Recent content by Goweresque

Local tyre firm to me charged me £20 to dispose of an 18" 3cx front tyre just the other day. £60 for the tyre and another £60 for the tube is daylight robbery. They are lifting your leg something rotten.

Typical politician cherry picking of stats. 2016 was a very low point in farm incomes, and 2022 was a very high point, due to the spike in cereal prices after the invasion of Ukraine. If you ignore the outlying years you'd see that farm incomes have been largely flat since 2008 , bouncing around...

I was talking to someone who'd been talking to an employee of a local machinery dealership (main tractor brand), he (the employee) said they are on their knees at the moment, no one is buying anything. Mixture of BPS going and people moving over to SFI options needing less machinery to deliver...

Does it work when covered in cow sh!t for 365 days of the year, battered by rain hail and snow for 10 years, and when the p***ys have nicked all the sensors and cabling or they've all been vandalised by local youths? And how exactly does all your IT word soup make more grain grow, cows give...

No, A will not get any delinked payments unless he made a claim for BPS in 2023, somewhere. He will however have 2/3rds reference data he can transfer to another SBI if he chooses (for money one assumes). Farmer B (the new landlord) will have no reference data having not claimed in 20, 21 or 22...

Dislike of Islam is not racist, any more than dislike of evangelical Christians, Catholics, or Buddhists. Or indeed extreme political ideologies such as socialism or Nazism. Religions are ideas, and thus should (in a free society) be fair game for any and every amounts of abuse. If you want...

She'll also have promised that this time the 'ringfenced' ag budget will definitely 100% get all the funds back that they've spent on something else, just like she promised for the previous 4 years.........

I've just had a quote from the NFU mutual for public and employers liability for a business that owns 70 acres of land that is just let out on annual grazing licences. No buildings, no farmyard, just land. Quote was £257, which I thought was very reasonable, other quotes were twice as expensive.

I've said for some time that now there is serious money in the whole 'green' sphere that bad actors will start to move in on it purely as a money making ploy. Create a scam that purports to be 'saving the planet', and clean up. Big business is definitely using green washing just to polish its...

Other way around I'd say. Navvies were the earth movers of their day, built to shift huge amounts of material. Drain digging on the other hand probably does require some more delicate skills, getting levels right, digging in dead straight lines. After the dry summer of 2022 I'd located what I...

I have loads of old stone drains. Many still working perfectly, even when the outfall has been blocked you don't have to dig far back to find where they are patent and still running. I think their longevity depends on the soil type, in clay soils the clay slowly oozes between the stones and...

There's Hemlock water dropwart (Oenanthe crocata) which is the UK's most toxic plant, and grows in rivers and damp areas, and there's common hemlock (Conium maculatum) which grows everywhere basically.

All councils now have the ability to charge CIL, Community Infrastructure Levy, which makes small developments pay contributions towards schools roads etc. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/community-infrastructure-levy#charging-schedules-and-rates

As above. If the land was expropriated for zero value and all that taken off the sticker price on new houses would fall by maybe 20%. Except that it wouldn't because everyone else in the chain would take a extra cut - Local Authority, house builders, contractors, materials suppliers etc etc, and...

I've found Thrust herbicide works well, I think its the dicamba in it that deals with it. Thrust is Ok for knapsacks too. I've also found that you can dig the tap root out quite easily if you loosen the soil around it with a fork, they come up quite easily then. I've got one or two patches that...