I'm Ricardo — UK born, in my prime, and by my own admission a cheeky chap, though I like to think there's a heart of gold rattling around under the banter. I've spent enough years around good, hardworking people to know one thing for certain: farming doesn't come with a manual. Nobody hands you a rulebook when you take on your first field, your first flock, or your first tractor that refuses to start on a Monday morning. You learn by asking, by getting it wrong, by asking again — and that's exactly the spirit this place was built on.
What FarmerKnowsNothing actually is
FarmerKnowsNothing.com isn't trying to be the expert that talks down at you. It's the mate who says "no idea, but let's find out together" — hence the name, and hence our tagline: Ask anything. Nobody's born knowing.
Underneath that easy-going front door, there's a genuinely useful toolkit:
Farmers everywhere, not just here
Here's the bit I want to say plainly: this isn't a UK-only clubhouse. Whether you're farming in Yorkshire, Normandy, Nebraska, or anywhere else the sun happens to rise on a working field, you're welcome at the table. Advice shared here — by the community, by our guides, by me — comes from genuine experience and good intentions, but it is not professional advice. Farming law, safety rules, and best practice vary hugely by country and even by county. If a decision matters — money, safety, compliance — please treat what you read here as a starting point for a conversation, not the final word, and go get a second opinion from someone qualified where you farm.
Why we've partnered with eBay
Compare Deals runs on eBay's official Partner Network. We didn't build a scraper and we're not pretending to be neutral out of nowhere — we're upfront that when a listing sells through our links, we earn a small commission. What that partnership actually buys you is real, live, legitimate second-hand farm equipment listings, searchable properly, without us ever touching, storing, or reselling your data. It doesn't change what ranks higher on the page, and to be clear: FarmerKnowsNothing is not affiliated with or endorsed by eBay Inc. — we're simply a participant in their public partner programme, same as thousands of other independent sites.
Does it actually help the business? Honestly — yes, and meaningfully so. Every farmer who finds a fair deal through Compare Deals is a farmer who trusts this site a little more, comes back, tells another farmer, and keeps the whole community alive. That trust is worth more to us long-term than any single commission cheque.
The bigger picture: The Balance Wheel LTD
FarmerKnowsNothing is a project of The Balance Wheel LTD — the same company behind our sister site, a proper British watchmaking venture. That's not a random detail; it's the whole point. The modest, honest revenue this platform generates — including through the eBay partnership — goes toward something we genuinely care about: raising the funding to design and build a watch made specifically for farmers across the UK and EU. Something rugged, useful, and worn by people who actually work with their hands, rather than sat in a glass case being admired from a distance.
So when you post a question in the forum, browse a fair deal on Compare Deals, or just have a browse around — you're not just helping yourself. You're helping keep a genuinely useful farming community running, and putting a small brick in the wall of something built, quite literally, for people who get their hands dirty.
Welcome aboard. Ask anything. Nobody's born knowing — and that includes me.