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<blockquote data-quote="DeeGee" data-source="post: 6955811" data-attributes="member: 6695"><p>I well remember feeding small hay bales to dairy cows on completely bare grassland in the summer of 76. This followed on from another dry year in 1975.</p><p></p><p>In the autumn of 76 when home from college, I was delivering 56lb (25kg) bags of home grown spuds in my Mini van to customers in our village for £5 a bag, or £200 a ton in those days.</p><p></p><p>So multiply that by about ten? times, and you get an idea of how expensive spuds were in 1975 and 76. I was at Harper Adams in those days, and almost every farm in Shropshire was buying new tractors and combines etc. so hence a plethora of ‘R’ and ‘S’ regd. machines such as Massey 590s and Ford 5000s etc in the mid seventies.</p><p></p><p>Potatoes made an absolute fortune for many many farmers in the those years. Even here in the Vale of Clwyd many were so awash with cash that they honestly did not know on what to spend it. </p><p>We only grew two acres so it wasn’t a problem for us, but I think I bought some brand new remoulds for the van.</p><p></p><p>Don’t think those days will ever return, irrigation systems have largely seen to that.</p><p></p><p>I don’t remember how dry it was in the spring of 76, but the summer was probably the driest on record.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeeGee, post: 6955811, member: 6695"] I well remember feeding small hay bales to dairy cows on completely bare grassland in the summer of 76. This followed on from another dry year in 1975. In the autumn of 76 when home from college, I was delivering 56lb (25kg) bags of home grown spuds in my Mini van to customers in our village for £5 a bag, or £200 a ton in those days. So multiply that by about ten? times, and you get an idea of how expensive spuds were in 1975 and 76. I was at Harper Adams in those days, and almost every farm in Shropshire was buying new tractors and combines etc. so hence a plethora of ‘R’ and ‘S’ regd. machines such as Massey 590s and Ford 5000s etc in the mid seventies. Potatoes made an absolute fortune for many many farmers in the those years. Even here in the Vale of Clwyd many were so awash with cash that they honestly did not know on what to spend it. We only grew two acres so it wasn’t a problem for us, but I think I bought some brand new remoulds for the van. Don’t think those days will ever return, irrigation systems have largely seen to that. I don’t remember how dry it was in the spring of 76, but the summer was probably the driest on record. [/QUOTE]
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