The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sabrina on June 27, 2012, 01:53:54 pm
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Comming soon !!! new TV program help the farmer or something like that. some guy who is with Alan Sugar is going to show some farmers how to make their farms pay. TV rubbish or worth watching. Time will tell.
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When? Wonder if any farmers will be fired.
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I will watch out for it. Could be good, could be funny, could be bloody annoying! :farmer:
There was something on not long ago with Jimmy from the pig farm. They were giving people the chance to win their own small farm. What a funny way they went about testing the competitors andf definately some animal welfare issues.
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Well worth watching!! I would be glued to the screen - how do you make money from a farm these days?
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Well worth watching!! I would be glued to the screen - how do you make money from a farm these days?
'Hedge funding' SFPs apparently (acording to a panorama program a few months back. City chaps making millions and not even having to get mud on their hunters!) :-J
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Didn't Monty Don do a program like that? or maybe that was for smallholders.
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Tellys ? ? Ah yes, I used to have one of those things, my concubines used to sit in front of them and had me paying for a ..... ...License or something like that ?? The TV and the License went with them. They think me strange coz I don't sit in front of a TV . I remember that Alan Sugar bloke but never watched him , more a Radio 4 listerner, my concubines think that strange as well?
Just heard on Farming Today ,R4 at 05.45 about future investment are going into food production. The interviewer asked the question , "if you had one hundred thousand pounds, where would you invest it?"
The reply was "Farming". (investment type chap)
Interviewer. "Well you would say that".
Response. " People now realise that electricity does not come out of a plug, petrol does not fall from the sky. People are now begining to realise the importance of food".
So Alan Sugar and the TV company have got wise to this and are now going to jump in and tell the farmer where they have been going wrong all these years ? ? Add this to mess at Barclays Bank. Hmm.
And another Minister said this week on Radio, "If Britain does not get involved in GM production, it will be left behind with a museum farming culture". You ought to see my new 3f Ransome ridging plough I bought this weekend, £62.00 it cost. Stripped it , straightened it, 2 new points and some bolts and its 'ready to rock'. I want £500 for it and its only Thursday. :thumbsup:
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yes odin what you want and what you would get are poles apart that is why it cost you £62
the venture capitalists are already in farming buying crops before they are planted and betting on disasters to inflate the goods when they have a contract to buy cheap :farmer:
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I will watch out for it. Could be good, could be funny, could be bloody annoying! :farmer:
There was something on not long ago with Jimmy from the pig farm. They were giving people the chance to win their own small farm. What a funny way they went about testing the competitors andf definately some animal welfare issues.
i watched that one and enjoyed it. i do wonder what happened to the couple who won as i quiet liked them
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Two interesting points there Robert, the second one first. Venture Capitalists and Futures Markets, I suppose that is just the way of the world and why some of us choose to grow our own despite the hard work involved. But from a farmers point of view, the investment in modern machinery, tractors at one hundred thousand pounds plus implements and harvesters, then the fixed rate of money or leases to pay for this machinery, when all the while, the price of the end product is fluctuating and people in suits make when the end price goes up or down. Dicing with an important commodity like food just does not seem right, but thats the way it is. But it is only for a select few, the rest of us muddle on, swopping this for that. Barter is not really dead and I think it will come back.
The other point, my £62.99p plough special ! Not really for this page as it is Equipment, so Beam Me Up Scotty *******
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its been the same since the days of the corn exchange.
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Just like in Trading Places with eddie murphy when the dukes bet it all on Oranges ;D ;D
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I will watch out for it. Could be good, could be funny, could be bloody annoying! :farmer:
There was something on not long ago with Jimmy from the pig farm. They were giving people the chance to win their own small farm. What a funny way they went about testing the competitors andf definately some animal welfare issues.
I remember the 'win a farm' with Covent garden soups last year.... I bought loads.... got bored getting rejection emails after spending time inputting my 'winning codes' and chucked the last one away unchecked.... THEN THEY ANNOUNCED THE FARM WAS NEVER WON AS A BUYER NEVER CLAIMNED THE PRIZE.....ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHGHHHH...I am still certain to this day 'it could have been me'. LOL. OH the anguish!
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I wonder, did the winner never claim the prize? Or was there no winner and no prize?
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I wonder, did the winner never claim the prize? Or was there no winner and no prize?
LOL.... so cynical Sylvia...... SO CYNICAL :innocent:
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It's called The Farm Fixer starts tonight at 6:30pm BBC 2 and I think is on almost every night the rest of the week. All about helping farms diversify according to the blurb on the BBC2 website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ky44b (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ky44b)
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It was quite good actually!!
Wonder why they didn't do apple flavoured water?
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or dog flavoured pies? or sulphur flavoured holiday cottages.....hmmm think I didnt concentrate when watching it.....
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Bugger, missed it cos I was ill!
Will have to catch it on Iplayer.
Helen
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I watched in iPlayer last night - I did enjoy it, however wasn't as interesting as I though it was going to be
I think it was because the couple didn't seem to have much personality
It was quite good actually!!
Wonder why they didn't do apple flavoured water?
I agree, apple water would have been a no brainer
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I hope there are animals next time!
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No animals. Now I don't understand why the call it Help the Farmer. So far it has been about two small businesses that might have nothing to do with farming. Animals tomorrow please. :llama: :&> :sheep: :goat: :cow: :chook: :pig:
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More of the same last night. Marquee weddings and house tours this time, though we did get to see a few cows. This should be retitled 'help the farmer start a small business that is nothing to do with farming'
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maybe that's what farming is in Northern Ireland :-J
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
or dog flavoured pies? or sulphur flavoured holiday cottages.....hmmm think I didnt concentrate when watching it.....