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No one could've predicted that the rise of the robots would begin in Ashdown forest
Stumbled across this on youtube - it's about 17secs footage of a walking "tractor" apparently built by John Deere.
Don't know much about it or what it might be used for, but it's quite cool.
Anyone know anything more about it? Tell me ...
Mr Foodchain was attending a Farmers Market Conference yesterday and heard a rather amusing/scary anecdote courtesy of a chap from FACE.
Basically the FACE man had been coordinating a school visit to a farm and at the end of the day the kids were making their way back to the coach when the farmer said to the school teacher:
“We’re just about to milk the cows. If you’re not in rush perhaps the children would like to see the process?”
To which she replied: “Oh no! I couldn’t possibly expose them to that much blood.”
“Sorry,” replied the farmer. “What blood?”
To teacher responded: “Well, you have to kill the cows to get the milk out, don’t you?”
True story, apparently.
SC: Here on the Black Sheep we're always keen to help you with a bit pf problem solving. One such problem came from a Robert Price from Shrewsbury, who contacted us with a particular issue regarding cross compliance.
He wanted to know whether the picture below would impact on his cross compliance entitlements. We think it just might...
A large part of The Black Sheep’s daily grind is monitoring and analysing metrics (ie. web traffic stats).
One helpful thing about the web these days is that there’s tonnes of free tools available to help Web Lords like myself when attempting to make sense of lots of figures.
This one in particular is a handy little chartlet which plots up to five sites by page views, reach and rank on the same graph:
SC: It is that time of year again, when the great and good of farming are celebrated in the Farmers Weekly Awards. The celebrations, this year based at The Grosvenor hotel, will be hosted by the lovely Fiona Bruce, and will involve highlighting the great achievements of a diverse range of farmers who have contributed in individual ways to their chosen profession.
This year will be my first, so i hope the head won't be too bad tommorow to tell you how it all went!!
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