Recent content by DrWazzock

The grandparents recalled the pig going a fair distance round the yard with blood gushing out after he’d been stuck. They said it was horrific and the job of a specialist pig sticker man who was also the hedge plasher in this district. When I was in France in the ‘90’s they’d bang the pigs head...

But back then you could get a living of a lot fewer cows than folk seem to need now.

We’d never grown rape more than one year in seven. The fact is that insect pests blow in or multiply exponentially under certain conditions. The seed dressing kept quite a few pests at bay. This year it was actually cabbage root fly early then cabbage stem weevil. Whenever you grow any kind of...

But without a rent to pay, surely you are £100 an acre ahead to start with? 🤷‍♂️

My Lincolnshire tenant farming ancestors were always Liberals, previously Whigs as were all the small business side of the family. It was only when the Liberals swung to the left that we lent our support to the Tories. The Tories at core were and still are the large landowning aristocracy...

I’m not really interested in esoteric theories and ideas but retaining BPS even at 50% woyld have been sensible for the following reasons: To help us through severe weather events. To help us meet the higher costs and crop failures we bear due to tighter regulations, restrictions and quality...

They’ll just see farmers getting paid to produce non food crops while food gets more expensive in the shops. Supermarkets margins on turnover aren’t particularly high as a percentage of turnover anyway. It’s just that their turnover is massive. Trying to shift the blame onto supermarkets for...

Plant residue turns into carbon dioxide left in a dryish field in the presence of air and bacteria. If it gets trapped under water in wet ground, flooded wetlands, etc it turns into methane. Both methane and carbon dioxide are greenhouse gases. Plants give out carbon dioxide at night.

SFI, by going too large on environmental goods will actually create a public backlash against environmentalism in my view. When folk see thousands of acres of birdseed while the price of food rises they’ll rightly question WTF is going on. Maybe that will be a good thing!

On a personal level yes I’ve a good mind to take DEFRA for a ride paying me for birdseed and flowers. I’d be alright Jack. But what we seem to forget is that this is public money going down the pan. Even if we profit from it there’s no wealth creation, no net gain in tax to pay for public...

All crops are now dependent on chemicals to achieve the yields needed to feed the over population. One by one the chemicals are being banned by people who don’t understand or trust technology but instead have a misplaced faith in a benevolent Mother Nature who they think will sort everything out...

If you had to put up with damage done to drainage systems by gas pipelines you wouldn’t be very keen on burying any utiiity connection. No drains were permitted over pipelines so we are left with a mess of short runs and less than optimal headers. It’s never worked properly since they bodged it...

There’s now nothing between them. That’s what I’m saying. The cause celebre of our Tory MP is the retention of the Red Arrows air display team in our county. That’s all we ever hear about from him. Let’s leave aside the fact they dump hundreds of gallons of unburnt fuel into our skies every week...

We went through the preliminary process for a wind turbine application here. We were offered £15k per annum lease for just one turbine on 200 acres. This would have diversified our income and almost replaced BPS. It would have helped secure the future of our business while providing clean power...

Which really says how crap the other candidates are.