Wet weather and temporary adjustments to agri-environment agreements
Written by The Team
Credit: James Clark
Between October 2023 and March 2024, England experienced the second wettest 6-month period on record. The rainfall was nearly 60% above the 10-year average.
Heavy rainfall has a...
Stats you need to know about the Sustainable Farming Incentive
Written by Amy Cairns
Today, we updated the data showing the uptake of actions in the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and the uptake of options in Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (CS).
As of 1...
Webinar follow up: livestock and grassland
Written by Becky Briggs
We recently held a webinar for livestock and grassland farmers in England. A recording is embedded above.
In the webinar, we gave an overview of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer and how the scheme supports both...
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For this month’s topical cereal disease and agronomy feature, CPM reviews insights from AHDB’s re-run Early Bird Survey coupled with added reflections from agronomists and farmers.
By Janine Adamson
One thing’s for certain – this year...
Heavy rain again last night.
Can not see the blocks being dry enough for at least 2 weeks if we get no more rain.
If it stays wet, when is it to late to drill?
Would you still get paid if not redrilled if it's not possible?
Cant get through on the helpline and its upto 30 days for a reply to an email, but has anybody found a way around this .........
Application submitted and offer sent out but this was rejected as I wanted to alter it. I've created a new application and gone through the motions however come up...
Just wondering if there's any further information out yet as to what constitutes no till in the eyes of SFI?
Is it a dts/mzuri/claydon direct into stubble?
Or is it going to be lower disturbance tine or disc?
Supposedly a claydon grain and fert meets the grant spec with the leading tine applying...
we’ve accepted an SFI offer and have 45ha of AHL2 split up into 10 blocks. On the offer we obviously named the fields for this year it’ll go in. However due to a last minute change to cropping I need to swap an area around. The total area will remain the same so is this just done on the annual...
How late have people gone, and still got a successful crop, obviously so many variables but interested in experiences had....direct drilled into terminated cover crop too.
Going off the back of the recent news from Defra and reading the current thread about it it would be interesting to see exactly how much land people where actually considering taking out of production.
Thers a lot complaining about not being able to enter more than 25% into the 6 options that...
starting a new thread so i can have a 'rant'
sfi.....Fekked Up Beyond All Recognition
what happens now?,,,,are we?
1/supposed to put 25% of land into conservation then take that money and subsidise food ergo putting it mr tesco's pocket?
2/ have 'bird cover entitlements' been created so...
Why we’re putting area limits on some SFI actions
Written by The Team
Credit: Andrew
Whether you’re designing a new product or policy, testing and gradual rollouts allow teams to gather feedback, grow in understanding and make improvements in a controlled way.
From the beginning — and for...
Anyone managed to grab bits? I grabbed some real light bits but any clay and it’s a wet shitty mess. Not sure when to throw the towel in and go for sfi
Im thinking about what to put on the fields before ahl2 next year after wheat ,some sort of cover crop or offer it to local dairy men to puts some westerwolds in a bit like they do before maize
I’ve a number of last years ewe lambs running , the plan was to sell half as shearling breeding ewes as they are decent sorts.
But the price of hogs at the moment means they need to be £250 plus as shearlings……
Starting a new thread because the other one has got too long to find any information within it.
So this AHL2 option in SFI looks ok initially but not so sure when you dig deeper. The aim is copied below and in the ‘how to do it’ section it says ‘It’s up to you how you complete this action, as...
A little project to fit auto rate control and variable rate control to a Stocks FanJet Plus, this has an electric driven metering wheel,
that at present is controlled at a set speed from a VS-2 control box:
So I'm using an RC11 PCB the same as for my Knight Sprayer,
This has a motor...
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