The positive thread

kfpben

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Location
Mid Hampshire
That rather reminds me of the motto of my favourite author, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB':

The wonder of the world
The beauty and the power,
The shapes of things,
Their colours, lights and shades,
These I saw.
Look ye also while life lasts.

And the last lines of Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality':

...Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.



Well, I'm more green than most, and have no problems with re-wilding where possible; but... a lot of 'environmentalists' have a fixed ideal of what is the 'right' sort of natural environment. I've had some of them ranting at me about my being p!ssed off with badgers ruining pasture etc., and they always give the nauseatingly predictable response 'But the badgers were there first...' :yuck:

Yet they don't want to hear that the badgers were everywhere first; where the schools are now, where the roads are now, where the hospitals are now, where the offices and factories are now and where they live now - and... my fields have been there for a damned sight longer than most, probably all of those! They never want to hear that, and they never respond to it either. :mad:
I noticed how the local views towards badgers hardened somewhat a couple of summers ago when they dug up half the village green and ruined the cricket pitch meaning the team had to rent another ground for the season.
They were ‘dealt with’!
 

Humble Village Farmer

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
Essex
That rather reminds me of the motto of my favourite author, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB':

The wonder of the world
The beauty and the power,
The shapes of things,
Their colours, lights and shades,
These I saw.
Look ye also while life lasts.

And the last lines of Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality':

...Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.



Well, I'm more green than most, and have no problems with re-wilding where possible; but... a lot of 'environmentalists' have a fixed ideal of what is the 'right' sort of natural environment. I've had some of them ranting at me about my being p!ssed off with badgers ruining pasture etc., and they always give the nauseatingly predictable response 'But the badgers were there first...' :yuck:

Yet they don't want to hear that the badgers were everywhere first; where the schools are now, where the roads are now, where the hospitals are now, where the offices and factories are now and where they live now - and... my fields have been there for a damned sight longer than most, probably all of those! They never want to hear that, and they never respond to it either. :mad:
Also, the natural state of affairs would not be the badger at the top of the food chain as now.

Short of reintroducing wolves and all that that would involve, the most effective thing reducing badger numbers is the motor car.

Edit: sorry should not have mentioned badgers or wolves on the feel good thread.
 
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Kernowkid

Member
Been on holiday in France this week. Lovely weather, good food and nice people. Had a peep online at land prices and it’s mad how cheap it is compared to the uk and that’s with the single farm payment plus other French subs chucked in! Still some opportunities out there close to home
 

primmiemoo

Member
Location
Devon
I hope they enjoy starvation. The natural way would be hunting gathering , we passed that stage long ago .

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chaffcutter

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Arable Farmer
Location
S. Staffs
You’re right Derrick, we’ve had a fantastic run of weather and finished autumn sowing today. Just enough showers to keep everything coming along nicely, been like October’s I remember from before the last few years of autumn deluge, used to love potato harvest which we didn’t start until early October back then. Climate change or just weather?
 

DRC

Member
Well I had a walk round the farm tonight and all of the autumn drilling has emerged nicely in the end despite a bit of a swilling. For first time in 2 years I feel like we have “ caught up “ and got ahead of the weather. We’ve even got 25 acres of OSR and we are as far on as we can be with beet lifting and nothing major is broken down.
Time for a holiday then . Come back refreshed
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
After a spell on life support I swore I would take more enjoyment from life and live each day, hour, minute as if it were my last.
Of course this is impossible, but I do take time to just stand and stare, The dew on a cobweb, unfurling leaves, the texture of a new beech leaf, the smell of rain on dry ground, two robins shouting their lungs out challenging for their space, even the sound I make trying to walk in the slightly underwater fields. Surrounded by wonderful sights, sounds, smells and tastes, I am determined not to hurry though life any more.
Watching a flock of duck fly in to my lake tonight against the fading light and the new moon - just bliss!
After saying it couldn’t get any worse last year then ending up laid on my back in hospital on the 28th Dec with them trying to stop my heart to get it to restart with a normal rythm and knock it out of an SVT I said I would take things a little less stressful and personally this year.

I am actually looking forward to travelling again with work in 2022 as over 18yrs that’s how I have learnt to relax and my body has come accustomed to it.
 

FG.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
North Wiltshire
After an horrendous hay making season, a wonderful autumn planting season.
Spend today rolling the wheat in 🙂🚜
Might even stop and pick up all the various horse related bits, that end up in the livery yard dung heap, which eventually end up spread on the arable.
The puppy is at the 'reaching stuff on the table'
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size eek!!
 
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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