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    Best/worst excuses footpath

    Too many incidents to list them all but here are a couple: 1) Jan 2022 - car parked on road next to one of my woods, went to investigate thinking someone needed help, heard sounds from inside wood, two Charlie’s cutting firewood, who told me they had known the farmer for years, but amazingly...
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    EDF Energy - Doubling Charges

    Apologies if not in right section. Need to get something of chest and warn others if not already aware. Father built steel frame building on outlying land about 25 years ago, proper job, concrete floor, apron area etc etc. Decided at same time to have power put on, just in case, EDF...
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    Current Prices for Grass/Grass Keep

    Thanks for everyones input and comments. Clearly huge regional and local variability.
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    Current Prices for Grass/Grass Keep

    Hello, I'm looking for some help/input on current rates for grass/grass keep. We have been making hay/keeping sheep on owned ground on the Kent/East Sussex border for a number years. In recent times we have let the ground for sheep grazing and when it suited sold off the grass. Typically easy...
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    Townies, eh?

    Went to Camber Sands for a walk on the beach a few years back. Returned to the car park and found an apparently respectable couple parked next to us taking all their full dog poo bags out of their car, walking them over the main road and chucking them down an embankment into a field of ewes. I...
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    What has been your weirdest farming problem?

    Father had a commercial apple orchard consisting old large standard trees. Something started eating the bark and new buds from the trees high up. Day after day, night after night we toured the orchard expecting to find deer or perhaps escaped horse, but nothing. Then one night we found the...
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    Can anybody recommend a bank for a small business?

    Not a frequent poster but wanted to provide some info on HSBC which might help to explain their behaviour in respect of constant requests regarding verification. I was/am also a corporate treasurer for large global companies and have spent years battling the banks on many fronts. The story with...
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    Hay and Straw for sale and Wanted open to all

    250 4’ Round Hay available near Cranbrook, Kent. Seeking offers.
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