why not try bydv resistant varieties ?
What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed
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why not try bydv resistant varieties ?
warksfarmer
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If that’s true then it will be people using the new grant to buy new direct drills so getting rid of what they’ve already got.
If the future of U.K. cropping is ploughing then it has no future. Irrelevant of the cost of doing that and subsequent passes to establish a crop, it doesn’t suit the current narrative to reduce carbon.
Hindsight
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They are a relatively new introduction Clive. That disease prone one from two years ago and now Grouse. More coming along but not quite yet. And without checking Grouse the other one was not resistant if I recall but tolerant. Think the Winter Barleys same, though do please correct me if I an wrong. Wolverine. Remember now.
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May not suit the narrative, but I routinely get better crops where I plough. The one thing about narrratives, is that they arre driven by the actual narrator. And that narrator is subject to change. With reduction in decent actives, and poorly paying break crops, SFI was in a good place to offer alternative paying crops to replace beans, osr etc.
I mean, lets be honest, if you were a farmer paying a FBT rent, would growing beans, osr, linseed actually produce a margin?
Concentrate crop production on the best ground and shove the rest into stewardship. Lack of actives, and lack of profit from break crops have brought me back to two crops - feed wheat and spring barley.
The way to reducing carbon is not to have a great raft of farmers growing 6t/ha wheat crops, but to have half that many growing 12t crops. And have the rest of the land in SFI.
glasshouse
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- lothians
The current narrative is bollox
DD doesnt work in a wet year
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I think it will here, I won't know for sure till harvest, but I am very happy with how it looks so far.
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- East yorks
Neither does anything else in a wet year
glasshouse
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- lothians
Sowed wheat behind the plough on nov 29 in a blizzard
Now looking good
No chance with DD
Average Farmerboy
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This ploughed field for second wheat worked, picture taken today in the sunshine.
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Best field locally was sown with a rapid.
Wasn’t that wet if you were drilling in Nov
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- East yorks
Locally I can show you failed everything. The establishment has little bearing more the date, sept everything worked. October on, lottery
Average Farmerboy
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Yes I’m lucky to have Cotswold brash, but we do burn out quick. That is skyfall planted about 17th October.
Lads land
glasshouse
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- lothians
Grows better planted with lights on?
Think what you could have had with two beacons flashing too.
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- Near Beeston Castle
Is the aim to produce a profitable crop or to fit in with the narrative?
TBH I couldn't give two hoots for the narrative, I will do what I think is best. If I get that wrong my business will suffer no matter what the narrative. (ignoring the fact that the current narrative is to get rid of farmers anyway)
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- East yorks
Exactly thats why i don;t think there is a right or wrong way to establish a crop. They all work and they all fail.
glasshouse
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- lothians
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- Lincolnshire
Aye, all round here is shyte. The best looking stuff was ploughed, dragged level, spun on and power harrowed in. There are some real, real shockers here.
glasshouse
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Eh no