Northeastfarmer
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Funnily enough… it turns out the councils land agent that was showing us round I was actually quite good friends with at Newton rigg 13 years ago, bloody small world… maybe for once I’ll be that person that knew the land agent and had it before anybody else had even put there application in@Mc115reed needs to put £10 in the top pocket of all the council people and NOT call them pansies because they need him more than he needs them.
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- Shropshire
That’s a great story! Bet you’ll miss that vicar when he retires!10 years would be preferable…
very nice old boy died 3/4 years ago over the back. He was half an hour late for everything all his life. At the church the vicar started the ceremony with no coffin, then stopped a few minutes in as they carried in the coffin. “We thought it appropriate that Alan should be late today, every Sunday he would sidle in during the first hymn and be snoring loudly by the second one”
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- Shropshire
You mean you turned up at the land agents office in red trousers, a schoffel gillet furnished with a stuffed brown envelope?
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Skintagain
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Best of luck pal I hope you get a start. I know what it’s like to start from zero and it’s toughFunnily enough… it turns out the councils land agent that was showing us round I was actually quite good friends with at Newton rigg 13 years ago, bloody small world… maybe for once I’ll be that person that knew the land agent and had it before anybody else had even put there application in
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Took these today mixed bag top £1365 bottom £910 averaged £1169 very happy with that
Pretty confident I won’t get it because the agent who I went college with said the council were hoping to find somebody wanting too do dairy on the place… but not sure how that can be viable… he said they’re not willing too spend any money on the infrastructure it is how it is now and it’s got a 6 stall parlour off Noah’s ark and a dairy that looks to me like half its missing…
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Think there’s grants to be had maybe they are needing a tenant to fettle the place up with grants and dairy
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Down south hiy !
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Carlisle ?
There’s a lot needed too fettle the place up, the general infrastructure is relatively good,. Plenty gates that swing, gate posts, yarding, sheds look in good nick apart from 2 home built sheds which I’d probably flatten… there’s a more modern cubicle shed which I’d turn too loose cattle housing but the cubicles wouldn’t take much removing tbf… apart from that the main problems are in the land… the place is riddled with docks and thistles, they’ve silage it all last week but you can see the old stalks in the bottom… there’s 3metres of thistles and nettles round the outside of every field… the hedges look like they’ve not been cut for years
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Yes
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Don’t worry too much about the docks and thistles. You can get rid of them fairly easily. Best bit about docks is they follow nutrition so soil can’t be too bad must be growy land.
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If you take it on like that tell them you will tidy the docks and thistles up and get them to pay half of the chemical and spray they should knock if off the rent
They did say they’re hoping too have a tenant selected by end of July and successful applicant will be allowed in straight away to do any prep work needed for winter, so I’d rip half up and put stubble turnips in, then follow them with spring batley/ undersown grass and maize too try and get a lot of it under control straight away…
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Been thinking
which is dangerous I know. Most folks I know have half of last year’s silage left and selling cows. If these cull prices keep going then who is going to afford any breeding stock to farm? Cattle prices are a bit stagnant due to feed costs but they are still talking of a shortage all round. Can’t be many spare sheep about either
The way ewes are being culled I think there will be shortage of yearlings and ewe lambs. People going through ewes a couple of months early to pull out culls will make them dear later meaning the older breeders will be killed. There for more home bred lambs might be kept making less finished lambs forward. That’s been my thought for the day.