Top 10 worst ever farm inventions.

[7610 super q]

(1) Bale wrap. It allows chuff pots to bale all sorts of shite 7 months of the year, and flog it for £10 /bale (or less), ruining the fodder market with their bags of misery. Then it costs £££ to dispose of. Apart from the stuff hanging in hedges, of course.
(2) Potato plastic. All it did was advance spuds 2 weeks into the first frost. Cost £££ to buy, and £££ to dispose of. Apart from that draped on hedges, encouraging early blackberries, of course.
(3) Linseed. Anyone grow it anymore ?
(4) Cold storage. Spuds and veg available AYR out of season.
(5) Stripper headers. Don't know that they were particularly bad, but the novelty seems to have worn off.
(6) Spring tine cultivators. You drive back and forth across the field, but nothing much seems to happen...
(7) Mob grazing. Looks, to the untrained eye, like trampling perfectly good grass into the ground.
(8) Autosteer.
(9) Twin beacons. To have one is unfortunate, to have two seems like carelessness.
(10) Internet forums.

Any more ?

 

[SilliamWhale]

Shite

 

[spin cycle]

farm assurance

 

[SilliamWhale]

 

[Netherfield]

Briggs and Stratton engined elevators.

 

[mushnt grummmble]

Ford tractors

 

[ARW]

haybob

 

[Barleycorn]

TB testing

 

[michael N123]

8foot gateways

 

[Goweresque]

Flax. You combined it in September like linseed, but had to leave the straw in the swath to ret (ie get rained on so the stem started to break down so the fibre could be easily extracted) but then you had to somehow have dry enough weather after the wet weather to be able to bale it dry enough so it didn't go mouldy. In the 3 or 4 years we grew it I think we had the right conditions once. Oh, and you had to bale it with sisal string because of plastic contamination and the rats loved it.............

Never grew any but I bet miscanthus and hemp were a waste of space as well. Alternative crops are usually a ramp and the only people who make money are the people selling the seeds/growing material.

 

[Agrivator]

Wood-chip corrals.

 

[Happy at it]

Sheep

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Straw Choppers and Diet Feeders . having said that if we dint invent tractors we would still be finding work for hundreds of staff and life would be so wonderfull just like the good old days

 

[7610 super q]

Sheep

I was going to add " modern " horses. How can an animal possibly be so fussy ?
Did wild horses years ago roam the plains turning their noses up at every bit of grass they came across ?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

The end

 

[Fuzzy]

Square Plough !!

 

[lazy farmer]

ALL year round calving.

 

[DrWazzock]

Ad lib feeding.

They never clean up so it attracts birds and rodents and you get stale feed and a load of stuff crud stuck to the bottom of the trough.

They get shitty arses and hang about listlessly that is until you go in to bed them up when they aren't busy eating so then you have half a dozen bulls round you making nuisance of themselves "helping" you spread the straw.

Much better fed twice or three times a day so they just clean up. They are busy eating while you are bedding, nothing left for birds or rats, trough nicely cleaned out and I reckon they actually eat slightly more and do better but what do I know, we have only been doing it that way for 200 years.

Yes, ad lib feeding, otherwise known as "stalling" them or "caking" them round here.

 

[neilo]

Baler twine.

Controversial I know, but just think of how many extra people would be employed making gate hinges, farmer's belts, adjustable brackets and all manner of other things.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Flat bottom corn bins ,,above ground drying tunnels with the A shape vents ,Borage ,a lot of work for very little tonage