The positive thread

[Aspiring Peasants]

Having flicked through the forum this morning I came away feeling quite negative. There is a lot of worry and uncertainty about and a lot of biased reporting by the supposedly neutral BBC. I have no quarrel with posters highlighting this information because it can't be ignored.

However there are still plenty of things to be positive about and I thought it might be an antidote to all the doom and gloom for people to post some positive things that have lifted their mood recently. I'll kick off with this surprising? statistic

"According to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (2019) people born in the 1980's and 1990's were the highest meat consumers and those born after 1999 were the only sub-group to have increased their consumption over time"

 

[Chris F]

Good idea - the public also do value food produced in the UK over imports. We have a product that the public want, regardless of the way we are framed by the media.

This came out of the latest YouGOv study commissioned by Red Tractor.

https://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/HL_UKTIFI_landscape_pr13_final.pdf

 

[Boysground]

This thread should be the top sticky. Just had a conversation with somebody and we were both discussing how negative we both feel at the moment.
I should be more positive it’s October the sun is out and my tractor will move today

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[Derrick Hughes]

Best of luck

They just love posting moaning depressing we are doomed stuff

 

[Boysground]

Best of luck

They just love posting moaning depressing we are doomed stuff

Not helped by it being the silly season so I haven’t been out on the bike for a while

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[roscoe erf]

 

[Kidds]

Bramley apples are up 22% on last week which was also up on the previous week.

 

[Still Farming]

If all negative with current high prices, what the hell will they be like when they drop FFS ???

 

[roscoe erf]

Jeremy Clarkson 'did more for farmers in one TV series than Countryfile managed in 30 years'

James Rebanks, a sheep farmer and prize-winning author, criticised the BBC show for focusing too little on agriculture

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[puppet]

Prices are good, another 19 store cattle away to sale today, the grass is still growing, ground dry enough to cut silage if I had to, straw prices have eased back and never had as much silage in the pit.
I am self-employed so don't have to give 6 weeks notice of needing a day off, have an income, no commute and live in a part of Scotland which thousands of tourists think is beautiful.

 

[jondear]

Weather is lovely .Cows out still eating just grass . Getting jobs done before winter .

 

[SilliamWhale]

Life is better for more people now than in any time in human history..

Matt Ridley is a good read for all of this. Even minor things like toothache caused people unbridled misery a century ago.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Not helped by it being the silly season so I haven’t been out on the bike for a while

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Was out Saturday , , times are improving , my wife's had her last Chemo , that's looking good , Grass seed is coming though despite the missory brigade saying it's to late

 

[Red Fred]

Lovely morning walking around the cows by the river, our batch of autumn calves are all doing very nicely, picked up 1200 sausages from the butchery so well stocked for a few weeks, and that nice environmental guy up the road will have some nice new gates put up on his insurance. Wot's not to like?

 

[Red Fred]

What really has made a difference, after 2 years of not having enough bales and having to buy in, this year we managed 2 years worth in one so every barn and silage heap is full.

 

[essexpete]

Best of luck

They just love posting moaning depressing we are doomed stuff

We all need to get out on a metaphorical bike!

 

[Boysground]

We all need to get out on a metaphorical bike!

Nothing metaphorical here, this was a 64 mile trip to Lyme Regis

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[Henarar]

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Nothing metaphorical here, this was a 64 mile trip to Lyme Regis

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its still there then

 

[J 1177]

This thread should be the top sticky. Just had a conversation with somebody and we were both discussing how negative we both feel at the moment.
I should be more positive it’s October the sun is out and my tractor will move today

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Yep your right i feel seriosly peed off at the moment, it feeks like we are constantly under attack, but the sun is shining, my winter corn is all in and iv got plenty of straw and barley for the cattle.

 

[Henarar]

Calves have sold well and the younger ones are coming on well, lambs have done very well this time and are selling well, sold a bull yesterday, all the dung spread and nearly finished the in field hedgetrimming, weather has been good, cows are still out, hardly fed any silage yet and made plenty.
casant complain really