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UK farmer here. We're often cited as justification for BST vs GMT, but it's complete nonsense. We don't care! In fact, the discontinuity is a nuisance to us in

UK farmer here. We're often cited as justification for BST vs GMT, but it's complete nonsense. We don't care! In fact, the discontinuity is a nuisance to us in many of the same ways as it is to city people. Time-dependent natural processes don't reconfigure themselves when some administrative body decides to shuffle the names of various times of day. If my cows want breakfast at 6am and you shift the clocks forward, they'll start shouting for Food Man(tm) at 5am instead.

jack_riminton 5y ago
Just out of interest how does a uk farmer find themselves on HN?
- ukfarmer 5y ago
  Ah, I was on HN before I was a full-time farmer, and I still work on various free software stuff. After we sold the startup I co-founded to a large acquirer, I took on a Shropshire farm where I've been building a calf-rearing and beef enterprise.
  - jack_riminton 5y ago
    Ah that makes sense, thanks! living the dream that I hope to live one day
    - ukfarmer 5y ago
      The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start. You'll have fun, learn loads, find your strengths and weaknesses, etc. The great thing is, if you are able to juggle tech stuff and farm work, each feels a bit like time-off from the other because they're so different.
      - jack_riminton 5y ago
        Sound advice. Do you have a blog or anything?
        ukfarmer 5y ago
        Sorry, I don't I'm afraid. I have plenty of stories of my complete incompetence to relate, but I find it so much harder to motivate myself to write that kind of thing in the evenings than to tinker with software projects.
      - throw0101a 5y ago
        > The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start. At the very least watch Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) make a fool of himself: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson%27s_Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson%27s_Farm
  - mprev 5y ago
    Would it be intrusive to ask roughly where in Shropshire? I’m near Newport.
    - ukfarmer 5y ago
      Not at all: I'm between Ellesmere and Whitchurch, same end of the county as you.
- Chris2048 5y ago
  well, agro-tech is a thing. e.g. https://cattleeye.com/ https://cattleeye.com/
aidenn0 5y ago
There's some (literally) urban myth about it being for farmers in the US as well, but the farmers don't care here either.

jack_riminton 5y ago

Just out of interest how does a uk farmer find themselves on HN?

ukfarmer 5y ago
Ah, I was on HN before I was a full-time farmer, and I still work on various free software stuff. After we sold the startup I co-founded to a large acquirer, I took on a Shropshire farm where I've been building a calf-rearing and beef enterprise.
- jack_riminton 5y ago
  Ah that makes sense, thanks! living the dream that I hope to live one day
  - ukfarmer 5y ago
    The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start. You'll have fun, learn loads, find your strengths and weaknesses, etc. The great thing is, if you are able to juggle tech stuff and farm work, each feels a bit like time-off from the other because they're so different.
    - jack_riminton 5y ago
      Sound advice. Do you have a blog or anything?
      - ukfarmer 5y ago
        Sorry, I don't I'm afraid. I have plenty of stories of my complete incompetence to relate, but I find it so much harder to motivate myself to write that kind of thing in the evenings than to tinker with software projects.
    - throw0101a 5y ago
      > The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start. At the very least watch Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) make a fool of himself: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson%27s_Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson%27s_Farm
- mprev 5y ago
  Would it be intrusive to ask roughly where in Shropshire? I’m near Newport.
  - ukfarmer 5y ago
    Not at all: I'm between Ellesmere and Whitchurch, same end of the county as you.
Chris2048 5y ago
well, agro-tech is a thing. e.g. https://cattleeye.com/ https://cattleeye.com/

aidenn0 5y ago

There's some (literally) urban myth about it being for farmers in the US as well, but the farmers don't care here either.