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Will your children be under pressure to follow you into farming ? And will you be very disappointed if they don’t want to ?

My dad was like that. I played in cup finals the lot, but he never came to watch. Always stopped what I was doing to go and watch my two play rugby or hockey as life is too short to miss out. I packed in farming last year and thoroughly recommend it as I have a part time job that gets me out and...

😂 Don’t regret it at all. I was very lucky, finishing in a year with decent yields, good prices and not drying a single grain. I feel for everyone this last year .

Former neighbour of mine . 3 of us retired as tenants at the same time. His machinery was second to none and often looked brand new . Changed his combine regularly and the story goes that when someone went to view the one he was part exchanging , rang the dealer to ask where it was as thought it...

I suspect the massive depreciation that’s occurred in the last 12/18 moths will have a lot to do with it. I was also talking to someone today that has been without their discovery for 9 weeks at a main dealer waiting for a leaky windscreen to be repaired .

Sounds good until you see what they offer you part ex for the vehicle you only bought 18 months ago. That’s why folks are keeping the ones they’ve got

Farmers aren’t unique. Most small business owners will work way beyond the hours you mention and many employees the same

On the other hand most people will spend hours commuting to their jobs, not just walking across the yard into the house . Farming is only as hard as people make it .

I suspect that on a deal, especially a big item, there will be more than one member of the team working on it and therefore any commission would be shared. Otherwise if you were a senior salesman or MD, why would you let the new junior member take all the credit or all the commission

Gave up lambing sheep about 25 years ago before they completely sent me mad.

I’m not sure why livestock farmers would want every arable farm becoming their competitor in producing more lamb, beef or dairy to effectively water down the market. 1000s more lambs for instance, would only mean prices going down for everyone

I don’t see where this idea that every young person is lazy. All my friends children and mine all work hard in good jobs, and have progressed quickly up the ladder in their 20s and early 30s. A good education and support at home is the key.

Are there that many farmers/ sons looking for work these days, and if there Are and they have any sense they won’t clock up hours and wear out their own machines for peanuts. A chap has moved in locally and thought he’d easily pick up a farmers son to help him part time , but is still looking ...

I’d have a year off with the base fertiliser if your indices are anywhere near.

White Hart in Ellesmere have just put their price up from £3, to £3.20 pint . Relatives from Nottingham and even my own children have to send pics to friends as they can’t believe how cheap it is.

It’s overdone though , there’s another big dairy farm locally that blacks it on until the field is awash with slurry and shining like a lake. Can’t be good for anything other than emptying the lagoon.

The land has been sold from Cockshutt house many years ago, indeed we owned some of it once. New houses on the farmstead but original house still there . Mr Ashley who farmed it, still in the house I think .

That’ll be at Colemere . A tenant on the same estate I was on who has also retired. 3 of us retired and half the estate has been sold . It’ll be a very good sale as his machinery was exceptional and looked like new .

Ruth I was just replying to the thread and don’t have a picture of your place sorry

This was our place until we moved to a green field site out of the village in early 1990s. My grandad came there in 1939. I was born there . In Cockshutt nr Ellesmere . original farmhouse still there, but the rest has new houses on it. @easyram1 family lived opposite