Written by Clive Bailye Knowledge is power and it’s exchange is valuable. When I first considered changing the way we farmed I quicky began to realise and understand I didn’t really know how to, I needed to learn, fast.# I sought out others that had the experience and skill set I knew I needed to …
Written by Steve Ridsdale, Arable Farmer All eyes now on AIC and thefeed mills Red Tractor (RT) released a statement on 23rd November from Jim Moseley, chief executive of RT, saying “Red Tractor recognises and supports the principle for all UK growers to be free to choose which markets they access, whether they are assured …
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If you are like us, then you don’t know where to start when it comes to other reading apart from farming magazines.However, there is so much information out there that can help us understand our businesses, farm better andunderstand the position of non-farmers. We have listed a few more books you might find interesting, challenge …
If this issue of Direct Drilling says anything, it is that farmers are not afraid of change. Every one of the farmer focus articles describes how the contributor has made changes to many of the inputs under their control. It provides a vast amount of highly relevant and valuable information for all involved in arable …
The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government or organisation has withstood a challenge of this percentage of their population or membership mobilised against it during a peak event. This rule is based on an insight that political scientist Mark Lichbach developed in his 1995 book “The Rebel’s Dilemma”. In it, he speculates …
Despite the pandemic and the likely economic crises in its wake, people continue to experience a growing anxiety concerning greenhouse gases (GHG) and climate change, which extends to include farms and food production. While farming, and the process of photosynthesis, is one of the few ways of reducing CO2, livestock production and soil cultivation release …
There is so much talk about carbon at the moment, and there is no doubt that farmers will make some income by changing practices to sequester a bit more carbon. Buying HVO versions of Red Diesel is just an example of a way to do this. It costs you are little more to fill the …
Written by Wayne D. Rasmussen and published with kind consent of the USDA National Agricultural Library On May 15, 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act of Congress establishing “at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture.” Two and one-half years later, in what was to be his last …
Written By Steve Ridsdale Combinable crop direct drillers have found ways to cut establishment costs, whilst at the same time aiming to increase the resilience and productive capacity of their soils. At the other end of the production cycle, comes our output in the form of crop sales. We want to be competitive producers and …
Growers Dismayed At The Unlevel Playing Field Of Grain Read More »
As a reader of the magazine, we are sure you appreciate good quality, nutrient dense food, but it isn’t always that easy to know where to buy from. We are introducing this feature to highlight those farms who are selling direct and therefore maximising their profits, not just benefitting the wider supply chains. We would …
