Prince's Countryside Fund - Future of Livestock Auction Marts - Have your say!

[DevonDuckie]

The Prince’s Countryside Fund has commissioned academics at the University of Exeter to undertake a study on the social benefits of, and prospects for, livestock auction marts in the UK.
We want to know what you think livestock auction marts contribute to the agricultural sector, the rural economy, communities, and the countryside.

We would like to hear from auctioneers, livestock owners and anybody else who uses auction marts as we research the unique contribution these businesses make to the UK’s rural communities. Or has your local mart closed, moved or changed in some way? Do you have anything you'd like to say about that?

This is an important opportunity to have your voice heard on an issue that has received little attention.

The Prince’s Countryside Fund will publish the results as a report in Spring 2020 and following the completion of this research, the Fund will be offering a limited number of grants for marts to implement recommendations from the report.

Please follow link if you'd like to contribute to this study.

http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/.../news/articles/callforevidenceonprospects.php

Email comments to: [email protected]

Evidence should be submitted by February 28th 2020.

Thanks!!

 

[egbert]

The Prince’s Countryside Fund has commissioned academics at the University of Exeter to undertake a study on the social benefits of, and prospects for, livestock auction marts in the UK.
We want to know what you think livestock auction marts contribute to the agricultural sector, the rural economy, communities, and the countryside.

We would like to hear from auctioneers, livestock owners and anybody else who uses auction marts as we research the unique contribution these businesses make to the UK’s rural communities. Or has your local mart closed, moved or changed in some way? Do you have anything you'd like to say about that?

This is an important opportunity to have your voice heard on an issue that has received little attention.

The Prince’s Countryside Fund will publish the results as a report in Spring 2020 and following the completion of this research, the Fund will be offering a limited number of grants for marts to implement recommendations from the report.

Please follow link if you'd like to contribute to this study.

http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/.../news/articles/callforevidenceonprospects.php

Email comments to: [email protected]

Evidence should be submitted by February 28th 2020.

Thanks!!

I was expecting a survey type thingy.
To save me going any further....
I use 2 local live auctions often, and a number of others- including some the other end of the country- occasionally.
I value them highly, both as an arbiter of value, for the social contact, the knitting of wider communities, and all kinds of things beside.
I don't rate the pompous 'regional livestock centres', much preferring local market town sites.
(I'm 100% livestock, on circa 700 hct)

you can paste and copy if that's any use to you, or pm me if you want more.

 

[primmiemoo]

Bump.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Bump.

low ceiling ...mind yer ade

 

[primmiemoo]

low ceiling ...mind yer ade

Ooch! Ouch!

Ah be only vahv vutt two, too ?

 

[egbert]

Ooch! Ouch!

Ah be only vahv vutt two, too ?

vahv vutt 'doo' you mean maid?

I was complaining of a bad back to a maid of such stature one day, an er said 'well, ee shud be nearer the groun, like sensible folk'

 

[primmiemoo]

vahv vutt 'doo' you mean maid?

I was complaining of a bad back to a maid of such stature one day, an er said 'well, ee shud be nearer the groun, like sensible folk'

There will surely be complaints about abuse of the spell checker/autokrekt at some point. Gwain mazed, he is.

 

[egbert]

There will surely be complaints about abuse of the spell checker/autokrekt at some point. Gwain mazed, he is.

infamous farmer roun yer ad doo sons. One wus maze, un tother wus proper maze

 

[Bury the Trash]

Ooch! Ouch!

Ah be only vahv vutt two, too ?

Translated for the op.....

" despite being vertically challenged , I still managed to bang my head on the low beam .... "

 

[Still Farming]

Maybe Too Late for our Market?

Cowbridge Market set to close

Sad news today that our Local "Only Market", left to close. Vale of Glamorgan Council decided last night and no indication to resite a new one allegedly? Proposed Car Park to go there ? Covered in the Farmers Guardian and BBC Wales news today also. Cowbridge will no longer be a market Town.

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[Bury the Trash]

Maybe Too Late for our Market?

Cowbridge Market set to close

Sad news today that our Local "Only Market", left to close. Vale of Glamorgan Council decided last night and no indication to resite a new one allegedly? Proposed Car Park to go there ? Covered in the Farmers Guardian and BBC Wales news today also. Cowbridge will no longer be a market Town.

thefarmingforum.co.uk

Or They will get planning for houses on it I expect ...

If public transport was more convenient and 'social trip' fuel prices were put up there wouldnt be so many cars around anyway
How can the local roads infrastucture cope with many more of them ?

 

[An Gof]

vahv vutt 'doo' you mean maid?

I was complaining of a bad back to a maid of such stature one day, an er said 'well, ee shud be nearer the groun, like sensible folk'

In a quest for correctness with the local dialect and pronunciation should
That be “sensible folk” or “zensbull volk”

 

[egbert]

In a quest for correctness with the local dialect and pronunciation should
That be “sensible folk” or “zensbull volk”

When, having inadvertently used the term 'maid' (pronounced 'maird', or possibly 'mared') toward a female human being from somewhere East of, say, Brissel, I do endeavour to explain that it is merely a familiar term of acknowledgement. I am not implying any marital status, or physical property.
Else, zum draish to cunclushuns.

 

[An Gof]

Tis all boys an maids down yer.

 

[egbert]

Tis all boys an maids down yer.

you ought to try buying foals up here mate. they'm oss colts, or mare colts.

 

[primmiemoo]

Tis all boys an maids down yer.

Maids and boys, yer, or twaz. (They Moorland vo'ke be deffernt. Een a gude way, zummtahms.)

Be us cauzen dthraid dreft, du ee dthenk?

 

[An Gof]

Maids and boys, yer, or twaz. (They Moorland vo'ke be deffernt. Een a gude way, zummtahms.)

Be us cauzen dthraid dreft, du ee dthenk?

nah tiz viddy, us knaws wot tiz bout

 

[primmiemoo]

nah tiz viddy, us knaws wot tiz bout

Ees fay, us do.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Ees fay, us do.

its been years since ive heard 'Eese' .... infact i hear little of any of it at all these days. theyve nearly all gone, those that spoke like it.

 

[primmiemoo]

its been years since ive heard 'Ees' .... infact i hear little of any of it at all these days. theyve nearly all gone, those that spoke like it.

It's the registers of speech that I miss, too. Odd things, like how the hens were spoken to, and a different way with the dog or the sheep, or the cows. Ought I to admit to speaking to the livestock more in dialect?