Farms: Wartime Farm Episode 4 of 8
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The team discovers that Wartime Farmers could lose everything - their home and their land - if the government did not think they were productive enough. Over 2,000 farmers deemed 'not good enough' were thrown off their farms during the war. Ruth, Peter and Alex face a World War Two-style government inspection, meeting an expert who tells them to grow and to get their milking operation up and running. In the process they confront the wave of mechanisation that government regulation brought to wartime farming, grappling with a new tractor and getting to grips with a milking machine. Yet they are dealt a bitter blow with the loss of a prime dairy cow. Peter also launches a rabbit-breeding concern and they take in the latest release from the Ministry of Information, who made films urging farmers to use the very latest techniques in the fields. The team also discovers the chilling story of a local farmer who lost his life in a dramatic shoot-out with the police after the authorities tried to remove him from his farm for failing to meet his required targets. With their hard work completed the inspector returns to judge the state of the farm and award them their all-important official 'grade' - determining whether their efforts have been a success or a failure. Wartime Farm was produced by the BBC in partnership with The Open University.
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Authentic WWII vice grips. Awesome.
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First you tell a farmer he has to plow unplowable land and grow crops where they won't grow, and then you try to take his land and ultimately, you kill him. This is a hallmark of government bureaucracy.
And it reminds me of when British "experts" went to Papua New Guinea and told the farmers there that their thousand-year-old farming technique wasn't any good. So the Papuans did what the experts told them to do and ended up losing all their crops. -
I watched that, "Spring Offensive" video on Youtube yesterday. (June 2016)
Apparently the War Ags were local farmers. In the video the hero of the story orders the seisure of another farm.
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Love all these old Lister machines. So versatile.
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I'm loving this great series. Hell, Ruth is starting to look pretty hot... ;-)
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Very nice pair of testicles here.Very large.
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It no wonder that jersey had her teets injured. Shes carrying her udder far too low; very poorly bred.
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The house is just down "A" lane. Would you like "A" cup of tea? Ruth is feeling particularly "A"marous... lol
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Rabbit Lady: "Hes got a very nice pair of testicles here"... Peter: "mmm hmm"....
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Aside from the fact that they are using the Marshall "M" before being "introduced" to it, the name is an anachronism. "In 1938 the 12/20 model was redesigned and the model coding was changed so that the new model became the Marshall Model "M" tractor. During the war tractor production was reduced greatly due to Marshall's factory capacity being engaged on war work. However, after the war, in 1945, Marshall's of Gainsborough introduced the improved tractor they had developed as the "Field-Marshall"
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I really don't think a farmer would be wearing a neck-tie into the field. Overdressed a bit?
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love the guy talking to his horses.
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36:09 That's just what I said when I bought my first automatic washing-machine! :D Saves so much time and energy.
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Didn't think I'd enjoy this series but I am. Didn't like Alex in Time Team and still not keen on him. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Thanks uploader :)
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"Traditional silage" is made from corn where I grew up. I remember the silage pile being a huge mound 2 stories high. Our herd of beef cattle loved the stuff, but of course that didn't make up for the STINK. The stuff would make your eyes water it smelled so awful. You do get used to it after awhile. You also have to be careful of the stuff, if you don't know what you're doing then you can end up with some nasty burns from it. I learned that the hard way when I fell into the stuff climbing the pile.
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Thoroughly enjoyed every single minute of this series. I grew up farming and learning old school ways.
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Large, over reaching gummint has been the bane of freedom loving peoples from the beginning of time. Weren't our British brothers fighting against this kind of heavy handed nonsense when fighting the National- SOCIALISTS in '39-'45?
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Do you think the guys liked Ruth's cottage cheese? It seemed like maybe they didn't...in my experience, people who have been working outside all day will eat everything you put in their wake that's tasty. I personally love cottage cheese, and eat it every day for its high content of slow release protein, but I don't think the guys appreciated her thrifty thinking.
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Why do they not air shows like this in the U.S.? No. Instead we get "Ancient Aliens." sighs Thank you for uploading this series. I adore it.
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the bunny lady is pretty funny, and Ruth's cottage cheese must have been pretty bad - i don't think that i've ever seen the men ever 'save that for later' with any food, lol! Not in any of their amazing series!