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FARMING FOR THE FUTURE Hampshire 2050 “Discussing strategies to enhance the future economical sustainability for a rural Hampshire business”

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Page 1: FARMING FOR THE FUTURE Hampshire 2050 · successes for future years Environment –looking beyond purchased inputs and revising every part of our system that we are in control of

FARMING FOR THE FUTURE

Hampshire 2050

“Discussing strategies to enhance the future economical sustainability for a rural

Hampshire business”

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Who are we?

800 HA ARABLE CROPPING

216 HA MANAGED WOODLAND

A COMMERCIAL SHOOT –15 DAYS

92 FIREWOOD CUSTOMERS

COUNTRYSIDE STEWARDSHIP MID TIER SCHEME 33HA EX OWS

JOINT VENTURE – 1000 HEAD SHEEP FLOCK

40 STORE CATTLE COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMME – 21 DAYS

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Lockerley Estate 2019

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Sustainable Vision at Lockerley Estate

Economic – measured in two forms:

•Farm Profitability is the driver for everything that happens on the Estate and has never been so important in changing times

•The double bottom line – profit is not only measured in pounds, but in environmental successes for future years

Environment – looking beyond purchased inputs and revising

every part of our system that we are in control of. Wider rotation,

use of inputs, farming system, environmental markers (bird

surveys)

Social – the responsibility of the farm to integrate with the local and wider community through

various outreach projects

Measurable….to break away from the pink and fluffy catchphrases in todays agriculture and implement

true farm/ catchment wide projects that are measured,

reported and shared

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The team“train them so they can leave, treat

them so they don’t want to”

Tony Austin – 60 years – PT forester

Alan Rose – 46 years – senior farm operator

Matt Bloor – 11 years – forestry manager

Geoff Girling – 3 years – game keeper/

operator/ gfw

Alastair Pocock – 2 year – post

graduate development plan

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Life as a Farmer 2019

A farmer wears

many hats

Mechanic

Sales

Vet

Trader

Soil Scientist

Fund Manager

Manages people

PR

Operator

Admin and

Finance

H&S/

compliance

Employer

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Tractor dealership

Tyre company

Utilities / traders/haulage

agents

Saw mill/game dealer/markets/

firewood

Supplier

Seed/fertiliser/

Chem/ fuel

Schools, Scouts,

Chefs, defra, community

Local contractors,

shepherd

Estate influence

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• Threats• Opportunities

• Weaknesses• Strengths

Capital

Direction

Trained staff

Ability to change

Can do attitude

Data

Collaboration

Holistic approach

Price takers

Consumer connection

Public perception

Subsidy reliance

Small team

Connectivity

Access

IPCC report

12 harvests

Siloed sector

Legislation

Climate change

Brexit

Costs of production

BPS

Staff

Currency

Brexit

Trade

Policy

Land value/ rent reviews

Decoupled

Legislation

Collaboration

Health and

Harmony Document

25 year

Environment Plan

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Would you invest?!

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Integrated Farm Management (LEAF)

A framework for Lockerley Estate

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Soil and

Rotation

We test 6 satellite stations

annually for macro, micro and

microbiology to measure

impacts of rotation/ imported

materials and livestock

Over winter stubble

commitment circa 500 – 1000 tonnes compost imported

OSR Oil seed rape

W/S B Winter/ Spring Barley

CC (Cover crop) - Phacelia/ linseed cc or fodder radish / turnips for sheep

WW Winter wheat

SBeans Spring Bean or Winter Oats

CC Cover crop - Phacelia/ linseed cc or fodder radish / turnips for sheep

SB Spring Barley

CC Cover crop – Phacelia/ linseed cc or fodder radish / turnips for sheep

WW Winter wheat

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Managed cultivations, reduced wheeling's and traffic. Use of section control, GPS and recording technology (use useful data)

“Earn the right to reduce inputs”

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Cover crops and grazing sheep

Objectives

100ha Phacelia – Simple, inert in our rotation, scavenge nitrogen, organic

matter / green manure, Phosphate availability on high Ph soil…?

Leave no bare stubble over winter

Increase soil biology

Less reliance on fertiliser

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£96 Nitrogen/ ha in cover crop (N at 0.63p/kg)

£29 Phosphate (P2O5) / ha in cover crop (P2O5 at 0.65p/kg)

£66 Potash (K2O) / ha in cover crop (K2O at 0.44p/kg)

0

50

100

150

200

250

N P2O5 K2O CaO MgO SO3

Kg/h

a

Nutrients in the cover crop biomass (kg ha-1)

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Budget/

BER

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Year Averages

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Benchmarking

I cant understand why every farmer is not

benchmarking with their local AHDB monitor

farm or equivalent project? We are paying for

this…

All projects are anonymous

Great discussion with peers

Non competitive

Commercially very powerful

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212 hectares mixed woodland, ranging from 2 years to 1000 years old

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66,939ha of woodland in Hampshire →are they being managed?

At Lockerley Estate, the woodland has been actively managed under the Sainsbury family since 1983.

It has cost on average £60k/ year to manage this woodland

The economics don’t lend themselves to active management

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BUT woods

are not just

there to

make money

Biodiversity –dormice and bats

(2 UK BAP specices) rely on woodland

Carbon sequestration

Public access

Landscape benefits Clean air SSSIs

Sporting Employment Renewable energy

Diversification Education Reduces erosion

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Support

Existing financial support through

EWGS, Higher Tier Countryside

Stewardship and BPS

Under the new 25 Year Environment Plan and Health &

Harmony document there is

information to suggest that under ELMs support will be available based

on ‘public money for

public goods’

(air, soil, water)

How do we measure success?

Who measures success? How is it

rewarded?

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Wallop Brook Farmers

One of 98 groups of farmers in England

Looking to deliver environmental improvements on a catchment scale

Funding of £60k over 3 years for catchment wide projects by European Ag fund

4650ha of Hampshire land around the Wallop Brook catchment

Requires partnership (NGOs, RSPB, Hampshire Wildlife Trust, Country Archaeologist, CSS etc)

Soil workshops/ sampling and analysis, developed a soil forum, arable flora workshop and survey, hedgerows and boundaries workshop, Redlist bird survey

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Outreach

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Low input grassP&N

Wild Bird CoverWoodland Edge Management

Beetle Banks2 year Legume Fallow

Countryside

Stewardship

Mid tier – 33ha

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SummaryCollaboration

Environment Agency

Hampshire Wildlife Trust

RSPB

Forestry Commission

Natural England

Farmer to farmer knowledge transfer/

relationship

Public engagement and

outreach

Economics…