Campbell
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- Herefordshire
Farming life and strife is getting very popular recently. Latest is Quest TV with Born Mucky, on last night and with some local Herefordshire content...
TV Farming
- Thread starter Campbell
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- Location
- Cheshire
The wife warned me if I didn’t stop niggling about the Derbyshire sheep farmers on Born Mucky then she is going too take away my tv control privileges! God they were really annoying me tonight! 
they’re the only ones who manage too rub me up the wrong way! 
they’re the only ones who manage too rub me up the wrong way! 
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I was trying to figure out, how come they only seemed to fill the right hand side of the silage clamp? Are they going to put something else on top of the grass silage I wonder? When I was in Denmark, they used to cover the grass silage with beet tops.
Also wondered why he didn't put a head wall on either end of the culvert? I think I would have done after it had been washed away like that, and maybe popped in a second twin wall pipe just to be on the safe side, 1' diameter pipe is not expensive, especially if you already have the digger there on site.
Also wondered why he didn't put a head wall on either end of the culvert? I think I would have done after it had been washed away like that, and maybe popped in a second twin wall pipe just to be on the safe side, 1' diameter pipe is not expensive, especially if you already have the digger there on site.
betweenthelines
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- southwest
Maize going in the other side of the clamp I think.
But yes, the Dale Farm lot really wind me up. Farting about with an old Nuffield and Leyland when they've got a nearly new Belarus loader tractor. And if they want a back up to the Belarus, flog the collectors items for Classic prices and buy something a bit more modern with the money.
So on one hand you've got a farm spending £80k to do 40 acres of silage, justifying the purchase by saying it means they don't wait for a contractor, and still getting it rained on (the interest alone would pay the contractor's bill) while another farm spends half a day fiddling about with knackered old wrecks.
But yes, the Dale Farm lot really wind me up. Farting about with an old Nuffield and Leyland when they've got a nearly new Belarus loader tractor. And if they want a back up to the Belarus, flog the collectors items for Classic prices and buy something a bit more modern with the money.
So on one hand you've got a farm spending £80k to do 40 acres of silage, justifying the purchase by saying it means they don't wait for a contractor, and still getting it rained on (the interest alone would pay the contractor's bill) while another farm spends half a day fiddling about with knackered old wrecks.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I was talking to the silage contractor this year, just under 40 acres here and they thought it was just viable to use the self propelled, any less and they thought it would be a job for the their forage wagon, but everyone mentions with a wagon the loading the pit is a very different job.
It it were me, on the Derbyshire farm, I would have been inclined to tidy up a bit, and clear out the buildings, then keep the cattle inside for the winter, to give a bit more grass in the spring, looks like there are decent sheds there.
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
But the Dale Farm lot are hardly the most up to date in their farming.
I think they get tips off All Creatures Great and Small.
I think they get tips off All Creatures Great and Small.
I quite like the series. Oh well...... 
- Location
- mid wales
Campbell
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Minette Batters reviewing the papers on Andrew Marr this morning, pigs were mentioned...
Ramrod
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- Skendleby Psalter, Lincolnshire
Most of it ain't farming, should rename it 'F*cking about on a farm'
TripleSix
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- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Anyone seen Harry's farm YouTube video on his combine costs.
My boss worked out his maths are wrong, his combine is costing him £64 an acre...
My boss worked out his maths are wrong, his combine is costing him £64 an acre...
s line
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- Location
- Gloucestershire uk
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Campbell
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- Location
- Herefordshire
We are England. Two Farmers Crisps.
www.bbc.co.uk
BBC One - We Are England, Series 1, The Crisp Farmers - Hereford
Two potato farmers are diversifying to make environmentally friendly crisps.
s line
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- Location
- Gloucestershire uk
I enjoyed that last nightWe are England. Two Farmers Crisps.
BBC One - We Are England, Series 1, The Crisp Farmers - Hereford
Two potato farmers are diversifying to make environmentally friendly crisps.
Farming life and strife is getting very popular recently. Latest is Quest TV with Born Mucky, on last night and with some local Herefordshire content...
Trouble is good TV is always the extremes or some jeopardy
reality is anything really worth filming happens rarely ever happens on the vast majority of farms
These programmes are doing a good job or reconnecting the general public with farming however