Where has all the grass gone?

Hfd Cattle

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Not good ...hope you recover quickly.
I've just been diagnosed with farmers lung....I used to laugh at farmers wearing face masks etc but I'm not laughing now. Not much they can do.
Nearly deaf cos of noisy tractors etc ,bad back from thousands of small bales, now breathing problems from dusty corn etc and finally an empty bank account just from being a farmer !!
 
Henarar

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Hfd Cattle said:
Not good ...hope you recover quickly.
I've just been diagnosed with farmers lung....I used to laugh at farmers wearing face masks etc but I'm not laughing now. Not much they can do.
Nearly deaf cos of noisy tractors etc ,bad back from thousands of small bales, now breathing problems from dusty corn etc and finally an empty bank account just from being a farmer !!
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I won't like that post after seeing the chap next bed to me this morning, put your mask on everyone is all l will say cos it's not nice
I do have the buggered back as well and @farmerclare says I am going deaf

Sorry to go of topic
I just want to get my silage done
 
Jackov Altraids

Jackov Altraids

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
Wishing you all the best @Henarar

In other news.... I hear a dairy farm up the road from me that is not on the mains, has just run out of water. This is a very damp corner of the country.
I'm not on mains either.
 
GTB

GTB

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Ceredigion, wales
Seriously need rain here now...
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MRT

MRT

Member
Livestock Farmer
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Nearly always get my feet wet here, regardless of time of year its a wellies field. Drove past this morning near a week of dry after this photo, the reeds are topped, it looks a bit brown and my ewes appear to have grown three inches!
 

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