't succumb to a variety of badger related ailments.
3) folk buy your meat at a value to pay for your soya, time etc rather than balk if the idea and just go to McDonalds for a quarter pounder with cheese.

 

[lloyd]

It's ace. So long as

1) your soya bothers to grow at all.
2) your cows don't succumb to a variety of badger related ailments.
3) folk buy your meat at a value to pay for your soya, time etc rather than balk if the idea and just go to McDonalds for a quarter pounder with cheese.

1)My neighbour has reasonable success but I guess
not all areas would be suitable.
2)Again would have to choose areas carefully.
3)You would have to play the non GM fed card in your marketing.

The point is GM proteins should be banned from coming in the UK
Or let us grow GM crops that simple.
If we were allowed to grow GM crops we could possibly use less sprays .

 

[teslacoils]

The point is GM proteins should be banned from coming in the UK
Or let us grow GM crops that simple.
If we were allowed to grow GM crops we could possibly use less
Sprays .

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. But it's never going to happen. Nation of nimbys in more ways than just planning policy.

 

[lloyd]

That's the trouble with all this global price and climate b*lls*it
we are not allowed to play a fair game.
How can you be told your cows are a polluter when this country
Will happily import soya from areas of deforrestation.
Total hypocrisy.

 

[Brisel]

That's the trouble with all this global price and climate b*lls*it
we are not allowed to play a fair game.
How can you be told your cows are a polluter when this country
Will happily import soya from areas of deforrestation.
Total hypocrisy.

Yep, that's the world we live in. Have your environmental destruction offshore out of sight.

Time to adapt to it.

 

[T Hectares]

The Flea beetle have found my S Osr...
It could also have done with the 17mm that fell further along the Downs from us on Saturday night.
Rather like growing Rape last autumn so far!!!

The only crops of S Osr I've heard of north of me have been lost to FB, mines slowly getting away but I think the Barley cover crop is helping, if not exactly solving the problem

Area without SB

Area with SB

Next decision is wether to spray out the rape and keep the Barley, or spray out the Barley and keep the rape!!!

That missed 17mm would have probably made the decision easier

 

[Worm digger]

We have made the decision to drop WOSR, after losing 60ha to CSFB. Peas and Grass seed are going to replace the break.