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Not so many bulls about farms these days, particularly the dairy herds. Before the advent of Artificial Insemination, you often reared a bull calf out of one of your own best cows, the resultant heifers coming into your herd and completing their first...
Pulled out all parcels and shopping and stood back, while the old Austin Montego finally cremated itself in the middle of the road. The old Austin Montego Estate Car, it was a farmers car, or life before we had a Landrover 1970’s / 80’s ( The demise of...
The farm I was brought up on during the war is situated about five hundred yards from the end and on the north side of the main runway of a war time airfield, and across to our west side was the perimeter track where the aircraft taxied round to take...
Each cow that went through the gate stumbled onto their knees, scramble back onto their feet and panicked, and fled down to the far end of the yard It happened one fine summer afternoon, when I went to bring the cows in for milking, they all get strung...
The grass came out near black and toasted, but smelt sweet with the molasas, the cows liked it, but not much feed value left in it. The first silage that we saw demonstrated was at our local Farming College in the 1950's, they had a concrete tower...
A Topic for as long as I can remember. One man went under the back of the dray on his knees and pulled the hitch pin, it was a bit tight but he managed, only to realise that the load and the tractor had started to move forwards away from him. Over the...