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    Sanitary pads in field..

    Where does the tanker go to empty?
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    Agents’ cheery outlook post-BPS

    I can’t see carbon trading for cover crops. It’s not permanent enough. A woodland over a 100 year period onlystores about 4 tonnes of carbon per ha per year..At £30/tonne that’sless than £50/acre. Gross. Carbon needs to trade rather higher to make it worth anyone’s while.
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    Cash, what to do with it come negative interest rates?

    I think it’s one of those Mars//Venus things...
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    Cash, what to do with it come negative interest rates?

    Er... so could I....but the better half...
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    Cash, what to do with it come negative interest rates?

    I take it you don’t have a wife working at home in a UK winter. It’s costing me a small fortune.
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    Cash, what to do with it come negative interest rates?

    Interesting equation around distance. How far do you have to travel for cost of travel to outweigh cost of heating the house for the day?
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    French to use neonics in sugar beet seed.

    I don’t grow sugar so asking from a point of view of ignorance. Neonicotinoids were invented in the 1980s. What did the sugar industry use before?
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    Dogs££££££

    What makes you think those with money to burn on extra costs are more responsible than those with less?
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    Dogs££££££

    Why the hell should vets be given a money printing machine? I haven’t been to the doctors for a decade, why should I take a dog to the vet if it isn’t I’ll?
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    Corruption and letting council farms in norfolk

    If you have eg 30 applicants for a tenancy you have 29 disappointed people. if only 10% of farmers are conspiracy theorists or vindictive Or entitled there are 3 people whispering aBout corruption. look around at your neighbours. Are more or less than 10% of them conspiracy theorists or...
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    Small Holding which would like an extra bit of help or security on a parcel of land?

    “ It was interesting how many of them have business plans which are entirely dependent on someone else subsidizing them.” Oh the irony on a farming forum....
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    EA river and stream management

    The EA have rights to access to do work, but actually Very little by way of responsibilities. they will also pay consultants £5 to justify not spending £1 on doing something useful.
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    Coronavirus: 73 contract COVID-19 after outbreak on Herefordshire farm

    This “if the locals were prepared to get off their arses” business is irritating. In a world where people have to pay rent or a mortgage, stay in one place because their kid is in school and wife has a job, why would anyone Other than students want seasonal work? Is the problem really the...
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    Best breed of chicken for children’s enterprise

    Poland’s are very docile with children. Eggs may be too small though?
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    Corruption and letting council farms in norfolk

    Just out of interest, has anyone let you land more than once?
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    Corruption and letting council farms in norfolk

    I asked a landagent once how he decided between two existing tenants when some land came up. He said it’s easy, you weigh their existing file divide it by the number of years they have been there, and let it to the person with the lowest number. the moral is to make yourself easy to deal...
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    New season lamb too expensive (for butcher)

    I. Am always amazed how often people think they know another mans business better than he does.
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    Agricultural Equipment / Machine pressure washing - £45.00 p/h

    There is only one way to stretch presherwashing vehicles to £45/ hour
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    Country Land Conservation Ltd

    The only reason I can think of for a gap that long between exchange and completion is to facilitate a back to back sale....
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