Today at work

[Just because]

Breakfast in Swansea
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.......wait now for the belly ache

Might not get that far if if fork snaps in half

 

[Nearly]

Might not get that far if if fork snaps in half

Always keep camping cutlery kit in the D2, and bottle of ketchup.

 

[2wheels]

Plant Based diet
Flopping expensive in there. OH went and chose a few plants for the garden and I made her put them back !

did she put the steak back too?

 

[Muddyroads]

The farm shop and cafe reopened yesterday after the devastating fire in the main house. Bit of a panic on after torrential rain on Wednesday night so came up with a rather agricultural solution by Thursday night

 

[Dman2]

Beautiful morning
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Whats the hump in the field?

 

[JohnGalway]

Not today, but lately-ish! I remember my Dad and another farmer, Tommy, chatting long ago. Tommy was of the opinion put money into accessing land, farm roads. Dad built a shed. I think Tommy was right tbh Both the shed my Dad built and that of another of their friends got limited use and are now in disrepair, while the roads are well bedded in by now I'd like a good shed but I need roads, so I'm building roads! In some places they're just mud tracks, humps and tussock pulled out and levelled for a smoother quad track, other places I'm removing obstacles like cutting the tops off bedrock in old cart paths, and then brand new roads like below. Gradually I hope to put terram and stone the quad tracks too.

 

[Just because]

Whats the hump in the field?

Sewage main 700 new houses other side of the hedge

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Slightly better for lunch

 

[adda]

Slightly better for lunch
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Do you call that work

 

[sticky]

Do you call that work

I was just thinking that while eating my cheese sandwich.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Do you call that work

Hard work for me
...on Oxwich Bay beach ....and it's flopping raining

 

[benny6910]

Last field of spring barley in and rolled. What a pain this drilling seasons has been. Only managed 50% of the spring drilling due to wet land still. Sheds will be empty this September.

 

[mrs mtx]

went running and saw some sheep……not technically mine…..or at work but looked pretty!

 

[sticky]

Turned half of the ewe lambs out today, 4

weeks in a shed at this time of year is plenty long enough.

 

[Zippy768]

Spraying off short term Westerwolds/ryegrass ley (drilled after winter barley) before cutting for silage then into late maize.
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Then went to look at the winter oat/winter bean bicrop direct drilled after maize
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Why "late" maize?

 

[Hesstondriver]

Not today, but lately-ish! I remember my Dad and another farmer, Tommy, chatting long ago. Tommy was of the opinion put money into accessing land, farm roads. Dad built a shed. I think Tommy was right tbh Both the shed my Dad built and that of another of their friends got limited use and are now in disrepair, while the roads are well bedded in by now I'd like a good shed but I need roads, so I'm building roads! In some places they're just mud tracks, humps and tussock pulled out and levelled for a smoother quad track, other places I'm removing obstacles like cutting the tops off bedrock in old cart paths, and then brand new roads like below. Gradually I hope to put terram and stone the quad tracks too.

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Funny how a decent farm roadway makes you feel like a rich man

 

[JP1]

Not the best photo but nice strong heifer calf for the Riggit Galloway but 1 left to calve

If nothing else the rain's making the trees and hedges even more lush this year. Bull still for sale if you know anyone who might be interested

Tense moment this afternoon checking the yearlings down at Iken had stayed in their field now right next to the bull and a good test of the dykes

 

[Muddyroads]

Managed to get the next block of turnips drilled yesterday before todays rain. Thanks to some encouragement from @Hesstondriver , it’s the first time that I’ve got the drill to what I wanted it to

Got some ploughing done this afternoon on some of our driest ground

but ran out of traction before I could finish the field

 

[Pan mixer]

Think that I discovered why this mixer is not working very well.

Had to make a major incision to find that out though, flight broken.

 

[Flossie]

Was all set for some pub grub today, but as every livestock farmer knows, nothing ever goes to plan Dead ewe for no apparent reason. 3 weeks lambed, so enlisted the kids to catch some orphans

That's me in the background getting mad at my bolshy ewe in the adopter. What a cantankerous fecker she is 🫣
Sunday lunch was downgraded to KFC, but it was a good one, and they didn't balls the order up for once