Author Topic: Help The Farmer  (Read 12076 times)

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Help The Farmer
« on: June 27, 2012, 01:53:54 pm »
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.

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2012, 02:20:36 pm »
When? Wonder if any farmers will be fired.

omnipeasant

  • Joined May 2012
  • Llangurig , Mid Wales
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2012, 04:52:30 pm »
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.

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 07:10:45 pm »
Well worth watching!!  I would be glued to the screen - how do you make money from a farm these days?

FiB

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Bala, North Wales
    • Facebook
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2012, 07:33:38 pm »
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

mab

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • carmarthenshire
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2012, 11:19:29 pm »
Didn't Monty Don do a program like that? or maybe that was for smallholders.

Odin

  • Joined Oct 2011
  • Huddersfield
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2012, 06:19:29 am »
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:
A man who cannot till the soil cannot till his own soul !
A son of the soil .

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2012, 08:13:55 am »
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:

Herdygirl

  • Joined Sep 2011
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2012, 08:53:53 pm »
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

Odin

  • Joined Oct 2011
  • Huddersfield
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2012, 06:32:26 pm »
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 *******
A man who cannot till the soil cannot till his own soul !
A son of the soil .

deepinthewoods

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Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2012, 07:07:54 pm »
its been the same since the days of the corn exchange.

chris3000

  • Joined May 2012
  • Wiltshire
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2012, 10:35:13 pm »
Just like in Trading Places with eddie murphy when the dukes bet it all on Oranges  ;D ;D
Any advice I give is purely based on my experience .... It may not be from 20 years of farming or a book I have read .... however it has worked for me.

Mallows Flock

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Shepton mallet
    • Somerset Pet Sitting and Dog Walking
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2012, 11:26:37 pm »
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!
From 3 to 30 and still flocking up!

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2012, 08:28:01 am »
I wonder, did the winner never claim the prize? Or was there no winner and no prize?

Mallows Flock

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Shepton mallet
    • Somerset Pet Sitting and Dog Walking
Re: Help The Farmer
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2012, 05:05:17 pm »
I wonder, did the winner never claim the prize? Or was there no winner and no prize?
LOL.... so cynical Sylvia...... SO CYNICAL :innocent:
From 3 to 30 and still flocking up!

 

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