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The Apprentice and its ilk manages to keep the winner secret for months until it is aired on TV, through legal clauses etc. Would affect the running of the farm rather a lot if the successful tenants had to keep their heads down.

Not yet. The beavers are coming next week. Inevitably.

It’s like “The Apprentice“ except that the applicants do have a clue.

You’re right, context is important. Maybe the whole herd was being culled out due to their ongoing African Swine Fever outbreak. Or due to overcrowding like the UK pig sector underwent due to “staff shortages“ at abattoirs. Without question what is wrong is the manner in which the euthanasia is...

A contractor near me runs three or four bale barons behind balers and picks the packs up with an Arcusin chaser 16 packs at a time.

We do ours with a loader tractor. Our trailer needs two double acting spools, so using with a teleporter would be an issue. We leave the tele at the stack to unload swiftly.

Yes, had a bale clamp side trailer for several years now. (Staines). Mainly used for Quadrant size bales. Makes straw time much safer, much quicker and even pleasurable.

Speak for yourself. I have to get in my van and drive a whole mile.

On a similar vein, in the Arable east, one Lexion has taken over the work of half a dozen smaller combines, 8070/15 ft size, each on separate farms, now all under one umbrella.

Class has sold off some branches in the South East (admittedly to make a mega dealer bigger).

Thank goodness Bears and wolves would probably devastate the pheasant population and would therefore not be tolerated under any circumstances in this corner of Suffolk.

I predict in a few years time a new trend. Fast forward to 2044…. The manufacturers, having helped build up to having one or two ”mega dealers” by now owned by city private equity types, rather than the original families that built them up, will have discovered the superior service provided by...

That’s what FF said then he ended up buying it.

Found his long lost MF35 inside an hour by his local Radio.

Have you been watching “The Funky Farmer“ on You Tube by any chance?