livestock 1
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Who are they? I’ve never heard of them?
400 acres, 40 miles away.
- Thread starter Lexion1000
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You are not making sense. Do you do contract farming agreements and know what the returns on 400 acres would be?
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Just remembered.....
A farmer near here used to farm 3 miles away from us and have another farm in Kelso, did all they work themselves and drove tractors to both places, was about a 9 hour drive.
IIRC both places had a telehandler each but everything else was shared, no Fastracs or lorries either, just 50k JD's
A farmer near here used to farm 3 miles away from us and have another farm in Kelso, did all they work themselves and drove tractors to both places, was about a 9 hour drive.
IIRC both places had a telehandler each but everything else was shared, no Fastracs or lorries either, just 50k JD's
livestock 1
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No and no
So you don’t know how CFA agreements work you are just speculating and suggesting things that will lose money the majority of the time
Bit different owned and later crops. I would take on land in Scotland and take the combine up there to spend all September cutting!
livestock 1
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Unless you know some figures it’s hypothetical
I know the rough figures on a 400 acre contract farming agreement because I have 6 of them. I’m not repeatedly commenting on this thread with guesswork and no experience in this subject like many seem to be!
livestock 1
Member
So it’s working well for you then
Are you trying to be awkward? Yes it’s working well we go 5 miles at the furthest.
However your suggestion to have contractors do some of the jobs is absolutely pointless. The whole point of taking on more land is to spread costs. Doing it this way just adds cost.
livestock 1
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I’m not being awkward. I am being drawn into an argument though for some reason. I can only make suggestions as to how we who have distance between land deal with the logistical issues which crop up
livestock 1
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Not sure I agree. A good team of contractors as backup is priceless
I can’t be bothered to argue about this, you’re not getting it.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
I get your point totally
If your up against bad weather and theres a team of
contractors who speed the job up then crops
will perform much better and likewise at harvest Lexion 1000
isn't going to worry if his machine has to spread the
costs of an extra 400 acres or pay a contractor and get the job done quicker.
Dry grain with little yield lost is what he'll be interested in.
Theres some very big concerns in this county who have
Big artillery but if they're up against it they will bring in others
and get the job done.
Spreading machinery costs is just one part of the equation
to profitability .
They exist
I know of farmers that have paid £160/ac land without entitlements that will do 3t of wheat in a good year
Countless threads on here re contractor rates some will work for that don’t even cover depreciation never mid leave a profit
Farm sales with big impressive kit are not rare
Perception is often very different to reality ! Judging a business by it size and / or a yard full of impressive kit is very short sighted and often no reflection on the sate of the business finances
He said fert spreading and spraying all done by contractors aswell. The owner may aswell get someone nearby who can actually do the job or just pay people on a job by job basis and forget the middle man! It’s very different using a contractor as a backup to using them as the main plan. Do you know how cfas work?
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Schoffel branded clothing?
You do seem to know it all for a 27 year old.
Did daddy buy the quadtrack for you?
Garry Markham’s presentation at Groundswell was intesting last week when he referred to the over 100,000ac of arable farmland he was benchmarking over he said the vast majority contract farmers were loosing money doing so - he said many of those were what looked like big impressive units from the outside .....
Looks can be deceiving !
Looks can be deceiving !
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Nothing schoffel. I farm in partnership with my parents. I know how contract farming agreements work and the returns on them unlike many people on this thread, that is all.