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Livestock Farmer
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South West
Nice video but the bloke mowing needs shaking up fairly seriously as can't mow around electric poles or outsides of fields very well. I was always told when I started mowing that any grass left uncut will quickly go to seed and will not grow after that and will be virtually no interest to cattle at that point so mow everything to keep it productive
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Nice video but the bloke mowing needs shaking up fairly seriously as can't mow around electric poles or outsides of fields very well. I was always told when I started mowing that any grass left uncut will quickly go to seed and will not grow after that and will be virtually no interest to cattle at that point so mow everything to keep it productive

TBF that pole has a wire stay coming off it and perhaps the mowers are new and he didn’t want to trash them in the hedgeline?
 

Lofty1984

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Mixed Farmer
Location
South wales
Nice video but the bloke mowing needs shaking up fairly seriously as can't mow around electric poles or outsides of fields very well. I was always told when I started mowing that any grass left uncut will quickly go to seed and will not grow after that and will be virtually no interest to cattle at that point so mow everything to keep it productive
Everyone ones a critic :rolleyes:
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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