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Almost a quarter of our farm is on a peat bog, at one time each of the farms in the village had a proportion of this peat ground, splitting and fragmenting the farms. In the last forty years as farms became vacant with retirements the estate amalgamated...
We took delivery of a brand new Vicon Acrobat spider wheel hay turner come rowing up tool fifty years ago this month. It was an amazing machine at the time with no driving parts or gears, just turned by dragging the four wheels along the ground at an...
I was brought up to cater for a two hundred day winters, and rarely did the cows go out until the third week of April. Hay with kale was fed up to the turn of the year then on to hay and stored mangols for the rest of the winter, corn was fed according...
These two cases that I tell you of happened a few years apart, and I am not one to cause trouble, it takes a lot to wind me up into taking action like I describe hear. It was ten years ago late June time and mowing grass for hay a couple of fields back...
I read the Farmers Weekly, ov read it all me life, Read it in the good times, and read it through the strife, In its words and pictures, brings us all the news, Tells us of our leaders, n' tells us of their views. This farm could double its output...
So all in all you reap what you sow, you cannot keep robbing the producer, in this case the cow. It started when I joined a Milk Marketing Board scheme called ‘Low Cost Production’. November 1962. Much to my disgust I seemed to always be in the lower...
It looks like the beginning of a two week cold snap; the cattle seem to have grown a longer woolly coat almost over night, and its still only third week in November. In general the stock has grown well through the summer and with a reasonable quality...
I save it just in case, nothings ever chucked away, Piles of it every where, It might come in one day. I Remember the old cast iron wheels Long old elevator, use to pitch the corn, High in the hay barn, before the combine born, After harvest it was thatched...
Well to be honest it did rain yesterday, a reet heavy down pour for a few minuets most of which ran off. Up to now we haven't had a Drop (rain) Me cows are out on grass, and the pastures burning up, The brook is running low, soon be nothing left to...
It was as if the tractor was on an elastic band springing gently from its precarious position, with me holding its balance, You may or may not know that feeling when you know a trailer that you just spent a lot of time and energy loading by hand tips...