glasshouse
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People with tidy farms are often poor farmers, obsessed with tidiness not timeliness.
They never have livestock to save mess, and as a result their soil is goosed.
Stubble to stubble contract.
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They never have livestock to save mess, and as a result their soil is goosed.
Absolutely not, but I would never use it as an excuse to join them.
I have never gained land A) being the highest bidder for rent or B) being the lowest bidder for a S2S.
If I was in that category I would be more concerned than not having it at all.
Lexion1000
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Very true.. All I meant was that a good indication of how someone is likely to treat your farm is how they treat their farm.
d williams
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bulls**t..!
You do type some rubbish. Never judge a book by its cover.
There are successful farmers with string holding everything together, but they would be less likely to win a tender. A tidy shop front isn't a bad advertisement. Not just the yard but the crops & stock too.
This means little when the agents are trying to whittle another couple of quid per acre off the contractor's fee, no matter what the value of an extra half tonne/acre is nor what a weed problem costs.
glasshouse
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The man said he would look and see how tidy their farms were, he was the one judging by the cover.
Read before you type!!!!
I did read that, and have just done so again. If 2 are the same price and you have to make a decision on what you do know, I’d take the tidier one if the cover of the book is all I had to go on. No guarantee of the best job though. I would look deeper.
No stock because it might make the place untidy therefore the soil is goosed. Really?
No stock because it might make the place untidy therefore the soil is goosed. Really?
glasshouse
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Yes , i know several farms like that, every inch ploughed, all straw sold, no stock since ww2, no dung or compost imported either.
Soil is in a terrible state, low OM and no structure.
In fact my former farm was pretty much like that when i got it , except the newest building was over 100 yr old and no fences or effective drainage as ditches hadnt been cleaned since ww1 probably.
It was readonably tidy as nothing ever happened to make it untidy.
Rubbish.
People with tidy farms are the ones that pay attention to the small details that often mean the difference between profit and loss..
Doesn’t take much to tidy up as you go along .
glasshouse
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O Ffs
I said often , not always.
glasshouse
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The best farmers always have yards like a building site
Suffolk Serf
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Why’s that then.
glasshouse
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They are always building something, improving, draining
With a big queue at the workshop door to reduce machinery costs
So untidy farms = more breakages . Machines and buildings .
That’s what I’ve seen too
glasshouse
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No, they repair them rather than just trade them in cos the paint has fadedSo untidy farms = more breakages . Machines and buildings .
That’s what I’ve seen too
Why would a few machines waiting to be repaired, create an untidy farm ?
It’s stuff like string and plastic left in in piles and decent machinery left outside that I’m referring to. Bag stuff up, have a bin for scrap such as plough points etc . Clean gutters out, mend doors .
And we wonder why Farming has such a bad H&S record when some people are literally tripping over stuff.
d williams
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bulls**t..!
bulls**t.!
Will Have nothing to do with it
If that's how you judge a farmer I wouldn't think your asked to judge at many shows
glasshouse
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You really need to read my posts properly.
I didnt say a queue of machines at the workshop door made a farm untidy, i said the opposite.
Other people think thats untidy.
A lot of my machinery used to lie outside because the inadequate sheds which i built were rammed full of cattle, sheep, grain, potatoes and straw.
Does that make me a bad farmer?
Some obviously think so
glasshouse
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What total crap