Alan Bartlett Carrot growers to close

[Kidds]

can they get anyone to man them?

I guess they won’t need the amount of Labour with carrots?

We were never on the scale anywhere near Huntapac but the cost of the labour made the job not stack up for us.
Everyone things Eastern European labour is cheap but it is the same price as any labour, the law says so. Not only does the law say so but they will have been audited by RT and supermarkets who will have made sure they weren't using "modern slavery".
Carrot harvesting may need less labour but a lot of that kit is for brassica gangs with particular note to the bundle of hoes included.

 

[TWF]

Andrew Burgess is looking to take on their employee's who will loose there jobs.

Fresh vegetables supplier in Peterborough plans to recruit up to 70 staff

A leading vegetables grower and supplier in Peterborough is looking to recruit up to 70 staff.

www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk

 

[Grassman]

On the edge of our town there lived an old lady who had “come back” from S Africa in the 1950’s. She bought a small farm here and grew carrots on it for maybe 30 years. The carrots were bagged up, not washed, and sold at the farmhouse. Everybody bought them until she died I think in the 1980’s.
The “drive” to do stuff like that seems to be just about extinguished. We acquiesce in corporate mediocrity because it’s “easier” or it’s “progress” but is it really? All you can buy now are flavourless washed carrots that chew into sawdust and taste like silage. Even the time of day when harvested makes a difference to sweetness but days when we harvested in the evening and took them into town early next morning have gone.

Organic spuds used to be a good number till the big boys ruined it

We do small scale free range eggs at the gate with around 250 layers. £3 a dozen collected and it is a struggle to say the least.
Yet up the lane someone buys in "factory farmed free range eggs and sells at £2 a dozen and will make more out of them than we do.
The ending of caged eggs is doing similar to the free range egg job. Everything is marketed as free range yet the factory farmed birds hardly go out in the field.

 

[Lowland1]

A lot of

We were never on the scale anywhere near Huntapac but the cost of the labour made the job not stack up for us.
Everyone things Eastern European labour is cheap but it is the same price as any labour, the law says so. Not only does the law say so but they will have been audited by RT and supermarkets who will have made sure they weren't using "modern slavery".
Carrot harvesting may need less labour but a lot of that kit is for brassica gangs with particular note to the bundle of hoes included.

We will be looking at the Garford in row weeders because even with our ‘cheap ‘ labour we have to reduce our costs . Labour costs generally worldwide are the one thing everyone in the veg business is trying to cut.

 

[melted welly]

A lot of

We will be looking at the Garford in row weeders because even with our ‘cheap ‘ labour we have to reduce our costs . Labour costs generally worldwide are the one thing everyone in the veg business is trying to cut.

The Davey Browns not good enough eh?!

 

[Kidds]

The Davey Browns not good enough eh?

I have done some miles on them things (not the Huntapac ones), the wheels snap off easy when they are set that wide.

 

[Lowland1]

The Davey Browns not good enough eh?!

I have always liked the tool carrier idea but I think it would be Fendt not David Brown as David Brown's are the work of Satan.

 

[Devil's advocate]

I have always liked the tool carrier idea but I think it would be Fendt not David Brown as David Brown's are the work of Satan.

Lots of firms building tool carriers

Terratech

Hak

Oregon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYnJeunuNA

Tilmore

Mazzoroti

 

[Stuart J]

Those terratchs are a bit of money.

What's the advantage over a rear mounted hoe? Just visibility?

 

[Devil's advocate]

Those terratchs are a bit of money.

What's the advantage over a rear mounted hoe? Just visibility?

We are drifting off topic.

elimination of swing effect through under & over steer.

Good as they are I prefer a small tractor on skinny tyres. I have an Einbock hoe which has hillside compensation headstock & hydraulic steering from the tractor cab.

 

[Hesstondriver]

We are drifting off topic.

elimination of swing effect through under & over steer.

Good as they are I prefer a small tractor on skinny tyres. I have an Einbock hoe which has hillside compensation headstock & hydraulic steering from the tractor cab.

It’s funny because I / we ( Bartletts) would put a hoe on wider Tyers so they sit in the wheeling with less movement. But we had Garford steering hoes or we replaced the sway arm on the linkage with a hydraulic ram to provide a bit of side movement

 

[Devil's advocate]

It’s funny because I / we ( Bartletts) would put a hoe on wider Tyers so they sit in the wheeling with less movement. But we had Garford steering hoes or we replaced the sway arm on the linkage with a hydraulic ram to provide a bit of side movement

I some times hoe quite well developed sprout plants so need a narrow tyre.

 

[Hesstondriver]

I some times hoe quite well developed sprout plants so need a narrow tyre.

Ahh , I assume your growing them on the flat , not in beds

 

[Devil's advocate]

Ahh , I assume your growing them on the flat , not in beds

No, everything here on raised beds, swedes the main veg crop but grow most crops for local outlets.

 

[Stuart J]

We are drifting off topic.

elimination of swing effect through under & over steer.

Good as they are I prefer a small tractor on skinny tyres. I have an Einbock hoe which has hillside compensation headstock & hydraulic steering from the tractor cab.

I just put hydraulic rams on my tractor stabilisers so can adjust the hoe side shift that way.

We are drifting off topic.

elimination of swing effect through under & over steer.

Good as they are I prefer a small tractor on skinny tyres. I have an Einbock hoe which has hillside compensation headstock & hydraulic steering from the tractor cab.

I've just a home made hoe and an old beet steerage hoe, but I replaced the stabilisers with rams on my tractor to give a bit of sideways movement.

Just looked up the einbocks, look very smart. What model do you have?

 

[Lowland1]

I have two Carre camera guided hoes and to be perfectly honest they are not much better than a normal hoe with a good driver but after about a couple of hours your concentration drops and that is when they really work. I have a high clear tractor on 12 inch tyres that gives a good view of work.

 

[Devil's advocate]

I just put hydraulic rams on my tractor stabilisers so can adjust the hoe side shift that way.


I've just a home made hoe and an old beet steerage hoe, but I replaced the stabilisers with rams on my tractor to give a bit of sideways movement.

Just looked up the einbocks, look very smart. What model do you have?

Its a 1997 model, just standard beet hoe.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Well the hunterpac sale is over.

What a lot of old well used kit.

 

[ridger]

Well the hunterpac sale is over.

What a lot of old well used kit.

How did it go

 

[Lowland1]

I was only £ 26,000 off being the proud owner of a Garford hoe.