The positive thread

[Aspiring Peasants]

Had cattle in this time last year because it was so wet. They're still out looking well, only eating a bit of hay and not making a mess. Shorter winter already. (They didn't go back out until 28th May this Year)

 

[czechmate]

Seven days of lovely warm sunny weather - Real Indian Summer, better than what was alleged to have been summer from June to August. Sitting by the pool every afternoon with the temperature in the sun well in its twenties.
Living in France is also a real bonus: Plenty of space, all the illegals are leaving for UK. We haven't got Boris, and might even get rid of Macron next year. Still a good supply of reasonably priced wine. My garden is going great guns and still picking beans and a few tomatoes left in the tunnel. Had a count up at the weekend and could have eaten 15 different vegetables from the garden with Sunday lunch. Hens are still laying well.
Even found a tasty tender piece of French pork at the weekend - a bit of a rarity which would be better if only they could be persuaded to leave the skin on so we can have crackling.
All in all life ain't bad.
And the big bonus - at last we can travel again so flights to Cape Town booked for January: 5 weeks of sun and lovely wine. What more could an old man want?

Sounds as boring as hell... and I might even have a solution for you. You could pop down and look after my place, oh, and to save those tickets going to waste, I’ll even use them up for you

 

[czechmate]

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

I have a farm for sale

 

[kfpben]

A beautiful week weather wise.
Sheep looking well. Tups ready to go in shortly. Calves being steadily weaned, the sick one has turned a corner and is now back to full strength.

Stubble turnips looking good, OSR unaffected by flea beetle, grass leys up and away nicely, arable crops all drilled by contractors in the good spell of weather.

A week more work putting in concrete panels and Yorkshire boarding and a straw barn will be ready to take cattle this winter.

Hosted the hunt one morning this week- hounds absolutely flew on a gorgeous Autumn morning. Good to see some of the puppies we walk out with the pack.

Getting ready for the arrival of the first kfpben jnr , trying hard to keep quiet in NCT classes and not cross reference with lambings and calvings….at least we’re less horrified than most couples there!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Cattle coming to say hello this morning, what a lovely sight to see them still out in October and not sinking to their knees

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I'm the only one who's carbon neutral today , and they can't take my license off me if I'm over the limit ,,,

 

[lazy farmer]

Not currently using my overdraft

 

[Hesstondriver]

The ditch I dug earlier in the year ( having not really driven a digger before) is full of water and the land next to it is dry :

I put some mustard/ phacelia/ cornflower mix on the spoil next to it and the cornflowers are making a last minute appearance

And I had a neighbour on with his new Verdo drill to cut some grass into patchy Lucerne last week, a week later

 

[Red Fred]

We had our first estate quiz on Friday night, and our first birthday nosh up at the pub on Tuesday, for nearly 2 years. Can't believe where the time has gone.

 

[Goweresque]

Just fitted 3 new barn owl boxes like this one in various trees dotted around the farm:

 

[lazy farmer]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10157921967493190&id=834203189

was sent this not on faceache so can’t read it properly but it’s intention is positive

 

[Cowcorn]

Just by reading this thread I am feeling more and more positive by the hour.

With all the money you beef and sheep farmers are selling for, next spring will SURELY be the one when you buy lime!!!

Dont fret !! The gold rush is about to start for the lime men
Teagasc are advising farmers to soil test and apply lime instead of fert .
" lime the cheapest and most overlooked fert " is the slogan for 22

 

[Red Fred]

On my own today and of course a wild Charolaise cow decided to fart about over her calving. Came in quiet as a lamb and I just pulled out a healthy bull calf back end first but all OK . It really makes it worthwhile when it goes right..

 

[glow worm]

Positive dairy thought ....foreign language for all the arable on here?!... latest cow DIDN'T calve in the middle of the night one hr before milking and the big bulling cow that jumped a gate twice, seesawing over the top bar and knitting her back legs through the bars ... DIDNT break a leg or put any of us in hospital as we levered her off.

 

[glow worm]

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.

Agreed! No way is that a positive thought!!

 

[CPF]

The ditch I dug earlier in the year ( having not really driven a digger before) is full of water and the land next to it is dry :View attachment 992646
I put some mustard/ phacelia/ cornflower mix on the spoil next to it and the cornflowers are making a last minute appearance View attachment 992647
And I had a neighbour on with his new Verdo drill to cut some grass into patchy Lucerne last week, a week later View attachment 992645

I may be seeing things looking at the picture of the clover, it looks like there are a couple of four leaf clovers.

 

[Farmer Roy]

A week later, sheep are still wet . . .
Watermark is still flowing across the plain, the Curlewis Swamp is filling up, crops - ones recently planted & ones about to be harvested - have water flowing through them.
Still a long way from being a disaster & thankfully - after the last few years we have had - the landscape is getting well & truly rehydrated

At least there are no mice

 

[thorpe]

My new shed started going up today

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It’s only a few months late

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sheds always are!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Difficult to not be positive when things are working as planned makes you glad to have a plan worth making work.

 

[Hesstondriver]

I may be seeing things looking at the picture of the clover, it looks like there are a couple of four leaf clovers.

its lucerne not clover! we had some patches of poor gappy establishment so have trialed cutting in some Italian grass to cover the bare bits