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Uggman

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Common situation here also. Kids get a great education paid for by the parents grafting and saving money from the farm. Kids take off to bigger and better paying easy jobs but when mum and dad want to retire the kids all circle like vultures thinking they can assume the farm for f all because they are doing it for the good of the family farm. Few years down the line parents are in an old folks home hearing how well the farm Sold Or worse still how the bitchy daughter in law has covered it with horses. 😡.
I think that's some of the problem sending kids off to school away to far away from the farm to have fun me and my brother spent most of time on the farm or market I loved working with stock moving sheep fence with rappa wheelbarrow or moving milking bail all with my uncle or out counting cows with Grandad he let me drive his old Toyota pickup my brother went to market every Saturday with my dad and started buying sheep for himself and the rest of the family before he was in secondary school he's now a livestock auctioner but we had lots of fun and that's why I got 40 sheep so I can give my kids a little bit of what I had cos I think I had the best childhood
 

kiwi pom

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canterbury NZ
I’d love it if my kids take over but neither seem the least bit interested, girls and grain just don’t seem to gel like boys would.
It might sound an odd question but do your girls know that you'd like them to take over one day? They might actually be interested but think you're not keen.
I 've noticed on some farms that girls seem to get treated differently when it comes to succession.
I remember one post on here years ago saying daughters should have a house deposit from the farm and marry well because sons are the ones that can run the farm best.
Most ridiculous thing I've ever read on here.
 

Flatlander

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Lorette Manitoba
It might sound an odd question but do your girls know that you'd like them to take over one day? They might actually be interested but think you're not keen.
I 've noticed on some farms that girls seem to get treated differently when it comes to succession.
I remember one post on here years ago saying daughters should have a house deposit from the farm and marry well because sons are the ones that can run the farm best.
Most ridiculous thing I've ever read on here.
My girls are 6 and seven so hard to tell. Older one was with me on the tractor or sprayer for a big part of the summers but when I was hard pushed for help wife came out to help so we had a run away Hutterite work fir us as a nanny. Ruined the time I got to spend with her as the nanny was more fun than the farm. Might change back but neither are showing any signs yet.
 

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David.

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J11 M40
It might sound an odd question but do your girls know that you'd like them to take over one day? They might actually be interested but think you're not keen.
I 've noticed on some farms that girls seem to get treated differently when it comes to succession.
I remember one post on here years ago saying daughters should have a house deposit from the farm and marry well because sons are the ones that can run the farm best.
Most ridiculous thing I've ever read on here.
The generation that thought like that are nearly all gone, fortunately.
Tantamount to saying that girls have to whòre themselves, to say they are only worth the marriage they can make.
 
I upgraded from an 83 Dominator to a 97 Dominator for 2019 season with great ideas, then promptly stuck all but 40 acres in stewardship the next year and binned ideas of cutting neighbours, after help and health issues.
An afternoons cutting now and even less next year, hopefully.
Wish someone would build houses on one of our fields, pay off mortgage, reduce the acreage of hay making and maybe enjoy the summer for the first time in decades.(Can't see it happening)
Sell up?? Born here, absolutely love the farm and its location, but no kids and partnership with sister(get on fine), makes it a situation I enjoy sometimes, I hate sometimes and makes me sad sometimes.
do what I did sell the land retain the yard and house and a few acres, been retired 5 years now still tidying the yard and haven't found time for a round of golf yet.
 

kiwi pom

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canterbury NZ
My girls are 6 and seven so hard to tell. Older one was with me on the tractor or sprayer for a big part of the summers but when I was hard pushed for help wife came out to help so we had a run away Hutterite work fir us as a nanny. Ruined the time I got to spend with her as the nanny was more fun than the farm. Might change back but neither are showing any signs yet.
I see, I was thinking they were older. Plenty of time yet. (y)
 

czechmate

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Mixed Farmer
My girls are 6 and seven so hard to tell. Older one was with me on the tractor or sprayer for a big part of the summers but when I was hard pushed for help wife came out to help so we had a run away Hutterite work fir us as a nanny. Ruined the time I got to spend with her as the nanny was more fun than the farm. Might change back but neither are showing any signs yet.

nannies quite often are more fun, the cause of many a broken marriage 🤔
 

essexpete

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Essex
My girls are 6 and seven so hard to tell. Older one was with me on the tractor or sprayer for a big part of the summers but when I was hard pushed for help wife came out to help so we had a run away Hutterite work fir us as a nanny. Ruined the time I got to spend with her as the nanny was more fun than the farm. Might change back but neither are showing any signs yet.
Looked at the last few posts of this thread randomly. So you found the nanny more fun than the farm? Quite common with the ruling classes I gather. :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
 

Flatlander

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
The generation that thought like that are nearly all gone, fortunately.
Tantamount to saying that girls have to whòre themselves, to say they are only worth the marriage they can make.
Looked at the last few posts of this thread randomly. So you found the nanny more fun than the farm? Quite common with the ruling classes I gather. :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
Reading it again it’s not looking like I was intending it to come across.lol. Was meant to be the kids found her more fun than the farm but I’d imagine there is many a nanny clawed her way up the food chain doing …… overtime. 😜
 

unlacedgecko

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Fife
Reading it again it’s not looking like I was intending it to come across.lol. Was meant to be the kids found her more fun than the farm but I’d imagine there is many a nanny clawed her way up the food chain doing …… overtime. 😜
Nannies, work experience girls, feed reps, shepherds, herdswomen it's a proven route to a farm for a wide cross section of society.
 
Nannies, work experience girls, feed reps, shepherds, herdswomen it's a proven route to a farm for a wide cross section of society.
Indeed, I do know of women who have set out with deliberate intent on bagging themselves a farmer and knowing where most young men keep their brains it’s probably not that difficult.
Footballers wives seem to attract a similar reputation.
But it would certainly be very wrong to tar all women with that brush indeed I’m sure they’re very much in the minority.
 

kiwi pom

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canterbury NZ
Indeed, I do know of women who have set out with deliberate intent on bagging themselves a farmer and knowing where most young men keep their brains it’s probably not that difficult.
Footballers wives seem to attract a similar reputation.
But it would certainly be very wrong to tar all women with that brush indeed I’m sure they’re very much in the minority.
Mrs KP did an Ag degree at Lincoln University (NZ) she reckons some of the girls on the Ag courses were there to "Earn a M R S" ;)
 

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
Esther our nanny has been with us 23 years. Both kids have pictures of them and her as screen savers on their phone's both of them tell people she's their mother which gets them asome funny looks as she's very black and they're whitish. I'd recommend getting a nanny and sending your kids to boarding school age 5 . It solves the problem of what to do with them.
 

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