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Maybe the levey boards or NFU should be looking to protect the use of beef/chicken/pork/lamb etc so that it has to come from an animal and not grown in a lab? Just like Cornish pasties have to come from Cornwall... Would be better to get in sooner rather than later with this of legislation.

Any opinions? Similar to the Makro British New Zealand lamb posted a while back? The use of 'recipe' twice makes it a bit clearer I think...

I recently went to an event run by Moredun on OPA and Johnes. It was pretty interesting and also pretty scary. There is a vaccine for Johnes but it had it's drawbacks. One thing I took away was never by stock which has been vaccinated for Johnes as you can't do a blood test to find out if they...

Fjallraven trouser made with their G1000 material. http://www.fjallraven.co.uk/guides/material-guides/g-1000 Or Some trousers made from Ventile (there are a few manufacturers using this material): Material: https://gearandmountains.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/grandaddy-ventile/ Trousers...

Does anyone use these for farming? And if so, what do you use them for?

Read an interesting article on domesticating foxes. I'm not a fan of foxes, but I am impressed at the speed of the genetic improvement. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-created-the-only-tame-foxes-in-the-world Has anyone experinced genetic improvements this quickly...

I haven't flown one, but having watched over someone's shoulder it looked very easy to fly. Like really easy. You'd pick it up in 10 mins. Live video stream with a high quality camera. Fast enough to be out of sight in 10 seconds. As far as I am aware you can also plot a route on a computer...

I was thinking time saving if you've got a lot of margins to photo and want to capture them all... Definitely overkill but got to be the fastest way. May also come in useful for other jobs.

Could you see the margins from height? Invest in a drone?

Thanks again for all the useful messages and encouragement. We've both got full time jobs and have always intended to start small and farm alongside our current jobs until it becomes viable to stop. Our current jobs also stop us moving too far away for land. I had a talk from someone who did...

Thank you for the quick responses! I suspect this will be what it ultimately comes down to. Choosing between a town we really love living in or starting a farming career. Definitely not just interested in buying land! In the 2 years of looking the only piece of land that came up for rent in a...

Hello, Both me and my girlfriend are first generation wanbee farmers. We live in rented accommodation on a commercial sheep farm and spend all our free time helping the farmer. Both of us have none agricultural related degree education but really want to start farming. The farmer often...

Round here, badges rip open the ribs and eat the insides. Foxes removing the heads and tails. Badges I'd say. Pretty bold in the day though.

Most phones will seek out a lower strength 3G/4G signal than a standard 2G signal, just because it has better data rates. Although I think most still drop to 2G when you're making a call, so the above is probably moot anyway. If you're experiencing dropped calls a lot it's probably more to do...

Pretty sure I've seen a "farm" that has been caught out by this. It was already a sh!t hole and this makes it worse. You'd have to be pretty desperate to be caught by this scam, it's sort of obvious. If the EA and police are really interested it would be a reasonably easy crime to trace. The...

If it's in your truck then you could look at a proper car phone cradle which puts an antenna outside the vehicle. Used to see it a lot in German cars, although not sure if iPhones and other modern smartphones have a port for connecting an external antenna? Might still be able find feature...