ollie989898
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You could surely earn £200 a day driving a tractor or plant though?
Are you all depressed ?
- Thread starter Clive
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You could surely earn £200 a day driving a tractor or plant though?
It's not a fear of change. It's about a quality of life and quite frankly sitting in a van for 9 hours a day would be less comfortable/desirable than not earning an extra 4 k per month and sitting in traffic jams and joining the Rat race.
It must be very hard for those of you who are farmers and farm managers to try and turn a blind eye to all the bad press that agriculture is getting whether it be for ruining the countryside (absolute rubbish), being a major contributor to global warming ( highly exaggerated), poor animal welfare (isolated cases) etc etc.
In my farming career I am sure that agriculture has never been attacked by the media like it is now.
I am sure many of you who can afford to sell up and finance your retirement will quite understandably be giving it consideration.
To those of you who are at the other age of the spectrum in your 30’s and 40’s, what do think of all the flack agriculture is getting from the media, especially those of you who are livestock/dairy farmers.
In my farming career I am sure that agriculture has never been attacked by the media like it is now.
I am sure many of you who can afford to sell up and finance your retirement will quite understandably be giving it consideration.
To those of you who are at the other age of the spectrum in your 30’s and 40’s, what do think of all the flack agriculture is getting from the media, especially those of you who are livestock/dairy farmers.
to be honest it feels like nothing new to me, 25 years since I start farming and have felt under attack that entire time. Egg scares, BSE scares, ripping out hedges, cutting down trees, freeloading subsidies, polluting water, killing birds, ,hedgehogs ……. Plus much more I’ve forgotten I’m sure
it’s a entire generation since farmers were not the bad guys, It’s also pretty obvious this is all no coincidence, its all been engineered by big clever well funded PR distracting attention from the real issues / industries that cause many of these problems
what don’t kill you makes you stronger though they say !
Fortunately I think when we are/we’re young and hopefully think we are going to set the world on fire, we are so busy trying to carry it out that we turn a blind eye to things that perhaps we take more to heart as we get older.
Especially when we got married and have a wife that keeps us on our toes
Side note. “You think you know eem , till your married to eem.”
A farmer told me that and oh so very true !!
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- Location
- Darlington
Horrible time of year for me, nights getting longer, clocks go back at the weekend, just got to think, in the blink of an eye it will be December and the shortest day, always a key point for me as every day gets a bit longer from then, another blink of an eye and it will be spring.
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
About 8 weeks from clocks going back to shortest day but about 12 weeks after that until they go forward again, that I find a long wait
l'ordinary bonville
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- Location
- N Yorks
Just stumbled on this thread.
Pig prices and feed prices
Not being able to move pigs
Being demonised for being a farmer by all manner of uneducated people, some of who are even friends and family
Poor farm performance
Inability to motivate staff
Staff retention issues
Red tractor audits
Tenant issues (all staff houses)
Neighbour disputes (mud on road etc)
Staff might leave mud on road but not think to sort the mess
Poachers, illegal cars driving round crops. Do we lock gates that then get smashed?
Health and safety risks
Staff not following health and safety but me still being liable
EA saying dont spread muck in the autumn
Not having enough storage to keep till spring but not being able to afford the cost of complying with rules that we dont know about yet
Not being there for the family but knowing i have to get the work done
Having our holidays destroyed by staff leaving, then children getting covid, then thinking about cost
The list goes on and on......
Most of my stresses chip away and leave me with that downtrodden feeling that we see the negative in everything. But i see that as just being a farmer- slightly miserable
When i'm asked about my day i list the sh!t that has gone wrong. A good day means that i have no sh!t to talk about.
I'm convinced i'm autistic because that explains best how i see the world and probably how other people see me
If i'm on a tractor drilling, spraying etc on my own i feel better
Pig prices and feed prices
Not being able to move pigs
Being demonised for being a farmer by all manner of uneducated people, some of who are even friends and family
Poor farm performance
Inability to motivate staff
Staff retention issues
Red tractor audits
Tenant issues (all staff houses)
Neighbour disputes (mud on road etc)
Staff might leave mud on road but not think to sort the mess
Poachers, illegal cars driving round crops. Do we lock gates that then get smashed?
Health and safety risks
Staff not following health and safety but me still being liable
EA saying dont spread muck in the autumn
Not having enough storage to keep till spring but not being able to afford the cost of complying with rules that we dont know about yet
Not being there for the family but knowing i have to get the work done
Having our holidays destroyed by staff leaving, then children getting covid, then thinking about cost
The list goes on and on......
Most of my stresses chip away and leave me with that downtrodden feeling that we see the negative in everything. But i see that as just being a farmer- slightly miserable
When i'm asked about my day i list the sh!t that has gone wrong. A good day means that i have no sh!t to talk about.
I'm convinced i'm autistic because that explains best how i see the world and probably how other people see me
If i'm on a tractor drilling, spraying etc on my own i feel better
- Location
- Ceredigion
Some idiot left hooked me on my bike yesterday, hit the ground head first , he then drive over my front wheel and buckle it , then get out of his car and rant at me that it was my fault, I should have stopped in A cycle lane and let him cut in front of me
Anyway when you miss near death you realise nothing much really matter s
And no I'm not depressed, I just found another race wheel for 30 quid and good to go Saturday
Anyway when you miss near death you realise nothing much really matter s
And no I'm not depressed, I just found another race wheel for 30 quid and good to go Saturday
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
That has made me really depressed . I’ve some machinery load dismantle and containerise. We’ve got a loading date on the 21st of November so i have to come and do it.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Why do you use the word us when it's a select few ?
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
What did the road markings tell you/ him to do?
s line
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- Location
- Gloucestershire uk
What did Henry say about it though?
- Location
- Ceredigion
I was in the red cycle lane along side him , he turned left I had no where to go due to the railings so hit his front wheel and came of as he turned in
I feel personally it’s a lot more than a “few” maybe i‘m wrong but judging by many responses to this thread I don’t think I’m far out with my thoughts
- Location
- Ceredigion
Don't confuse moaning with depression, moaning goes with the job title
moaning is often a symptom I would suggest
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Make him pay !
- Location
- Ceredigion
Most if not all humans have a moan , it's a form of destressing , depression is more likely if you don't have a good moan
The avarage person moans 10.000 mins a year , so not just farmers
Agree , if things are not good ...better out than in, shows an 'honest awareness' as well i guess, mind you its not good to moan too much / all the time as that will pull everyone including yerself down