Arable finances: What to consider after tough winter

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Fanners with undrilled or poorly performing winter crops should consider fallowing marginal land to ease cashflow issues, say advisers.A glut of spring barley and oats is expected to be planted across the UK this season so prices are likely to be poor, making it hard to justify planting on low-yielding land, said Paul Waberski of advisory firm Brown & Co.The challenging winter will have accelerated hard decisions all businesses will have to make in the coming years, with declining subsidy incomes and increasing weather volatility reducing the viability of cropping the poorest section of a farm, he warned.