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Farmer Writes: where do seagulls kip at night?
Gerald Potterton
I’d say a flock of seagulls can greedily devour a huge percentage of the fat worms from a freshly tilled field.
1 March 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: The €90,000 limit in new TAMS is super
Gerald Potterton needed the health and safety ticket to qualify for a TAMS grant payment on a new Bogballe fertiliser spreader.
15 February 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: fine February carries a health warning
Now I know there are old weather piseogs for every month of the year but most of them have some sort of a sound basis.
Farmer Writes: a man of straw
It seems there’s poor organisation in straw deliveries, and farmers are often left with bales carried over until the following year.
1 February 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: old order has changed, it's now all about the environment
Five tonnes per acre of golden wheat, after a full pesticide programme, piling into the grain tank on an abnormally hot harvest day still excites me.
18 January 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: back when Ursus and Zetor came on the scene
Gerald Potterton ponders if things would be different if he bought a John Deere when he took over the farm in 1984.
4 January 2023 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: it's been a cracker of a farming year, Santa
If the sucklers go, people’s livelihoods go and Santa, there’ll be no need for you to go out west as it’ll become a wilderness, writes Gerald Potterton.
21 December 2022 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: When the stars aligned to plant 50ac of forestry
Gerald Potterton is done with the commercial planting of trees.
7 December 2022 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: disappointing autumn weather
I’m not keen on insecticides, beneficials and other little fellows inevitably suffer, writes Gerald Potterton.
23 November 2022 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: cometh the hour cometh the man
You shouldn’t be too sentimental when you’re on a scrap clean out, writes Gerald Potterton.
9 November 2022 News
Farmer Writes: Irish tillage farmers must be some of the best in the world
It’s not particularly easy being an Irish tillage farmer, writes Gerald Potterton.
26 October 2022 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: a treat to wander around another farmer's yard
"Isn’t it always a treat to have a wander around someone else’s farm?," writes Gerald Potterton.
12 October 2022 Farmer Writes