Greatest farming inventions/ ideas

[Willie adie]

What are the best ones.
Net wrap rather than Baler twine.
The person that invented lift arms that click in to the balls rather than having them fixed on lift arms

 

[JohnGalway]

Holistic management.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Can I say 'the plough'?

 

[Dry Rot]

The wheel!

 

[Still Farming]

Tractor instead of horse !

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Electric fencing.

 

[7610 super q]

Tec screws.

 

[DealeyPlaza1963]

The relief milker……..

 

[7610 super q]

Farming forums. Just kidding.

 

[Clive]

the internet

TFF mostly of course (I might be biased !)

 

[Clive]

But seriouslyI would say the plough has to be the single most significant invention in agriculture followed by Jetho Tulls seed drill ?

 

[shumungus]

Ferguson sytem.
Silage
Wrapping
Mobile Phone

 

[topcat2006]

Not an invention / idea as such but the unlocking of the scrambling on GPS signals in 2000 by Clinton.

 

[Yale]

Every invention has eroded farmers ability to make money.

Unless you shell out ££££ on the new xxxxx gadget next thing you get left behind.

 

[Wilberforce]

C.A.P

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Electric fence (that actually work) the posts and poly wire to go with it.

It’s been around long enough we take it for granted but PVC pipe or whatever you call the flex stuff. Allows water to be put wherever and whenever cheaply. No more welding steel pipe together or having a threading machine on sight.

 

[7610 super q]

C.A.P

The 52% of famers lost since 1972 might disagree.....

 

[Tarw Coch]

Every invention has eroded farmers ability to make money.

Unless you shell out ££££ on the new xxxxx gadget next thing you get left behind.

I’m pretty sure the best way to make money is to not shell out on the next must have but plod along as before.
However it’s best done later on in life and providing you have no successor as eventually you will indeed get left behind

 

[Danllan]

The promise that 'This will all be yours one day...'

 

[Wilberforce]

The 52% of famers lost since 1972 might disagree.....

Sure it wasn't all down to the hated EU, farmer numbers have been declining ever since Jethro Tull had his brainwave. Won't ruin another thread with embittered remained nonsense, BUT CAP has underwritten UK for many a year and those who want it gone most might be the first to miss it....