Gerald Potterton

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Farmer Writes: Autosteer is not without its downsides

Last September’s cobble-lock seedbeds were very dry and dusty and I hadn’t a clue where I was going, so I bit the bullet and went with the autosteer.

FARMER WRITES 26 August 2026

Farmer Writes: Autosteer is not without its downsides

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One wheat variety was my 2026 harvest star - another a 'bloody disgrace'

One wheat variety was my 2026 harvest star - another a 'bloody disgrace'

FARMER WRITES 12 August 2026

Farmer Writes: is this one of the great summers of our time?

Farmer Writes: is this one of the great summers of our time?

FARMER WRITES 29 July 2026

Farmer Writes: harvesting by hook or by crook

Farmer Writes: harvesting by hook or by crook

Farmer Writes: harvesting by hook or by crook

FARMER WRITES 15 July 2026

Farmer Writes: I'm blissfully living in a 1970s timewarp

Farmer Writes: I'm blissfully living in a 1970s timewarp

Farmer Writes: I'm blissfully living in a 1970s timewarp

FARMER WRITES 1 July 2026

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Farmer Writes: shower dodging to spray the ear wash on wheat

Farmer Writes: shower dodging to spray the ear wash on wheat

While dodging showers spraying the ear wash on the wheat, I was surprised and encouraged by how the crops look.

FARMER WRITES 25 March 2026

Farmer Writes: Brexit was Britain’s Titanic hour

Farmer Writes: Brexit was Britain’s Titanic hour

How the mighty have fallen and as a race, Great Britain is still in Empire mode and has failed to adjust to a post-colonial world.

NEWS 25 March 2026

Farmer Writes: a man that could have sold straw to tillage farmers

Farmer Writes: a man that could have sold straw to tillage farmers

The list of Moore drill owners reads like a who’s who of progressive tillage farmers in the 1980s, writes Gerald Potterton.

FARMER WRITES 25 March 2026

Farmer Writes: suckler farmers the backbone of the beef industry

Farmer Writes: suckler farmers the backbone of the beef industry

The suckler men (and women) have persevered and for the past 18 months are receiving decent money for their weanlings.

FARMER WRITES 25 March 2026

Farmer Writes: are we happier today than people were in 1926?

Farmer Writes: are we happier today than people were in 1926?

Gerald Potterton's thoughts turn to the incredible progress in agriculture in the last 100 years.

FARMER WRITES 25 March 2026

Farmer Writes: why astronauts have really flown to the moon

Farmer Writes: why astronauts have really flown to the moon

While we await this plug-in-and-play satellite near the moon to start working, we have to endure another week or two of bad weather.

FARMER WRITES 25 March 2026

Farmer Writes: maybe I'll become a summer grazing farmer

Farmer Writes: maybe I'll become a summer grazing farmer

Such a change would permanently remove me from the sow-fertiliser-spray-combine cycle giving me loads of time to go on holiday and an odd weekend away.

FARMER WRITES 25 March 2026

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Limerick farmer wins Kinisla Milk Quality Award

The winner of the 2026 Kinisla Milk Quality and Sustainability Awards was announced at a ceremony in Limerick, on Tuesday.

Limerick farmer wins Kinisla Milk Quality Award

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