Greatest farming inventions/ ideas

Willie adie

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Jul 20, 2020

• #1

What are the best ones.
Net wrap rather than Baler twine.
The person that invented lift arms that click in to the balls rather than having them fixed on lift arms

 

JohnGalway

Member

Location

Connemara, Ireland

• Jul 20, 2020

• #2

Holistic management.

 

Gong Farmer

Member

BASIS

Location

S E Glos

• Jul 20, 2020

• #3

Can I say 'the plough'?

 

Dry Rot

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Scottish Highlands

• Jul 20, 2020

• #4

The wheel!

 

Still Farming

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

South Wales UK

• Jul 20, 2020

• #5

Tractor instead of horse !

 

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Suffolk Serf

Member

Location

Bury/Thetford

• Jul 20, 2020

• #6

Electric fencing.

 

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7610 super q

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

• Jul 20, 2020

• #7

Tec screws.

 

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DealeyPlaza1963

Member

• Jul 20, 2020

• #8

The relief milker……..

 

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7610 super q

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

• Jul 20, 2020

• #9

Farming forums. Just kidding.

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jul 20, 2020

• #10

the internet

TFF mostly of course (I might be biased !)

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jul 20, 2020

• #11

But seriouslyI would say the plough has to be the single most significant invention in agriculture followed by Jetho Tulls seed drill ?

 

shumungus

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Ballyclare Northern Ireland

• Jul 20, 2020

• #12

Ferguson sytem.
Silage
Wrapping
Mobile Phone

 

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topcat2006

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

The Cotswolds

• Jul 20, 2020

• #13

Not an invention / idea as such but the unlocking of the scrambling on GPS signals in 2000 by Clinton.

 

Yale

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North East Wales,upland farm,800-1300ft

• Jul 20, 2020

• #14

Every invention has eroded farmers ability to make money.

Unless you shell out ££££ on the new xxxxx gadget next thing you get left behind.

 

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Wilberforce

Member

Location

North Shropshire

• Jul 20, 2020

• #15

C.A.P

 

Dead Rabbits

Member

Location

'Merica

• Jul 20, 2020

• #16

Electric fence (that actually work) the posts and poly wire to go with it.

It’s been around long enough we take it for granted but PVC pipe or whatever you call the flex stuff. Allows water to be put wherever and whenever cheaply. No more welding steel pipe together or having a threading machine on sight.

 

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7610 super q

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

• Jul 20, 2020

• #17

Wilberforce said:

C.A.P

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The 52% of famers lost since 1972 might disagree.....

 

Tarw Coch

Member

Location

Bottom of Wats Dyke

• Jul 20, 2020

• #18

Yale said:

Every invention has eroded farmers ability to make money.

Unless you shell out ££££ on the new xxxxx gadget next thing you get left behind.

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I’m pretty sure the best way to make money is to not shell out on the next must have but plod along as before.
However it’s best done later on in life and providing you have no successor as eventually you will indeed get left behind

 

Danllan

Member

Location

Sir Gar / Carms

• Jul 20, 2020

• #19

The promise that 'This will all be yours one day...'

 

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Wilberforce

Member

Location

North Shropshire

• Jul 20, 2020

• #20

7610 super q said:

The 52% of famers lost since 1972 might disagree.....

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Sure it wasn't all down to the hated EU, farmer numbers have been declining ever since Jethro Tull had his brainwave. Won't ruin another thread with embittered remained nonsense, BUT CAP has underwritten UK for many a year and those who want it gone most might be the first to miss it....