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I thought that by us leaving the EU we here in the UK, would shape/create a new agriculture/horticulture support package for food production? All i see thats happened is that large blocks of productive land are by new "incentives" leaving abandoning, stopping food production, that and the...

I thought that by us leaving the EU we here in the UK, would shape/create a new agriculture/horticulture support package for food production? All i see thats happened is that large blocks of productive land are by new "incentives" leaving abandoning, stopping food production, that and the...

Nearly everyone ive asked to do a "job" is at or over retirement age, busy as hell? Examples, metal worker/welder, blacksmith, motorcycle dent, classic bike painter, thatcher, motorcycle seat recoverer, maker, etc etc etc? Just named a few, i bet others can name many other skills/ trades, that...

Yes it does affect farming, but why? my local council seems to be "awash" with money, from the many thousands of private houses paying council tax, plus all the indusrial estates with small and extra large industrial/commercial businesses are occupiyed, never seen it so busy, and nots even...

Well what do others think? It seems to me, while our govt, makes "our " farmers, jump through all the hoops, ( rules, regulations etc etc), right? Meat from wherever? floods into the UK? Why i say this, just phoned my vet, to get some alymycin, for treating some foul of the foots, and been told...

Went into w h smiths, just before the new year to purchase a duplicate book, as id bought the previous year, they didnt have one, but thats another story, so the next best thing was a "W H Smith" branded, order book, with the words on the front, W H Smith order book, in small writing at the...

Last night, sunday, yes country file on the bbc, showed the "plight" of farming, how little if any profit there is, ( for all the work worry and general aggro that modern day farming is) and thus the shocking decline in farming businesses, some 40, 000 odd gone in the last 20 years and know...

Always the same soon as we have a little bit of cold weather and all the weaknesses are shown up, such as pipes that should, or need lagging, on the tractor front, the old scraper tractor, ford 6610,1983, that starts everytime, has not the "energy" to crank fast enough in these few cold...

Ive put it in capitals, because i think that this is very important, these are "official" figures, not mine, and those figures are the people that are "counted" so the real numbers are alot more? Truely shocking ?

As it says, any one care to have a say? Id start the ball, rolling, toyota GB, product quite good, service, attitude, way below average? Now anyone in business, i would think would aim to be above average, but below? Many reasons for me saying that, ive bought 3 new hiluxs over the years, whever...

ive got one bought it second hand, using it the other day, yes i know its to late, but on this block, ground conditions are good and the tractor hardly marks the grass, i wanted to get the water down from the surface, its grass, been heavily grazed, mucked, cut for silage, hay, but i can only...

I know i post a lot, but please, is there anyone with a story, of a relative or person, either from any ww1-2, or even a recent conflict they would like to share with us all, i would be pleased to know, have you a relative, or person you know of thats name is on your local war memorial, my...

Now the politicians are starting to tell the truth, its, for "migrants", now you didnt have to be an expert to work that out? If you take the simple sum, of the people who leave the UK, to those who come in, and remember the "official" numbers, and the real numbers are alot more? They recon, in...

I wont name, mention any "names", but we had a small company, let some area of land, buildings running a buisness, paid us a "good" rent, this carried on for about 10ish years, some times the rent got a bit behind, but we were on the "ball", and made sure they kept, or caught up, ( we had a...

Its a 2 stroke yamaha about 40 odd years old, had the engine rebuilt, got four mounting bolts, engine to frame, ( one of which has 2 bush inserts) that act as vibration dampers, old ones have been "driven" out, now the new ones are a "tight fit" before ruining them by trying to "pound them in"...

Well people ,society seem to think it is? is this just another sign of the declining "standards", morals etc? Not many years ago, times were alot harder/tougher, but people lived"within their means", an old saying, but true? So why bother, trying to do the "right" thing in both life and in...

As a letter stated in the currant farmers weekly, i agree? it seems im under siege? from "people" trying to break into the yard to steal? The public, throwing litter into fields? the public looking for any "weakness" in my fencing to start walking with dogs? It now seems to me here in my village...

Im sorry if people are getting a little fed up with me keep putting out these posts, but i just dont know who to talk, turn to, in the farming family to get advice, so please bear with me, plus my " problems", and possible causes of action could very well help other readers of this post, i have...

The land in question ive owned and farmed since1982, its about 33 acres, we grew wheat, arable crops on it up to about 1988, then it went into setaside, then we wanted to keep graze cattle on it, (about1990sh) we had the whole block fenced, (to keep the animals in). One side borders 4 houses...

Im talking about the "crooked pub" in the "black country", (west midlands), seemed to me more than just an "accident", road blocked off, then when burned, knocked down? Ive put this on agricultural matters, because farms, with there "rich" history, often going back many hundreds of years are...