Introduction
Hi all, this thread is part of my masters research into SSAD - below is a information sheet about my dissertation and then a link to the Questionnaire.
If you have the time please read over it and then complete the form.
QUESTIONNAIRE LINK
Exploring the Environmental and Economic...
I've recently been visiting several local farms volunteering my labour for free on evenings and weekends and so far, every response has been a no.
Am I missing something? I would have thought farmers would be happy to have an extra pair of hands to help out when needed, especially for free...
I was dagging ewes yesterday and it became very clear that one group were the worst offenders.
I bought 40 shearlings direct off another farm last July. After quarantine they have been run with the rest of the ewes since the run up to tupping. Not been treated any different to my other ewes...
As title. Our forager costs £30 an acre. By the end of the month we will have completed second cut and so have a foraging cost of £60 and acre where the day before he will be finishing a thick first cut and might be charged out a smidge more than my 30 for twice the grass.
Wagons straightforward...
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More NZ Lamb.
Funding available for nutrient management solutions
Written by Joss Wallace
With good nutrient management, farmers and growers can increase their productivity and protect the environment too.
Nutrient management involves using either organic or manufactured nutrients as efficiently as...
Managing a small herd of longhorns here.Lovely quiet cows untill they have a calf, then it's as if a switch has been flicked and they suddenly become possessed by the devil.
This of course then becomes exacerbated when you have calves that don't suck; big traffic cone tits to latch onto; tagging...
So, things have changed a little, organic is the old school, flat cap wearing, tweed kinda feel. Regenerative is the new kid on the block, rather edgy, slick style but promising a down to earth feel. So in the marketing eyes of the British Retail Consortium who are they going to run with? Who...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/other/the-era-of-cheap-food-is-over-says-waitrose-chief/ar-BB1m1RgF?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=5d621007c54744bd82a9d519360dd520&ei=28
James Bailey, the executive director of Waitrose, says he is determined the supermarket should lead the way in...
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
A British organic fertiliser manufacturer has developed a new fish-based fertiliser which promises to significantly increase microbial life, including bacteria and fungi.
In a series of trials using its Biocore Land product, a fertiliser made by...
I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops | Guy Singh-Watson
Written by Guy Singh-Watson from the Guardian
The climate crisis is making the farming business unsustainable – and without support for us, food security will suffer too
Guy Singh-Watson is...
worst I've seen here for years, reckon the rain made autumn sprays short lived and broadway star seems to have done very little this spring
Rye grass and not blackgrass thankfully, but 2024 is certainly not a year where its easy to take a lot of pride in a farm
Is it just me or are others...
Hi everyone
I'm looking for some advice on how to approach renting between 0.5-1 acre of land for small-scale cut flower production.
I run a small business growing and selling fresh and dried cut flowers, which has been working on a small scale up until this point. I currently grow in my...
Martin Freeman has revealed he has given up being a vegetarian after 38 years because meat replacement products are 'very, very processed'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13370781/Martin-Freeman-reveals-given-vegetarianism-38-years-concerns-meat-replacements-processed.html
RABDF Down to Earth, the regenerative livestock farming event, will be hosted at a housed cow unit for the second year in a row; cows milked 3x per day, I understand it to be "high input, high output".
Not knocking confinement systems, but can this system really be regenerative?
I believe that...
Lower Pertwood Farm near Warminster, a 2800 acre downland arable, sheep, and cattle unit is to be all reverted back to grassland, with trees planted and lightly grazed with cattle, sheep, horses and pigs. I can't do links, but perhaps somebody will, just google 'Lower Pertwood Farm rewilding'...
https://www.agindustries.org.uk/static/f3ed730f-d263-4ae4-b6ca0858e50c2a21/Assessment-of-AIC-gatekeeper-in-the-UK-March-2022-presentation.pdf
think this shows 2 things
1) they will make it as hard as possible (which we already know)
2) they are concerned about competition law 🤔
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