I want to write a regular farming blog.. ideas please !

[startinghandle]

So I’m thinking about writing a farming blog im a farm worker and live on a mixed farm. I’ve always enjoyed reading and writing about agriculture so much I want to start my own blog. i was thinking of interviewing different farms and posting a case study of each one including pics and information ie farming policy etc thought it might be interesting ? Posting and talking about machinery? what platform shall I write on? Website ? Give me your ideas and what you guys would want to see. Thanks

Sadly the people who you should be talking to have passed away like my aunt who was not afraid to admit to picking damsons to help pay the rent or another person who used to stop the safety valve opening on a traction
engine to get more power to pull threshing box up steep hill or my father who took day off school in the 1920's to see Fordson demonstration and the opinion that day was tractors
would never catch on
My message is don't leave it too long

 

[Clive]

You are welcome to write them on here!

Which you are doing already.

if you write well and about interesting stuff we are always on the look out for content to include in DirectDriller magazine

 

[Clive]

To be a truly successful UK ag social media super star you need tits...

that’s not a very nice thing to say about Joe Stanley

 

[unlacedgecko]

that’s not a very nice thing to say about Joe Stanley

Does bitching about subs and lack of neonics on Twitter make one a social media super star?

 

[Clive]

Does bitching about subs and lack of neonics on Twitter make one a social media super star?

Its seems so, certainly puts you inline for an NFU president or many other quango jobs one day to replace those lost subs

 

[jackrussell101]

Go for it!

You can purchase a domain space for a blog on sites like GoDaddy.com

 

[Courier]

Nothing stopping anyone writing a "Blog" - Getting someone else to read it more than once is the difficult bit ......

 

[ajd132]

Does bitching about subs and lack of neonics on Twitter make one a social media super star?

It appears so. It seems to open doors.
move had a stern telling off numerous time’s from the guy.

 

[unlacedgecko]

It appears so. It seems to open doors.
move had a stern telling off numerous time’s from the guy.

Move?

 

[ajd132]

Move?

I’ve

 

[Clive]

It appears so. It seems to open doors.
move had a stern telling off numerous time’s from the guy.

amateur ........ he blocked me

 

[Pan mixer]

Anton Coaker does a brilliant piece of copy every week, that would be a good thing for the OP to look at.

I watch a lot of the V logs from the US and the UK, I have wondered about doing one here as I have an interesting farm with lots of cattle, sheep, pigs, arable and wildlife.

I have not done this due to the 'hate mail' and trolling that anyone with animals gets from time to time as well as the danger of putting your head above the parapet and getting night time video visits from vegetarians (which we have already had) and subsequent shock exposure in the national presss - which in our case I am extrememely happy to add that, despite very clever editing, nothing was shocking enough for the nationals to take it up.

I suspect that I would have a similar attitude to ordinary blogs - i.e. I won't do it but I do console myself with frequent postings on here particularly in today at work (the whole forum is great by the way @Clive and @Chris F) as our industry and workplace needs sharing for its beauty, usefulness etc.

However a bit hors de combat currently due to surgery so don't look for much in the near future.

 

[Old McDonald]

Just get on and do it, if it is interesting people will come to it. Sadly there are tens of thousands of us think we can write, we can, but it is drivvle to anyone else. And I include myself in those budding authors

I do not log in many times a week, and usually only for a short time, but if I see one of your posts I always read it. I am yet to work out why I sometimes wholeheartedly agree with you about something and at others think it is indeed drivel.

TIP: You will be severely criticised by some on here if you fail to spell correctly, or do not place all the correct punctuation marks in the correct places. On the other hand it is amusing to see them make similar errors when complaining. No doubt some will object to me using the same word more than once within a sentence.

 

[ajd132]

amateur ........ he blocked me

Must try harder. Another article by him in the fw this week crying about subsidies. Makes you think, if these types spent as much time on their own business rather than trying to clamber up the nfu greasy pole and writing countless articles moaning they may be better prepared for the future.

 

[texas pete]

Must try harder. Another article by him in the fw this week crying about subsidies. Makes you think, if these types spent as much time on their own business rather than trying to clamber up the nfu greasy pole and writing countless articles moaning they may be better prepared for the future.

If you didn't know different, you'd think it was one of those parody twitter accounts...Subsidy Junkie et al.

I think he'll make a good MP one day.

 

[spin cycle]

how about one about hapless peasant shepherd who's sheep are always out?

oh wait

 

[Lazy Sod]

No doubt some will object to me using the same word more than once within a sentence.

I was taught not to do that when I was at secondary modern school in the late fifties. Mrs LS has been writing a wildlife column in our parish magazine for 20 years and writing the same word in a sentence is something that she sometimes does. I always run my eye over it and suggest alterations etc. I suppose that makes me an editor. Haha.

Nice to see you posting @Old McDonald. How are you getting on up in the Orkneys?

 

[unlacedgecko]

I was taught not to do that when I was at secondary modern school in the late fifties. Mrs LS has been writing a wildlife column in our parish magazine for 20 years and writing the same word in a sentence is something that she sometimes does. I always run my eye over it and suggest alterations etc. I suppose that makes me an editor. Haha.

Nice to see you posting @Old McDonald. How are you getting on up in the Orkneys?

That post was from 2yrs ago.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

As stated already, the hard part of a blog in the inter web thingy is getting people to read it. Whereas in a publication some might actually glance at it and there is no proof if they don’t.
By some fluke, I did a few years as the token pig farmer in Farmers Weekly farmer focus bit. I’ve now reached the dizzy heights of Pig World every other month. Writing it gets easier (but not necessarily any better) as time goes on. Unloading your brain on to paper is very therapeutic.

 

[Bury the Trash]

That post was from 2yrs ago.

He has posted and reacted recently. Very interesting commenter with a long and experienced view .