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puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
We would get lost on our farm. Fields called 6-acre and 14-acre here which just would not sound right to 2 decimal points. Slurry gallons per acre, fertilser units per acre, so many cows per acre, seasonal lets sold per acre, contracting all per acre. Anyway, hectares will be history in a couple of years.
In for a penny in for a kilo? The 1.6 kilometre-end road. 45 litre cowboy hat?
 

Derrick Hughes

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Location
Ceredigion
That's easy. Most normal people average about 50kms/hr driving long distance. In your case use 100kms/hr since you are exceptional.
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Can you do that in metric time please
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
E. Abolishing the acre
In 1979, Council Directive 80/181/EEC of the European Community1, governing standardization on metric units in the European Union, included an exception that permitted Ireland and the United Kingdom to continue using the acre for a limited time. The Council was supposed to set an end date by 31 December 1989. In 1989, the directive was amended to leave the setting of the date to the U.K. and Ireland. Finally in 2007 the exception was allowed to expire2, since Ireland had finished converting its land registration system to meters by the end of 1998, and the U.K. sometime afterwards. Beginning 1 January 2010 the acre could no longer be used in the U.K. for any economic, public health, public safety or adminstrative purpose.

News to me.

Source https://sizes.com/units/acre.htm

So, to summarise:
-Something changed.
-No one noticed.

Carry on.
 

itsalwaysme

Member
Location
Cheshire
Would anyone still buy petrol if it was still priced by the gallon?:eek:
Changing petrol/diesel to litres was a big con. I can remember when fuel price increases would be announced in the Budget, on the way home from work on Budget night, there would be queues outside the petrol stations, it would probably only be going up 2p a gallon. Then the change to litres and the 2p rises became 4.5 times bigger, it also seemed to be the start of constantly fluctuating fuel prices at the pumps
 

Owd Fred

Member
Location
Stafford
Writ this a couple a year agoo when still struggling to do me IACS .
When I first remember our phone number at the farm when I were a kid it was 62, now its eleven digits long.
The cattle had no numbers, only the one the auctioneer put when ya sold it.
As for Therms and Mjs. I anna got a clue and Joules per Kilogram???????????????

Numbers Galore


Phone numbers and the mobile, bank sort codes n’ accounts,
Credit card that can be skimmed, all ya savings trounce,
Car numbers and engine numbers and chassis numbers too,
Model numbers part numbers, colour codes pursue.

House numbers street numbers, area post codes an all,
All across the country, codes for counties large and small,
Field numbers, map numbers, parish number long,
Acres turned to hectares, if ya know where they belong.

SBI and there’s IACS, vendor as well,
PI and a Trader numbers, and Stewardship numbers tell,
There’s numbers for every thing, for this that and tuther,
Fill ya head with confusion, so many thing that got to cover.

Gallons turned to litres, pounds and ounces gone to grams,
Miles turned to kilometres, and foot to millimetre crammed
Therms have turned to Mj’s, power in Hp turned to Watts,
Heat is Btu to lbs, is now into Joules per Kilogram it jots.

The moneys gone to Euros, bank rate measures that,
Information all in plastic, and its in your wallet sat,
Converted into bar codes, so computers read the lot,
Nothing ever private now, they know all of what you’ve got.

Owd Fred​
 
We would get lost on our farm. Fields called 6-acre and 14-acre here which just would not sound right to 2 decimal points. Slurry gallons per acre, fertilser units per acre, so many cows per acre, seasonal lets sold per acre, contracting all per acre. Anyway, hectares will be history in a couple of years.
In for a penny in for a kilo? The 1.6 kilometre-end road. 45 litre cowboy hat?
After brexit, you going back to nondecimal currency too?:eek::eek::eek::LOL:
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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