Clive Bailye, a Peter Hepworth for the modern times!

[Northern territory]

Great to see. Say it as you see it. Poor old Hepworth wouldn’t get near the BBC today.

 

[glasshouse]

Great stuff , great man before his time !

He (Walston) was a muppet
He didnt need the subsidy, but plenty others did.
Tony blair watched that and stuck the boot in

 

[Hilly]

He (Walston) was a muppet
He didnt need the subsidy, but plenty others did.
Tony blair watched that and stuck the boot in

Like that was ever going to go on for ever anyway, ahead of his time .

 

[redsloe]

Where are they now? Next generation? Or are they contract farmed?

 

[Hilly]

Where are they now? Next generation? Or are they contract farmed?

A member here .

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Where are they now? Next generation? Or are they contract farmed?

OW's son is a very keen farmer, has been known to appear on this forum.
Not sure what happened to the Hepworth farm.

 

[yellow belly]

Peter Hepworth did not burn straw and used a lot of manure
he incorporated straw way before the burning ban

and spent a lot of time killing the moles that eat his worms

he was a man of his times but I am sure he would have adapted to the conditions we farm in now

 

[An Gof]

Peter Hepworth did not burn straw and used a lot of manure
he incorporated straw way before the burning ban

and spent a lot of time killing the moles that eat his worms

he was a man of his times but I am sure he would have adapted to the conditions we farm in now

Would cultivate in the dark so birds didn’t take the worms. Do I remember correctly, but didn’t he have a pig unit as well for muck?

 

[Drillman]

I could be very wrong on this but I believe Peter Hepworth died of a lung related disease, I also have a feeling that his son emigrated To Canada to farm.

I could be wrong though on both points.

 

[yellow belly]

I could be very wrong on this but I believe Peter Hepworth died of a lung related disease, I also have a feeling that his son emigrated To Canada to farm.

I could be wrong though on both points.

my memory would agree with you

 

[Drillman]

my memory would agree with you

I go past where he used to farm occasionally it always reminds me of his articles.

 

[Wuffler]

Would cultivate in the dark so birds didn’t take the worms. Do I remember correctly, but didn’t he have a pig unit as well for muck?

Haha, yes I remember him regularly ranting about gulls pinching his beloved worms and would only plough/cultivate at night.
I also remember him sending his long suffering wife out into the fields to rogue wild oats and his not so subtle advertising of the latest bit of kit on his farm was a hoot to read...Dutzi every other bleeding word in particular!
What a bloke!

 

[radar]

What a guy Peter Hepworth was. Had the good fortune to hear him speak and always read his articles in Arable Farmer first.
I always admire a man that calls a spade a spade. Could do with a few more like him now.

Went on a visit there once and always remember him referring to mice as "meeses"!

 

[Drillman]

After the dutzi I do believe he got himself a FW60 with 2 sets of discs hooked together then followed with a 6m Amazon’s RPD combi outfit on that Fendt 626 he had.

iirc that 6m combi cost more to buy than a brace of 4m versions did!

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I remember him running on about his Glencoe Soil Saver.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Went on a visit there once and always remember him referring to mice as "meeses"!

Did he hate those meeses to pieces? Can’t remember what cartoon that was from.

 

[glasshouse]

After the dutzi I do believe he got himself a FW60 with 2 sets of discs hooked together then followed with a 6m Amazon’s RPD combi outfit on that Fendt 626 he had.

iirc that 6m combi cost more to buy than a brace of 4m versions did!

I bought that fw60 in 2011

 

[Wuffler]

Did he hate those meeses to pieces? Can’t remember what cartoon that was from.

 

[Hilly]

I remember him running on about his Glencoe Soil Saver.

What’s a Glencoe soil saver ?

 

[glasshouse]

What’s a Glencoe soil saver ?

Its like a big piggy bank