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Farmers Dating Site: No Better Time to Find Yourself a Single Farmer!
We know from the number of people who find our website by searching for things like single farmers, farmer wants a wife, the farmer wants a wife, date farmers and farmer dating sites that many of you are hoping to date a farmer. The good news is that, with harvest over and the shorter days setting in, there is no better time than now and we have loads of single farmers on our dating website.
Register now for free and start searching for single farmers in your area!
Calling All Young Farmers
Take Part in a BBC Show
The search is back on for the UK’s top young talent…Young Farmer of the Year is part of a series that celebrates the working heroes of Great Britain.
This year the BBC is on the lookout for Young Farmers aged 16-25. This is an opportunity for people, other than dancers, singers and entertainers to finally step into the limelight. The BBC want to showcase the unsung heroes at the heart of Britain.
If you are a talented Young Farmer or know someone who fits the bill, then the BBC want to hear from you.
The BBC is looking for someone who is a true ambassador for their trade, up for a challenge and wants to showcase their skills!
The programme wants as many applications as possible from a wide selection of farmers which will be whittled down to four contestants who’ll then be put through tough and testing challenges based on their skills. One will eventually win the title of ‘BBC Three’s Young Farmer of the Year.’
To apply:
email: youngtalent@bbc.co.uk
or
call: 0161 244 3716
Applications close on 5th August 2011
Muddy Matches at Cereals
We had a great day at Cereals yesterday and it was fab to see so many of our members, past and present. Thanks to all of you who reminded us what a useful service we provide to single farmers – glad to see so many of you in happy couples now and telling all your friends about it!
Slight technical hitch with the MM motorhome though!
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Are you going to Cereals this week?
Taking place on Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th June near Royston, Cambridgeshire, Cereals is the leading technical event for the UK arable industry with over 64ha of stands and live demonstrations including Crop Plots, Working Cultivations, Sprays and Sprayers, Post-Harvest Technology, Business Alley, Potatoes and Renewables.
We will be there on both days so if you spot us walking around (you'll notice us by our Muddy Matches tops, as hopefully we won't need the umbrellas!) come up and say hi.
And.. if you do, we'll give you a week's free subscription to the site. Also, if you're with friends/colleagues and they register with us, we'll give you a further week free.
If you've got your own stand, then let us know the location, and we'll pop by.
If you're unable to make it this year, remember we have a whole range of events taking place throughout the summer. Check out our website for more information.
Hope to see you there.
Dairy Farming in Dorset
When Christina got hold of Dorset dairy farmer, Andy Baggs, to see if he would consider letting us come and help out for the day to find out what dairy farming was all about, he was convinced that it was some kind of radio show wind up. In fact, even when we pulled up in the van in his farmyard, he was still slightly suspicious…mainly, as we soon discovered, because he is the king of practical jokes himself and thought it was about time that somebody got their own back!
There we were though, wellies on, ready to get mucky and to find out what dairy farmers really get up to. Luckily we had already managed to avoid early morning milking – crikey – with the requisite 4am start we’d probably still be feeling jet lagged! But when Andy told us that our first job for the morning would be worming the cattle we began to think that we hadn’t got off so lightly and would soon be thrown in the – err – deep end.
Emma and Andy Moving Cattle
First of all we needed to get the cattle – around a hundred Friesian heifers (female cows that are yet to give birth to a calf) – out of the fields and into the yard, which involved a lot of opening and shutting gates, waving sticks about and looking like you had no intention of moving even though a huge cow was running towards you. Confidence, we decided, was the name of that game. Worming, fortunately, has nothing to do with the back end of the cow and involves channelling them, three or four at a time, through a small gated area and squirting the worming mixture on their backs with a spray gun. Clever.
Andy Worming
Lucy in position for some stick waving
Next job was to size the heifers, and choose the thirteen biggest to be put to the bull. More channelling and gate opening and shutting needed, but this time the confidence came naturally. Once we had selected our lucky ladies, they were piled into the back of a cattle trailer and deposited in a field to ‘run with’ the bull. Obviously, the production of milk requires that the cow be in lactation, which is a result of the cow having given birth to a calf. Also, please spare a thought for one London teacher at the Farming to Food Show who thought that you had to kill a cow to get its milk!
Andy Milking
Milking. With our limited knowledge of dairy farming, we had no idea how long this took! We got there at about 2pm, got aproned up, and by the time we had finished washing down the parlour it was about 6pm. Ideally each milking session should be twelve hours apart and, with the milk truck coming every other day at about 6pm, this explains the early starts. Farmers use many different styles of milking parlours, but this one felt a bit like a submarine engine room, with us standing below the cows with a row on either side of us so their udders were at arm level. We moved the cows from the holding pen to the parlour, one row at a time, and while they got some nosh, we got milking using the automatic vacuum system. Each cow took about five minutes, but some took a lot longer which holds the whole process up a bit as you need to wait until each one has finished before you let a new row of cows in and start the process all over again.
Demanding? Yes. Tiring? Yes. But we thoroughly enjoyed our day and learnt a lot. We love milk anyway but will probably appreciate it a lot more now we know how much work goes into producing it!
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