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Half a primo 1/4 acre building plot,Back Lane, Souldrop, Beds

Whole generation of kiwi farmers know nothing of the value of clover and how to work with it.

what a bloody nice way to spend a cold wet winter morning in nz reading this lot. but you buggers ought to be doing something.

Trouble is, you are paying tax on what you earn plus the tax for the person who is working for you.

Many years ago, sunday afternoon, august bank holiday w/e, in bed with mrs,phone goes, neighbour Dickie "have you lost a pig?". Me dunno. Dickie"well it was heading for the beach" Thats real fun on Poppit beach getting that slag back.

Peter Flintoft Rotherham N. Canterbury

Dont read FF much these days, but I would love to read one day somebody has lost patience with the law and got their own justice with this odious piece of sh!t

if you ever washed out a milk separator aftre use, you would never consider drinking raw milk.

Tried this with dairy cows 30 years ago. Result 60% calved twins.

I wish I could be more help, but not allowed. Years ago at Ag. Eng college we had to design a farm bridge as part of the course work which we had to pass.. My effort was so feeble it should have failed with ease. But the lecturer was a good bloke and said,, "I will give you a pass but you must...

Quote from well regarded NZ farm accountant "production is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is reality" Pita Alexander always sound advice.

What is safe working practice? Sometime late eighties watched a business prog on a demo firm specialising in demolishing redundant railway bridges super quick. The method was for an excavator with a rock drill to sit on top of the arch and just keep knocking chunks off until the whole lot...

The 82 lot came during the night. Our bedroom window facing east had jammed open a couple of months previous, First job for wifey that morning, shovel 2foot of snow out of bedroom.

Get your marketing/outlets sorted first.Easiest to buy an existing round.Been there ,done that and nearest I have been to slave labour.

Never minded old time gypos, but irish tinkers, bloody hell,scum. Dont have them in nz, dont miss them. Old genuine gypo told me. "we try to be a bit reasonable with most folk, but get a chance to stripe a farmer we grab it, never get another chance".

I can relate to that.We lived for a number of years in west wales, a brilliant place except for the weather, just always seemed grey and never really warm, just depressing. Here in NZ no more "aged aches", If we get a 3 dayer of rain when a depression sits off the east coast, we think we are...

One of the most dangerous r/soles is that pr*ck mike joy, seems like we will have to rely on Winston to stop most of the crap. To answer the original question, where to farm. I have milked throughout SI over last nearly 25 years and to milk I would go for Oamaru/ Waitaki.Not too hot, not to...

Yeah, about sixties /seveties, there was a lot of idle plant and contractors looking for work after the big hydro dams were finished. Now all the borders have been converted to pivots. Also much of the associated water races are being piped, I am told this is to stop water loss through...

Large scale seasonal, I think came after the border dyke irrigation schemes of that time, although there have always been smaller scale town milk suppliers around chch. Banks penisular ,Rangiora etc.

Animal byproducts outfit where I used to live used 2 stroke artic commers, always over weight ,before switching to Highwaymen, the combination of smell and noise meant you gave them a wide berth. I swear on a still night back in sixties you hear them 10 miles away,climbing a hill.