Best agricultural invention in your time !

[Derrick Hughes]

Ratchet straps. Cordless tools. The internet.

The last one particularly. No-one under about 40 has any idea how much information used to be like gold dust. Where you could buy certain supplies. Who could fix bits of machinery. Now you go online and start googling. Within 5 minutes you have options from all over the country and the other side of the world.

I could rope a load of straw on quicker with rope ' anther skill down the closset

 

[Werzle]

Anyone mentioned aircon

 

[teslacoils]

Autosteer.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

When robots replace farm workers who will you talk to ,
The best invention if all time.. a friend to talk to and work along side you

 

[Spuddler]

Rappa, mobile phone,

 

[thesilentone]

Automatic calf feeder.

 

[livestock 1]

Lot healthier to walk and better for the dog but all inventions have their downside
But the problem is with most inventions like a milking parlour . They result in expansion. Less farms less workers and the loss of communities. The only beneficiary being tumble weed

If I had walked as far as all of the worn out quads I’ve had have I would’ve been on my second set of knees and third set of hips

 

[Sheep]

Fudging plastic twine is everywhere though; you can find it in fields years after it found it's way there. There has to be an environmentally friendly version that will stick being wet for 12 months before rotting?

Every bale I've ever opened contained plastic 'offcuts' of twine, there must be millions of these lying around the countryside. Plastic that never degrades is a blight on the countryside and should be fudging banned. Black sheeting and black wrap would be next.

NHs loopmaster now ties the offcut in the knot, no longer leaving them in the bale, quite smart. Still, not as good as a fully biodegradable string.

 

[DRC]

Telehandler and the things it can lift, big bags and big square bales.
its saved many worn out backs from moving 1cwt bags of seed and fertiliser, and stacking 1000s of small bales.

 

[76masseyman]

Flat floor grain store.

 

[czechmate]

Fudging plastic twine is everywhere though; you can find it in fields years after it found it's way there. There has to be an environmentally friendly version that will stick being wet for 12 months before rotting?

Every bale I've ever opened contained plastic 'offcuts' of twine, there must be millions of these lying around the countryside. Plastic that never degrades is a blight on the countryside and should be fudging banned. Black sheeting and black wrap would be next.

Gone over to a tine seeder, very disappointing how much keeps getting hooked up

 

[z.man]

The TV is without doubt the best thing to happen to agriculture when conditions are not within a reasonable tolerance for a job just go to the house and switch the TV on, and worry about everything else when it’s fit to do Ps the TV may have been superseded now but it was the original best way to encourage patience

 

[case44]

Disposable Gloves
Hydraulics
Tractor Cab

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Plastic pipe and fittings that screw up by hand

Polywire and geared reels

Internet

 

[JD-Kid]

ummm so many things alot just has gear improved cabs better seats lights etc or better metals wear parts made the work place better
I would have to say the internet with the a lot of info online or forums were can pick the brains of others all over the world meet people that go on to be friends etc

 

[thesilentone]

Calving Aid

 

[andybk]

I go first , quad bike .

having to carry 15-20 acres worth of steel fencing stakes and poly wire , into and out of wet fields , 20-30 at a time for the first 10 years of my career because we only had a 2wd van, i would agree with you (and we hand reeled in the wire individually ) . Doing it now in less than an hour single handed i wouldnt have believed it back then . couple that with the mobile phone where you can talk to someone other end of the country , kids dont know they are born now

 

[richard hammond]

I go first , quad bike .

Agronomists = they can be blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm !! Do I know it!!!!

 

[Bob lincs]

Teach monkeys to drive them now, no skill involved.

I would say there is still an awful lot of skill involved, different skills and probably a lot more complicated than it was back in the day when steering wheels were needed .

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Agronomists = they can be blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm !! Do I know it!!!!

Your wrong