Farming topic for Harvest Widows

We've just finished - the actual we rather than the royal we for once - we had a massive parlour malfunction tonight - it's taken nearly 5 hours from start to finish to get the lasses all through and then the parlour sorted. The engineer came out and head scratched. It's motor issues apparently. We're now on a bodge until Monday.

Thank goodness the dc are away with grandma.

Yay there are still some of us around

Just had a call from dh telling me he's heading off to collect some parts for the baler that's managed to digest itself today - needs to be up and running for the morning as its forecast wet on Monday. Fair enough thought I - he'll be a couple of hours at most - can keep his dinner in a vaguely edible state till then.......

No he's setting off on a 4 hour round trip to the only place in the country that has the particular bits he needs, then it will be another 2 hours putting the blasted thing back together so I don't expect I shall see him much before 4am at the earliest

Gamekeepers wife here, tend to keep quiet about it as opinions can be very divided about gamekeepers but can totally related crazy hours when you wonder if you actually imagined your husband, random items in washing machine and only able to attend social occasions together for two months of the year!

I love reading the farming threads on MN. Agriculture only affects me as a consumer, but whenever I see threads like this, I always follow them to see what you're all up to.

As a beginner allotment-er I find large scale farming interesting so I'd rather appreciate a farming thread. I've noticed the farmers often call in on radio 1 competitions, until then I'd never thought about the amount of time they spend out there.

MNHQ started a 'rural living' topic a few years ago following a similar request from farmers. It started off well but for overtaken by folk asking about moving to other often not very rural areas. We could try and reclaim that topic or ask for it to be renamed 'farming lives' or summat to make it a bit clearer?

I need to collect an armchair from an eBay seller, and need his truck to do it. He told me to tell the seller he'll pop in one day when there's a quiet half hour, but he won't know in advance. I've no idea how to coordinate this

THIS IS SO TRUE.

We absolutely need a farming topic! They could get rid of the EU referendum one, I think 3/4 of mumsnet have it hidden anyway

DH is shearing. I haven't seen him for weeks. I need the grass cut and 3 trees planting and at 36 weeks pregnant with spd I can't do it myself.
Oh and I miss him too, of course

Bit of a bump

The trouble with starting this thread now is that most of us farmers wives / other halves are out and about chasing the tractors and dealing with problems, fetching parts when they have broken down, dealing with the day to day crap and generally trying to hold the whole show together which leaves little time for mnetting doing anything else!

Anyway the sun has been shining, the hay is in and dh is in a much better mood! Just about to go and try and catch some rather lame lambs which should be great fun - not!

Morning all, we're off to a wedding today.
When I say we, I mean me and the dc - dh is meeting us for the reception (my cousin knows he's missing the service but rocking up for feeding!) and maybe some of the evening do.

Such is life!

Oh and ds seems to be acquiring a goat next week. Part of me wants to ignore this until it actually happens; but I suspect it is an agreed thing already.

Morning - sun is shining here again so fingers crossed we get the hay in today - dh was out at 4.30 am spraying and has just phoned to say he isn't going to get back for breakfast and can I bring some lunch out to him.........somewhere in the county apparently - no doubt I will get the usual type of directions - take the gate by the big oak tree, cross the field then take the second gate on the right - I should be in that field somewhere!

I live in London. I have absolutely nothing to do with farming whatsoever. But over the years I've noticed that many MNers are farmers or farmers' wives.

So I'm quite surprised to see that there isn't a Farming topic. I agree with PPs, I think a Farming topic is important. Those of us who are townies need to realise the importance of agriculture.

Up with this sort of thing

Don't get me started on the bloody weather!

Me please! Beef and sheep here but dh also contracts - he was in a foul mood last night as the 30% chance of a light shower turned into 5 hours of persistent rain. Grass on the floor wasn't quite fit to bale so has now been soaked

Still it meant I saw dh at breakfast instead of him disappearing off at some ungodly hour this morning.

Am a bit of an interloper as DH is a part time tractor driver as no full time work available for him here. So he has a day job and then works eves and weekends driving. Just waiting for the combine calls in the next few weeks... most people don't understand so a dedicated topic would be ace.

Hi!
Long suffering farmer's wife here!
We're abroad (Europe) and have so far cut our barley and rapeseed. A very depressing harvest so far, nearly 50% down on last year.
How is it in the UK?