I remember the time when...

[Old Boar]

When someone sitting on a tractor was only just higher up than someone standing...

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Word to the wise .dont tell a youngster to put 3 bags to the acre on !!

 

[jendan]

Word to the wise .dont tell a youngster to put 3 bags to the acre on !!

Why not? That was our standard rate for just about everything.

 

[Henarar]

Why not? That was our standard rate for just about everything.

big bags nowadays

 

[jendan]

big bags nowadays

Of course! Im thinking like a senile old f*cker like i am almost.Ready to get the little happy dog Vicon on the 990,and cut open those ICI Nitram with the penknife.

 

[DeeGee]

I can remember Gramp talking about a couple, Bill and Ive, who must have been gypsies I imagine, having an old caravan down at an off lying block of ground, they would be there for potato picking and then move on. The caravan was eventually burnt, years later, when they had stopped coming.
By all accounts, they would lay their morning turd in an Ambrosia rice or a bean tin and chuck it in the hedge bottom.

As you do.

 

[Exfarmer]

Of course! Im thinking like a senile old f*cker like i am almost.Ready to get the little happy dog Vicon on the 990,and cut open those ICI Nitram with the penknife.

Reminds-me of the fresh student who was sent to the field with a tractor , wagtail and a trailer of fertiliser to spread. He was a bright lad and had been told the spreader was set right and all he had to was drive in fourth at 1800 rpm 20 foot apart.
He was a couple of miles from home on this big farm and realised he had no knife, lokking in thr bottom he realised their was a device obviously placed to pierce the bags as you dropped them in

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Why not? That was our standard rate for just about everything.

He thought I was meaning 3 big bags . They cant think in cwt/acre

 

[hendrebc]

He thought I was meaning 3 big bags . They cant think in cwt/acre

I can

 

[DeeGee]

I can

I still work on bags per acre and if someone quotes me kg per ha then I automatically try and convert it back to bags per acre.

I have often said that one day some young tractor driver somewhere on this septic isle is sure as eggs is eggs going to go out and put 1800kg on an acre of grassland. And in fairness it won’t be entirely their fault will it?

 

[jendan]

I still work on bags per acre and if someone quotes me kg per ha then I automatically try and convert it back to bags per acre.

I have often said that one day some young tractor driver somewhere on this septic isle is sure as eggs is eggs going to go out and put 1800kg on an acre of grassland. And in fairness it won’t be entirely their fault will it?

It will be like very expensive Roundup.

 

[FG.]

I'm a cwt/acre person, but to keep my agronomist happy on the arable I also have to work in kg/ha.
Few years ago had an agronomist who threw me a curved ball sent me a fert rec with kgN/ha. I didn't notice the N :-/

 

[FG.]

We still have the building that housed 90 cows in a tie-up and pipeline system.
Milked in it until mid 90's! father wouldn't change (full of livery stables now)
Hay walk up each side, squeezing between cows to attach the unit to the pipeline and chuck some cake in the manger.
Back in the 70's before we 'modenised' and got a bulk cake bin, we had the Red Label cake bags which when empty i had to fold flat and tie up for the man who used to weigh and take them away in his Morris Minor van

 

[David.]

I can remember quite well keeping cake bags to put potatoes in.
I can remember quite well the fuss when the practice was banned too; everyone who happened on the yard would have to be informed that bags were costing 2 bob apiece, most of the profit from the spuds! To be fair, we did spend a few years bagging them for £40-£60 a ton.
Selling them to The Board, theres a thing, anyone remember that?
Used to bag them up in hessian seed bags, Phil Penn from the board would come round and have a cursory glance to make sure you were not selling too much soil and chats, then dye the spuds either violet or green, I forget, so that unscrupulous operators could (in theory at least), not re-bag them for wholesale. The spuds were then bought back and fed to the dry sows.

 

[Kidds]

make sure you were not selling too much soil and chats

How times have changed. Most supermarkets wash the chats and sell them at £1000/ton these days.

Here you go, on offer for Easter so save £200/ton.

 

[Exfarmer]

How times have changed. Most supermarkets wash the chats and sell them at £1000/ton these days.

Here you go, on offer for Easter so save £200/ton.

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People think they are buying new potatoes, then complain that modern potatoes have no flavour

 

[Kidds]

People think they are buying new potatoes, then complain that modern potatoes have no flavour

The supermarkets make sure the customers think they are buying new potatoes, it says "new" on that packet. Nothing less than a complete con, at one time of day the shoppers would have gone nuts at this sort of thing.

 

[Dry Rot]

I trained as a surveyor.

My stride was a yard, my foot 12 inches long, and the top joint of my thumb was an inch. I could estimate the length of a cricket pitch which was a chain or 22 yards.

Then they brought in decimalisation and I became obsolete over night.

 

[David.]

It is indeed a con, but they probably dont eat any worse than those Egyptian "Earlies" that used to come in a hessian bag with powdered camel dung for peat around them.

 

[Spear]

Plenty Irish dairy farmers on grass based spring block systems making profits of £1000/cow.

If everyone went to that system there’d be no money in it. It’s only the farms that supply the autumn/winter milk that allow spring calving herds to make money.
Can you imagine the milk price if all milk was produced in spring/summer.
I think many of these low input/grazing herds overlook this fact.