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Yes. £45,000 would have bought a TC 5-30 made in India a sort of modern 1540S

I bought a TC5-80 in 2022 basic spec.€ 120,000 ( £100,000 ) before Tax. A very basic spec machine but I thought it was a lot of combine for the money. It’s a bigger combine than a NH 8080 so it’s all relative. A 45 foot Claas varioflex header was £ 135,000 three years ago and that won’t do much...

I don't know about unsung. He was the subject of a few Power Farming articles. It was all a bit of a mystery to us from the low counties though.

Yep but the four hundred acres he started on was all arable. No potatoes now but beet instead. I could tell you the names of all who worked on the farms over the years no one got sacked they all retired or got other jobs.

In my experience bigger machinery comes to replace people who leave rather than pushing people out of work. In our village of thirty or so houses fifty years ago everyone would have worked on a farm or had some connection to the land today I doubt there is one person working on a farm or having...

I can't put fertiliser down with my machine but I'd like to and some time we will rig up a front tank. We will plant brassicas into striptilled only ground all the time but we find smaller seeds such as beans or maize might need a pre strip till cultivation depending on the previous crop. Wheat...

Pigs are better. Smoke from straw burning. Possibly because my mother was burning straw the night I was born apparently the nurses kept asking what was burning.

I think you'll struggle to find enough labour to run a topper,lifter and loader and three trailers these days. I think lack of conversation and teamwork has taken more of the enjoyment out of farming it's a very solitary job now.

Mown Lucerne.

India just smells of sewage. That’s a polite way of putting it. I like the smell of freshly ploughed ground.

I watched them all the other night. What there is now in farming is a closed shop. There’s zero chance of anyone being able to farm their way up.

Yes but think how much money you’d make if you had 100 cows and five hundred sheep and fifty sows and a shed full of chickens and with modern machinery it most certainly would be so much easier than in pre-war days. There’s no way one man could have handled a thousand acres arable in 1930 but...

Let’s face it if a Supermarket boss says the days of cheap food are over it just means we are going to put up the retail price whilst still keeping the farm gate prices as low as possible in order to increase our margins. Waitrose is a failing supermarket so if they can increase their prices by...

We have Waitrose visiting us in two weeks. I bet they won't be offering price increases.

Striptill is very good if your soil is in good shape. I don’t think it’s an option in bad conditions. We will either direct drill if wet or even plough to dry the land out. In the wet strip till brings up a lot of wet nasty stuff and blocks everything up.

I can imagine that being very frightening. When we were robbed three of us were sitting in the office having a cup of tea when a bloke came to the door pulled a pistol and told us to get on the floor. He came in followed by several others . I got a tap on the head from a gun but I wasn't really...

The first day without rain for a week and only the third in thirty days and approaching 400 mm of rain during this period we actually managed to get some tractors in the field today. Forgetting the three we got stuck trying to spray potatoes yesterday.

I don’t think defending yourself is an issue. However how likely is a scenario where you fear for your life actually going to happen and why would it happen. Why would you not make the maximum effort to make sure it doesn’t get to the case of you versus a thief. Which means action rather than...

I don’t know. However I’d say it would depend on the propensity of the population to disobey laws.

If ever an occupation required protection it would be solicitors. I didn’t know you could still own handguns.