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If I had followed their reports or rather put more weight on their thoughts could have been £1000/load adrift fortunately my influencer has been consistently saying patience

futures up over £8/t tonight usa up 35c/bushel paris wheat plus11 euro osr up , AHDB market report today saying the world is awash with grain and prices turning bearish .my response is unprintable .

jumped above that this morning .

DD never started here big time, though we have occasionally top worked, however reckon this last 7 months has tested every system and soil to a greater or lesser degree .what has worked over time is muck om and plough . The mistake we made this year was rushing to roll to get the pr em on .

another set back just when I thought/hoped we where on the home run

work life family balance is far more important than a sh!t year out of 40 or more

History repeating itself , walking your crops of the farm as grandad did could well be the way to go

our 23 sown osr is now sp beans and it will be highly unlikely we will bother sowing osr this year following harvest just not worth the risk

rightly or wrongly those bits similar here have had an extra bag this last couple of days , to be fair any cereals sown prior to oct 10th look ok not brilliant but as good if not better than average however anything sown after is not so good or has been or will be knocked up and resown . Beans...

good on you, in farming the life /work balance is very difficult to get right, believe me ive spent over 50 years trying to achieve that and it aint easy and I reckon its getting harder and f driver in the post above is spot on.

ok, Im a glass half full kinda guy living in hope . but seriously why not if its going to happen to a container/truck full of veg or frozen meat from afar ?

couple of £ short to merchant , direct is plus another £ or 2 told our buyer not even thinking about selling below 190 said he will ring back after weekend . basically its not there whatever sh--- is put out by others ,might as well keep it till nov there will be plenty of room in shed

Bit of a drift but just been listening to the radio whilst out and about , Talk was about the customs new rules re imports and the charges being levied to ensure compliance with our laws and photosanitory rules etc seems it could be up to £150 /lorry load so will that be a £5 /t plus extra...

Yesterdays late afternoon rain stopped our progress , another 1- 2 days of dry no rain would have seen us totally sown up into reasonable seedbeds with combinables i.e every acre in crop, now need 3. Two to dry and 1 to work .Within sight of our target of all sown/cropped and spirits are...

we used to have direct contact/ end of a phone with a barclays ag manager , over the years built a profitable business now its a team that havnt a clue about me or my business ,im glad that nowadays I dont need their help or support in a major way , problem is there is little alternative...