Welsh farm life in 1960

Ever wondered if you might like to try your hand at farming? Just in a little way. Just a few acres. A handful of cows. A sheepdog. Off grid?

Watch this and think again.

Borrowed Pasture - BBC iPlayer

 

No chance. Had a holiday in the Shetlands on a farm and we finished up helping with the lambing.

 

Compare with farm life now.

Martha Kearney: Why I'm concerned about our declining wildflowers

 

Martha Kearney's always been a favourite radio journalist of mine.

 

To much tech in Agri now
Fertiziler spreader that uses gps, no signal and it stops working and there is no mananl override so you have to stop working until you get a signal

 

I once harboured ideas of going into farming. My fathers family had farming roots in Kent, one Uncle had a smallholding on the outskirts of Croydon. When the whole vally was bought up for housing I was apalled, but he always said it was the best days work he ever did.
With the benefit of 20:20 hindsight I'm glad I didn't try it.