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melted welly

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Arable Farmer
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DD9.
We have just had a text from a couple coming to stay in farm cottage asking if we can remove the toaster as they are allergic to gluten.
Shame about the 30 acre field of barley 100ft in front of the cottage, straw in the shed, barley in the creep feeder and grain roller in the shed 15m behind the cottage.
I think we're becoming Guest Intolerant!

Must be hard for them.

You’d better pop it in a big Tupperware box in the middle of the garden, sealed up with hazard tape, in plain sight so they can see you’re taking this request very seriously. Will obviously need waiver forms signed, toolbox talks, orientation upon arrival, map of safe spaces in immediate vicinity, emergency contact details in case they both go down hard.

And make a big deal of explaining you’ve got in extra bog rolls in case they get runny tummies, which is one of the first symptoms my little boy gets with his allergies, and he coexists with the rest of us in our messy gluteny home quite happily.
 
The odds of both of them genuinely being allergic to gluten are very high.

I bet they've never been diagnosed by a Doctor, more a case of "I haven't eaten any bread today and I don't feel ill" "Same here, we must both be gluten intolerant"

I'd ask for a Medical Certificate
Strange that Gluten Intolerance didn't seem to exist much before pre-harvest glyphosate :unsure:

Those who intend eating "organic" food appear to have less susceptibility to gluten ....
 

melted welly

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Arable Farmer
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DD9.
Strange that Gluten Intolerance didn't seem to exist much before pre-harvest glyphosate :unsure:

Those who intend eating "organic" food appear to have less susceptibility to gluten ....
I think food is overly processed/refined now, see the ingredients lists, it’s 17 on the hovis loaf in the kitchen here.

Wife did a lot of reading on allergies/intolerance regarding our youngest son. In his case it points to lots of antibiotics in first 2 months of life, knocked his gut biome and body couldn’t digest certain things so treated them as allergens.

Agree on the organic, but is it perhaps that buying organic suggests a better engagement with, and interest in food in general, so more likely to avoid the processed shite and do actual cooking with raw ingredients.

The arguments of organic vs conventional, vegan vs meat are just distractions, the real conversation should be around raw vs processed. But there’s no money in fresh, raw food, it’s all about added value (processing and cost).
 

Paddington

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Location
Soggy Shropshire
On the advice from one garage as to the parts needed to get my Disco through the MoT, I asked another garage to do the work as first garage wouldn't do it. Second garage get half chassis in, then look at the car, "Ho!, this won't do the job mate, you need a full chassis". Decide not to go ahead, can they send the part back ? Apparently it will take £500 to wrap the thing up and return it to the manufacturers ( as yet unknown), with all the paperwork in triplicate that a logistical exercise like this entertains.
 

melted welly

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Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
The man who changes his mind like the wind.

plan for today set last night, at 0745 this morning changed completely as some assumptions had been made that were presented as confirmed. Now I’m looking at a squad of 20 odd folk who were banking on at least a half days work, which is looking like being done by half 9. And guess who has to tell them. 🙄.

couldn’t of had the discussion last night of course, oh no, we need the hassle, peril and Eastern European anger factors in place before that can happen. And if I can be made to look a tit, well that’s a bonus.
 

roscoe erf

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Livestock Farmer
On the advice from one garage as to the parts needed to get my Disco through the MoT, I asked another garage to do the work as first garage wouldn't do it. Second garage get half chassis in, then look at the car, "Ho!, this won't do the job mate, you need a full chassis". Decide not to go ahead, can they send the part back ? Apparently it will take £500 to wrap the thing up and return it to the manufacturers ( as yet unknown), with all the paperwork in triplicate that a logistical exercise like this entertains.
are you keeping her or looking to sell
 

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Aberdeenshire
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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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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