yes they took over graves washers,Would they take over Graves & Graves they were massive in the 80's
huntapac taking up slack i heard ,
I think you had it right first time. When I started in the mid 80's there were about 40 farms in West Wales growing organic carrots on a small scale ( 10-20 acres each), nice little income with about half a dozen locals employed on each farm......quite often the carrots were hand forked out, less said about that the better.Yes bad choice of words there sorry. Perhaps being forced out of growing a particular crop because they couldn't/wouldn't compete on price would be better? Renting land to the big growers would then probably be an easier and more profitable thing to do.
Huntapac going out of growing brassica’s in Lancashire and another big grower taking on some of the land.Massive hunterpac sale on line with cheffins 'following a change in farming policy ' - looks like brassica kit .
Huntapac - Timed online auction of agricultural tractors, self-propelled harvesting rigs, sprayer, salad and brassica growing equipment and arable machinery - Machinery and Vintage Auctions
Address: Marsh Farm, Marsh Road, Hesketh Bank, Preston, Lancashire, PR4 6XT FOREWORD Forming part of Conditions of Sale. - Sale commences: Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 9.00am - Sale finishes: Friday 19th March 2021 from 12.00midday. - Viewing Day: Friday 12th March 2021 - 10.00am - 4.00pm (By...machinerysales.cheffins.co.uk
there's a few masseys appearing in barttlett's at chatteris too ........
driving miles or staying over in a caravan wherever the work is.
Maybe they aren’t willing to lead an itinerant lifestyle.
Will all this Huntapac stuff be at Cambridge for viewing and collection?Huntapac going out of growing brassica’s in Lancashire and another big grower taking on some of the land.
Now the large scale growers are getting the push. Where next ?
Do you blame them? I did travelling for work for a good number of years and it's sh!t.
I don’t blame them at all. Wouldn’t do it myself if I had a choice. I had years of travelling, living in shared houses and rough B and B’s in crappy industrial areas when I started out in engineering. Just observing how things have changed, and it’s not for the better IMO.Do you blame them? I did travelling for work for a good number of years and it's sh!t.
I agree but people go for the big bucks not the steady life. I’m all for the steady life and the satisfaction of the job itself even if the financial returns aren’t that great. However I am finding less and less people want or can afford to share that experience!Market gardens need to come back, commutable from home daily. Like so many things, we never should have let them go.
They are coming back.Market gardens need to come back, commutable from home daily. Like so many things, we never should have let them go.
A lot of what i see (vegetables) in supermarkets is very poor quality hidden behind the packaging. However i don’t think the general public is prepared to take the time to choose quality. The problem re people like Barletts is that they bid far too low in order to get the business in doing this they wipe out some of the competition but they then find they can’t make a sustainable profit.They are coming back.
As for letting them go, you chose to shop in supermarkets instead. Maybe not you personally but generally that is what the public did for various reasons and the supermarkets don't want to deal with market gardeners. TBH most market gardeners didn't want to deal with supermarkets anyway.
Farm shop is the way to go on that size, retail prices instead of wholesale makes a world of difference.Is there no legs in a smaller growers of the 20ac size growing for a co-op of some kind?