Introduce Yourself

[onesiedale]

Welcome to the forum. Plenty to discuss on here with real farmers about real food

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Hi all, found this forum by accident.
We're Scouse eaters and live on the outskirts of Liverpool. We're not farmers! We have a back garden with some veg plots, a few fruit trees, a little poly tunnel, 3 hens, a cat and a hive of bees! So we grow some carrots onions and spuds, get some apples and plums from our trees, grow some tomatoes and strawberries and get a few eggs from our hens.
Felt we had to log on to let you farmers know, that not everyone believes the $#!+ propaganda the media is spreading about meat! There's been a huge increase in articles about vegans, "meatless" meat etc. and it seems extremely odd to us. There's defo some ulterior motive behind it all, maybe using all the animal land to grow biofuels or impossible burgers?
All we can say is 'animal farmers, please stay in business cos we like eating real food!'

Welcome aboard. Enjoy the banter!

 

[Andrew.j]

For new member to introduce themselves, where your from, what you do etc. (If you want to of course!)

Hi
i'm Andrew, Newbie here..57yoa. from Carnoustie in Angus. looking to start up again as self employed contract lambing/shepherding and any other form of livestock work including general maintenance, happy to help out with anything...
have spoken to a few folk here and been very helpful ? also been intouch with a couple of prospective farms for lambing time...this looking not to bad at the moment.....Cheers @Andrew.j

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Hi
i'm Andrew, Newbie here..57yoa. from Carnoustie in Angus. looking to start up again as self employed contract lambing/shepherding and any other form of livestock work including general maintenance, happy to help out with anything...
have spoken to a few folk here and been very helpful ? also been intouch with a couple of prospective farms for lambing time...this looking not to bad at the moment.....Cheers @Andrew.j

Welcome to the TFF madness.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Hi Andrew, and welcome!

Best of luck with your quest, I know what you mean; returned to farming more times than I've given it up!
I'm semi-retired, semi-working, and semi-farming, and about as far away from Angus as is possible to be. My ancestors hailed from Scotland all the same.

 

[john stro]

Just after the war, around 1946, my mother and father employed a German girl who had managed somehow to leave Germany with her sister. Apparently she had been born in Canada, before the war, had gone with her father to South America, then back to Germany, where they had managed to survive, to come to England. Apparently Father and mother lent her some money to return to Canada. There she met and married a farmer, by coincidence quite near Edmonton where my mother was brought up.
Sorry to ramble on, but the other day I found some paper work which reminded me of her, I managed to find some telephone numbers, as they breed top class Aberdeen Angus.
On impulse I rang a cell number, and got her grandson in a tractor, still taking maize silage, as he said it had never stopped raving over there.
Clear as a bell he told me his grandmother is still alive and well, having retired to the nearby town farm.
I am still impressed with modern technology, especially when you compare it to the time when mother at the age of six took 14 days by boat, and ten days by train to get there!
Hope I have bored you all!
John Stro

 

[Crofter64]

Just after the war, around 1946, my mother and father employed a German girl who had managed somehow to leave Germany with her sister. Apparently she had been born in Canada, before the war, had gone with her father to South America, then back to Germany, where they had managed to survive, to come to England. Apparently Father and mother lent her some money to return to Canada. There she met and married a farmer, by coincidence quite near Edmonton where my mother was brought up.
Sorry to ramble on, but the other day I found some paper work which reminded me of her, I managed to find some telephone numbers, as they breed top class Aberdeen Angus.
On impulse I rang a cell number, and got her grandson in a tractor, still taking maize silage, as he said it had never stopped raving over there.
Clear as a bell he told me his grandmother is still alive and well, having retired to the nearby town farm.
I am still impressed with modern technology, especially when you compare it to the time when mother at the age of six took 14 days by boat, and ten days by train to get there!
Hope I have bored you all!
John Stro

Welcome to the forum. I live in Quebec and get quite a bit from this forum. I hope you do too!

 

[James_P]

Hello, my name is James.
I'm currently 19, my occupation is retail and I live in Norfolk. The reason I'm on this forum is because I'm an avid outdoorsman and I'm always on the look out for good experiences and I'm always up for meeting new people.

 

[Crofter64]

Hello, my name is James.
I'm currently 19, my occupation is retail and I live in Norfolk. The reason I'm on this forum is because I'm an avid outdoorsman and I'm always on the look out for good experiences and I'm always up for meeting new people.

Welcome. Enjoy the forum. There’s always an interesting discussion on the go somewhere!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Hello, my name is James.
I'm currently 19, my occupation is retail and I live in Norfolk. The reason I'm on this forum is because I'm an avid outdoorsman and I'm always on the look out for good experiences and I'm always up for meeting new people.

Welcome James. There are plenty of Norfolk folk on here. You may be able to help some in return for countryside access.

 

[deerandgrassland.com]

Good Evening, new to this forum, currently managing a 280-head spring block calving herd in Dorset. Passionate about grassland and deer. Always keen to learn and to pick up some new tricks and to share my knowledge. Simply enjoying the farmers' and stalkers' lifestyle...

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Good Evening, new to this forum, currently managing a 280-head spring block calving herd in Dorset. Passionate about grassland and deer. Always keen to learn and to pick up some new tricks and to share my knowledge. Simply enjoying the farmers' and stalkers' lifestyle...

Welcome. You'll find plenty here to keep you wasting time hooked

 

[deerandgrassland.com]

Welcome. You'll find plenty here to keep you wasting time hooked

Thanks ?

 

[Millqa]

Will not have many left to chat with if he does!

 

[clod hopper]

Hi, grew up on a mixed farm in Wales, emigrated to New Zealand in my 20's been dairy farming most of my time here. Now living on a lifestyle block(small holding) with dressage horses and sheep. Life's good!

 

[Gazfox]

Hi
Gereint here from Port Talbot South Wales.
Not a farmer just a semi retired snake breeder who shoots fox for a few farms down here. Just interested in how it is for you guys,the farmers i shoot for seem eternally busy and while we help out now and again with escaped sheep on the road in the early hours you are at it day and night,especially noticeable now when we guarding lambs.
So in short...or not so short,just looking into the background to what i see every week. Guess snake breeding might be small scale tropical farming but not as tough,when i was a slaughterman i saw more but was simply flat out on casualty cows so could never stop to enquire about anything.
Anyhow enough waffle
Good evening.

 

[Unk]

Hi, I'm a smallholder with a love for cattle, forced to make a living outside of the farm, but I still get all the pleasure of a hard days work during evenings and weekends, as I add bits and bobs to the farm.
I keep Belted Galloway cattle, but not satisfied with just pumping out calves, I like to closely interact with them, cuddle the calves while mum is licking them clean (as I did them, when they were born).. I got fed up training the Bulls to the saddle and bridle, as they were sold on, mostl;y to people not as stupid as me, and the riding they thoroughly enjoyed, suddenly stopped... so this year I am bringing on a steer that I shall keep... my daughter has a horse, my wife has a Donkey, so I shall ride my steer.
Last Friday I found a bull calf newly born, wandering around outside the barn (Don't know how he got out), covered in muck and mud from head to toe, I hadn't spotted mothers signs, but she simply didn't want to know.. so now it's living in my conservatory and has virtually house trained himself in the space of 6 days..
Anyhoo, I was going to call on the wisdom of the masses here, to find out if there is a generally available sprayer that will fit on the front of a telehandler and be hydraulically powered.. I could simply buy a 2nd hand one and convert it to a Hyd pump and fabricate a conversion from 3-point linkage to Euro8, but was hoping to buy new.. but wouldn't know where to start looking... and before you ask, I have passed my relevant pesticide certs for own land #51,52 and 53 if memory serves me correctly

 

[Bury the Trash]

Hi, I'm a smallholder with a love for cattle, forced to make a living outside of the farm, but I still get all the pleasure of a hard days work during evenings and weekends, as I add bits and bobs to the farm.
I keep Belted Galloway cattle, but not satisfied with just pumping out calves, I like to closely interact with them, cuddle the calves while mum is licking them clean (as I did them, when they were born).. I got fed up training the Bulls to the saddle and bridle, as they were sold on, mostl;y to people not as stupid as me, and the riding they thoroughly enjoyed, suddenly stopped... so this year I am bringing on a steer that I shall keep... my daughter has a horse, my wife has a Donkey, so I shall ride my steer.
Last Friday I found a bull calf newly born, wandering around outside the barn (Don't know how he got out), covered in muck and mud from head to toe, I hadn't spotted mothers signs, but she simply didn't want to know.. so now it's living in my conservatory and has virtually house trained himself in the space of 6 days..
Anyhoo, I was going to call on the wisdom of the masses here, to find out if there is a generally available sprayer that will fit on the front of a telehandler and be hydraulically powered.. I could simply buy a 2nd hand one and convert it to a Hyd pump and fabricate a conversion from 3-point linkage to Euro8, but was hoping to buy new.. but wouldn't know where to start looking... and before you ask, I have passed my relevant pesticide certs for own land #51,52 and 53 if memory serves me correctly

It woukdnt be too difficult to convert a sprayer pump to hydraulic, just get the right sort of motor , unless its over 12m it doesn't need too much power , just need to get the rpm right at a given flowrate I guess.
Actually how big is it anyway as an electric diaphram pump would be easier to set up on a smaller sprayer.
But anyway you will be better off asking thus in the machinery thread, theres some experts in there,

Do Be aware of the politics threads and dog walking ones probably best to keep out of them imo.

 

[OutdoorTim]

Hi I’m Tim from Wiltshire .
Mad keen on deer stalking but have to work a bit for bullets and kit .Mortgage paid off thankfully .
Builder by trade currently putting up steel barns for a well known contractor in south west .
Part time gamekeeper and poultry rearer .

 

[czechmate]

Hi I’m Tim from Wiltshire .
Mad keen on deer stalking but have to work a bit for bullets and kit .Mortgage paid off thankfully .
Builder by trade currently putting up steel barns for a well known contractor in south west .
Part time gamekeeper and poultry rearer .

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