Farming in London looks pretty cool sometimes. Finished a big 275ac day yesterday, with a double breakdown for an hour, and moved 15 miles to the next bit.
#nearlythere
@Papajim1967
These
@DeterTech_UK
cameras proved their worth yesterday, had an alert after we had parked up and got sent photos of a man sneaking around. Worried he was heading back later on, we moved the kit from where it was and it’s all still in one piece this morning !
disappointed in the
@BBC
for broadcasting that programme on bbc1 tonight with the title giving the assumption all dairy farms are like the one shown, with staff who I hope have been sacked and are never allowed near animals again. Talk about kicking an industry whilst it’s down
One shelf with Irish beef mixed in with
@RTfarmers
British beef, then you go round the corner and see this. 19p for 1kg of carrots?! An absolute slap in the face for hard working farmers, our produce is worth so much more than this.
@Tesco
@tesconews
Sorry but is it possible to go to
@TheGameFair
and dress like an individual, do people not have their own style these days?! Knee length boots (far too hot), white jeans (just no), shirt (also too hot), some sort of tweed jacket/ gilet - like a crowd of flipping sheep
Apologies to everyone who must be bored of seeing my face/ hearing my voice on the tv & radio this week but I will keep beating the drum until I see rural crime taken seriously 😇😇😇
Caused quite a stir with the lorry post.
I’ve run grain lorries, driven grain lorries and worked both sides of the industry. At home, we will literally load a lorry at any time of the day, we want the grain moved as much as they do. All we want is an ETA and the correct info🤡
Love being treated like a brain dead blonde idiot at the tyre place. Trust me kwikfit I’m only here because my vehicle lease company said I have to come here, rather have gone to my favoured agricultural tyre place…
Today’s WTF of the day award:
Lorry driver at 7am “Hi I’m coming for a load of wheat”
Me “ok great, what time?”
🤡 “Oh I’m already here, can I get loaded asap?”
Me “WHY DIDN’T YOU CALL WITH AN ETA?!”
🤡 “I thought the office would” 🙄
It’s 30 mins from our farm in a JCB…
Health and safety level 1 not being followed at
@CerealsEvent
- event staff tearing about, two people on a quad with no helmets, doesn’t set a good example
Somewhere not too far from any of us in a container/ lorry/ boat full to the brim with the gps equipment from atleast 39 tractors stolen LAST NIGHT from the east Anglia region. Someone must know something?!
@HertsPolice
@metpoliceuk
@RuralCrimeNtwk
Perhaps harvest 2020 is better than we predicted. No big rush as we are 1000ac down for combining so lots of time for snaps like this 🥰 Today we are cutting gleam at 13% moisture, over 10t/ha and it’s 79kgs. I’m a happy little farmer 🙃🚜☀️
Sorry but why does
@JeremyClarkson
get to overlook the horrific health & safety statistics in farming and film himself (for tv watched by thousands/ millions) lying in a jcb bucket up in the air? And that’s only in the first episode 😅
No demos today, just our own two combines cutting J B Diego. Flying along, will he going until the shed (shoebox) is full then waiting for lorries to take it to
#randstore
tomorrow. 🌾🚜🚚
One day of harvest then rain stops play; all the OSR that’s ready is in the shed at 7% - rape kit off the combines and into some barley now whenever weather allows.
#chaserbitch
👸🏼
Over - and - out Harvest 2022. There aren’t enough characters allowed on a tweet to sum it up in a witty sentence. Let’s go with;
1. Surprising
2. Hot
3. Dusty
There’s a lot of grain in all the sheds, all the machinery is (almost) in one piece and everyone is home safe 🫡
A little bit of Sunday haulage in between eye rolling at replies to my health and safety tweet. In case any of you thought I “didn’t have a clue”, rest assured that to be an internationally qualified transport manager you have to have a brain cell or 2…
At my first conference three years ago I never thought I’d have the guts to stand up at the mic and ask a question and this year I did it!
#littlewins
(and no, it didn’t actually get answered…)
#NFU23
This is how you do corn cart 💁🏼♀️🚜🌾 cutting 100ac of barley for a friend of ours today. Two lexions and we are almost done, what are we going to do this afternoon 😂
So I was just speaking to my cousin who’s working out in Australia and today he’s spraying Gramoxone - a registered poison in UK/ EU. Must be safer over there ?!?!?! 🤯🤯🤯
#wtf
So nobody is going to come and investigate this, not even going to send an officer to see if there’s any evidence - and we wonder why Rural crime happens over and over again -
@HertsPolice
👍🏻
* GENUINE QUESTION * I look at this photo and think “I can’t post that, he’s stood underneath the JCB carriage. But, there’s no other way to open this seed bag?! Or is there?
#arablefarming
#drilling2022
#farmhealthandsafety
Red Tractor audit passed with flying colours for my farm + 9 contractor members - good job really considering Ive been hiring myself out as some sort of audit preparation expert. 😬
A reminder yesterday when someone slipped in a ditch on our farm and broke their foot, couldn’t move, lucky he had his phone on him to call my dad for help or it could’ve been a different story. Always take your CHARGED phone out and have
@what3words
downloaded! pls RT
Influenced in a great way by a fellow
@studentfarmer
@NFUtweets
ambassador earlier today and what a great challenge this is. I wonder how many of them will take it on… RT
Traded the John Deere and chaser in for an 8 wheeler today - much comfier and obviously faster. Not so easy to unload from the combine though - visibility 0% - is that because I’m a short arse or is the lorry too tall 🧐 hmmm
It’s not pretty, it’s not one of three fancy expensive frills we have in the shed, but it’s drilling wheat and that’s all that matters!
#harvest2021
#antiquefarming
#gleamwheat