Forgot about the mobile homes, or was that, I try and forget about them, horrible things to work underWe have a lot a houses built on piles here, so add in crawling under houses on damp mouldy earth and bugger all room to your list. Not a job I'd want, milking cows much nicer in my opinion.
Industrial work not easy either.
All jobs look good to outsiders, some are, some aren't. You never know unless you try. Go get some tickets
Long way to 50.
Soon flies round .....Long way to 50.
Not sure how to answer that. But I’ll give it a go;
Could you market your own produce maybe. Boxed meat, farmers market or do what my cousin did successfully , build your own farm shop. I appreciate location might not make this possible .
I'm trying to be realistic, I've got decisions to make myself. But locally anyone with a part time farm comes home to stolen gates & drained diseal tanks but I've maybe 5 million people within 45 minutes driving distance.
What part of the world are you in, is there any other household income or just you on the farm?
I appreciate that, I think that’s why I say it’s a difficult to compare situations in that way. I’m lucky enough that I don’t have a major crime risk in my area, touch wood!
I’m south West uk. Just me on the farm now, partner is on maternity and not sure she’ll be going back to work for a while yet
So going to be busy with children soon too? You certainly seem to have a decent number of stock, how many hours a week do you think you could manage away from the farm? The trouble with doing something else is you can't always do it at times that suit you or your partner, so everything becomes a juggling act.
Yes but are you also responsible in your new job for all the other farm jobs like doing all the paperwork for accounts and stock movements/ farm assurance etc? , do you have to do any jobs like hedging/ ditching/ putting up new gate posts/ fences etc? maintain/ repair sheds/ machinery etc? do you have to make any forage crops/ plant catch crops/ put in reseeds etc ? deal with suppliers/ buyers etc and so the long list goes on!
Yeah most of that. Only jobs I won’t do is ditching (because we don’t have those)/ hedge cutting and contract fencers do most the fencing I will do am emergency fencing. I will add that I will do a third of the shearing and all the dipping myself. Christ it’s not that bloody hard on a 2000 acres of ring fenced grass, I won’t how ever be watching the turkey or pet lamb trade 3 days a weeks and chatting up women in markets. Anyway I said it would only take 3 hours a day or a third of my time to do the checking, som farmer said that I would be impossible to look round 1000 sheep properly.
Whilst you are in the middle of a boiler change at a nursing home …..
Hers will likely be the main income and the farm the side hustle.
you will be allright, till someone finds a problem, a big one, and it will all unravel in front of you.
I think before you take on anything off farm, you need to make on-farm as simple and cost effective as possible.
and the figures quoted are average figures
I was told that years ago by a chap at myerscough ( sp) college
I understand where you are coming from but have no fear of that, I shepherd a nt farm atm so get enough idiots. The 2 main tools are records of treated animals and take the non responders to the kennel. Having big number doesn’t mean you are cruel, the worst are the people with a few imo.
