Sad looking farms

[paul&mandy]

As I finish off hedging for customers I found myself getting really depressed looking at all this cs and sfi sh!t. Once fields I mowed and baled in some fallow weeds. Fields I fert spread the arable on either fallow stubble or bird seed. The whole lot looks unloved.
Then onto hedges. Got most places all looking lovely. Nice big dense hedges, most of them 8x8ft. I thought to myself what a mess they'll look in 3yrs time when I come to destroy them with the flail.
It's just not farming anymore.

 

[M-J-G]

A front mounted flail topper or a digger with a mulcher head may be an investment for the future, when fields need to be tidied up.

 

[bobk]

Farm to live not live to farm

 

[paul&mandy]

A front mounted flail topper or a digger with a mulcher head may be an investment for the future, when fields need to be tidied up.

Yes. Might have to think about that.

 

[serf]

As I finish off hedging for customers I found myself getting really depressed looking at all this cs and sfi sh!t. Once fields I mowed and baled in some fallow weeds. Fields I fert spread the arable on either fallow stubble or bird seed. The whole lot looks unloved.
Then onto hedges. Got most places all looking lovely. Nice big dense hedges, most of them 8x8ft. I thought to myself what a mess they'll look in 3yrs time when I come to destroy them with the flail.
It's just not farming anymore.

Wouldn't worry to much , these eco fekwits ain't got a clue , come 3 years you prob won't be cutting the hedges but bulldozing them in a hurry for the gov cos the masses are starving ...

They won't GAS about Tweety bird then ...

 

[76masseyman]

Same near here with a place that has been ‘put back to nature’ or ’rewilding’ or whatever it’s called.
Looks a right bloody mess to be honest, whereas the areas that are naturally wild, look pretty much ok, nice in fact.

 

[neilo]

As I finish off hedging for customers I found myself getting really depressed looking at all this cs and sfi sh!t. Once fields I mowed and baled in some fallow weeds. Fields I fert spread the arable on either fallow stubble or bird seed. The whole lot looks unloved.
Then onto hedges. Got most places all looking lovely. Nice big dense hedges, most of them 8x8ft. I thought to myself what a mess they'll look in 3yrs time when I come to destroy them with the flail.
It's just not farming anymore.

How are you managing to ‘finish off hedging’? I can hardly get about on the quad bike today, and certainly no hedge cutting since the last frost!

I’ll put the hedger on to finish a few roadsides, but the rest will have to go for this year.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

As Hugh Grant's mother famously said about acting, "It's all prostitution, darling"

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Young lad local to here, cracking chap, always makes a great job of his work, nearly got stuck hedge cutting last week and actually did get stuck taking some stuff up the field for hedge laying yesterday.

It’s the same around here, just lots of land looking unkempt. Thousands of acres just looking brown and drab.

 

[paul&mandy]

How are you managing to ‘finish off hedging’? I can hardly get about on the quad bike today, and certainly no hedge cutting since the last frost!

I’ll put the hedger on to finish a few roadsides, but the rest will have to go for this year.

Roadsides and tracks around 5k acres kept my busy since it got too wet. Got most of fields done. Just not done my stress levels any good doing all roadsides for weeks now.

 

[paul&mandy]

Young lad local to here, cracking chap, always makes a great job of his work, nearly got stuck hedge cutting last week and actually did get stuck taking some stuff up the field for hedge laying yesterday.

It’s the same around here, just lots of land looking unkempt. Thousands of acres just looking brown and drab.

Another lot we usually have turnips that's just fallowed. Just mad leaving bare stubble and getting paid to do absolutely nothing for 12months. 1 thing putting a green crop in but to do nothing?

 

[Old apprentice]

Young lad local to here, cracking chap, always makes a great job of his work, nearly got stuck hedge cutting last week and actually did get stuck taking some stuff up the field for hedge laying yesterday.

It’s the same around here, just lots of land looking unkempt. Thousands of acres just looking brown and drab.

Very surprised to hear that there is land like that how is it farmed in what way.?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Farmed?

It was all good arable, but now loads of estates are planning to rewild, put in solar panels, battery storage etc.
Swathes of land for housing, roads etc and that’s before we get on to the disaster that HStwats are creating.

It’s a busy area around here now, thousands of acres are being taken for anything but farming.

It’s no fun around here any more.

 

[Kevtherev]

Farmed?

It was all good arable, but now loads of estates are planning to rewild, put in solar panels, battery storage etc.
Swathes of land for housing, roads etc and that’s before we get on to the disaster that HStwats are creating.

It’s a busy area around here now, thousands of acres are being taken for anything but farming.

It’s no fun around here any more.

You best come help me then but no name calling again…

 

[neilo]

Farmed?

It was all good arable, but now loads of estates are planning to rewild, put in solar panels, battery storage etc.
Swathes of land for housing, roads etc and that’s before we get on to the disaster that HStwats are creating.

It’s a busy area around here now, thousands of acres are being taken for anything but farming.

It’s no fun around here any more.

I was staggered, and saddened, by the amount of development going on the last time I was down your way.
All good for those that have sold land for it though of course, but still.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

You would struggle to drive anywhere around here for more than a couple of miles in any direction before you saw some former farmland now being used for anything but farming.

 

[Radio]

At least it can’t happen in Wales , oh forgot Comrade Drakeford‘s decree.

 

[neilo]

At least it can’t happen in Wales , oh forgot Comrade Drakeford‘s decree.

If the energy infrastructure was there, I dare say there would be some big areas turned over to solar farms by now tbh.

 

[Clive]

As I finish off hedging for customers I found myself getting really depressed looking at all this cs and sfi sh!t. Once fields I mowed and baled in some fallow weeds. Fields I fert spread the arable on either fallow stubble or bird seed. The whole lot looks unloved.
Then onto hedges. Got most places all looking lovely. Nice big dense hedges, most of them 8x8ft. I thought to myself what a mess they'll look in 3yrs time when I come to destroy them with the flail.
It's just not farming anymore.

shocking mess isn’t it ! - but i guess if i cut hedges or sold inputs for a living i would not be keen on it either

 

[Cab-over Pete]

That just goes to show what CAN be done with a bit of effort.

What’s being talked about here is not that shown above.

Plus, I doubt the areas shown above look like that today.