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<blockquote data-quote="Brisel" data-source="post: 6263958" data-attributes="member: 166"><p>A fallow would be another "crop" for diversification. Why the fixation on BPS? It will go in the next few years anyway. </p><p></p><p>The debate for that elusive profitable break crop continues! Can you afford not to crop the land for a growing season? Can you reduce your fixed costs by 1/3 to make up for the fact that you're concentrating them on a smaller area? A break even or small loss making crop of osr/pulses/oats/linseed looks good when you think about that. A fallow or cover crop generates no <em>direct</em> income unless you can get CS money for it because you're not harvesting anything.</p><p></p><p>If you could increase your farmed area then you can afford for land to be idle without increasing your fixed costs. Oh, hang on, you're paying rent or rent equivalent on that additional area that has to be funded somehow...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brisel, post: 6263958, member: 166"] A fallow would be another "crop" for diversification. Why the fixation on BPS? It will go in the next few years anyway. The debate for that elusive profitable break crop continues! Can you afford not to crop the land for a growing season? Can you reduce your fixed costs by 1/3 to make up for the fact that you're concentrating them on a smaller area? A break even or small loss making crop of osr/pulses/oats/linseed looks good when you think about that. A fallow or cover crop generates no [I]direct[/I] income unless you can get CS money for it because you're not harvesting anything. If you could increase your farmed area then you can afford for land to be idle without increasing your fixed costs. Oh, hang on, you're paying rent or rent equivalent on that additional area that has to be funded somehow... [/QUOTE]
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