Recent content by Simon Chiles

We used to get similar situations to most of the posts on here, it’s all changed as they’re now frightened about it becoming houses. Now if you’re mowing outside their big house on a hot Sunday afternoon they’ll come out and offer cups of tea, beer and even sandwiches.

Aigle Parcours 2 for summer months, Parcours 2 ISO for the winter. I’ve had a pair of each for at least 5 years. You wouldn’t want to wear an ISO pair in the summer but in the winter they feel as comfortable as your favourite slippers. Annoyingly my ISO pair has a small puncture in one of them...

Apparently according to FW. Is anybody going or are we all going to sit on our hands as per normal?

It’s going to be interesting. On of the major principles of writing a new law is that it shouldn’t discriminate against anyone so they won’t be able to single out farmers. Whilst I agree with you that the vast majority of the general public will be outraged by being dictated to about when they...

You can at the moment so long as you don’t disturb any bird nests. Once the proposed legislation becomes law then there’s a distinct chance that all hedges will have to comply with similar rules as the old cross compliance. I reckon there’s a good chance you’ll get your hedge cut before the...

Location is key. One local farmer, many years ago, had a bit of land near the outskirts of Croydon so he decided to try a pick your own enterprise. It was extremely popular with the locals, so much so that he managed to shift everything he produced. The only slight minor snag was that everyone...

I agree. I think it just goes to show how difficult it is not to say the wrong thing and loose support. I know it’s easy to say in hindsight but she should have asked the anti farming woman how she would have liked it if the government decided to devalue her house by 20%, and give her no...

I’d like to see the French farmers reaction to that if their police tried that stunt!

I’ve got an old Protiimeter and a relatively new Unimeter. I prefer the Unimeter to use and it’s been very accurate when tested against samples. All the grain I’ve sold has always tested out by the buyers as pretty much exactly the same as I’ve made it.

I too thought the bit where the lady sheep farmer said that her land would be devalued by £900k wasn’t going to get much sympathy from the general public. It was a bit unfortunate because she was otherwise doing quite a good job of representing the industry. The woman who said that Welsh...

I’ve got a 6810 and it just hangs on forever, 65% torque backup when we stuck it on a dyno.

This^ is the theory. Everyone seams to conveniently forget that some bright spark thought it was a good idea to inject ammonia into vehicle exhausts to reduce emissions, I wonder if that has had more of an impact than emissions from a cow pat travelling hundreds of miles.

There’s no ULEZ charge on a tractor.

It was on the local BBC news today ( South East Today if you want to search for it on iPlayer ) followed by the tractors blocking the roads at Dover as a second item of news.

Better coverage on South East Today, you can probably see it on iPlayer. Also it starts about the local council and port authority thinking of taking the government to court over plans to move the checking of lorries to Sevington, 22 miles from the port, in April. The lorry drivers were against...