Wee bit frosty this side of the pond this morning as well.Frosty start this morning.View attachment 525379
I`m reluctant to let my missus and daughter in my Merc.
I`m reluctant to let my missus and daughter in my Merc.
What's the matter with these idiots ?In all seriousness it was a fluid situation that required quick thinking and rapid transportation back to the farm.
Some helpful walker or walkers decided to go into that field, despite there being no public rights of way. They left the spring off the gate and the sheep had its leg badly tangled up.
I happened to be driving past, saw the sheep in trouble and took it home. I don’t think the leg is broken, but it can’t stand up.
No time to get the Landy or quad with a trailer.
Sorry to put a damper on the proceedings, but anyone else aware of the Meedya push today from our Min of Ag. George Useless Eustace?
Anyhow, us feather bedded food producers, that actually supply those benign chaps at Tesco et Al. with their raw ingredients, often below CoP and in many many cases, for wages less than the minimum wage (stepdaughter's first day at Tesco this Saturday, earned her more brass on an hourly rate than I've ever drawn Self employed, with various 'tickets' allowing me to apply agri chemicals,medicines, operate high tech machines etc.) but hey.
There's gonna be a new scheme, to benefit the environment ( no problems with that) to the detriment of producing food ( hmm, at least I won't starve) the results of the fevered workings of that Son of the Soil billionaire Zac Goldsmith.
To be fair he's not clever enough to do it all by himself, so he's taken onboard the help and views of those august NGO's
The National Trust and RSPB......
Guess who are two of the biggest beneficiaries of the Environmental cash that's hosed around from our 'Green Govt' y' know the ones with degrees in 'bio eco stuff' yet can't tell the difference between a brown hare and a bunny wabbit?
Anyways, trees and grass ( but no sheep and cows, there's to be "a lower population of ruminating animals") so we can preach to the World how we're leading the way combatting Climate change , meanwhile The Chinks, Aussies, Africans,Sceptics and Brazilians, can carry on chopping down rainforests, drive their wildlife to extinction, dam their rivers and empty their aquifers, shipping stuff halfway round the Globe to sell Bryony her Strawberries on Christmas Day.
Hmm.
Grrr.
What's the matter with these idiots ?
Probably think they have been so good having a nice healthy , green walk in the countryside and all they have done is injure an animal .
Selfish sods .
Might as well add Canada to that list. When it's advertised that beef farmers are really grass farmers because cow shitë helps the environment as it makes grass grow healthier, we're not exactly the most honest bunch.Sorry to put a damper on the proceedings, but anyone else aware of the Meedya push today from our Min of Ag. George Useless Eustace?
Anyhow, us feather bedded food producers, that actually supply those benign chaps at Tesco et Al. with their raw ingredients, often below CoP and in many many cases, for wages less than the minimum wage (stepdaughter's first day at Tesco this Saturday, earned her more brass on an hourly rate than I've ever drawn Self employed, with various 'tickets' allowing me to apply agri chemicals,medicines, operate high tech machines etc.) but hey.
There's gonna be a new scheme, to benefit the environment ( no problems with that) to the detriment of producing food ( hmm, at least I won't starve) the results of the fevered workings of that Son of the Soil billionaire Zac Goldsmith.
To be fair he's not clever enough to do it all by himself, so he's taken onboard the help and views of those august NGO's
The National Trust and RSPB......
Guess who are two of the biggest beneficiaries of the Environmental cash that's hosed around from our 'Green Govt' y' know the ones with degrees in 'bio eco stuff' yet can't tell the difference between a brown hare and a bunny wabbit?
Anyways, trees and grass ( but no sheep and cows, there's to be "a lower population of ruminating animals") so we can preach to the World how we're leading the way combatting Climate change , meanwhile The Chinks, Aussies, Africans,Sceptics and Brazilians, can carry on chopping down rainforests, drive their wildlife to extinction, dam their rivers and empty their aquifers, shipping stuff halfway round the Globe to sell Bryony her Strawberries on Christmas Day.
Hmm.
Grrr.
Can't you just shoot the bastards and dump them in said riverAlways seems to be that field. It’s next to the river so people like to walk along it. We’ve put signs up, no one gives a shit.
I do hope that did NOT include the school run !!
No, the Environment Agency would go bisbo.Can't you just shoot the bastards and dump them in said river
I have a couple of issues with ELMS.Yep, we‘ve already earmarked a few acres for “re-wilding”. Gotta be worth it for a few grand.
It‘s no big deal for us, we just plant trees on shit land that we wouldn’t be using anyway. If it’s near a river or on a steep hillside, it’s getting planted.
By all accounts there will be grants for the following:
- Protecting 'heritage' farm buildings and stone walls
- Expanding hedges
- Capturing carbon in soils and cutting pesticides
- Natural flood management including restoring river bends
- Landscape recovery, restoring peatland and planting new woods
- Reducing antibiotics
- Improving animal health and welfare
We already do all that stuff. A few years back we completely re-routed the river and nearly all our buildings and walls would be considered to be “heritage.“
We actually stand to do alright out of this. Adapt, overcome etc.
Free money. Yay.