Any farmers about?

[Farmlife90210]

Posting for traffic, are there any farmers on here or is there a talk category appropriate for that sort of chat? I did look but couldn't see.

Tia

There’s a Rural Living board - not sure how much traffic it gets though.
(That wasn’t supposed to be a pun btw 😁)

Thank you! Shall take a look

Hello, yes, there are a few of us on here

Hi @FarmersWifeOf30Years do you have an area that you lovely lot post in?

No, there isn't a specific area, I just look out for any farming related posts. I'm only an occasional poster but there are some very knowledgeable ones who post more regularly regarding farming issues if you keep an eye out.

We come crawling out of the woodwork when there is a farming related topic but don't have a specific mumsnet group.

There us the rural living topic but its mainly dominated by people asking about moving house to the countryside and then the countryside they are thinking of turns out to be a busy market town.

If you are wanting a very active chat for farming women then farm wives UK on Facebook is pretty active and you can post anonymously.

@FarmersWifeOf30Years @Scrowy

Thank you!!

Oh that's interesting, thank you @Scrowy

I thought this was about the NZ bird, I'll go away now 😆

Yes, hello veg and sheep here

I looked on the rural living board but there was nothing really of relevance for me. I might have a look on the farm wives uk FB, thank you for the recommendation.

@Objectionhearsayspeculation hi! Oh that's cool. We want to start veg but as a side hobby! We are looking at polytunnels at the moment.

I've not heard of that one what is that about?

Hello OP,

Not a farmer but used to work in the industry, I'm more horitcultural retail these days but hold an interest in farming/rural matters, I live on the borders of a semi-rural/rural area.

I drop in on some of the farming threads if I feel I can offer some opinion or other but mostly lurk. I'm in two minds if a board would be of interest, on the one hand I'm not sure it would be all that active, on the other it might attract rather a lot of angry posters from non-farming backgrounds when agriculture gets in the news 😆

It's about a controversial forum elsewhere not connected to mumsnet. Not sure of I'm allowed to mention it by name so I won't.

It gets referenced on mumsnet a lot because of the gender critical debates that happe on other parts of the site.

Ahh OK I won't ask further. Thanks!