- Location
- norfolk
I'm guessing you mean this sort of thing
For balance here's my old chap filling the sprayer
For balance here's my old chap filling the sprayer
Farmer 'showing off' on social media
- Thread starter little_p
- Start date
- Location
- Hereford
There must be a reason that I'm the only one around here that hasn't had the quad pinched ....
Who would want an old 2 WD one .
Better lock it up now !!!
- Location
- DD9.
You’ve never grown veg then.......
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
What happens when major construction projects go vastly over budget...............which they allways seem to.
What happens when a farmer produces food below the cost of production
- Location
- Isle of Skye
Sorry I meant they don't have to tender for taxpayer funded government contracts.
- Location
- Isle of Skye
They should go bust. the taxpayer should not have to bail them out.
I realise they don't but what it is, is privatised profits and nationalised debt, thats what we're doing and the taxpayer foots the bill. It's not fair and not sustainable.
- Location
- South Molton
They don't pay the sub-contractors and the smaller guys go bust , the big guys get the next contract, under a different company name.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Watch it don't catch fire with all that oil about?Well, there’s not much public money ( or private money for that matter ) being spent on shiny kit here
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Steel
Member
- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
I try and show off good farming stories to the public.
But I also have another thread on turning deer into sausages.
But I also have another thread on turning deer into sausages.
Many years ago I had a stint looking after shops. One night had a call the store had been done over turned out the idiot managers son had taken a photo of a pile of cash before going to the bank and put it on Facebook. There’s a lot of truth in your theory
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Our neighbour showed off his new £2000 bike on Facebook. It disappeared from his shed that night. Turns out the local ferals know everyones' names and keep an eye on postings.
Exactly.
I think we are over playing the level of interest the general public have in what we do far less the price of the machines involved to do it.
Most never notice what’s going on in the fields around about them. They could pass the same field on their way to work every day and never notice the one day the latest big lexions and fleet of 18t Stewart trailers are in there harvesting it.
I wouldn’t get too worked up if some in the industry want to show of their latest toys. Only audience is others with much the same interest so what’s the harm?
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
I only belong to old tractor groups populated by other vintage nuts, and that gets bad enough when it comes to covetousness and slagging off farmers- "he must have too money", "Old bugger wouldn't sell it to me!" etc etc. And most of them are fellow rural dwellers
Otherwise, no one else really cares
- Location
- Isle of Skye
I agree the general public are mostly unaware and not in the slightest bit interested in farming, tractors and subsidies. But also true that many people are pretty shocked and quite annoyed when they discover the amounts of subsidy paid out to their farming neighbours.
This idea farmers should be hiding wealth so the public thinks we're all hard done by and need subsidy makes me laugh.
These days it's probably best not to post pics of tractors and machinery on social media, incase it attracts the attention of thieves.
capfits
Member
Good to see your father ready for Covid in 1975!
Never been bothered by what by the showing off on social media, more impressed with folk that can tell a coherent and non embellished story to the public at large.
- Location
- Sedgefield
the public doesn’t fund every farmer though
You never know who gets it and who doesnt
What do the debt figures quoted really mean though ? Locally over the past decade we have seen a lot of smaller farms sold, resulting in the former owners or their families taking a large chunk of cash out of farming, invariably their land has been purchased by one or two farmers who are intent on expansion using cheap money from the banks. One buyer stated that he told his bank "if you don't lend me the money someone else will". He's bought well over a 1000 acres over the past decade and spent millions on grain stores. His loan debt will be many millions, but to him its a sign of good business rather than a problem. |As to farm envy, there's always someone out there who will think you are earning a fortune off their backs because they confuse turnover with their hourly wage. The one gripe I have is people who wrap themselves in the Union Flag whilst readily spending their money on imported goods, we used to have one local farmer driving around with a "back UK farmers" sticker in the back of his Daihatsu.
can you buy a decent uk made 4x4 that will tow 3.5 ton then