Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
More I think. 27k litres a day over the whole year is 10m litres. 2ppl over 10m litres is £200k.
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More I think. 27k litres a day over the whole year is 10m litres. 2ppl over 10m litres is £200k.
Call me old fashioned or whatever you like, but i think its a massive shame that agriculture has been pushed down this 'get bigger and bigger' route by processors. Huge losses for the countryside and rural communities, large amounts of farming families and new entrants wanting to farm. Who benefits; people and processors who have plenty but still want more. It will not help farming's cause to stay relevant in the future, very few of the public want a countryside dominated by huge farms and nor should they.
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TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Yeah sorry, I put 17k into the calculator instead of 27k
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
A lot of time is taken up with farms you can’t get in ,drivers having to shunt to get to the tank room door,farms you can’t get artics to because there lane is too tight . That’s where bigger farms pay because there’s a good turning area for lorries to get in
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
A lot of family farms are packing up because the kids don’t want to work
Four of the farms I previously worked on have been sold up because the kids didn’t want it
You must realise farming is a very dangerous ,hard business to be in
It is a regrett though that some of these businesses won’t look at some share system for the new entrants
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
We also get a volume bonus ,which is currently 2.4 ppl and a production bonus of .5 ppl if we equal or produce more on the same month last year
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
We also used to get a bonus paid on how many miles you were from the factory (the closer you were the more money you got based on mileage ) they did away with that for some reason
- Location
- somerset
all designed to reduce haulage costs
drive 25mls, 1 farm fills an artic tanker, and back, how much does that save ?
1 farm near martock, they leave the tank there, just swop over.
drive 25mls, 1 farm fills an artic tanker, and back, how much does that save ?
1 farm near martock, they leave the tank there, just swop over.
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
A farm near here as 2 artics and an 8 wheeler per day
Tarmac farming at its finest!
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
No wonder you've got no grass-you'll never get a fert spinner or slurry tanking in through that gateway
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
Currently costs about £2/mile to run a 26t or artic
Homesy
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- Location
- North West Devon
Not £200k per year
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
A lot more money than driving 5 miles and filling the same tanker
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
We all pay for hauling anyway, don’t forget that. We have just had a stop charge added in our area, no matter how much they pick up. On top of the fuel surcharges
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Just looking through a sales catalogue, what does j5 or j4 mean next to a cow? Is that something to do with johnes status?
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
No way. It would have to be double that wouldn’t it?
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
5 or 4 parts jersey?
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
No all pure friesian