- Location
- Lincolnshire
And then we see all the big shiny machinery and it looks like all we do is sit in cabs listening to radio 2. These programmes are about as far removed from real farming as you can get. No struggling with the RPA website, no messing about with the spreader vanes and the fertiliser settings website or buckets and scales in the yard. It's that kind of stuff that matters. Driving the tractor in the easy bit. But that's all lads want to do now, because it's all bigged up on the telly.
I was talking to a maths teacher the other night and I said do you teach them flow = k sqrt pressure, because you need that if you drive a sprayer or well you don't but it comes in handy if you know it. A lot of this has been lost. We aren't very good at working things out and getting them done any more. We have become clients of technology, not thinkers and doers. This comes over in the TV programmes. A spectator nation with everything dumbed down to cater for the lowest intellect with the shortest attention span and there can't be anything that isn't nice or bit dodgy either.
I was talking to a maths teacher the other night and I said do you teach them flow = k sqrt pressure, because you need that if you drive a sprayer or well you don't but it comes in handy if you know it. A lot of this has been lost. We aren't very good at working things out and getting them done any more. We have become clients of technology, not thinkers and doers. This comes over in the TV programmes. A spectator nation with everything dumbed down to cater for the lowest intellect with the shortest attention span and there can't be anything that isn't nice or bit dodgy either.