A year on the farm

tractorporn

New series starting on more4 now looks good from the intro

Muckit

Always find it interesting getting an overview of other farming enterprises that l wouldn't have a clue about otherwise.

tractorporn

Muckit wrote:

Always find it interesting getting an overview of other farming enterprises that l wouldn't have a clue about otherwise.

It's about a guy with a turkey hatchery and breeding his own strain of bronze turkeys. It's very interesting and kind of warts and all, kind of like this farming life.

It's amazing how we farm all day and then sit down and want to watch more of it.

Muckit

tractorporn wrote: »

It's about a guy with a turkey hatchery and breeding his own strain of bronze turkeys.

I'm watching it

IH784man

£66,000 a week to feed them

whelan2

He doesn't look too upset after losing £126,000

AntrimGlens

That would ruin every Christmas for me.

tractorporn

whelan2 wrote:

He doesn't look too upset after losing £126,000

Had to take a phonecall what caused the loss? I'd say by his reaction that it's not the first time it's happened.

AntrimGlens

Firm he supplied chicks to went bust.
I used to rear couple hundred every year from when I was about 10 year old. Used to hate the phone ringing on xmas day in case it was someone ringing to say their turkey was off. Usually ringing to say thanks for a tasty dinner. 😊

whelan2

tractorporn wrote: »

Had to take a phonecall what caused the loss? I'd say by his reaction that it's not the first time it's happened.

Buyer who bought chicks went bust

lab man

Wat channel on sky lads

carrollsno1

Is it available online?

Sam Kade

The vegans will be in shock with this, some school up the country reared turkeys for the christmas market last year and you'd swear there was never before a turkey killed for Christmas with the outrage.

Sam Kade

lab man wrote: »

Wat channel on sky lads

The op said more4

Muckit

lab man wrote: »

Wat channel on sky lads

138 afaik

whelan2

Muckit wrote: »

138 afaik

I'd say its over now

tractorporn

carrollsno1 wrote:

Is it available online?

Should be up on channel 4's catch up thing all4 it was on the sky go app last night anyway.

Muckit

whelan2 wrote: »

I'd say its over now

There's always next week's episode

lab man

Was working last night got to see it at 1 am on mobdro

X6.430macman

What time and how often?

tractorporn

X6.430macman wrote:

What time and how often?

9pm Wednesdays looks like 4 episodes in total according to the More 4 website.

The part time boy

Only saw it last night . Very interesting . He had a nice set up and seemed to be a good bussincess man .

However one thing to note Brexit could effect him big time with his bus load of polish workers

But masses in the UK see forgien workers as a bad thing . Not as in people that do a job that English don't want to so they can have a Christmas dinner

Bullocks

The part time boy wrote: »

Only saw it last night . Very interesting . He had a nice set up and seemed to be a good bussincess man .

However one thing to note Brexit could effect him big time with his bus load of polish workers

But masses in the UK see forgien workers as a bad thing . Not as in people that do a job that English don't want to so they can have a Christmas dinner

True enough , I wonder will they be as quick to take up the lower paid jobs as they were to vote to stop the people who do them from coming in

Attie

New A year on the farm on now more 4

White Clover

Attie wrote: »

New A year on the farm on now more 4

What channel on sky is that attie ?

X6.430macman

White Clover wrote:

What channel on sky is that attie ?

More. 139

Attie

Which clover More4 HD is available on Sky. The More4 HD service is available to Sky HD customers on channel 138 in the UK (236 in Ireland)

White Clover

Cheers lads!

X6.430macman

Fairly rough setup I'd say

whelan2

It's very depressing tonight

tanko

Missed it, anyone know if its repeated durung the week?

whelan2

Would you let your cows out after eating a load of silage? Is it not better off to let them out hungry?

Attie

tanko wrote: »

Missed it, anyone know if its repeated durung the week?

Tanko
More4
Freeview Channel 14 Channel 86 (+1)
Satellite
Freesat Channel 124 Channel 125 (+1)
Sky (UK) Channel 138 (SD/HD) Channel 139 (+1) Channel 231 (SD)

tractorporn

X6.430macman wrote:

Fairly rough setup I'd say

I'd say the landlord has invested nothing if he/she was considering selling it. A lot of tenanted farms in England have rough yards cos the tenants can't afford to invest and if they do the landlord usually uses the investment as justification for a rent increase so they're caught everywhere.

lab man

tanko wrote:

Missed it, anyone know if its repeated durung the week?

On later tonight at 1am

X6.430macman

whelan2 wrote:

Would you let your cows out after eating a load of silage? Is it not better off to let them out hungry?

What caught my eye is he invited the whole place to watch them being let out, oh god the thoughts of it

whelan2

X6.430macman wrote: »

What caught my eye is he invited the whole place to watch them being let out, oh god the thoughts of it

Did he charge them in, I wonder?

X6.430macman

whelan2 wrote:

Did he charge them in, I wonder?

I'd like to hope not

Attie

whelan2 wrote: »

X6.430macman wrote: »

What caught my eye is he invited the whole place to watch them being let out, oh god the thoughts of it

Did he charge them in, I wonder?

Hope not as he was looking for investment to help him out .

wiggy123

only seen last few minutes of it--he looked a poor farmer(story) but seemed to have fair amount of cows-sheds were full..also to be-they were not a herd of good milking cows.. most looked dry...

any idea-if it does be on again? as missed last weeks also..

Attie

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/a-year-on-the-farm/episode-guide

Cut and paste into your browser some information on the show Wiggy

wiggy123

thanks

whelan2

Also did ye see the way he was walking in front of the cows when he was letting them out for the first time. Mine would flatten me to get out to the field.

X6.430macman

whelan2 wrote:

Also did ye see the way he was walking in front of the cows when he was letting them out for the first time. Mine would flatten me to get out to the field.

Yeah one wouldnt have a hope of keeping most behind you

The part time boy

I want to know did he buy the other farm ?

kowtow

wiggy123 wrote: »

only seen last few minutes of it--he looked a poor farmer(story) but seemed to have fair amount of cows-sheds were full..also to be-they were not a herd of good milking cows.. most looked dry...

any idea-if it does be on again? as missed last weeks also..

He sells over £2 or £3 Million of milk a year from those cows last time I looked, including in Harvey Nichols. That farm is organic, Sussex Downs land - amazingly fertile marshy ground in places although looks a bit random.

He took on the Government in the high court some years ago for the right to sell raw milk. There's a film about him (prize winner at the Cannes Film festival) called "The Moo Man".

He sells direct at about 4 to 5 Euros / litre.

Muckit

X6.430macman wrote: »

What caught my eye is he invited the whole place to watch them being let out, oh god the thoughts of it

I thought it a great promotional stunt. We marvel at it ourselves every spring. Can u imagine what the non farming public would think of this bovine gymnastic didplay?! Many dairies in UK are indoors. This is his unique selling point. A real businessman.

Upstream

A nice young couple starting out on a mixed farm in Wales this week. Looked to be making a good go of things. Lots of different enterprises, cattle, sheep, pigs, tillage and some veg, and selling direct as well to boost income.
Selling direct seems to be the way forward for a lot of people now.

Floki

Upstream wrote: »

A nice young couple starting out on a mixed farm in Wales this week. Looked to be making a good go of things. Lots of different enterprises, cattle, sheep, pigs, tillage and some veg, and selling direct as well to boost income.
Selling direct seems to be the way forward for a lot of people now.

Nothing to do with the show but in this weeks farming independent there's two women making a living on 3 acres in Bunclody.

rangler1

Upstream wrote: »

A nice young couple starting out on a mixed farm in Wales this week. Looked to be making a good go of things. Lots of different enterprises, cattle, sheep, pigs, tillage and some veg, and selling direct as well to boost income.
Selling direct seems to be the way forward for a lot of people now.

I wonder what the rent on their 500 acres is

Upstream

rangler1 wrote: »

I wonder what the rent on their 500 acres is

Good question, I thought they said they had overheads of over three hundred thousand per year. 500 acres by say 200 would be a good part of that, but I've no idea what actual rents are like there. Most farmers seem to be tenants, not like here.