Agrimart February 2025 Issue

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BORED Wendy writes January 2025 Christmas came and went as did New Year. For over a month I have been nowhere. Bogdan occasionally starts me up and moves me away from the pile of woodchip I stare at every day to load the bunker for the biomass boiler. Then he drives me back again, slightly further into the barn which keeps the drafts out but I am still exposed to the elements. It was extremely cold last week, and whilst ‘Big M’ the sprayer was parked on the heated drying floor I was frozen to my chassis. Just because he has got pipes and pumps he enjoys preferential treatment over yours truly. I have important bits too you know and I am much older than him so why can’t I have a warm bedroom as well? I know I might leak a bit, nothing a small nappy wouldn’t absorb. I don’t know why I’m asking as it is a lost cause.

There must be someone, somewhere who wants something pulled. I have a shed to move here later this month which should stop me seizing up but hardly a journey to warm my wheels and tyres. I will ask him to go through my customer database and communicate with the most likely candidates enquiring if they have any work. The problem is he charges a lot, if it was up to me I would do it for the pleasure of the pull, but not him. Life is not all about money as I see it. It is more about a taut cable and the thrill of seeing that static object move from where it has been sat for the past year and slowly, slowly come towards me. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than a job well pulled.

Z M A S S E Y F E R G U S O N R V L L H R B H A T O B U K T Here’s hoping that when he is away yet again, orders for work S O N I A F O R L A I J Y E L N Z I S G E R T O F T T U Z R will come flooding in and with a younger operator I will be out E Q G K C Y M S E T H K I V R and about doing the job I love.

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GENERAL FARM WORKER / TRACTOR DRIVER NEEDED Due to growth, we are looking to employ a full-time general farm worker / tractor driver for our mixed beef, sheep and arable farm near Ellingham, Northumberland.

We are looking for a skilled individual with a can-do attitude, who can work both alone and within a team. Work will primarily be based working with our store/fat lambs & cattle enterprise, taking on the day-to-day tasks involved with caring for the stock, but may include tractor work during busy times of the year.

Applicants must have full UK driver’s license.

Job Responsibilities: • Feeding and Bedding Cattle • Mucking out sheds • All aspects of getting store lambs ready for sale as fat, including Dozing, Jagging, foot trimming, weighing and grading lambs. Please note there is no lambing to do within this role.

• Tractor aspects may include leading corn, bales, muck, and moving stock between sites, help with silage etc.

Full in-house training will be provided on all the above and any external training where necessary.

Hours: The typical working week is 08.00-17.00 Monday to Friday.

Weekends are rotated on a shared basis between other workers whilst stock are housed during the winter.

Salary is negotiable based on experience. Please note there is no accommodation currently available with this job.

All applications are dealt with in strict confidence, please send your CV and a covering letter via email to rachel@northumbrianqualityfeeds.co.uk or via post to Rachel Fife, Northumbrian Quality Feeds ltd, Easington Farm, Belford, Northumberland, NE70 7EG

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Based in the Scottish Borders for 50 years, we provide the following services to domestic clients, farms and industry throughout Scotland, the North of England and beyond: • Well drilling • Design, supply and installation of pumping, control and water treatment systems • Maintenance of pumping, control and water treatment systems • Well maintenance and rehabilitation services • Private water supply assessments, reporting and rehabilitation

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The Old Smiddy, Graden, Kelso, TD5 8BS Telephone : 01573 430338 Email : info@walkergroundworks.com Walker Groundworks are a long-serving company, established in 1996, covering a working area including but not restricted to the Scottish Borders, Northumberland and the Lothians.

Our highly skilled and dedicated team are here to help with any of the following works: • Earthworks/Site Preparation/Roads • Crushing • Groundworks/Plotworks • Deep Drainage • Field Drainage & Ditching • River Works • Concrete Flooring for Agricultural/Industrial Shed (Laid with highly accurate Laser Screed, with finish to meet clients' requirements) • All Timber work undertaken – including Harvesting, Hand Cutting, Thinnings & Clear Fell • Haulage including Heavy Plant Movement, Timber Haulage & Hiab Hire • In house Welding Engineer/Steel Fabricator • In house setting out engineer/surveyor

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JetVac Services • Up to 1000mm diameter drain jetting capacity • Gully sucking/emptying • Flood water vacuum response • Septic tank emptying/de-sludging Drain Repairs/Installation Services • Excavation & repairs • Public sewer connections • Adoptable sewer installations • Pumping mains/stations installations

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On Our Farm

January 15th 2025

Hugo Lee farms in partnership with his father, Guy, at Sandystones, near St Boswells. Arable crops of wheat, oilseed rape, malting barley and oats are grown, 500 Angus cattle are finished annually, 8000 organic hens produce eggs for Waitrose and 8,000 organic point of lay pullets are reared each year.

Christmas seems to get busier every year as the children get older. This Christmas had everything from a cousins wedding, reels party, Boxing Day football match, children’s meet, family shoot and a New Year’s Eve hockey match! The house never seemed to be empty with a continuous stream of cousins and friends passing through. There were some early mornings and late evenings spent on the farm to ensure all the jobs were done without clashing with the day’s entertainment.

Frustratingly I always seem to get ill at Christmas and this year has been worse than ever. The cough has now gone but I have lost my voice for over a month Great turnout for New Year’s Eve hockey now which is very frustrating for me and a blessing for others?!

I enjoy spreadsheets and analysing how the business is performing financially. With so many different enterprises it is important we don’t lose track of were we are. I simply don’t have the time especially during the spring and summer to do it all myself. I am very grateful to my father, as many of you know has a passion for spreadsheets, for helping. Our year end is December 31st so we always kick off the New Year with a review, the highlights of which are below.

2024 was wet, cold and dull, not good for arable farming! It was my 7th harvest since I came home and by far our worst yields across the board except for Winter wheat. Sunlight, yields and margin were all down 20%. Thankfully the hens fared much better helped by a low feed price and good egg price; it looks like it could be our best year ever. The cattle have done ok but nothing record breaking, the increase in fat price over the past few months has really helped. It has been another good year for the Treehouse. Bookings were down slightly on the year but this was not unexpected with the cost of living crisis.

Everyone is back on the farm after their Christmas break and we are getting ready to deplete, move, wash and restock one of the hen sheds. I hope that we don’t have another cold snap as it makes the whole job an absolute nightmare with water pipes freezing and sheds getting stuck to the ground. We managed to take advantage of the recent good weather and get the muck barn emptied which is always a relief. Travelling conditions were perfect and the spreader barely made a mark.

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Talking......from the boundary

January 15th 2025 I feel very fortunate to be asked to walk over farms and estates in the pursuit of sport. Two days ago I was on a friends farm in Northumberland, his daughter has taken over the running of the shoot with real enthusiasm and great organisation.

The party was a mix of young and old, whilst we ‘Old Farts’ complain about Government and taxes, the conversation with the generation down was much more about carbon and technology. Our host works for a Natural Capital investment business, another of the junior members was involved with technology analysing carbon sequestration and crop demands using satellite imagery, one was in high end UK tourism mostly with Americans and the fourth had returned home to Guy Lee take on management of the family estate. They were all full of hope and prepared for the challenges of the future.

Fellow writers in Agrimart this month are all venting their anger at environmentalist and politicians. From New Zealand to Northern Europe directions and diktats are imposing regulations that are neither practical nor workable. They are dreamed up in offices or more likely ‘written from home’ with no experience of the effect of their decisions on the ground. None more so than the £100 million tunnel on HS2 to protect bats.

We have just had an excavator here digging a ha-ha between the garden and field by the house. Impossible to see from the garden side the ditch is deep enough to protect us from any invaders either 2 or 4 legged! We will put an electric fence in the bottom of the trench which will maintain the illusion and mean we will not need to build a wall to keep stock out.

We are off to Kenya next month visiting our youngest daughter and family who live in Nairobi. This time we are going Lauderdale Agricultural Discussion Society on a guided seven day trek with camels Ha-ha ditch 1944 Chairman: Ian MacDougall, Over Blainslie 2024 carrying all the gear for sleeping and eating in the The last meeting of our season is being held on bush. With no electricity Wednesday 19 February, 7pm to charge devices next in the Lauderdale Hotel, Lauder month’s article could be challenging, I will have ‘Quiz’ followed by AGM pen and paper but catching Sponsored by Rennie Welch a pigeon going in the right direction could be more Quizmasters: Graham Lofthouse & Stephen Young difficult. If nothing appears from me in the March issue Please come along and bring a neighbour or friend Ha-ha ditch viewed from the garden side don’t be alarmed!

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Talking......New Zealand

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Ian Mackenzie is an arable and dairy farmer from the Canterbury Plain in the South Island of New Zealand. He runs a number of fully irrigated intensive cropping farms, producing grain, vegetable and grass seeds with some stock finishing.

One of the things that makes the Ashburton district a great place to live is the people… when it counts, they tend to get stuff sorted.

Lake Camp is a popular water sport lake in the Ashburton high country. In its natural state the lake level varies considerably. At least 70 years ago a diversion from a small river was built to put water into the lake to keep it full. This was in the days when permissions weren’t needed other than from the landowner. In this case the landowner Sausage rolls watching Dad sort calves. built the diversion.

Better than the movies.

In the 90’s bureaucracy required this diversion to be retrospectively consented.

Unfortunately 2 years ago this consent not only expired but a flood destroyed the diversion.

Last year was a humdinger of a drought in the high country and without the diversion the lake dropped so low that it was unsafe for boating and the good people of Ashburton came to me for advice on how to renew the consent for the diversion.

I naively thought it should be a simple process.

The effect on the river, the environment and biodiversity values are minimal and well understood and have been acceptable for the last 70 years. The local Ashburton district council (ADC) gave their support and there was a groundswell of support from the community. The cost to reinstate the diversion was estimated to be only $2500.

All good.

Unfortunately, as happens in those bloody awful zombie movies… the half dead, The tarn that feeds the lake. recycled bottle top fleecy wearing, bearded, sandalled vegan environmentalist automatons who work for regional government and the department of conservation emerged from their caves and drew up a list of reasons why the community couldn’t possibly be allowed to do anything that encourages fun… and hell is going to freeze over before they’d support an application.

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It was agreed not to go ahead with the consent and victory was READY MIXED CONCRETE declared by the vegan zombie bureaucracy.

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Stuart Henry: Oakwood Mill

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Talking......from Lincolnshire

January 13th 2025 Will Howe is an arable farmer from Sleaford, Lincolnshire. The soils are predominantly heavy. There is 1000ha of cropping including winter wheat, spring beans, spring oats and oilseed rape. He also manages a contracting business Thorpe Farming Ltd. When is not a lot of rain, a lot of rain? On the first working Monday morning of the New Year Lincolnshire ground to a halt, literally. 43mm of rain overnight had caused every conceivable road to be flooded and matters weren’t helped with the last few mm falling as snow causing lorries to jack knife at the smallest sniff of an incline. The first school run of the year took over 3 hours with poor Vicky trying 8 different routes before finally getting home, whilst ignoring a policeman’s advice to retreat to a nearby village hall “and sit it out until the water levels drop”…

Immediately global warming and climate change are to blame, government ministers want flood Nowhere for the water to go prevention schemes installing at enormous cost and all the while the Environment Agency are sat in warm offices achieving the square root of zero. We live in a man-made environment here, and therefore it needs maintaining which the EA sees as an unnecessary cost when they could all have a pay rise instead. The Fens are relatively well catered for by our drainage boards (not to historical standards but it is ok), but the reason for the flooding in the areas between the Fen and the “high lands” is that the EA drains can’t hold the volume of water, nor discharge the water quick enough due to being silted up. Some poor Celt dug the drains as deep as was requested by a Dutch engineer, not for fun but because it had been a calculated requirement. Our drains no longer resemble the vision of these early settlers, and as such have become unfit for purpose; and then the country floods. It would almost be funny if it were not symptomatic of a deeper malaise in society.

My own approach to water management I thought that last year the shooting field was full of despondency regarding agriculture, but this year we have moved on further to despair. There has been a lot of talk of farm investment projects being cancelled as there is no desire to add capital value to the business, crops being produced at or below the cost of production, and complete uncertainty as to what the next 5-10 years hold. I struggle to see the SFI being continued long term. I just can‘t see the government justifying wild flowers to Joe Public when Rachel “from accounts” has to wait 18 months for a brain transplant.

The other side of the coin is that the next decade could be laced with opportunity. To decide upon a course, ignore the outside noise of social media, fads and governmental soundbites, and get your head down and work. Just like the Scots did after the Battle of Dunbar. When those captured were sent South to dig the drainage ditches on the Fens and in doing so created something which has The EA approach to water stood the test of time, at least until the digger drivers started “working from home”. management 50

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CASE PUMA 240 CVX 2021 NK19 BWJ CASE PUMA 240 CVX 2019 NK19 GCF CASE PUMA 240 CVX 2019 NL71 ENW CASE MAXXUM 110 EP 2017 NK17 AOZ VALTRA T152 2010 NK60 DXD MF 7718S 2019 PX69 CGE NEW HOLLAND T6.140 2015 YX15 FBV JOHN DEERE 6150R 2015 YB15 SEO DEUTZ 6215 TTV 2017 SN67 DCU CLAAS ARION 630C 2012 PX12 EBZ

LOADALLS

JCB 527-58 JCB 536-60 JCB 536-60 AGS T4 TM180 JCB 531-70 JCB 536-60AGS JCB FASTRAC 4220 JCB FASTRAC 4220

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AXIAL FLOW 9120, RED LEATHER SEAT, 900/50R32 540/65R30

ENGINE 2755 31030794 THRESHER 2028

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4WD, AIR CON, 40KPH, 3 REMOTE VALVES 393 4WD 2077 50KPH, 4 SPOOLS, GUIDANCE READY, PRO 700 SCREEN 3998 AXLE/CAB SUS., 50KPH, ACCUGUIDE READY, PRO 700 SC 4437 GPS COMPLETE, 50KPH, FRONT LINKS 3622 C/W FR LINKAGE, SPEC'D TO 175CVX, FULL ACCUGUIDE 4000 FRONT LINKAGE, 4 REAR ELECTRIC VALVES, ISO BUS 1592 FRONT LINKAGE, 2 MID 4 REAR REMOTES, GPS READY 3476 POWER SHIFT, MECHANICAL REAR SPOOL VALVES 2690 MULTI CONTROL 5202 FRONT LINK. & PTO, 4SPOOLS, 2MID MOUNT, LEATHER SEAT 500 FR LINKAGE, 1 MID MOUNT, 4 REAR REMOTES, L3 GPS 5537 FR LINKAGE, FR PTO, REVERSIBLE FAN, 2MID, 4REAR, L3 GPS 4198 FR LINKAGE, 4 ELEC REMOTES, JOYSTICK 2 GPS 2800 16X16 TRANSMISSION 40KPH CAB SUSPENSION 3500 CAB SUSPENSION, FRONT LINKAGE, FRONT SUSPENSION 6600 DYNA6, 50KPH, LINKAGE & PTO 1349 C/W LYNX LOADER, DUAL COMMAND, 40KPH, 3 SPOOLS 5450 4WD, C/W FRONT LINKAGE, DIRECT DRIVE 6867 FRONT LINKAGE PLUS + PTO, 4 REAR + 1 FRONT REMOTE 5676 40 KPH CAB SUSPENSION 4775

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31029428 21030810 11030461 11030427 11030485 21030027 21027857 31030701 21027941 11028915 31029671 31030269 31030497 31029584 41030986 31030161 11030831 11030723 21030718 31030674 41030888

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2019 NJ19 KTK 109HP AIR SEAT DELUXE Q FIT 2012 NK12 CEN AGRI SUPER 2015 NJ15 AWX AGRI SUPER 2018 NJ68 WNH PIN & CONE CARRIAGE, VERY TIDY 2015 YX15 XLP AGRI SUPER 2018 NJ68 WJC AGRI SUPER 2017 NJ67 GWL WORKING ORDER, TYRES 80% GOOD 2018 NJ18 NBB FIELD PRO PACKAGE, 60KPH

1825 4400 2705 7397 4671 7468 3558

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2016 2019 2016 2012 2018 2017 2012

2003 2012 2023 2017 2015 2010

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AUTO/MANUAL TRANSMISSION, SWING ARM SUSPENSION 41030362 2/4WD, C/W MUD FLAPS 41030080 MANUAL TRANSMISSION, POWER STEERING 41030156 MANUAL, POWER STEERING 41030134 AUTO/MANUAL TRANSMISSION, INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION 41030306 2/4WD, C/W TOW BALL, DIRECTIONAL INDICATOR KIT & ROAD REGISTRATION 41030578 C/W ROAD REGISTRATION 41029681 AUTO TRANSMISSION, INDEPENDENT REAR SUSPENSION 41029904 2/4WD, C/W TOW BALL, DIRECTIONAL INDICATOR KIT & ROAD REGISTRATION 41029561 C/W ROAD REGSITRATION 21029537 MANUAL SHIFT TRANSMISSION 41030621 C/W ROAD REGISTRATION, MANUAL TRANSMISSION, NO POWER STEERING 41030523 AUTO/ELECTROSHIFT TRANSMISSION, INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION 41029813 AUTO/ELECTROSHIFT TRANSMISSION, INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION 41029827 AUTO TRANSMISSION, INDEPENDENT REAR SUSPENSION, ROAD REG 41029937 MANUAL/AUTO TRANS, POWER STEERING, INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION 41030406 ROAD REG, MANUAL/AUTO TRANSMISSION, INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION 41030469 FULL CAB, HEATER POWER STEERING 41030517 OUTLANDER, CVT, INDICATOR KIT, HEATED GRIPS, WINDSCREEN 41030404 MANUAL SHIFT GEARBOX 41029167 KODIAK 41029042 AUTO TRANSMISSION CFORCE 41030609

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CASE SPECIALS CASE CASE PUMA 260 CVX PUMA 240 CVX DEMO DEMO 11029605 11029579 £178,500 £169,500

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CASE MAXXUM 145 50KPH 21030880 £89,950

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Talking......North of the Forth

January 13th 2025

Tom Pate farms 240ha of arable on a tenanted farm in Angus. Cropping includes wheat, spring barley, rye and oilseed rape along with land let for potatoes and vining peas. Additionally, around 6500 pigs are reared annually under contract and 600 Christmas turkeys sold directly to the public under the KellyBronze franchise. On his wife’s 380ha family farm in the Angus Glens they also run 200 red deer hinds plus followers for venison production, along with developing a forestry enterprise.

Having ‘done’ Christmas turkeys for 14 years I struggle to recall LBT (Life Before Turkeys). What on earth did we do in Decembers past?!

The run up to Christmas is now our most pressurised time of the year and the preparation for this one immovable feast becomes all consuming. Anything not turkey related is passed into January making this month also very busy. Piles of office work, non-urgent tasks, meetings, appointments, social engagements are all postponed until after we have stopped spinning.

I’m not one for New Year resolutions. The short, dark days of January are not really the time to be forming new habits or depriving oneself of the vices that make life in the cold north bearable. Selfimprovement can wait until the warmer months. I do however allow time to reflect on the past year Christmas shop team 2024 and make a few plans for the year ahead. A key focus has been improving systems and processes to make jobs easier, safer and quicker to complete. Working alone most of the time I need to make work manageable and enjoyable and investing in things that allow that to happen is money well spent. The major problem is having the time to implement these improvements but once they are done the time savings and pleasure I get are immense. My children laugh at how excited I get over small, boring changes I make. Why do they not share my joy in new shelving for the turkey delivery van, a new access ramp to the pig shed so that I don’t need to reverse when mucking out, colour coded files to make quality assurance inspections plain sailing or even the simple pleasure of a well hung and swinging gate? Some changes are small, cheap and cheerful whilst others require more planning and resources, but all are designed so that I work smarter not harder. This mindset must continue into 2025.

The recent cold snap has concentrated pigeons into large flocks that are descending on unprotected OSR crops. Our early sown and well-established crops will cope with a bit of grazing but large number of hungry doos can devour a crop in a matter of days if not vigilant. The farm is now reverberating to the sound of gas bangers.

The sprayer has spent the last month with Wull Scorgie (fabricator and namesake of the robust, custom-built Scorgie booms) getting repaired, squared-up and rebushed after 16 years of reliable service. Hopefully after a lick of paint fit again for another 16 years. It now awaits an annual service and NSTS certificate allowing it to be ready for the first liquid fertiliser application on OSR and rye as soon as NVZ and weather conditions allow.

Spot the difference. New Year, new roof for our spray shed.

Spring will be on us before me know it!

The first improvement of 2025

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Talking......Business with SAC Consulting

January 2025

Christine Beaton, SAC Rural Business Management Consultant A new year and new requirements In preparation for the gradual transition to the new agricultural support framework, last year’s update from the Scottish Government puts some meat on the bones of the Agricultural Reform Route Map. It provided further details on how agricultural support will change in Scotland from this year, and the actions that farmers and crofters will have to take in order to be eligible for the new support payments.

For suckler cow units, currently eligible for the Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme (SSBSS), a key change will be that from 2025, calves will only be eligible for payment if their dam’s calving interval is 410 days or less. For example, a cow calving on the 1st March this year, needs to have produced her calf by the 14th of April 2026 for her next calf to be eligible for a SSBSS payment.

Simple from a theoretical perspective, however, in practice, not so straightforward as the gestation period of a cow can easily vary by ~ a week from the 283 day ‘average’; heifers can take longer to get back in calf, as can cows with twins, or where there has been a difficult calving.

For businesses with two calving periods who allow ‘good’ cows and heifers to slip round to the next block; you need to weigh up giving them another chance to conceive versus the loss of next year’s calf premium, if the calving interval exceeds 410 days.

While advance notification will be given, the Scottish Government has also announced that in future years, the maximum calving interval could be reduced by up to 10 days. If you think that you may lose calf payments this year due to extended calving periods, seek advice now with regards herd nutrition, replacement heifer management and health and welfare planning.

Most people should now be familiar with Whole Farm Plans. From May this year, in return for eligibility for basic payments; farmers will have to declare on their SAF that they have carried out at least two activities that are relevant to their business from the five available options. Carbon Audits, Biodiversity Audits and Soil Analysis are required to have been carried out in the last 5 years.

Animal Health Plans and Integrated Pest Management Plans (IPM) are required to be completed annually. Further details about IPM plans are available on the Plant Health Centre website.

From this year, new Cross Compliance conditions are being introduced for wetlands and peatlands (GAEC 6 – Maintenance of soil organic matter). The new standards which apply to land with peat soils >50cm in depth with a near natural vegetative cover and also wetland habitats include: • Ploughing and cultivation – new drainage and maintenance of existing drainage systems that causes further drying out of peatland.

• Activities that cause damage to the vegetation cover exposing the soil.

Further information on changes that will be introduced in 2026 will be announced this summer.

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Talking......Organic

January 15th 2025

Simon Bainbridge farms in partnership with his wife Claire and his parents, Ivan and Elisabeth in Northumberland.

They run suckler beef, sheep and laying hen enterprises across 650 ha of mainly SDA and moorland - organically.

Every year we all try to start the year with a hint of optimism, new year, new ambitions, new challenges – well this year it’s a little different.

There is optimism for the farm and what we are doing day to day, optimism for what we are producing from the farm and delivering for the environment; however, the bigger picture is significantly less pretty. The more I consider the contents of the budget and the impacts on all of us in agriculture, the more frustrated I get with this government, and they’ve only been in power for six months.

Today there is a rally being held at County Hall in Morpeth. I hopefully will make it even though I have a longstanding meeting in the diary in the morning. We have definitely reached the stage where we need to keep this issue in the press, whilst keeping the public on side. The challenge is that we are a long way from Westminster and those that are meant to represent us are not prepared to step out of line. County Hall has been chosen for today’s gathering in order to reach the local councillors. Maybe the hometown of our local MP, Hexham might be a good location for the next gathering.

Interestingly, our MP Joe Morris is Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Rural Services. It is a cross-party Group of MP’s from rural constituencies that come together around 4 times a year to promote debate on the provision of rural services. However, for a rural MP, with a rural role I fear his rural knowledge is significantly lacking. for breaking.

I have always felt that the role of DEFRA secretary is probably one of the most challenging Fired, obsolete or damaged yet perceived as a bit of a duff cabinet position. The complexity of our industry, the links between us and other industries and sectors is complex and wide-reaching and in my opinion No messing, immediate payment few ministers over the years have ever really grasped it. Irrespective of whether I like them Phone John Manners or not the two that I felt understood how complex it was were Hilary Benn and Michael Gove. The ones that currently stand out as not having a clue are Liz Truss, Therese Coffey on 07850 325404 or 01665 574231 and our current Minister Steve Reed. How do you get someone who has no interest in our world to understand how debilitating this budget is to agriculture? Not just the APR, but the SOUTH DEVON BULLS BPR, NI, etc etc. We have to keep on trying to educate them.

On a farm level, we’re chipping away at the winter jobs, finishing the vaccination programme Northumberland Bred TB4 with the cattle with the final dose of Bravoxin being administered. We’re on with stone BVD free & vaccinated walling repairs. Typically, I managed to get the Waller booked, but have had to wait for stone to be delivered as they’ve only just dug all the snow out of the quarry the last couple Contact Richard Barron of days. Hopefully we can make progress soon. Hens are doing well and currently laying well. Sheep are looking good with scanning taking place in a couple of weeks.

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Grain Dressers

SAS Mobile Seed Cleaning

Est 1986

We offer a high output service producing 10 - 14 tonnes per hour of gravity separated seed We use gravity tables, the only real method, not gravity selectors We supply 2 men per machine - farm input only 1 man* We have long serving members of staff who are time served and highly skilled Our full time staff are employed from the local community We will be processing spring barley, spring wheat, oats, spring osr plus peas & beans this Spring with: Redigo pro - treatment for barley covering loose smut, leaf stripe & fusarium Prepper - treatment for fusarium in spring wheat & oats Signal - for wireworm & slug deterrent in all cereals Manganese - for enhanced root establishment in all crops Phosphite Wintercrop reformulated

Steven Wade 01337 810428 07850 724798 Euan Amos 07883 003142

Email sas@graindressing.co.uk www.sasgraindressing.com

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