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

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.

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.

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.

Herbal leys. This thread worries me.

Sorry to hear you're leaving the current place. New place sounds exciting though, good luck with it all.

Wonder where all the birds are going to come from this winter, because DEFRA have encouraged planting of A LOT of winter bird food.

Just label it as organic regen, and ask for more price premium?

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/

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)...

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.

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.

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...

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.

I think it's too complex to define "regenerative farming". One farmer direct drills wheat, spring barley, oilseed rape. Another has wheat, min-tills for 3 years of grazed grass, ploughs for wheat. Another ploughs every year but grows wholesome 5-a-day veg which we need for our diet. Another...

I don't suppose anything's perfect. Could have hens in coops of 5 and they could still string themselves up in the wire, but leave them outside to their own devices and fox will get them. However, supermarkets demand cheap food, and it shouldn't be so cheap that it affects welfare. If...

DEFRA pay us to put 25% down to flowers, then we're bound to import even more. It doesn't bother me, but if you want locally sourced food then 25% seems ott when we're already only 70% self sufficient in indigenous foodstuffs. Then they'll import cheap stuff and keep a lid on our prices. We can...

Pay sufficient to get as much home grown produce as possible. At least we're in control of our own production methods and don't need to ship it half way around the world.

That's an interesting point. If supermarkets want to see our data and cost of production, then can we see what price they're paying to processors for product and what their margin is.