Clive Bailye, a Peter Hepworth for the modern times!

[An Gof]

And then there was the synthetic oil that Peter Hepworth used with extra long interval oil changes

 

[An Gof]

One of my good friends from my course at Harper did his sandwich year placement with Oliver.

 

[Lowland1]

Subsidies are a joke, says Walston

He's blunt, outspoken and believes farmers are getting too much help from the taxpayers. Mairéad McGuinness meets the controversial Oliver Walston

amp.independent.ie

 

[Hilly]

Subsidies are a joke, says Walston

He's blunt, outspoken and believes farmers are getting too much help from the taxpayers. Mairéad McGuinness meets the controversial Oliver Walston

amp.independent.ie

@glasshouse sounds like he needed the sub more than you and I , sold 1000 acre to clear debts and making a loss, you said he didn’t need it looks like he did.

 

[glasshouse]

@glasshouse sounds like he needed the sub more than you and I , sold 1000 acre to clear debts and making a loss, you said he didn’t need it looks like he did.

He said he didnt need it
But the brain wasnt connected

 

[Hilly]

He said he didnt need it
But the brain wasnt connected

No need to be nasty now, he was right imo .

 

[glasshouse]

No need to be nasty now, he was right imo .

If the uk govt hadnt threatened the veto, iacs payments would have stopped at 300 acres, so it was all down to whitehall that he got the massive dub

 

[Secret Agronomist]

No need to be nasty now, he was right imo .

To be fair that article was downright rude and a bit childish.
And he is probably right, if land values and rents represented productive capability we wouldnt need subs.

 

[David.]

Back in the day when Mr Hepworth was waxing lyrical about tracked machines, I happened to have a copy of The Western Producer, which had an in depth article about the then new Quadtrack. I gave him a call and we had a good old chat, and as a result, I put the the article in an envelope and forwarded it to him. He was certainly pleasant enough to talk with.

 

[Godber]

Seem to remember Peter Hepworth tried to manage without payments for a while but decided he was depriving his family and joined in. Might have been when IACS came in. Anyone remember this?

 

[glasshouse]

Seem to remember Peter Hepworth tried to manage without payments for a while but decided he was depriving his family and joined in. Might have been when IACS came in. Anyone remember this?

Yes

 

[David.]

Regards the OP. Are we drawing the parallel between Mr Hepworth and Mr Bailye being regarded as leading lights, and before their time; or their being rather fond of their own puff, and incapable of accepting that they may be wrong?

 

[David.]

Seem to remember Peter Hepworth tried to manage without payments for a while but decided he was depriving his family and joined in. Might have been when IACS came in. Anyone remember this?

Yes, my recollection is that he initially declared that there would never be so much as a single acre of setaside on the farm.....
To be fair to the man, I was saying exactly the same thing at that time.

 

[glasshouse]

Yes, my recollection is that he initially declared that there would never be so much as a single acre of setaside on the farm.....
To be fair to the man, I was saying exactly the same thing at that time.

They were not alone

 

[Jon 3085]

Seem to remember Peter Hepworth tried to manage without payments for a while but decided he was depriving his family and joined in. Might have been when IACS came in. Anyone remember this?

I think he didn’t claim IACS for the first 2 years.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Regards the OP. Are we drawing the parallel between Mr Hepworth and Mr Bailye being regarded as leading lights, and before their time; or their being rather fond of their own puff, and incapable of accepting that they may be wrong?

I'd just say they were both people who have an opinion and not afraid to articulate it. Neither are "wrong".

 

[Devil's advocate]

Interesting video of Oliver's son

Showing us his new grain store & a new design of combine a axial flow. Incredible yeilds of 3 ton of barley & a totally amazing 4 ton of wheat, variety Norman. A more average 14 ton/acre sugar beet,

 

[thorpe]

Regards the OP. Are we drawing the parallel between Mr Hepworth and Mr Bailye being regarded as leading lights, and before their time; or their being rather fond of their own puff, and incapable of accepting that they may be wrong?

its all about opinion, we all have our own and it will be a sad day when we dont. nobody is always right and hopfully always wrong! hepworth wasnt right all the time , although he often was but i never heard him say when he did get it wrong.

 

[Hilly]

Interesting video of Oliver's son

Showing us his new grain store & a new design of combine a axial flow. Incredible yeilds of 3 ton of barley & a totally amazing 4 ton of wheat, variety Norman. A more average 14 ton/acre sugar beet,

Exellent ! Thanks .

 

[NLF]

@glasshouse sounds like he needed the sub more than you and I , sold 1000 acre to clear debts and making a loss, you said he didn’t need it looks like he did.

I think his claims of hardship were exaggerated for effect. When Oliver Walston said he lost money, that was after paying himself a pretty decent rent. I think the sale of 1000 acres might really have been to buy out siblings after his father died as was the earlier sale and leaseback of much of the rest of the farm to a pension fund (which he later repurchased).

The predictions made in Against the Grain are finally coming true. Its hard to believe it took 22 years to kill off the CAP giro cheque.