D reparing their businesses for the post-Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) world is the driving aim for three arable farmers at different stages of their regenerative agriculture journey, as they look to get their farms on a more sustainable path and reducetheir inputs.For Hannah Darby, who farms 360ha of combinable crops and sugar beet near Huntingdon, the reasons for starting to change the farming system were rising blackgrass pressures and a desire to prevent soil loss, as well as the need to progress the farming business."We also wanted to get off the hamster wheel of spending more on inputs without seeing any reward,” she says.
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