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    Fertiliser Price Tracker

    Compound?
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    Bison to save the planet

    333kg CO2 produced per tonne of grain fermented, although it was CO2 before the barley plant photosynthesised it, so it doesn't really matter.
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    Ground Nesting Birds, Bees and Leverets.

    Seems like the government take more notice of RSPB than they do farmers, which is great if you put more importance on bird feeding than feeding humans.
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    Ground Nesting Birds, Bees and Leverets.

    If they run with SFI for a few years, then have an about turn and scrap it year 2030, we could end up with a load of little birds but no food for them. RSPB will have a hissy fit.
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    Ground Nesting Birds, Bees and Leverets.

    Only thing they've forgotten is food for the humans. That's not our problem and could give us price rises, but I'd have thought food security was a government responsibility.
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    Is there less thistles?

    Herbal leys. This thread worries me.
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    Is there less thistles?

    Sorry to hear you're leaving the current place. New place sounds exciting though, good luck with it all.
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    Ground Nesting Birds, Bees and Leverets.

    Wonder where all the birds are going to come from this winter, because DEFRA have encouraged planting of A LOT of winter bird food.
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    Which is better? Organic or Regenerative produced food?

    Just label it as organic regen, and ask for more price premium?
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    Red Tractor at it again with the WWF

    The beef & lamb chair said he was disappointed the contents of the board meeting were leaked to the press. This doesn't seem to fit their pretence that they're going to be transparent. https://redtractorassurance.org.uk/sector-board-updates/beef-lamb-spring-2024/
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    Red Tractor at it again with the WWF

    With the AHDB beef & lamb assurance review, they didn't even think to find out what proportion of N Zealand lamb coming here was assured (or not). I'd have thought that would've been an obvious thing to do. So how much use will the one be for Combinables? Don't know. Problem is AHDB (and NFU)...
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    Red Tractor at it again with the WWF

    If AHDB can't get these mills toaccept our grain by same method as imports, and insist on RT/SQC, we ahould ask AHDB to get these mills to pay our RT costs. Borda Bia manage something similar in Ireland.
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    Red Tractor at it again with the WWF

    Hopefully, when AHDB have done their review of imported grain assurance, we'll have some info on how the French co-ops get their grain into the assured grain chain. Then we can look to copy it. If AIC accept French crops but not ours, then they're not going to have much of a leg to stand on.
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    Red Tractor at it again with the WWF

    Note they want to decide for us that it's for feed grains only. Looks like individual milling businesses are being discouraged from deciding for themselves what standard they're happy with. Red Tractor knows best. Unless all the farmers dump full fat RT and only do the Entry Level, then flour...
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    Which is better? Organic or Regenerative produced food?

    We've to be careful not to just look at a single metric though. Ukraine might be able to produce cereals more efficiently and sustainably than we can, but contract it all out to them and we haven't any food security or much influence on pesticide use.
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