Thriplow Annual Report

[Foxcover]

Always a good read.
Thanks @dontknowanything

http://thriplow-farms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018.pdf

 

[PSQ]

Try as I might, I could only read that with Oliver’s voice narrating it in my head...

 

[Foxcover]

Try as I might, I could only read that with Oliver’s voice narrating it in my head...

Haha me too! Didn’t help that I watched an episode of ‘Against the grain’ on YouTube the other day, thanks again to @dontknowanything for uploading those.

 

[Sharpy]

Thank you @Foxcover and @dontknowanything . Interesting read as always.

 

[dontknowanything]

Try as I might, I could only read that with Oliver’s voice narrating it in my head...

Commiserations

 

[Foxcover]

Commiserations

One of the wittiest things I ever read was from one report;

‘The last of this farm’s three Mercedes G Wagens departed and was replaced by a shiny dark green Land Rover so Dick would not look out of place among the 12 bores (and that is a conservative estimate) of South Cambridgeshire’

 

[Bruce Almighty]

V interesting
I disagree about the livestock bit though," none = happy days !"

Maybe, but in my opinion a farm is better with livestock than without

 

[Chae1]

V interesting
I disagree about the livestock bit though," none = happy days !"

Maybe, but in my opinion a farm is better with livestock than without

Which field did the top yielding field of wheat come from?

 

[Robt]

Great read David!

 

[dontknowanything]

V interesting
I disagree about the livestock bit though," none = happy days !"

Maybe, but in my opinion a farm is better with livestock than without

Clearly you’re not as lazy as I am

 

[dontknowanything]

Which field did the top yielding field of wheat come from?

How familiar are you with our fields...?

 

[Chae1]

How familiar are you with our fields...?

Not at all! But you stated in your report your best yielding field had cattle grazing 2 years ago.

Just watched against the grain 1st episode, wonder if being a prairie farmer is still akin to being a child molestor!

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Clearly you’re not as lazy as I am

Or as sensible !

 

[chaffcutter]

We don’t need to, it’s in your report - ‘the one we had livestock grazing on up to two years ago’ ?

 

[Daniel]

It’s a tremendous archive @dontknowanything.

I looked at the referenced 2001 report as well. I suspect this paragraph ruffled a few feathers at the time?!


“In a year during which foot and mouth disease was always in the headlines, it is probably impossible for the non-farming public to realise that arable farmers actually suffered worse than our livestock brethren. †Whilst foot and mouth was inevitably traumatic and deeply distressing, at least the compensation paid was very generous indeed. Thus it is unlikely that any of the victims of the epidemic emerged this December financially poorer than they had been in January. For the arable farmer the opposite is the case.”

I was at university at the time not studying agriculture and not paying much attention to farming... our dairy farm survived the cull due to geography and some good fortune with a cattle lorry being cancelled which had been to an affected market I believe.

The herd was sold due to economic reasons in 2002 anyway so financially would have been better off with a payout? But the mental trauma of seeing your life’s work go up on a funeral pyre?!

 

[dontknowanything]

Not at all! But you stated in your report your best yielding field had cattle grazing 2 years ago.

Just watched against the grain 1st episode, wonder if being a prairie farmer is still akin to being a child molestor!

Second best field actually...

Too early to pin the credit onto the grazing just yet. 5 years since last cereal crop, was always likely to be pretty good!

 

[Yale]

Good report.

Interesting evolution with the generations.

 

[New Puritan]

I really enjoyed reading that @dontknowanything - thank you for publishing it. I was also thrilled to see I was able to compete on yield with a farmer as respected and experienced as you - on soya anyway.

NP.

 

[nick...]

Allways enjoy reading these reports
Nick...

 

[Spencer]

Yes, an enjoyable read.

Thank you for posting
S