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I don't know if it still applies but I've just completed the 2024 entry in my record book and I thought I would just mention it in case it still applies. I was asked for it in my last inspection which was 2018 if I remember correctly.

I normally catch up with BBC Radio 4 Farming Today on Freeview Play BBC Sounds while having my breakfast. The image on the screen is of an unfamiliar tractor or other type vehicle. It looks vaguely like a Muir Hill with a heavily protected cab and some sort of hudraulic thing on the back...

https://www.cla.org.uk/news/new-guidance-for-diverting-and-extinguishing-public-rights-of-way/

Had an email from Farming Connect this week inviting me to a webinar about the scheme on the 25th at 7.30. I've never done one of these but I have registered and will see what happens...

Farming Today on R4 this week is asking different people what their best guesses are on the shape of uk farms and farming in 2050. Yesterday and today are available on BBC Sounds. This morning they consulted an ornithologist. Anybody willing to put their reputations on the line?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cf5f I've just listened to the above episode on R4 this evening. If you are a farmer, especially a l/s farmer and have any kind of heart condition, I suggest you don't listen to it. Just for fun I did a bit of research online in the last half hour: World...

I've had a general duty 8x5 twin axle trailer on order with a well known N Wales trailer maker for at least 18 months. There is no hint of any date of delivery so I'm thinking about looking at other makers. Anyone with any suggestions?

Don't know if this will work posting multiple pictures on a new laptop. This comes from Anthony Hurd's book 'A Farmer in Whitehall', his experiences working with the War Ag through the '40s. I was wondering if there was anyone on here who calls Feltwell Fen home and could tell me (and us) what...

TFF keeps asking for permission to enable these. What are they please?

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2022/01/17/scotland-and-wales-are-right-to-reject-westminsters-unnecessary-voter-id-proposals/ Several Republican states in the USA are introducing 'Jim Crow' legislation making it harder for voters to successfully cast their vote. No surprise that this Tory...

Anyone else disgusted over this acquittal? For a 17 year old to be walking the streets equipped as shown in the photos is totally unacceptable never mind being found innocent after shooting 2 (black) people and injuring a 3rd. Black lives don't matter do they, whatever platitudes the...

I thought maybe we could have a recurring thread where we post any interesting bits of info on nature we notice during our every day work. To start; I have been depressed by the fact that last year I didn't hear a single woodpecker drumming or yaffling in our wood despite having all 3 normally...

I think my brain is too small to follow this; https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/12/macroeconomics-money-mmt-style-and-post-brexit-recovery-all-in-one-twitter-thread.html

How has rpw done for you this year? Had a message 8.55am on Monday saying that it was paid, and the amount, which is more than expected. I won't actually know until this months statement arrives tho'. Anyone remember if this is the loan or the actual payment? I get confused between SP and...

There has been talk of fibre coming to the cwm for about 18 months now. One OR engineer told me policy is to provide FTTP everywhere from now on. The little green boxes you see on some poles are now old tech.. Today I spoke to an OR contractor who wished permission to add a couple of extra...

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I watched an interesting little film on Talking Pictures TV this weekend, This Was England 1936. It started out talking about the ebb tide of prosperity in farming, (nothing new there then) and showed a standard Fordson ploughing with no mudguards. Went on to show a flint miner who had a shaft...

I've just found out that my regular shearer and gang organiser is stuck in NZ. Apart from my having to find someone else, I started to wonder how many nz lads come over on average, so how short staffed are we going to be this season? My ganger usually got 2 or 3 every season.

I have had my annual letter from the above requesting extension of permission to use 2 bits of land for helicopter training. I was just wondering how many others get the request and give permission?

Anyone downloaded and read these? I can't make any sense of them. https://gov.wales/revised-proposals-supporting-welsh-farmers-after-brexit https://gov.wales/support-welsh-farming-after-brexit