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Pete Ledbury

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Devon born, Warwickshire cc tenant farmer, milk 85 pedigree cows in the beautiful north Cotswolds countryside! Milk vending machine on farm @northcotswoldsdairy

Cotswolds

Joined August 2010

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Pete Ledbury

8 months

Tb, milk price, being a tenant, sfi, unavailable grants, the weather, other farmers who seem to be doing very well thank you very much!! No particular order🤔

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Matthew Blair

8 months

Please listen to the video if you have time. I’m interested to know what causes you the biggest stress and causes you the mental strain. My idea being, if we share and someone reads it that’s struggling it might just help. I think we all struggle with similar things.

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Rather disheartening to say the least!!😔

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Pete Ledbury

2 months

New vending machine up and running at the farmer’s dog pub! No better excuse to go to the pub to get some milk!?🐄🥛🍻 #cowjuice @JeremyClarkson

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Pete Ledbury

3 years

Lost 60 head to tb in the last 2 years had to have two heifers due to calve shot on farm! Never would I have let any of them be chased around like that!!

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Milk for sale!! Finally able to sell milk direct from the farm gate!!👍🏻 northcotswoldsdairy!

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

First cut done! No fancy spfh or fendts with 18t trailers! Combined age of 52!! 😂

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Now sheet the pit after milking👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

1 month

Selling milk in the Cotswolds! Getting undercut by regenerative millionaires!! My mood couldn’t get much worse to be honest!!😡

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Pete Ledbury

11 months

Who’d be a dairy farmer in winter!! Punctures galore! Slurry pits half full with rain water! A finger nail about to drop off! And a shit milk price!! A brand new muller milk tanker arrived in the yard the other night! 🤔

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Em’s birthday today!! It’s been an interesting year!! She’s not on here but as a proud husband, happy birthday em!!🎉🎉

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Filling in a carbon audit for a milk buyer who isn’t paying a price that covers the cost of production! Who endlessly likes to talk of sustainability!! Could drive you to booking a dispersal sale!! Been tb restricted complicates things further!👎

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Cutting silage in March!☀️

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Pete Ledbury

7 years

@BBCSport not sure but think my dairy cows have less impact on the climate than the f1 world champion!🐄🤔

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Pete Ledbury

2 months

As a long suffering farm on the tb front, I’m not watching @DrBrianMay claim to be the font of all knowledge on the subject!! 🐄🥛

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

@domdyer70 A yard, a stable lad, a groom, a trainer, the owners will be devastated! Well done Dom!👎

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Well that’s a bit crazy!! Will have to sit down and see where the money will help most tb wise! Any suggestions?! Em is rather embarrassed!!!😬

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Phew 😮‍💨! A clear tb test!!

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

It’s all in the pit! A bumper crop while using old kit takes a bit of patience!! Broke a tractor, gave up rowing up for the sake of the poor jf! Big thanks to Kaleb off the tele for lending a tractor for 3 days!! Tempted to let contractors do 1st cut!? How much are people paying

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Pete Ledbury

3 months

While Müller direct milk price has been below the average cost of production for over a year!!😬 it’s not the farmers fault for non investment! It’s muller and the supermarkets!!🤦‍♂️

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Farmers Weekly

3 months

🥛 Major milk processor Muller has warned a number of its smaller UK dairy farmers they will be dropped unless they increase milk volumes. DETAILS:

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Pete Ledbury

10 months

Looking at Oxford posts I’m just up the road but don’t have time to be involved, how does everyone else have the time?? This year particularly?! We’re working all hours with no return just borrowing more money to survive? Hope that got put across somewhere in all the hype!!🤷‍♂️😬

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Rightly or wrongly we’re taking on more debt to try and survive! A group of pedigree Ayrshires adding some colour to the Cotswolds hills! Moved on a license as shut up by tb! What does everyone think? See meadow dropped milk price again!😬🤷‍♂️🤔🐄🥛

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Hay made buy the main man! He signed each one I’m open to offers!🤣

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Pete Ledbury

10 months

How’s veganuary going everyone?!!🤣🐄🥛

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Anyone got a part worn 420/85 r34?! Father likes to help out which is much appreciated but a fair bit of tongue biting is required!!🤬

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Our direct sales are the only thing keeping our small dairy farm in business! Lucky to farm in an affluent area with exciting opportunities surrounding us! Personally feel the dairy industry is in a mess and has been for awhile!👎

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Should have tagged @1GarethWynJones and @JeremyClarkson to get a bit of stick!!🤷‍♂️

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Rather disheartening to say the least!!😔

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

I suppose living and working in a spot like this will take a fair bit of stress out of life!! Must be thankful for what we have! Putting up fences for the cows tomorrow. 👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

1 month

I’m going to give up farming because it’s shit!! Sorry but the returns don’t add up!! I have an issue with been shut up with tb!! Any suggestions!?

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Pete Ledbury

8 months

Odd week! Actually had given up! Emailed the milk buyer told them so! Sold a tractor to pay bills for much less than I thought it was worth!! It’s covered my main concern!? Realised people would love to be in my position! Looked on x to see farmers arguing!👎

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Pete Ledbury

3 years

@737pilotpaul @BigJetTVLIVE It has made millions of people without a clue!! Appreciate the skill of pilots!! Jerry is a peoples man chill out?😂😂 it’s great footage in challenging conditions?!🤷‍♂️👍🏻👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Remember when a go fund me thing happened? Emma donated most to @RABIcharity but as @becciexyahoo said “it is for you!!” So @Stow_Ag have wildlife proofed our main young stock building! Clarkson’s farm doing things!!😬👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

10 months

Merry Christmas from the Holsteins and Ayrshires of Butler’s road farm! Last row is on, turkey for tea!👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

8 months

Seriously question how we carry on here as a tenant dairy farm? Sfi must look amazing to a owner occupied arable farm with no livestock to feed? Meanwhile I’ve not the time or patience for it but have to because feeding cows to produce milk with rent to pay is unprofitable! 5%👎

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Made it rain! Thought we had a two day window? Nope!🤬

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Pete Ledbury

7 years

Thinking of selling pasteurised milk off farm and to local villages any advice would be greatly appreciated!!👍🏻don't know where to start!!

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

On a happier note my new mugs have arrived safely from @hasenschneck thank you very much!!

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

A red Christina heifer calf! Bought her grand dam with some money left to me by my great uncle Peter! Looks a cracking calf! ( sire is Amaretto red)🥰

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Pete Ledbury

10 months

2024 started well!! Ffs, all back in now thanks to Tom the vet!👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

After much thought, planning and negotiation (and still much to do) we're preparing to supply our milk direct from the farm!!🐄

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

This time last year we were frozen up and full of flu! Happier with today!👍🏻🐄🌱

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Pete Ledbury

5 years

A clear tb test and a weekend off! On top off the world!👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

20 days

@ChrisGPackham @churchofengland It’s pretty green and pleasant!? But it’s not very profitable keeping it that way to feed you? So yeah let’s let brambles blackthorn and ragwort take over!🤷‍♂️

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Pete Ledbury

7 years

A bit of heifer loving🐄😋 #Februdairy

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Pete Ledbury

9 months

Let the low yield group out for a bit of grass!!😬🐄🥛

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Pete Ledbury

7 months

1 reactor is now 11 on severe interpretation! Likelihood of visible lesions is now a big worry with gamma testing again!! A couple heavily pregnant likely to be shot on farm! Wonder why we’re putting ourselves through all this again!! While milk price isn’t covering cop!🤔🤬👎

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Should we argue with vegans? They're not my customers or consumers?! Waste of time and effort imo!?

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Pete Ledbury

4 months

George had his end of A-levels prom. Coolest car there!😎🤣

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Bitter sweet type of tweet!! Weird few months since em featured, back down with tb last week!😬 #clarksonsfarm

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Pete Ledbury

2 months

Friday night milk delivery to the pub! This could be dangerous! The profit margin may suffer!!??🐄🥛🍻

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Spring time on the farm is on the tele!😬☔️

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Pete Ledbury

11 months

Not getting paid enough for the things I do in life!! Enjoy milk? It’s way to cheap!!🫣👎

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Milk vending machine is up and running!!🥛 #northcotswoldsdairy 👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Whoop whoop! Actually milking on all 12 units! New but second hand! Breakdown 3 weeks ago then all froze up! What a few weeks!!

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Pete Ledbury

10 years

First red heifer I've bred! All boys from the rest! A red factor from @cogentbreeding r&w calves form b&w dams!! http://t.co/sCcvkGxAnT

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Pete Ledbury

5 months

How’s everyone else’s got on with 1st cut? It’s is the pit under a sheet! But we have plenty of battle scars!!😬

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Great! Been told to produce food at even more of a loss! Should give them notice that it can’t be done!🥴

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

@AnimalRising @DefraGovUK @APHAgovuk hope you’re movement book is all up to date? How did the off movement get put down??

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Another interesting week!! Could get more interesting tomorrow!😬🤣🐄

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Farmers Weekly

2 years

A public crowdfunding project started by Clarkson’s Farm viewer Rebecca Poole has raised more than £30,000 for dairy farmers Emma and Pete Ledbury, after the show highlighted their devastating losses as a result of bovine TB

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Pete Ledbury

9 months

Ben is from an Uber historically rich lorded family!! I don’t know why he doesn’t understand the plight of grass roots farmers!?🤔🧐🤷‍♂️

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Ben Goldsmith

9 months

Did you know that EU farmers receive €55 billion in taxpayer-funded handouts every year? Farming subsidies are by far the largest expenditure item of the EU. Adherence to basic environmental standards really doesn’t seem much to ask in return.

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Pete Ledbury

11 months

@AdeAdepitan @1GarethWynJones Bloody uk cattle farmers destroying forests and peat bogs!! 🤦‍♂️ ffs who’s disconnected?

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

@elliegoulding As a farmer producing “Agri foods” I’m not currently been paid the cost of production to produce the “agri food”!! How do you want me to pay??!

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Pete Ledbury

5 months

X is odd to me nowadays! Everyone needing to give their opinion on stuff?! Like UTubers saying anyhoo! Just gets annoying!😬 I put the farm sign up and checked some dry cows👍

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Pete Ledbury

1 month

And we buried Aggie today!🥹

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Still chopping! Grass must go mad the year after a drought!? Broke a tractor! 30year old forager is probably to old for this!!😬 been lent a tractor from a neighbour has black rims for some reason!!🤷‍♂️

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Stirring our uncovered lagoon so I can go spreading with the old splash plate! Can’t afford to change either to be compliant with incoming new rules!! What the future holds who knows!🤷‍♂️

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Must stop reading monbat threads!!🧐😖🥴

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Pete Ledbury

7 years

Looking forward cows going back out to grass! Enjoying days like this in the great British countryside!🇬🇧🐄 #Februdairy

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Silage to cut, cows to graze! Farmers cursing the bloody weather up and down the country! Three weather apps on my phone!!🤬

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Pete Ledbury

9 months

Well said that man!

@thisfarmlife

Charles Goadby

9 months

We must see a duty of care within the food supply chain to farmers and producers if we are to maintain production and food security in this country. #FairTrade #Fairbruary

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Pete Ledbury

7 years

Posted this earlier but worded it wrong! Should have said: Vegans; full of bullshit!!

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Pete Ledbury

6 months

Some will call it recreational diesel burning, I was happy to be out in a field!👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

@BenGoldsmith Be a lot of hungry people without it? Not saying it’s right! But a planet with a growing population want cheap (some require free food!)?? Is a famine a crime?

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Got some signs up, some milk ready to go, waiting on last weeks sample results to come back tomorrow?! If ok we can sell!! #northcotswoldsdairy

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Think milk price is starting to pinch!! Show champion would have made double that a couple months ago in my opinion!!😬

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

@GeorgeMonbiot A tenant dairy farm in the north Cotswolds!! Where every millionaire /billionaire wants a house / farm!! I’m here providing food at a price less than the cost of producing it!! George has no idea what he’s talking about in my opinion but I believe things need to change!!🤷‍♂️

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Pete Ledbury

4 months

Tb test, 2 irs now double ir reactors! 1 new ir! What fun! Need to restock now as that’s 13 cows not putting milk in the tank!?

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Pete Ledbury

6 months

When will it be realised? As a small tenant farmer it needs realising in months not years!? Costs have got us on our knees! Landlord with limited funds makes you wonder!?

@DaveThroup

Dave Throup

6 months

British milk - £1.06 a litre Water - £1.20 a litre Whole chicken - £3.22 Cup of coffee - £3.36 Food can’t be sustainably produced for these prices.

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Pete Ledbury

5 years

Instaspam doesn’t it look nice!👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Nearly there!!👍🏻🐄

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

10 acres of wholecrop spring barley in the pit! It all helps🐄☀️

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

When you put a call for help out on here and it actually works! Cheers JD! @no1sunkfarmer

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Pete Ledbury

8 months

One year on, we’re more concerned about the price we get paid to produce actual milk! Tb test in a couple of weeks!🤬

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Pete Ledbury

9 months

@billat_foxhill @turbotechdog It’s never been so tough we’re hanging on but it’s not easy!!👎

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Battenberg silage 3rd cut, wholecrop barley, 2nd cut!

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

👎 1 reactor 1ir!! How do you go about a tb restricted dispersal sale? Probably not a viable option but about had enough to be honest!!😤

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Pete Ledbury

7 years

Yesterday was our first herd classification after upgrading to pedigree. 4EX 11VG happy with that!🐄 @HolsteinUK

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

Today, a bit of milk delivered to diddly squat first thing, milked, fed around cattle, rode on steam trains, spotted Francis the funny train enthusiast, got Isaac riding his bike finally! Fed around cattle! Beer 🍻

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Man’s best friend!! The nicest dog!😢 Peg! Sleep tight!

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Anyone else think where the fuck are we heading??!!

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

Bloody hell!! Winter looks a lot tougher today!!😡😩

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

What did you do with your extra hour? Move beef calves around!🐄👍🏻 not enough hours in the day at the moment!!

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

@Farmer_Tom_UK I’m a (44) ex young farmer, been head down trying to make our 15 year fbt work running farm bringing up 3 kids! And it’s so tough at the moment!! Got asked last week to steward the rally dairy stock judging by Enstone Yfc. I’m so excited and looking forward to it!!👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

7 months

Well that’s stuffed the get out of dairy, plant wild flowers and bird food and live off the sfi plan! Keep on keeping on surviving a milk price that doesn’t cover the cost of producing it, it is!!😬 #tb

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Pete Ledbury

2 years

@oxfordfarming Doesn’t say much for your opinionated volunteer directors!!

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Pete Ledbury

4 months

George finished his A-levels today! They grow up too fast!!

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Pete Ledbury

7 years

Could fit some cows in here!

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

@AnimalRising What vet practice would give stolen lambs a vaccination? Surely any practicing vet would ask how you have acquired lambs without correct movement protocols? @DefraGovUK @APHAgovuk @BritishVets

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Pete Ledbury

1 year

No one asked me to Downing Street!? Nicer here anyway!! To busy as well, be nice to farm with Amazon paying the bills!🤣👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

6 months

Not a bad day! Lows out by night and eldest has gained some freedom passing his driving test!!💪👍

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Pete Ledbury

6 years

Nice day! 2nd cut in the pit👍🏻

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Pete Ledbury

3 years

@AlexInAir Should have tagged Jerry @BigJetTVLIVE

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