- Location
- West Suffolk
Hear a lot about "dog and stick farming" on here. It's not a phrase I've heard around these parts before so -
What the F**k is it?
What the F**k is it?
I always thought it more described the type of farmer who didn't get his hands dirty, and had staff to do all the work, and just wandered about with his dog and walking stick, checking everything was being done to satisfaction. That was how my father used to use it, something to aspire to, rather than being up to ones knees in mud and muck.
The modern equivalent would be the Range Rover driving type who turns up to see how 'harvest' is getting on, but has to go now because its Parents Day at his daughters private school.
Me,
No machinery or even buildings etc.
Just me, a borrowed dog now and again, landrover, some hurdles and alot of sheep.
I remember running behind an 885 towing converted horse drag harrows, lifting them on the move when the couch grass build up got too much in my Pre-College yearSuppose the arable version would be a clapped out dB and an old Leyland instead of the new fent
I always thought it more described the type of farmer who didn't get his hands dirty, and had staff to do all the work, and just wandered about with his dog and walking stick, checking everything was being done to satisfaction. That was how my father used to use it, something to aspire to, rather than being up to ones knees in mud and muck.
The modern equivalent would be the Range Rover driving type who turns up to see how 'harvest' is getting on, but has to go now because its Parents Day at his daughters private school.
Dosent mean let things slip, just means all you have are sheep,dogs and a stick.I have always taken it to mean farming on a shoestring in response to hard times, let farm tumbledown to grasses, adoption of a siege economy, and sole inventory being a dog and....well, a stick; with which to walk round the stock.
Are you still allowed a quad? I don't like walking too far, and the dog's gone deaf.Dosent mean let things slip, just means all you have are sheep,dogs and a stick.
Do you borrow the stick as well or do you have your own ?Me,
No machinery or even buildings etc.
Just me, a borrowed dog now and again, landrover, some hurdles and alot of sheep.