Super/Mega Farms

[oldoaktree]

I can remember the small hamlet I live in having 9 houses all having someone living in them that worked in agriculture. There is now 13 houses and I'm the only one farming, and yes the extra houses have all come from old farm buildings of one type or another that have been converted (2 old cow sheds, 1old stable and a old Kent barn)

One particular farmer round these parts once he's got his hands on a new farm the 1st thing he does is apply for planning on the buildings

 

[GTB]

I suspect if some would swallow their pride, and a few farmers' sons sat around a table and had a chat, then some proper efficiencies could be created. I once proposed that the local farmers got together and had a "land swap" so we all got rid of our outlying parcels and got ones closer to our home farm - you can imagine the response.

There should be some mileage (pardon the pun) in this if everyone worked together.

 

[oldoaktree]

What adjective would you use for Dyson's Beeswax and its 25,000 acres?

For this country I'd call it Mega especially as it no doubt (most) will be in a high yielding area of the county.

 

[Henarar]

A whole raft of tenant farmers and shepherds are currently facing eviction further south so the owner can access forestry subsidies to supply timber to the ludicrous subsidised woodchip grain dryers currently being built.

The woodchip woodchip dryers are even more stupid they do nothing but burn wood and get subs nothing else is produced