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How would George Henderson get on today?
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<blockquote data-quote="Timbo66" data-source="post: 3144966" data-attributes="member: 59722"><p>I met his Grandson Ross in my local pub this evening...Ross is 25 and a true entrepanaur..similar to his Grandfather I would guess...Ross's Father Frank has diversified and modernised the same farm that George farmed utelising the buildings for different busineses...George's Wife, Ross's Grandmother is 91 and still going strong Ross tells me.. I agree with others comments about cheap labour and plenty of it in George Henderson's day...My Father farmed in a similar way on a 200 acre mixed farm on top of the Cotswolds..he too had a very mixed farm with lots of different projects...all very intensive...when he took the tenancy here in 1947 he averaged 1/2 ton of grain per acre...with good rotational cropping, grazing, and 80 wooden Hen fold units rotating the pastures, plenty of pig and cattle FYM, and an intensive forward sheep grazing system he built up the fertility of this thin Cotswold brash land to average 8 times his original yields 45 years later..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timbo66, post: 3144966, member: 59722"] I met his Grandson Ross in my local pub this evening...Ross is 25 and a true entrepanaur..similar to his Grandfather I would guess...Ross's Father Frank has diversified and modernised the same farm that George farmed utelising the buildings for different busineses...George's Wife, Ross's Grandmother is 91 and still going strong Ross tells me.. I agree with others comments about cheap labour and plenty of it in George Henderson's day...My Father farmed in a similar way on a 200 acre mixed farm on top of the Cotswolds..he too had a very mixed farm with lots of different projects...all very intensive...when he took the tenancy here in 1947 he averaged 1/2 ton of grain per acre...with good rotational cropping, grazing, and 80 wooden Hen fold units rotating the pastures, plenty of pig and cattle FYM, and an intensive forward sheep grazing system he built up the fertility of this thin Cotswold brash land to average 8 times his original yields 45 years later.. [/QUOTE]
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