Clarkson’s Farm
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RizzoTheRat said:
ralphrj said:
C Lee Farquar said:
Lily the Pink said:
Cliffe60 said:
Seriously though (and correct me if I misheard ), but I found it worrying they spend £14k on seeds, but £35k on fertiliser and £15k on pesticides.
I'm interested to know why you find that worrying - is it the total amount, or the ratios ?Cliffe60 said:
The fact that far more is spent on fertiliser and pesticides than the seeds. I’ve no idea if the actual amounts are right. I buy seeds in £1.99 packets!
How many packets do you need to fill a 1t bag, and then how many 1t bags do you use? Are they coated in the fungicides, growth promoters etc which his are? Do you fertilise your garden 3 times a year? Do you spray it for pests, weeds, moulds etc?Farming is a high input business, it takes a lot to grow the very high yielding crops we grow in the UK.
You could just throw some seed in the ground, leave it for most of the year, and see what you harvest, but at a guess you might get 20-30% of what a properly managed crop would achieve.
Condi said:
How many packets do you need to fill a 1t bag, and then how many 1t bags do you use? Are they coated in the fungicides, growth promoters etc which his are? Do you fertilise your garden 3 times a year? Do you spray it for pests, weeds, moulds etc?
I thought pre-coated seeds had been banned?Doofus said:
Condi said:
How many packets do you need to fill a 1t bag, and then how many 1t bags do you use? Are they coated in the fungicides, growth promoters etc which his are? Do you fertilise your garden 3 times a year? Do you spray it for pests, weeds, moulds etc?
I thought pre-coated seeds had been banned?Doofus said:
I thought pre-coated seeds had been banned?
No, neonicictioniods (forget how you spell it), or neonic's for short have been banned, but that is only 1 pesticide. Seeds are still coated in a heap of other things from fungicides to growth promotors to micro and essential nutrients. 
Cliffe60 said:
The fact that far more is spent on fertiliser and pesticides than the seeds. I’ve no idea if the actual amounts are right. I buy seeds in £1.99 packets!
Partly depends on how much is permanent ley I guess, which presumably requires minimal overseeding but plenty of fert (though preferably natural fert).Cross posting, but I watched Harry's Farm on the barley harvest.
Damned interesting, as I walk the dog through a barley field...
My local farmer seems to have written it off - there's loads of tall 'broom' type weeds sticking up higher than the barley (especially in the middle of the field), and it's so bent over under it's own weight the heads are all on the floor.
Between Mssrs. Metcalfe and Clarkson, I've noticed things I would never have consciously recognised before. I like that.
Damned interesting, as I walk the dog through a barley field...
My local farmer seems to have written it off - there's loads of tall 'broom' type weeds sticking up higher than the barley (especially in the middle of the field), and it's so bent over under it's own weight the heads are all on the floor.
Between Mssrs. Metcalfe and Clarkson, I've noticed things I would never have consciously recognised before. I like that.
Sway said:
Doofus said:
Condi said:
How many packets do you need to fill a 1t bag, and then how many 1t bags do you use? Are they coated in the fungicides, growth promoters etc which his are? Do you fertilise your garden 3 times a year? Do you spray it for pests, weeds, moulds etc?
I thought pre-coated seeds had been banned?Back to the earlier question from the poster who expressed concern about the relative amounts spent on seed, vs that on fertiliser, herbicide, pesticide. That smacks of an assumption that money spent on seed = good, fertiliser, herbicide etc = bad.
It could be that without the herbicide you couldn't economically harvest the crop. For example OSR, couple of weeks minimum before harvest an application of roundup kills off a lot of the perennial weeds and assists dessication of the crop and controlling ripening. Without this the mass of vegetation doesn't get handled well by the combine and can block up.
At this point some folks will go Roundup glyphosate ooh nasty. They are simply wrong despite the scare stories.
jammy-git said:
Welshbeef said:
zygalski said:
Any news of a third season?
Season 2 if we’re luck will be May/June 2023 not 2022jammy-git said:
Why? The Season 1, which came out in July 2021, had the harvest for Aug 2020, so it stands to reason that this years harvest will be released next year.
Big assumption. To invest without funding & at the time covid lockdowns everywhere ballsy.
But until we have confirmation there is no way of knowing who is wrong or right.
Take Rust Valley on Netflix - where is the next season?
Welshbeef said:
Big assumption.
To invest without funding & at the time covid lockdowns everywhere ballsy.
But until we have confirmation there is no way of knowing who is wrong or right.
Take Rust Valley on Netflix - where is the next season?
I can give you confirmation it will be 2022. To invest without funding & at the time covid lockdowns everywhere ballsy.
But until we have confirmation there is no way of knowing who is wrong or right.
Take Rust Valley on Netflix - where is the next season?
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