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Little doubt that dogs are our best friends
Gerald Potterton
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.
4 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.
20 November 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.
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
Farmer Writes: the fashionable move to the multi species sward
"I wish people would stop talking about yields (numerically) this harvest. I’m not bothered about benchmarking with other peoples’ yields," writes Gerald Potterton.
14 August 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: you wouldn't feed inferior straw to a goat
We are now in the season when the weather forecast is scrutinised for sun and wind, and the rise and fall of the dew is monitored as closely as a life support machine.
31 July 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: I'm a closet Massey fan
It was like Cassius Clay hit me a killer right handed uppercut, catapulting me over the cubicles and into a sorry heap in the woolsack, recalls Gerald Potterton.
17 July 2024 Farmer Writes