r/FarmingUK

Title sums it up. I have thought long and hard about my career over the past couple of months and farming fascinates me.

I realise there is a lack of new farmers entering the agricultural world and after researching the field and seeing the benefits it holds providing food to peoples plates I am excited to step up to a new challenge and look to progress a career in the farming world.

I have an interview next week with a farm to help gain experience over the coming months and I have no idea what to wear. I am used to going to companies for interviews and being very formal. However, with this being a farm what should I wear as I don’t want to turn up overdressed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I'm autistic and have auditory sensitivities so I need ear plugs for certain tractors. We were using E-A-R earsoft FX plugs but we've run out and the new ones feel wrong in my ears and won't go back in if I take them out for any reason. Can anyone recommend a decent brand of comfy earplugs that will remould if I take them out and put them back in?

Disposable or reusable is fine

Evening, I was hoping to be pointed in the right direction for a company or person who offers advice/help in the process of splitting a farm business to pay one partner off? Both partners agree for the best, but as ever with family and money involved a neutral fair mediators opinion would be appreciated, tia

I live in a village where there are a few fields which are home to a handful of horses. They’re owned by local private individuals rather than a stable or farmer.

Almost every week there are one or two incidents where the horses are found wondering a local bridle path or having a good gallop down our street.

Quite often, this prompt questions on social media about how well secured the fields are - and in fairness, the fences in some of them are little more than a piece of barbed wire strung between a few rickety posts.

But the horse owners always get very touchy about this, and they are adamant somebody must be deliberately letting them out.

The horses being out don’t actually bother me because they’re not doing any harm but I am dubious that someone’s actually going round and letting horses out of fields - partly because I know horses can be stubborn and refuse to move for someone they don’t know, but also because it’s not always the same horses so presumably not an individual with a grudge against one of the owners. It also normally happens in the morning (6-7am) so I doubt it’s teenagers.

So I’m just wondering, are horses particularly inclined to find weak spots in their boundaries and break through them?

Hi everyone,

I'm a software engineer whose family is involved in farming. I'm trying to understand agriculture better before building anything.

I'm not promoting an app and I'm not selling anything.

I just have one question:

If you could completely eliminate one repetitive, frustrating, or expensive part of your farming business forever, what would it be and why?

It could be related to:

Selling crops

Buying inputs

Weather

Machinery

Labour

Paperwork

Payments

Transport

Government regulations

Storage

Anything else

I'm looking for real experiences rather than feature requests.

Thanks!

Been thinking about adding GPS guidance to one of our tractors, but I'm still trying to figure out where the biggest real-world benefit comes from. Everyone talks about reducing overlap, but how much difference did you actually see once you started using it? Was it enough to notice lower fertilizer or chemical use, or was the saving smaller than you expected?
Another thing I'm curious about is fuel. Did you burn noticeably less because you weren't making unnecessary passes, or was the bigger advantage simply getting the job done faster?
A few people I've talked to say the biggest improvement wasn't input savings at all, it was being able to work long hours or finish after dark without constantly worrying about skips and overlaps. Was that your experience too?
I've been comparing several guidance systems while researching what's available, including RTK Navigation, but spec sheets only tell part of the story. I'm much more interested in hearing what actually mattered once you started using a system in the field.
If you could go back, would you still invest in GPS guidance? What feature ended up being more valuable than you expected, and what turned out to be less important?

Hello all. Over the past few years I have lost everything and I am having to rebuild from scratch. I am currently living in temporary accommodation and out of work, however hopefully I will be working again with some income soon. So with that in mind if you have to be negative please do it gently, I'm a kind sole and struggling to look on the bright side at the moment.

The dream as such is to buy 1-3 acres of land in Lincolnshire which is close to my family. The plan will then be to start a tree/plant nursery to grow saplings selling onto larger nurseries or rewilding projects etc.

I would also like to build a timber cabin on the land to live in long term.

I understand that £35k isn't going to cover all my costs and it will be an uphill battle. However I would be building everything myself. I have horticulture experience, I have built off grid solar systems before and I am a competent DIY'r. I would need to brush up on my carpentry skills but learning isn't an issue for me.

I am aware that it may be possible to get planning permission to build the cabin on agricultural land once I can prove the tree nursery is viable.

Has anyone else started with a similar budget and managed to make it happen?

Looking forward to hearing peoples feedback.

Thank you :)

Could be about:

• Organic farming
• Subsidies
• MSP
• Tractors
• Fertilizers
• GM crops
• YouTube farming advice

No wrong answers. Just keep it respectful.

It’s a long shot but always worth asking. I’m looking to purchase 1-3 acres of land in or around Lincolnshire. The land can be low grade but ideally have easy access. If you have any leads please let me know. Thank you.

Jeremy Clarkson is certainly a polarizing individual, and I'm not asking for opinions on him or the show, necessarily.

What I am interested in though is if the show is having a positive impact on raising awareness for social, economic, and political issues impacting the farming/agriculture industries.

As a 9-5 American, I'm admittedly removed from these industries, but the show itself has clued me in to the impacts of technology, political decisions in the UK in particular, etc. on farming and the wellbeing of people who wake up well before, and work well later, than I do to help put food on my table.

So, I'm curious how folks who actually watch the show have ingested its messaging vs entertainment.

Break-down of under-priced supermarket meat in the UK citing a range of purchase, pricing, margin increasing mechanisms Supermarkets use to drive meat prices down which do not reflect the full cost of production in comparison to farm shops or butchers’ farm to fork journey in contrast.

I want to write a book. But first, I want to know: how would farmers react to the government introducing complete AI, robot, and machine-based farming without the need for human farmers at all?

I know most of you would say the government wouldn't do this, but let's imagine a scenario where they actually did forbid humans from farming-a dystopian scenario where they expect everyone in the world to work toward creating more technology only.

The last straw was for the farmers, whose jobs took quite a while to replace, but when they actually did...

1.What kind of problems do you think would arise in the crops from a farmer's perspective?

2.What kind of effect do you think this would have on the public worldwide?

I request that farmers from worldwide, or whoever this reaches, please respond to this.

Anyone can comment on this post, I would love to know everyone's point of view... however rude it might be.

My dream is to live on a ranch and work on a ranch but as I live in the uk there is no ranches here at all, I live up in Scotland so again it is quite limited

I have a background in farming, currently working as an HGV driver Mon-Fri, but would love to give some of my time on a Saturday or Sunday to help in whatever way I can, if anyone wants an extra pair of hands.

I live in Chester, but am happy to travel around the area. Message me if interested.

Back British Farming.

Does anybody know how much clover etc. is enough to satisfy

CNUM2: Legumes on improved grassland