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David.

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Mixed Farmer
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I have to say some of my most satisfying days are when our girls and their partners all get together in a work party and we do a garden makeover for one of them, or build a patio or something. Maybe it's just being off the farm, maybe it's the re-energised feeling you get working with young people..... and then you realise you are the old bloke on the job.
 
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Nearly

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North of York
I have to say some of my most satisfying days are when our girls and their partners all get together in a work party and we do a garden makeover for one if them, or build a patio or something. Maybe it's just being off the farm, maybe it's the re-energised feeling you get working with young people..... and then you realise you are the old bloke on the job.
Yes but you're the old bloke with the forklift and the trailer.
 
I have to say some of my most satisfying days are when our girls and their partners all get together in a work party and we do a garden makeover for one of them, or build a patio or something. Maybe it's just being off the farm, maybe it's the re-energised feeling you get working with young people..... and then you realise you are the old bloke on the job.

You should try being at Uni when you're older than some of the lecturers!
 

AJ123

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Mixed Farmer
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South east
Just spent Ā£20k getting rid of a tenant on an AHA. The agreement was subtly changed over the years in favour of the tenant. Could the same happen to a long term FBT ? I wouldn't risk it.
I do rent land short term for spuds, no formal agreement, once the last spud has been lifted, I'm straight in sowing another crop, no messing.
Just get it documented properly and youā€™ll be fine. All the other rented land in the uk works like it should. If you canā€™t get a simple FBT documented you need to rethink the make up of your professional advisory team.
 
I have to say some of my most satisfying days are when our girls and their partners all get together in a work party and we do a garden makeover for one of them, or build a patio or something. Maybe it's just being off the farm, maybe it's the re-energised feeling you get working with young people..... and then you realise you are the old bloke on the job.
Sometimes a change is as good as a rest, most enjoyable days I had last year were a couple of days getting up at 3am and traveling to Lincolnshire to help a mate remove a second hand milking parlour heā€™d bought, getting back home to bed well after midnight,22 hour days plus the days I spent helping the same lad put up a second hand shed weā€™d taken down the previous year.
Long days, plenty of sweat and graft but thoroughly enjoyable, not sure that Iā€™d want to do it as an occupation but for the odd day it sure beats milking cows
 
I have to say some of my most satisfying days are when our girls and their partners all get together in a work party and we do a garden makeover for one of them, or build a patio or something. Maybe it's just being off the farm, maybe it's the re-energised feeling you get working with young people..... and then you realise you are the old bloke on the job.

Working with my lot you donā€™t get to ā€œrealise you are the old bloke on the jobā€.

Somebody is always happy to point that out in various ways.

ā€œlook out you wrinkled old buggerā€

ā€œDo you need me to do that Dad?ā€

ā€œAre you gonna be long?ā€¦ā€¦. You donā€™t have that long leftā€

ā€œLet me do it, we havenā€™t got all day.ā€
 
Working with my lot you donā€™t get to ā€œrealise you are the old bloke on the jobā€.

Somebody is always happy to point that out in various ways.

ā€œlook out you wrinkled old buggerā€

ā€œDo you need me to do that Dad?ā€

ā€œAre you gonna be long?ā€¦ā€¦. You donā€™t have that long leftā€

ā€œLet me do it, we havenā€™t got all day.ā€

Don't feel too bad, I've had people say the above to me since I was about 20 and the incidence of these comments has not ever changed even today.
 
The theme I get from this thread is thereā€™s a lot of us farmers out there fed up with the way government have sidetracked our industry.

Itā€™s going to take an awful lot of lolly to tempt us b
Think theres a lot of us getting to a certain age with no one to take over and could quite easily if we wanted to just walk away from the job
ack to busting a gut and shoving cheap food out of the farm gate!
Iā€™ll soon be at the point if not already where Iā€™m too old to bust a gut.

If someone else wants to have a go theyā€™ll soon be welcome to it....................but first theyā€™ll have to stump up the cash.
 

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
Iā€™ve been told for the last 40 years thereā€™s no future in farming. Iā€™m lucky to have someone as fixated on farming as I am looking to follow me and Iā€™m happy to encourage him to do that but really if people arenā€™t happy with their lot they should get out if it means selling up fair enough but there are youngsters looking to get into farming still and if people are thinking of renting why not to rent to one of them. Farming does have a future and younger people can push that.
 
Iā€™ve been told for the last 40 years thereā€™s no future in farming. Iā€™m lucky to have someone as fixated on farming as I am looking to follow me and Iā€™m happy to encourage him to do that but really if people arenā€™t happy with their lot they should get out if it means selling up fair enough but there are youngsters looking to get into farming still and if people are thinking of renting why not to rent to one of them. Farming does have a future and younger people can push that.
If theyā€™ve got the cash no reason they canā€™t have a go.

Main reason many are feeling like theyā€™ve had enough is the returns versus the capital employed, soaring input prices ainā€™t helping
 

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