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Farmer Writes: there is pleasure in keeping busy during the winter
Gerald Potterton
And as if we were looking for something more to do, storm Éowyn uprooted eight very large leylandii evergreen trees in the garden.
15 January 2025 Farmer Writes
Farmer writes: the road less travelled
Gerald Potterton muses the impact Google Maps has had on traversing the country and whether or not we would be better off without the technology.
1 January 2025 Farmer Writes
Would I plant beans in April again? No
Gerald Potterton takes a look back at the year that was 2024 in the tillage fields.
Little doubt that dogs are our best friends
As it’s Christmas, I thought we’d have a little crazy fun and let Billy the Jack Russell have his view on the year that was.
18 December 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: shiny new machinery a slippery slope
The Quartermaster is no poseur wagon like a lot of 4X4s today where going off-road means just parking on the footpath.
4 December 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: land ownership has been a touchy subject
Proprietorship of land in Ireland has always been a touchy subject and certainly one to avoid in an Irish pub after closing time.
20 November 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: the tillage sector is very far from dead
While I greatly respect smaller farmers (probably more than I do the titans), I’m excited by this revolution in new, bigger and better farm machinery.
6 November 2024 News
Farmer Writes: the plough is falling out of favour
Certainly, the greens and possibly some regenerative farmers would like us to ditch our ploughs and sow directly into the soil.
23 October 2024 Farmer Writes
Would I make a move to strip-till?
Gerald Potterton has a strip-till coming for a demo onto his farm soon.
9 October 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: farming by dates is seldom a good thing
With the lovely weather, it was too good not to be sowing, so I cracked on 18 September and loaded up the drill.
25 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: spring barley set to be our harvest saviour
Good old spring barley, I thought to myself from the combine seat, it’s an unlikely saviour, but it will be the crop of the harvest, writes Gerald Potterton.
11 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: what a dreary, dragged-out harvest this is
Gerald Potterton casts back to when he was just after getting married and was doing up his house.
28 August 2024 Farmer Writes