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Farmer Writes: this year may be a financial disaster
Gerald Potterton
"I decided to sow 50ac of our lowest yielding tillage land to grass and arable silage this spring. I like some dog and stick farming."
13 March 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: Farmer protests are justified
Farmers are being "victimised and blamed" says Gerald Potterton, and he believes farmer protests are justified.
28 February 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: no caravan, no tent, no problem
Our first livestock trailer was not a Williams, but made by Jim Murphy in Tuam whose family are still in business today building the Aerlite range of trailers.
Farmer Writes: Days of industrious farmers are gone
Soon there will probably be no native whitethorn propagation and it’ll be all imported stock, which risks bringing the fire blight disease.
14 February 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: tree scheme is money for jam
In my experience, between the manner in which it has dealt with ash dieback, felling licences and bureaucracy, the like of which I now speak, anyone would be mad to contemplate planting.
31 January 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: in the market for a new tractor
I’m thinking of buying one new tractor and selling two, writes Gerald Potterton this week.
17 January 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: a brief history of land reclamation
Irish land reclamation was the war cry for the past 250 years, and I think we should mark its passing with a brief history.
3 January 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: Bring on gene editing
Operation Transformation’s Eddie Murphy warned us that loneliness is so damaging to our mental health, it’s the same as smoking 10 Major every day.
20 December 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer writes: true countrymen are disappearing
"I was privileged to grow up amongst real countrymen, men who were in tune with nature, the weather and folklore."
6 December 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: an unsettling time in the fields
The grassland is more poached than ever before, even though the cattle are housed for over a month.
22 November 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: Wisteria could wreck your house and your marriage
Gerald Potterton writes that the real beauty of a wisteria is not to have one on your own house, but to appreciate it on a stately home like Borris House.
8 November 2023 News
Farmer Writes: This autumn is best forgotten
Tillage and beef farmer Gerald Potterton writes about the autumnal weather and its impact on fieldwork.
25 October 2023 Farmer Writes