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dafyddcoch · 24th July 2007, 02:05

Thanks for the warm welcome or diolch ar y croeso ghynes to give it you in Welsh. You are all really kind with your offers for help re spares. To answer a few questions here, Nobody is importing TATAs into the UK at the moment although I undestand that "discussions are taking place" but then they've been saying that for over a year.

In relation to the idea of a 7 acre farm being 'small', in the uk a farm of less than 100 acres is considered 'small' and much less than that is not considered to be a viable farm. Farming in the UK is more like agri business these days and making a living from small farms is virtually impossible. my 7 acres is about 6 acres of mountain bog with a natrually occuring very acidic ph value and as we are on the west coast we frequently get winds speeds in excess of 90 mph (almost the top speed of my TATA lol). To compound matters further, there is no tree shelter here at all to give protection form the wind and we have to much rain. I know this might seem daft to those used to not enough rain but as we're on the side of mountain the ground water is constantly washing the nutrients out of the land. People in the past did live off these small hill farms and oats (oats being the only cereal that grows in this wet place) were grown on this farm until the 1950s. However, as well as the farm land, farmers around here still ahve teh right to graze their cattle and sheep on the open mountain side for 10 months of the year but if you have loads of animals on the hill you have to have somewhere else to keep them for the other two months.

Anyway, this is a car forum not a farmers forum so I'll not bore you further with matters agricultural and sign off by reiterating my thanks for your warm welcome and I look forward to my stay here.
Diolch (thanks)
Dafyddcoch

24th July 2007, 02:05	#10 (permalink)
dafyddcoch Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bangor in a country called Wales Posts: 2	Thanks for the warm welcome Thanks for the warm welcome or diolch ar y croeso ghynes to give it you in Welsh. You are all really kind with your offers for help re spares. To answer a few questions here, Nobody is importing TATAs into the UK at the moment although I undestand that "discussions are taking place" but then they've been saying that for over a year. In relation to the idea of a 7 acre farm being 'small', in the uk a farm of less than 100 acres is considered 'small' and much less than that is not considered to be a viable farm. Farming in the UK is more like agri business these days and making a living from small farms is virtually impossible. my 7 acres is about 6 acres of mountain bog with a natrually occuring very acidic ph value and as we are on the west coast we frequently get winds speeds in excess of 90 mph (almost the top speed of my TATA lol). To compound matters further, there is no tree shelter here at all to give protection form the wind and we have to much rain. I know this might seem daft to those used to not enough rain but as we're on the side of mountain the ground water is constantly washing the nutrients out of the land. People in the past did live off these small hill farms and oats (oats being the only cereal that grows in this wet place) were grown on this farm until the 1950s. However, as well as the farm land, farmers around here still ahve teh right to graze their cattle and sheep on the open mountain side for 10 months of the year but if you have loads of animals on the hill you have to have somewhere else to keep them for the other two months. Anyway, this is a car forum not a farmers forum so I'll not bore you further with matters agricultural and sign off by reiterating my thanks for your warm welcome and I look forward to my stay here. Diolch (thanks) Dafyddcoch