Will ELMs = more dairy farms?

[Scholsey]

If ELMs rewards long term grass leys which imo is inevitable will we see a influx of new dairy farms with grants available for robots and concrete helping set up costs?

 

[More to life]

If ELMs rewards long term grass leys which imo is inevitable will we see a influx of new dairy farms with grants available for robots and concrete helping set up costs?

Planning and environmental restrictions will keep the breaks on.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Planning and environmental restrictions will keep the breaks on.

And the availability of milk supply contracts surely?

 

[Clive]

And the availability of milk supply contracts surely?

brexit might sort that !

 

[lazy farmer]

brexit might sort that !

Fairly neutral in terms of tonnages exported and imported.what those tonnages are is a different matter.

 

[jondear]

Who's going to go on all the ski trips when gets back to normal if more people milking cows!

 

[farmboy]

Who's going to go on all the ski trips when gets back to normal if more people milking cows!

Who’s going to milk all the cows??

 

[unlacedgecko]

Who’s going to milk all the cows??

Russians and robots.

 

[farmerm]

Who’s going to milk all the cows??

the robots... read original post

 

[farmboy]

the robots... read original post

Not convinced

 

[vantage]

Russians and robots.

Speaking to a chap the other day who was putting another 200 cows on, asked him “You’ve got a rotary?” To which he answered, “ No, I’ve got Romanians!”

 

[Tarw Coch]

If ELMs rewards long term grass leys which imo is inevitable will we see a influx of new dairy farms with grants available for robots and concrete helping set up costs?

It could work against my type of dairy farming with medium term grass leys rotated with wheat and/or maize.
I believe under current defra categories anything in grass longer than 5 years is classed as permanent pasture which could well be quite a lot of the fields that go into an arable break yet I would say by most farmers definition I don’t have any permanent pasture.

 

[Scholsey]

It could work against my type of dairy farming with medium term grass leys rotated with wheat and/or maize.
I believe under current defra categories anything in grass longer than 5 years is classed as permanent pasture which could well be quite a lot of the fields that go into an arable break yet I would say by most farmers definition I don’t have any permanent pasture.

I think with the loss of wire worm seed dressings 5 years will be longest rotational grass will be left down for anyway.

 

[Tarw Coch]

I think with the loss of wire worm seed dressings 5 years will be longest rotational grass will be left down for anyway.

I’m sure all these things come about through good intentions but there could be unintended consequences, I might have to resort to increased use of the plough

 

[Scholsey]

I’m sure all these things come about through good intentions but there could be unintended consequences, I might have to resort to increased use of the plough

There will be ploughs sold long after the last drum of glyphosate is.