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Seen it myself a bit this time as well. Although have to admit on one thankfully small field, I’d left the headland baffle down . My forgetfulness !
If we’re owning up to cock ups, i spread a small field of grass last year without engaging pto.

A couple of weeks later I was trying to figure out what had happened, looked like someone had driven a quad bike around with roundup on the tyres.........very puzzled, and then it dawned on me, the pto couldn’t have been engaged ☹️
 

E_B

Member
Location
Norfolk
If we’re owning up to cock ups, i spread a small field of grass last year without engaging pto.

A couple of weeks later I was trying to figure out what had happened, looked like someone had driven a quad bike around with roundup on the tyres.........very puzzled, and then it dawned on me, the pto couldn’t have been engaged ☹️
At least you didn't leave your flaps open down the road

 

Willie adie

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Farmers have been treated like mugs from every angle for so long, but we’ve been given money so it’s just about manageable.
In the new world farmers need to get strong, aggressive and more commercial.
this includes against the chemical/input supply cartels - a very dubious and shady business ran by a few companies with no competition in the market.
mills/malsters/processors need to stop messing around, update their infrastructure or there will be no tasc bulk lorries left, all this stuff of keeping lorries in queue for 5 hours then shutting at 2.30 pm needs to stop. stuff like being forced to dry to 14.5% and then they instantly wet it up to 16% is thievery.

we need aggressive leadership to stop us being the whipping boy squeezed from every angle. Doing competitive and strong business with all these companies and sectors within the chain is great and important but at the moment we really are bottom of the pile due to incredibly weak industry leadership.
Need to learn to be like the French they take no sh!t
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
farming is, and always has been a gamble, we sow, without any positive proof, of what we will reap. Each farm/farmer is different, and we all have to decide, how high we gamble, on our farms. Selling, or buying forward, you can be certain, an element of insurance, is built into any prices we are quoted. Its just this year, the stakes are higher than normal.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
farming is, and always has been a gamble, we sow, without any positive proof, of what we will reap. Each farm/farmer is different, and we all have to decide, how high we gamble, on our farms. Selling, or buying forward, you can be certain, an element of insurance, is built into any prices we are quoted. Its just this year, the stakes are higher than normal.

Credit/bad debt insurance will be a big market this coming year. Everyone will be talking big numbers.

Imagine the value of a merchant ordering a boat load of fert and making sure they get paid.
 

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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