GarethM
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Don't be a gander, obviously it illegal. Use a funnel it might be foie gras tho.
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Subsidies, not really worth the paperwork or agro. In generalist terms you'd need to be a hill farmer owning Snowdonia or a big boy arable farmer. Most of us fall in the middle and to be honest isn't worth having you're hands tied behind your back with yet more rules. If I had 100acres it might be feasible, but the stewardship stuff gets in way, unless the newer schemes make it more about common sense environmental stuff we already try to achieve and does zero to reduce costs of production.
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Not technically, they don't need to be tagged. They're treated more like horses, so you don't even need a CPH
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I did mean that nicely, being a landowner doesn't make you a farmer. No amount of research or book reading will ever match experience. If I were you treat it as a learning curve. Rent out the land, probably sheep grazing. Use that as a way to bring everything upto snuff and pitch in. Learn with them and in say 5 years or once it's upto snuff get a few dozen and form a friendship with the sheep guy. Keeps down costs and you get shearing for free etc.
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So you're not a farmer, guessing you've recently bought it then?.
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There are ways of reducing the owned acreage by owning 4 and renting the remaining from other people. As soon as one starts in the area its like town gentrification, everyone ends up on the same bandwagon and you just end up moving further and further into the sticks.
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Whoever bought mine might come knocking for a refund
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But what colour is the boat house at Hereford ?
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Oh I have one like most people, it's just the dual price thing they started last year I appose and now refuse to shop or use the card. If a shop wants to give me reward points fine, sell my data fine, just make shopping a level no BS playing field.
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I didn't know Waitrose had a whoopsie section ?. 😉
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Shed will be a definite no from most councils, shelter feasible tho. I'm sure it's 13 acres for 28 day permitted development, any less and it's the full planning process. Permitted development also includes a 5 year don't use it for another purpose or we can force it's removal. Councils & locals aren't stupid, the we bought a few acres thing, then goes we want a shed, then we want a house. Then the shed turns into a garage and it's all on the market for 500k+.
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Asda, Waitrose and even the occasional Aldi. It's not the shop but the two tier prices, normal price Vs heavily discounted clubcard prices scheme they introduced.
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I refuse to shop at Tesco, it's the dual clubcard price scam that puts me off on principal.
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It's partly why I've always thought of it as a grandparents thing, people like myself who had them turned out for the most part normal. Walking around any supermarket gives you a scary reality of the word in 10 years time.
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We're all doomed then
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Jesus, whilst keeping sheep isn't that bleak. Those are the realities of owning livestock and a long list of more along with insurance etc etc. 4 acres on its own is ok for short term grazing, not a chance in hell of any buildings etc without a lot of time and money.
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Policing won't fix antisocial behaviour. It's a lack of parenting, 1st generation antisocial behaviour started around late 2000 with kids having kids far too young. So it's now 3rd generation and a hard to break cycle without using prison or the army. In many ways I think it's a lack of grandparents, not strict or overbearing but they kept the kids on the straight and narrow.
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Shush, they don't want you thinking of the realities of the futures markets. They have been actively ramping down North sea oil and gas, fertilizer is now made pretty much exclusively abroad as the Chester one is closed.
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Bit it's a condition tho, it's a decidedly fast pie arm.
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Rock out with yer out, just make sure you have a diet coke break afterwards.
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I have equal measure of birds of prey and garden birds, some very well fed ones especially from the worms in the woodchip. Whilst I can't obviously comment over say 60+ years, I am a great believer in hedge height reduction to help nesting birds. It might sound silly but lots of hedges just become tall and gangly, I keep getting my hedge guy to take more off every year from 8/9 ft down to 6 with them eventually around 5 and making them a safe refuge.
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We might be armchair mongs but we love you all the same, just think of it as visiting grandad in the home once a week.
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I wasn't questioning you're abilities, the low price per ton however isn't far off as a general rule as at worst it's firewood. Now, if you wanted to fell it into hgv sized lengths then see if it sells that's a different ball game as you can then photograph it.
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On a serious note, are you asking because they baulked at the price of the job ?. As you said you didn't own the timber and they might use it themselves. Unless you've got space to store it for a mythical buyer, it's not worth the effort.
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We'd be moaning about a cave shortage tho, back in my day... I do have to wonder how a climate activist justifies being in the arb industry tho. I have to be pragmatic generally speaking or I'd be off to Switzerland, or get accused of keyboard warrior.
