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Well the thing is, Tony is perfectly capable of having a hobby AND making it profitable. Especially in Bridge farm’s situation. They are perfectly set up to do it (w farm shop, direct to consumer sales, plus value-added production if they choose) so why not?
Helen selfish & thoughtless😒
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I believe it was. George saw it.
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Wow that is a good thought…
Were it the Irish fella?
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Yes!
Beef jerky! It’s huge now.
Seed stock sales!
Direct to consumer meat sales thru CSA veg boxes and farm store - already set up!
So easy to work out
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The Georgeling, as someone termed him 😅
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Yes agree😏
I also don’t have much respect for the way Helen just let the hammer fall on Tony, her father, with zero thought as to how to make an already healthy part of the farm more profitable. No, she preferred to solve this by adding to her own herd. Reminds me of Kate on Home farm 😡
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Yeah but this is not realistic.There are SO MANY ways to make cattle super profitable @ Bridge. They can do direct sales - their farm shop & CSA boxes are ALREADY set up directly to consumer! They would just have to do a little marketing to let folks know. They could make beef jerky! Etc #TheArchers

There are many ways to make a profit on one‘s farm. And there are also farmers that are not cut out for certain kinds of production. To each their own.
A good cattle / ruminant grazier is going to make a good profit on their farm and be beneficial to their community and planet at large👍#TheArchers

Very much so!!
😥
I’m so sorry to hear this
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Yes exactly
Honestly 20£ for a brisket is CHEAP! Much more here.
So, why is Helen saying beef is not profitable?🤔
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So true
It’s a nightmare on SM
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Too bad, if that’s true.
Doesn’t need to be that way though. And Bridge Farm should know that.
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I’m sorry to hear that.
GB needs to rethink things then.
(Same with USA of course, lots of things to rethink).
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Its not really her business, yet.

I liked Miranda very much in how she dealt w/ Kate, & handled Brian.

It gave me the chills the way she was w/Ruari.

I like that Miranda is complex & respect her strengths, while remaining wary of her power & her use of it.

But again, I may be wrong🤷‍♀️
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A big question to ask is why didn’t both the farm assessor & Archers Ag advisor, & Helen, Pat, Tom & Tony, know that cattle feeds are completely unnecessary in a grassfed system like Bridge. It’s detrimental in fact. Grassfed cattle are the lowest input/highest profit there.
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His family, I should say Helen is behaving like a thoughtless, self-serving git😤

She should know that the Angus’s dint need feeds, abd that they are a great, profitable diversification for Bridge Farm.
Shes happy that the Assessment, on the surface, seems to allow her more cows🙄
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She could have lied. But why?
If she liked Brad, and no longer Porge, that would have made it harder for her to leave.
Unless, she had a fling in Ireland and thought she NEEDED to lie.
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For Helen🤨
Thoughtless twit😤
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jerry from tom and jerry is standing in front of a wall that says " you " on it ALT: jerry from tom and jerry is standing in front of a wall that says " you " on it

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Yeah
I would hope Britain imports nothing from outside. There’s no reason they can’t make enough feeds for their poultry & dairy if need be. It’s not needed it for beef.
GB has the best lands for grassfed-browse production.
I would imagine Bridge would only feed organic feeds…
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She does have a right not to be lied to.
Ruairai has a right not to say anything to anyone, if he wants.

Still, focusing on Miranda’s own actions, I don’t like how she used Ruari there.
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Yes👌exactly
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He did/does
But Jenny didn’t 😣
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Xylaphonous Xander (pronounced Zǐl_â_phunus)
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Haha😄
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Yes
Ruairi really needed compassion for sure.

Again I’m more uncomfortable with *Miranda’s* inside objectives.
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Probably didn’t understand all that.

The manure alone from grazing is so valuable for any land’s productivity. It helps new shrubs trees for an and grasses to grow and grow better.
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After all, it was also a human decision to kill all the large predators in UK.
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Yes
Predators have to be there. That’s why domestic cattle work so well if regeneratively managed.

It’s all about how animals are kept. It must be a nature-mimicking system.
If no wolves or bears present, then it falls on us humans to be the “predator” and cull wisely.
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If the plot line is going to be “Tony comes around to realizing he doesn’t need feeds for his cattle”, then that’s entirely unrealistic too🤨
Tony would have known from Day 1 that grazing Angus's don’t need feeds.
(I would have expected Helen, Pat and Tom to know that too, but whatevs🤷‍♀️)…
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