I hate weekends!

lloyd

Member
Location
Herefordshire
Read this and see who the winners are.......... not the obsessed money hungry city people for sure !

A father who wanted his son to know what it was like to be poor brought him to live with a farming family for a few days. The child stayed there for 3 days and 3 nights.

Back in the car on their way to the town, his father asked him:
"And your experience?"
"Fine," replied the boy.
"Did you learn anything?"

The boy then explained:
1. We have a dog and they have four of them.
2. We have a pool with treated water. They have a river with crystal clear water, fish and other good things
3. We have electric lights in our street, but they have the stars and the moon to light them up.
4. Our garden extends to the fence. Theirs to the horizon.
5. We buy our food; they cultivate, harvest and cook their own.
6. We listen to CDs ... they hear a symphony of birds, crickets and other animals ...
... all this, sometimes accompanied by the singing of a neighbour who works on the farm.
7. We use the microwave. What they cook tastes much better cooked slowly by a fire.
8. We are surrounded by alarms and fences to protect ourselves ... They live with open doors, protected by the friendship and love of their neighbours.
9. We are connected to the telephone, computer and television. They are in communion with life, sky, sun, water, land, animals, friends and their families.

The father was impressed with his son's feelings. Then finally the son comes to the conclusion:
"Thanks for showing me how poor we are dad! Every day we get poorer because we no longer live in nature like farmers do!!!"

Yes Canada does sound nice. :D
 

Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Read this and see who the winners are.......... not the obsessed money hungry city people for sure !

A father who wanted his son to know what it was like to be poor brought him to live with a farming family for a few days. The child stayed there for 3 days and 3 nights.

Back in the car on their way to the town, his father asked him:
"And your experience?"
"Fine," replied the boy.
"Did you learn anything?"

The boy then explained:
1. We have a dog and they have four of them.
2. We have a pool with treated water. They have a river with crystal clear water, fish and other good things
3. We have electric lights in our street, but they have the stars and the moon to light them up.
4. Our garden extends to the fence. Theirs to the horizon.
5. We buy our food; they cultivate, harvest and cook their own.
6. We listen to CDs ... they hear a symphony of birds, crickets and other animals ...
... all this, sometimes accompanied by the singing of a neighbour who works on the farm.
7. We use the microwave. What they cook tastes much better cooked slowly by a fire.
8. We are surrounded by alarms and fences to protect ourselves ... They live with open doors, protected by the friendship and love of their neighbours.
9. We are connected to the telephone, computer and television. They are in communion with life, sky, sun, water, land, animals, friends and their families.

The father was impressed with his son's feelings. Then finally the son comes to the conclusion:
"Thanks for showing me how poor we are dad! Every day we get poorer because we no longer live in nature like farmers do!!!"
How old is that?
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
Miserable sods!!!!!

It's May 1st. Grass is growing. There should be a spring in your step and a welcoming smile for passing tourists.
No, grass is not growing, you must be a towny with no knowledge or observation skills, unless it's under your own nose
...

It's the driest and coldest April here since records began.
Must be the likes of you spouting hot air and farts for no good use creating that climate change, 😂:unsure:
 

Fendt516profi

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Nor me till I went back down and they were just packing up and going!
Might be wrong but you returned, (all be it they were packing up) with a tyre they had tried to fix and it had failed for a feeder to feed livestock and they sent you away till Tuesday. Not sure I'd be returning
Yeah I forgot to order diesel early enough and it’s not coming until Tuesday now o_O:rolleyes: might have to hold off on some plowing until then
Should of bought a Fendt.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
We are in for one hell of a summer I think. I've never seen so many wandering around miles from the footpaths.
End of lockdown = licence to do whatever you like in the countryside.:(
And when all these lockdown puppies grow into dogs, then the sh!t ( in plastic bags ) will really hit the fan....
 

Longlowdog

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Grass sure as heck isn't growing in Aberdeenshire. Coldest April since the 60's. He we had snow mixed with the rain yesterday. Then it pelted down hailstones the size of marrowfat peas. I try to be an optimist but stuff that, this spring sucks. My Facebook is full of folk looking for neeps to feed as the fields (parks as they are known here) are barer than a page three's boobies.
Tv ordered on Monday promised for Friday then a phone call saying it has been delayed 'oh, no worries' says I 'I'll pick it up Monday', 'er sorry' says spotty yoof on the phone 'it will be Tuesday as it's a bank holiday'...my reply was unprintable. You'd think a non essential business just reopening after lockdown would be gagging for business but nope, gotta have a long weekend. Asshats!
 

Extreme Optimist

Member
Livestock Farmer
Read this and see who the winners are.......... not the obsessed money hungry city people for sure !

A father who wanted his son to know what it was like to be poor brought him to live with a farming family for a few days. The child stayed there for 3 days and 3 nights.

Back in the car on their way to the town, his father asked him:
"And your experience?"
"Fine," replied the boy.
"Did you learn anything?"

The boy then explained:
1. We have a dog and they have four of them.
2. We have a pool with treated water. They have a river with crystal clear water, fish and other good things
3. We have electric lights in our street, but they have the stars and the moon to light them up.
4. Our garden extends to the fence. Theirs to the horizon.
5. We buy our food; they cultivate, harvest and cook their own.
6. We listen to CDs ... they hear a symphony of birds, crickets and other animals ...
... all this, sometimes accompanied by the singing of a neighbour who works on the farm.
7. We use the microwave. What they cook tastes much better cooked slowly by a fire.
8. We are surrounded by alarms and fences to protect ourselves ... They live with open doors, protected by the friendship and love of their neighbours.
9. We are connected to the telephone, computer and television. They are in communion with life, sky, sun, water, land, animals, friends and their families.

The father was impressed with his son's feelings. Then finally the son comes to the conclusion:
"Thanks for showing me how poor we are dad! Every day we get poorer because we no longer live in nature like farmers do!!!"
Not any kid I know. Most are permanently glued to their phones!!
 
Read this and see who the winners are.......... not the obsessed money hungry city people for sure !

A father who wanted his son to know what it was like to be poor brought him to live with a farming family for a few days. The child stayed there for 3 days and 3 nights.

Back in the car on their way to the town, his father asked him:
"And your experience?"
"Fine," replied the boy.
"Did you learn anything?"

The boy then explained:
1. We have a dog and they have four of them.
2. We have a pool with treated water. They have a river with crystal clear water, fish and other good things
3. We have electric lights in our street, but they have the stars and the moon to light them up.
4. Our garden extends to the fence. Theirs to the horizon.
5. We buy our food; they cultivate, harvest and cook their own.
6. We listen to CDs ... they hear a symphony of birds, crickets and other animals ...
... all this, sometimes accompanied by the singing of a neighbour who works on the farm.
7. We use the microwave. What they cook tastes much better cooked slowly by a fire.
8. We are surrounded by alarms and fences to protect ourselves ... They live with open doors, protected by the friendship and love of their neighbours.
9. We are connected to the telephone, computer and television. They are in communion with life, sky, sun, water, land, animals, friends and their families.

The father was impressed with his son's feelings. Then finally the son comes to the conclusion:
"Thanks for showing me how poor we are dad! Every day we get poorer because we no longer live in nature like farmers do!!!"
Poor farmer ? If you own a multi million pound asset you’re not poor 😂
 

gatepost

Member
Location
Cotswolds
They buy a million pound house and think they own you and the whole countryside. They expect everything to be perfect and be able to do what ever they like across your land.
Not so far off the truth, a property somewhere close by, up for sale, sellers keeping some land around it, new prospective owners want agreement signed before completion, restricting the keeping of noisy/dangerous animals / pigs/poultry etc, on retained farmland, what makes it even worse, is , I am informed , that the man is a farmers son, you couldn't make it up.
 

muleman

Member
Grass sure as heck isn't growing in Aberdeenshire. Coldest April since the 60's. He we had snow mixed with the rain yesterday. Then it pelted down hailstones the size of marrowfat peas. I try to be an optimist but stuff that, this spring sucks. My Facebook is full of folk looking for neeps to feed as the fields (parks as they are known here) are barer than a page three's boobies.
Tv ordered on Monday promised for Friday then a phone call saying it has been delayed 'oh, no worries' says I 'I'll pick it up Monday', 'er sorry' says spotty yoof on the phone 'it will be Tuesday as it's a bank holiday'...my reply was unprintable. You'd think a non essential business just reopening after lockdown would be gagging for business but nope, gotta have a long weekend. Asshats!
Minus 4 here in cumbria, some places werre minus 5 and 6, there wont have been many colder may days than this ever!
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Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
the Sheep in front of my house are nothing to do with me. My misses just rang to say 6 people have knocked on the door to say there is dead one out there (be luck to find me in the house). Why are people so bothered!
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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