Today at work

cows sh#t me to tears

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Livestock Farmer
Morning walk around mower whilst filling tractor.......
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3 hrs later....
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old one off and new one in....

And a big congratulations to the idiot knob engineers at John Deere who A: Are stupid enough to use the same bearings in the conditioner rolls regardless of whether they're rubber , V 10 or in this case the heaviest , tri lobes.
And B: A special shout out to that one engineer in particular whom decided that the back of the 2 piece bearing housing needed welding to the frame. You sir, are truly a "special kind of knob" :mad: :mad: :banghead:
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
It rained last night
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A good job it had cleared by this morning for the start of picking Portuguese cabbages 2 fields away:
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And this, dear vegan, is why some land is suited to veg, while other land cannot be cultivated so needs to be grass and therefore grazed by livestock.

serious water going down the culm this morning. Load of sheep swimming just south of Cully..😳
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
That’s not good. We were fortunate not to have sheep in either of our flooded areas as the volume of rain caught us all by surprise.

I have cattle in one field that’s more than damp in the bottom . But it’s fine for the cows though I worry a little about the calves. Plenty of dry ground for them to move to if needed in the field.

They’ll be moved soon once calving is done. 4 left.
 

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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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