Don`t have much to do on the farming side now, let family see to that but l do have staff working for me on our farm shop and cafe side of our business, staff in our area are very hard to find so when we do find them we try to look after them, but still lose them, all are paid from the minute...
Thanks for all the replies, l can answer some of the questions but l will try another installer l have just had heard good views on if he is any use l need him to answer some of your questions and the ones l am not clear on, just feel the system not 100% as my electric use is now £100. weekly, a...
Yes there is a manifold all connections in view, l know the layout two trenches one metre deep coiled pipe in both, most things appear normal apart from electric use l feel we are running 90 % on electric, my only other observation has been the grass over one pipe is always paler green, asked...
Had my Ground Source system in now twelve years, absolutely perfect, but just feeling now that the ground loops are not working 100% any one on here had the flow checked on the ground loops?
Congratulations, well done l know how you feel we had two bulls sold to MMB from our Snowcella family and one sold to represent the British Friesian Breed at the Porto Alegro fair in Brazil, that was over forty years ago but still get that happy feeling.
We fitted a long line of closed chillers with the fridge unit outside, works fine but our fruit + veg on open shelving suffer badly from the heat in the farmshop so all the salad leaf product l put in a closed fronted chiller successfully, our new shop in 2016 be built as one large building, we...
From my bitter and costly experience, do not employ someone who has done regular legal work for the NFU MUTUAL, they will look after them first to protect their income.
l think brexit will have made things very difficult today, back in the 1970-80-90s l sold pedigree heifers to France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Iraq, Iran and kuwait, all flew by air, l sold twenty four heifers to Japan, the buyer wanted me to go with them on ship to look after them, promised...
Went out of milk twenty one years ago not out of choice, still interested and log in here now and then to see what you are getting paid for milk these days, i understand it is still rock bottom but reading through the threads everyone seems to be getting a differant price, so whats the average...
Cost of death, thats something most of dont even think about, we were never vaccinated for BVD until one BVD. Persistant infector from four miles away broke into our farm, that caused the death of over four hundred pedigree cows in our dairy herd, this nearly broke me, if i had not spent the...
Joined when i was 30, like many dairy farmers i was working 12/14 hours a day 7 days a week, no relief staff could not afford to be off work, £18.00 a month for the whole family.
l am now 80, two new knees, two shoulder ops and a hip looking like joining the list, my wife also covered but...
Had a letter out of the blue from Associated British Foods PLC. containing a cheque due to me in respect of my shares in NMR.
telling me that all NMR ordinary share certificates are now invalid and should be destroyed, this sounds a bit odd, who has been lucking
after NMR. funds over the...
Garage across from us had three each one different, started breakdown recovery business, used one of them to remove a truck delivering steel for a new shed got bogged down, hitched recovery truck to a large tree then hooked the winch up to the bogged truck, she pulled it out with ease.
Sorry but this was a Reliant van we used it for years, two weels at the back one at the front the front weel was outside the van, looked like motorbike from the front, but was def. Reliasnt.
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