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When I started farming nearly 50yrs ago there were 5 working farms and 2 estates all employing 2,3 or 4 farm workers all around my holding , those same farms ( i knew most of the workers )are now all contract farmed , I now know none of the operators and just see massive machinery come and a...

Some people got out of sheep because of the post Brexit disaster the consultants predicted

That's so 1970's , it will be a cyber attack, a few clicks of a mouse in a warm office deep in the heart of government build of China, Russia or some other meddling state

By and large the indigenous people of this country are very tolerant of others point of views and many of the non indigenous people/ faiths are anything but and that gives them an open doors to do/ say as they want and push there views ever forward ☹️

Had one , wasn't accurate

Hear alot about mixing with a loader bucket against the wall ,but how do you weigh the individual inclusions in the mix or do you guesstimate it 🤔

1939 was the last time a Government felt farmers could be useful ☹️

I probably didn't make it particularly clear on my first post , but this Facebook page is kicking off big time about annual hedge trimming , I'm afraid i can't supply a link probably someone could , thanks

This cropped up on Facebook may be of interest to some on TFF

What plants do you have that make up your wild bird seed cover

It needs a social media group forming by someone who's a skilled organiser, commentator, and speaker to get farmers to join it so that as an industry we can see the depth of anger against this proposal a platform that you can be confident that any action taken at any given time you know...

Apparently there is no legal regulation on the quality of sewage cake that is supplied by water authorities, given that they don't give a dam about what they dump in the water courses there's potentially some problems coming over sewage cake in the future, I wouldn't touch the stuff with a...

You're absolutely right but uk ag still needs Government policy to reflect the importance of domestic food production sadly that isn't on their radar for the foreseeable future until they are prepared to favour home food production subsidies will be important to most farms as they aren't able...

And I bet he doesn't even eat pheasant 👎

I think there's alot of common sense coming our way unfortunately , encouraged by Government with absolutely none 😫

Uk agricultural doesn't have in general the big open expanses of massive fields or scale of economy it's basically uncompetitive with the rest of the world with its beautiful patchwork of fields or hilly uplands ect that the population so love , add in rules , Government regulations , poor...

Is a plane full of young fit healthy men who are being sent to Rwanda against their will going to be safe to take off , of course not , 50% of the passengers will have to be body gaurds or they'd rip the interior of the plane to bits , it's a nice idea but ( excuse the pun ) it's pie in the sky

If you believed that , you probably believed that a UK Government would look after the interests of UK agricultural 🤣🤣

Try it , the choice is yours

The type of people who come to our farms to steal are the sort who if you did confront them or gave them a good hiding would almost certainly be back with their inbred cousins to return you the favour twice fold and skin your dogs as well , but the choice is yours , but for a quite life I'd just...