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czechmate

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Mixed Farmer
decimalisation was not introduced due to the eu but because of computerisation
at that time teaching changed it methods chanting table and learning by rote


in those days wheat was sold in tons

1 shilling a hundedweight was £1 a tonne worked really well

my father learnt decimalisation at school in 1948 so it was not that new in 1972

£1 is still £1


Old boy farmers here (and actually plenty in the trade) talk in units (I can’t even remember what they are called) but they are 100 kg’s, or a tenth of a tonne, ffs :banghead:
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Wat annoys me is when people say "one pence". Ffs, pence is plural, what they should say is "one penny". Another thing is that people say "two pence" and "three pence". Technically correct of course but It was always pronounced " tuppence" and "thruppence".
Bring back the old thruppenny bit ! .........an interesting coin if ever there was one.
 
I don’t know if your allowed to make that post...
Starting with the “word”, “Wat”

I was so infuriated that I forgot the h
Bring back the old thruppenny bit ! .........an interesting coin if ever there was one.

I think that I may still have an old silver truppeny bit somewhere. It was smaller than the flat sided one that followed it.
 

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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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