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teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
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

Member
Location
Herefordshire
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

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
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.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
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

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Berkshire
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
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Area with SB
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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
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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