Farmer of habitat, planter of trees, harvester of coppice for crafts & BBQ smoke woods. Grower of farm fresh foliage, flowers & giant vegetables.
Hesketh Bank. Lancashire
Joined May 2012
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Can anyone point me in the direction of someone who re-handles billhooks please.
@TrooperSnooks ?
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Dealing with our own storm damaged trees this morning. Just how much 'boing' can you build up in one stick! And it did exactly as it looked like it would - exploded! Scary stuff sorting out these windblown trees no matter what size they are.
Happy Hallowe'en and a big thank you to all our giant pumpkin customers, your business is very much appreciated.
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I'm struggling to believe that paying tax on money you haven't yet earned is constitutional. Or is it that absurd a concept no one thought to write it down? @DanNeidle @StuartMaggs
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Sign of the times - You don't need pallets if you no longer make anything to put on them.
FULL STORY: forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2…
D'Tractor Mark retweeted
Walker: "I nearly bought a wool jumper in town. £140. Nice work if you can get it."
Farmer: "I got about £2 for the fleece."
Walker: "£2?"
Farmer: "Per sheep, per year. Clipped it off her in two minutes, rolled it, bagged it, drove it to the depot. The cheque for the whole flock didn't cover the diesel."
Walker: "Then who's getting the £140?"
Farmer: "Not me, not the shearer. He costs me more per sheep than the wool fetches. I pay to have it taken off."
Walker: "So you lose money shearing."
Farmer: "Every year. And I can't not shear, or she cooks in July and the flies eat her alive. The wool's a welfare job that used to be an income."
Walker: "Sell it yourself, then. Cut out the middleman."
Farmer: "Not allowed. By law it goes through the board. Has done since 1950. I can keep a fleece for the wife to knit with, and that's about the extent of my freedom."
Walker: "So where does it go?"
Farmer: "Washed in Bradford, if we're lucky. Shipped to China, spun, knitted, shipped back, and sold to you with a label about heritage. By the time it's in the window there are eleven people between us and I'm the only one who met the sheep."
Walker: "That's mad."
Farmer: "My grandfather paid the rent on the wool cheque. I pay a man to take it away. Same sheep, same hill, same jumper in the window. Only the price of the farmer went down."
Walker: "What would fix it?"
Farmer: "You buying the jumper. And asking them where the other £138 went."
D'Tractor Mark retweeted
Andy, @andyburnham I am pleading with you to end this nightmare for farming families.
Farmers have now lived under the shadow of the farm IHT changes for nearly two years. Behind all the Treasury calculations and political arguments are real families, real farms and an enormous amount of fear.
A close friend of my son died by suicide just a week before his wedding. He had been deeply worried about what divorce could mean for the future of the family farm.
This year, the brother of one of my closest friends died intestate. His death has left the farm and his family facing terrible uncertainty and complexity at the worst possible moment.
These are not wealthy people sitting on disposable assets. A farm is a home, a business, a livelihood and often the work of several generations bound together.
For nearly two years families have been trying to work out whether they must sell land, restructure businesses, change wills, divide farms or somehow find money that simply does not exist in cash.
The human strain of that uncertainty is immense.
Please, Andy, use the Budget to bring it to an end.
Restore proper APR and BPR for genuine working farms and family businesses and release farming families from this burden.
They need certainty. They need to be able to plan for succession rather than fear it. And, above all, they need to know that passing a viable farm from one generation to the next is not something government intends to punish.
Last giant pumpkin safely loaded and away. That leaves us with just a 'small' 272lb pumpkin at £30, a £20 pumpkin and all the rest of these monsters are just £5.
#giantpumpkins #halloween #pumpkincarving #justsaynototurnipsandswedes
Jackdaw - a folklore symbol of thievery and dual omens. Just sayin'.
UK government gives go-ahead for gas production from Jackdaw field in North Sea bbc.in/4yzB0mv
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D'Tractor Mark retweeted
The truth is we don’t remotely care as a country… this stuff isn’t even taken seriously by senior politicians
The funding Rachel Reeves cut for farmers?
That was largely for nature restoration
Instead they pretended it was farm subsidies
Bad mouthed us
And took loads away
‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record
Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say 🐦
theguardian.com/environment/…
Old enough to know better but still thinks he can ride his motorbike around wherever he chooses. Apparantly I should put a sign up if I don't want off roaders on the farm. #entitlement #banks #lancashire
Just two showpiece pumpkins left. £50 and £25. Lots of BIG carving pumkins at £10 and £5. #giantpumpkins
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Thank goodness we made food security a top priority for all these years.
Hackers just turned the freezers in roughly 150 French supermarkets into ovens. They flipped the refrigeration systems' defrost function and set temperatures as high as 50°C overnight. Entire stocks of fresh and frozen food cooked inside the cases while the stores were closed.
And this exact attack was described in public two months ago.
Back in August, security researchers at Claroty and Armis published vulnerabilities in the controllers that run supermarket cold chains, including Danfoss's AK-SM 800A. One demo showed a fridge being warmed while the dashboard kept displaying a normal temperature. Danfoss shipped a patch the same month.
Two and a half weeks after that disclosure, freezers at grocery stores on 14 US military bases across 11 states flipped into defrost mode on the same night. The Pentagon investigated. No hack was ever confirmed.
Now France. BFMTV reports the attack targeted older versions of Danfoss refrigeration software, meaning the fix had been sitting there for two months. One Super U in Alsace threw out €220,000 of food. An Intermarché in the same town lost €50,000. Nationwide damage could run into the millions.
Nobody patches a fridge. A supermarket updates its registers and its website because that's where the money moves. The controller in the back room keeping the yogurt at 4°C gets installed once and touched never. CISA says controllers from these vendor families sit in two thirds of American supermarkets.
No locks were broken and no register was touched. The whole attack was pressing the defrost button from the internet, on every store that skipped a firmware update.
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