tff proper farmin group

[spin cycle]

please add your ideas

i'm in for ploughin....straw burning....indoor lambin....pigs indoors

 

[delilah]

It's all proper farmin'. There is nothing wrong our side of the farm gate.

 

[Bogweevil]

Count me in for rick burning, breaking threshing machines and droit du seigneur

 

[Al R]

De-hedging, atrazine and chlorpyrofos returning, high prices on all commodities
How many spoons are needed to stir this up?

 

[7610 super q]

Proudly ploughing permanent pasture with smoky old Fords since 1985.


What about an alternative group to Groundswell ?

We could call it...........Dowdeswell ?

 

[Yale]

Proper farming developed through government policy.

But that is changing.

Who do you want to shape the future?

Badger huggers,twitchers,NE,vegans etc. or people who work on farms every day?

 

[Al R]

Proudly ploughing permanent pasture with smoky old Fords since 1985.


What about an alternative group to Groundswell ?

We could call it...........Dowdeswell ?

You must live at Tom Smith’s if your runnng a dowdeswell unless your on that stone free red soil and not the quarries we have across the pond here

 

[Mc115reed]

Forager spout Definatly on the right side and loading shovel on the clamp too

 

[7610 super q]

You must live at Tom Smith’s if your runnng a dowdeswell unless your on that stone free red soil and not the quarries we have across the pond here

Ploughing ex spud ground up today. No tillers haven't told us how to grow spuds without the plough yet......

 

[spin cycle]

De-hedging, atrazine and chlorpyrofos returning, high prices on all commodities
How many spoons are needed to stir this up?

that was never 'proper farmin' in my book

 

[Al R]

Ploughing ex spud ground up today. No tillers haven't told us how to grow spuds without the plough yet......

ive seen it done plenty without a plough! Just not in this part of the world.

 

[The Ruminant]

Ploughing ex spud ground up today. No tillers haven't told us how to grow spuds without the plough yet......

They’re working on it
https://www.procam.co.uk/no-till-potato-trials-show-role-in-soil-regeneration/

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Scuffling. Over and over the ground again and again pulling up squitch grass in hot weather to let it dry up and die.
And it all raking up under the chisel plough so you had to drag it next to the hedge and then push it under in reverse.

Muck spreading and leaving it about 8 inches deep all over the field.

Cutting a shallow furrow across the field to divert the effluent over flowing from the pit so that it could irrigate the grass in a hot spell.

It’ll be reet.

 

[spin cycle]

Ploughing ex spud ground up today. No tillers haven't told us how to grow spuds without the plough yet......

They’re working on it
https://www.procam.co.uk/no-till-potato-trials-show-role-in-soil-regeneration/

farmer up road doesn't plough for spuds.....liquid fert on stubble......then 'mother of god' cultivation tool turns stubble to ridge work

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Keep the diesel burnin’ the wheels turnin’ the tractor earnin’ and the Mrs yearnin’

 

[Pistonbroke]

I am just waiting it to come dark so I can burn my plastic and empty the dipping tub down the river....maybe said too much.

 

[GeorgeK]

When the farm office was a biscuit tin the paperwork went in

 

[spin cycle]

TBH.......i'm serious about some of it

take straw burning....no need for slug pellets and i'd never heard or seen blackgrass till 10 yrs after it's ban.....think of the chemical saved....chemical now leaching into water courses

livestock units are to big now.......vast outdoor pig herds concentrated over small temporary field areas are far worse IMO than smaller housed units spread over an area next to their straw supply and muck spreading areas.....same with dairy

ploughing is just common sense....without glyphosate min till/direct drilling is fecked

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

ploughing is just common sense

So is proper mixed farming rotations with ley breaks to allow soil recovery......

 

[spin cycle]

So is proper mixed farming rotations with ley breaks to allow soil recovery......

of course it is