I’m a farmer, ask me anything

[AskAFarmer]

As title! :)

Start the blog! Or an instagram account that we can all follow. Something! It's clearly not into the n ether given the hours people have spent reading through the whole thread. 😊

Thanks for answering the shearing question. So have sheep been bred for the wool and that's why we (we?! you!) now need to shear them, or was it always this way? How did sheep of yore not all turn into massive balls of wool and die out?

Just realised I never thanked you for your animal corpse answer. How rude.

V interesting. I went on a riding holiday as a youngster when one of the horses died overnight. I wondered at the time what they'd do with it.

I've not looked at crows and jackdaws the same way since reading this thread. I'm also now hyper-vigilant for upside down sheep.

Can I please bump my earlier questions about what the differences between UK and NZ farming are, as I think you said you follow more of a NZ model? I know the farms can be absolutely huge here, but I don't really know much more. Fascinating thread thanks!

@catren the nation’s wealth in the Middle Ages was built on wool production. Woven into cloth and exported It paid for wars, cathedrals, the first universities etc and laid the foundations for future trading wealth.
Even today the speaker of the House of Lords sits on the woolsack as a symbol of this historical wealth.
So historically the woolier the sheep the better