Old farmer's saying's..... do you know any ?

[The Seeker]

Ok so we all know the old sayings, "red sky in the morning" you know the old phrases that just keep popping up in daily farm chat. The one that i have heard every hr for the last week re the weather " "in like a lion out like a lamb".. do you have any ag phrases that you use and do you think that there's science behind it or is it simply because its rhymes

 

[Clive]

“The difference between a good farmer and a bad one is a week“

lot of truth in that IMO - the arable job is all about timing

 

[7610 super q]

Always a frown with David Brown...

 

[Derrick Hughes]

“The difference between a good farmer and a bad one is a week“

lot of truth in that IMO - the arable job is all about timing

It used to be a day , bad farmers must be going down hill [emoji25]

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Half your corn, half your hay on Candlemas Day (2ndFeb I think).

 

[Cowmansam]

If in doubt flat out is a popular one with the trailer monkeys

 

[Cowmansam]

Along with no smoke no poke

 

[Great In Grass]

Cheques in the post!

 

[Northern territory]

Rain before 7 fine by 11. Not many of them hold true.

 

[bobk]

A wet and windy May fills the barn with corn and hay

 

[Rowland]

Some about if snows hanging about there’s more to come! Still odd bit of snow in the dyke backs around me

 

[unlacedgecko]

Buy flesh not metal

 

[Clive]

Flat wheat will make you flat barley will break you

 

[yellow belly]

Rain from the east for 2 days at least

 

[deleted user 837354]

'Fudging 1970's prices....'

 

[Fake it ‘til you make it]

You can shear a sheep every year, but you can only kill it once.

Your rams are half your flock.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Length weighs and weight pays.

I wouldn’t buy a pig in a bag. (Irish)

On the pig’s back. (Irish)

 

[Jasper]

When sowing corn .One for the rook one for the crow one to die and one to grow

 

[Wilksy]

“The difference between a good farmer and a bad one is a week“

lot of truth in that IMO - the arable job is all about timing

My Grandad said that of a haircut

 

[Lincs Lass]

Start on a Friday ,never start at all

 

[bobk]

An hour before lunch is worth 2 after