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North East Scotland here.
Skitter... Splattery fluid, generally accepted to have a high sh!t content whilst not necessarily pure.
End rig... Headland.
Pendle stroop or happy dog .... Vicon vari spreader.
Laired...stuck in the gutters.
Gutters.... Deep skitter.
Harrled ... Coated with an even layer of skitter or other ahesive unpleasant substance
Corkit... The skitter has dried on in several layers and is now inhibiting correct operation.
Barked, barkit... Skinned, as in your shin.
Shelvins...dropside trailer sides.
Strang... Liquid runoff from cattle court, not to be confused with skitter.
 

Flatlander

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
slightly off the question but English terminology’s compared to canadian is quiet alarming sometimes. I was at a wedding of another immigrant from England and the tables were a mix of English visitors and Canadian friends of the couple getting married. I was sat with two guys from england and three very prim and proper stuck up Canadian women. Speeches were to begin in five or so minutes and across the table this guy shouts to his friend. Do you want to go outside quick and split a fag. One woman shout out that he was a disgusting and a sorry excuse for a human being. Bewildered I quickly explained that fag was a slang term for a cigarette in England and not a homosexual as in Canada
needless to say there was a bit of an atmosphere on our table.
 

wrenbird

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Livestock Farmer
Location
HR2
In Herefordshire, trailers had thripples or dripples on, the bales on them would be put up in the tollet above the cowshed with the lister elevator (once you could get the thing to start and keep running). I was usually the one sweltering and swearing, squashed up under the burning hot tin roof trying to shove the last few bales in.
Spreading the hay out to dry was tedding, then you row up into ‘wallies’, not sure on spelling, to bale.
Holes in hedges are glats , when you go to mend them, you go glatting .
You would take your bait to work with you, so you could stop at bait time and eat it.
A wonderful old Herefordshire word that I haven’t heard for many years is dishabills, again spelling ? It was a word for a housewife’s everyday working clothes as opposed to her Sunday best,( who the heck has Sunday best clothes any more?).
Tundish is a large funnel.
Pike is a pitchfork.
Nisgal is a runt, smallest and weakest of a litter.
Nesh is something, or someone, too tender and delicate to stand bad weather.
Tush is to haul or drag something, usually done with a tushing chain.
Pleck or plock is usually a small field close to the house.
To give something, or someone, a polt is to give them a good hard thump.
 
As my job gets me on farms over a large area of the uk I hear all sorts of farming terminology, in some places I could do with someone to translate.
The thing that stands out for me is the name's used for the shortening workings on an angled side of a field, in south lincs we call them gauze, I wonder how many names there are over the country, I have heard them called (and sorry for the spellings) gearings, goreings, gairings, pikes, pikings, scoots, skeats and probably more that I don't recall.
Gauze - WTF

It's Gores, I come from the same village as you, and I went to same school as you.
Knew your grandparents, parents, brother and sister.
 

Scholsey

Member
Location
Herefordshire
In Herefordshire, trailers had thripples or dripples on, the bales on them would be put up in the tollet above the cowshed with the lister elevator (once you could get the thing to start and keep running). I was usually the one sweltering and swearing, squashed up under the burning hot tin roof trying to shove the last few bales in.
Spreading the hay out to dry was tedding, then you row up into ‘wallies’, not sure on spelling, to bale.
Holes in hedges are glats , when you go to mend them, you go glatting .
You would take your bait to work with you, so you could stop at bait time and eat it.
A wonderful old Herefordshire word that I haven’t heard for many years is dishabills, again spelling ? It was a word for a housewife’s everyday working clothes as opposed to her Sunday best,( who the heck has Sunday best clothes any more?).
Tundish is a large funnel.
Pike is a pitchfork.
Nisgal is a runt, smallest and weakest of a litter.
Nesh is something, or someone, too tender and delicate to stand bad weather.
Tush is to haul or drag something, usually done with a tushing chain.
Pleck or plock is usually a small field close to the house.
To give something, or someone, a polt is to give them a good hard thump.

Only ones of them i have ever heard are thripple/dripple, always through a thripple was at the front and a dripple at the back.
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
As my job gets me on farms over a large area of the uk I hear all sorts of farming terminology, in some places I could do with someone to translate.
The thing that stands out for me is the name's used for the shortening workings on an angled side of a field, in south lincs we call them gauze, I wonder how many names there are over the country, I have heard them called (and sorry for the spellings) gearings, goreings, gairings, pikes, pikings, scoots, skeats and probably more that I don't recall.
working the butts out
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
In Herefordshire, trailers had thripples or dripples on, the bales on them would be put up in the tollet above the cowshed with the lister elevator (once you could get the thing to start and keep running). I was usually the one sweltering and swearing, squashed up under the burning hot tin roof trying to shove the last few bales in.
Spreading the hay out to dry was tedding, then you row up into ‘wallies’, not sure on spelling, to bale.
Holes in hedges are glats , when you go to mend them, you go glatting .
You would take your bait to work with you, so you could stop at bait time and eat it.
A wonderful old Herefordshire word that I haven’t heard for many years is dishabills, again spelling ? It was a word for a housewife’s everyday working clothes as opposed to her Sunday best,( who the heck has Sunday best clothes any more?).
Tundish is a large funnel.
Pike is a pitchfork.
Nisgal is a runt, smallest and weakest of a litter.
Nesh is something, or someone, too tender and delicate to stand bad weather.
Tush is to haul or drag something, usually done with a tushing chain.
Pleck or plock is usually a small field close to the house.
To give something, or someone, a polt is to give them a good hard thump.
Tush is to haul or drag something, usually done with a tushing chain.

I topped a field with rushes the other day, and then tried to subsoil it (to improve drainage), did it the wrong way round, as I was worried subsoiling would bring up stones and damage the topper, should have subsoiled first maybe, anyway, could not subsoil as all the cut rushes were tushing up on the subsoiler legs!
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Moving to Norfolk from sedate Buckinghamshire, caused me amusement one day.
on the farm was a cricket pitch, where sometimes I would amble along for a cup of tea in the interval, and to watch my neighbours showing off their skills in the field, I having none such my self.
My immediate neighbour's wife was quite a straight laced lady who lived in the centre of the village with her farmer husband who were the heart and soul of the club. She was feared by many of the younger members wives, as her eye said all about the quality of the teas laid on. In fact they were all unfailingly good and the club had a wide renown in the cricket community not just for being one of the oldest in the country but the quality of said teas.
One day enjoying a cup and and a delicious cake I found myself taking to Mrs X , she asked me totally straight faced if I had seen the Roger in the field yesterday, I nearly spat my cake all over her as I did my very best to suppress my laughter, having not a clue what Roger meant in Norfolk speak:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
yes she continued in surprise, the straw was blown all over the field. Wether she cottoned on I have no idea.
I expect there are several on here who will know Mrs X well, a lovely lady.
 
That might just cross the fine line between a bit of mischievous score settling, and criminal damage…
Do you want to go outside quick and split a fag. One woman shout out that he was a disgusting and a sorry excuse for a human being. Bewildered I quickly explained that fag was a slang term for a cigarette in England and not a homosexual as in Canada

Still disgusting whether cigarette or homosexual.
 

Treecreeper

Member
Livestock Farmer
Tush is to haul or drag something, usually done with a tushing chain.

I topped a field with rushes the other day, and then tried to subsoil it (to improve drainage), did it the wrong way round, as I was worried subsoiling would bring up stones and damage the topper, should have subsoiled first maybe, anyway, could not subsoil as all the cut rushes were tushing up on the subsoiler legs!
As above, Tush, used to descibe a bundle of small timber poles being winched.
 

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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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