Gerald Potterton

Farmer Writes: a poke around someone else's farmyard

But a dairy farmer in what passes for his workshop is like me in the lingerie section in Marks and Spencer – we’re both quickly passing through and very uncomfortable about the whole experience.

FARMER WRITES 3 December 2025

Farmer Writes: a poke around someone else's farmyard

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Farmer Writes: agriculture a sacrificial cow in Mercosur deal

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The Mercosur deal is not the first time that Ireland will have to compete against cheaper Argentinian beef and therein lies an interesting little story which I shall tell you now.

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Farmer Writes: why the art of selling is being lost

Farmer Writes: why the art of selling is being lost

The art of selling is being lost and there are too many machinery salesmen now who haven’t a clue how to sell.

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Farmer Writes: grain prices are almost at 1985 levels

Farmer Writes: grain prices are almost at 1985 levels

I was overly optimistic about an August harvest for the beans, writes Gerald Potterton.

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Farmer Writes: a steam rally and my earliest-ever harvest

Farmer Writes: a steam rally and my earliest-ever harvest

The fixational monitoring of the dew or showers on the radar is gone for another year.

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Farmer Writes: time to consign the reaper as we know it to history

Farmer Writes: time to consign the reaper as we know it to history

Gerald Potterton discusses the history of the reaper and why it’s high time it needs an invention overhaul.

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Farmer Writes: winter barley harvest disappoints

Farmer Writes: winter barley harvest disappoints

In short, crops had seemingly everything going for them, yet were failing to deliver. I think we’ve all been there and seen that.

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Farmer Writes: man and car suffer in high temperatures

Farmer Writes: man and car suffer in high temperatures

There’s steam rising from the bonnet louvres and I quickly zig zag across to the narrow hard shoulder, hazards on, writes Gerald Potterton.

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