20 years ago v today

[B&B Pig Man]

What's the next step work wise?

I've a few things under discussion at the minute - watch this space!

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

I've a few things under discussion at the minute - watch this space!

Tree surgeon?

 

[Wombat]

Tree surgeon?

Just stump wrestler

 

[neilo]

Loving the rose tinted specs. I seem to remember everything was on the floor in 1990, before IACS came in to rescue us. Ag profitability was such that we put an offer on 500ac of arable land (with cottage & buildings) next door at £1k/ac. We were the only offer and it sat there for several months before being withdrawn from the market. IACS came in the next year and the land was subsequently let for £185/ac.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Loving the rose tinted specs. I seem to remember everything was on the floor in 1990, before IACS came in to rescue us. Ag profitability was such that we put an offer on 500ac of arable land (with cottage & buildings) next door at £1k/ac. We were the only offer and it sat there for several months before being withdrawn from the market. IACS came in the next year and the land was subsequently let for £185/ac.

they was red rosses for sure

 

[Strawgalore]

I left school in 94 , it was banded about that there was no money in farming so I went in to engineering

I have since decided no matter what the industry ,if the person who pays you tells you what they are going to pay you your not gonna get rich ! IMO

 

[Douglasmn]

We all know that 20 years from now people will be reminiscing about how 20 years ago things were so much better though.

 

[Douglasmn]

Even if beef/wheat/tattie prices haven't gone up since then, standard of living and working surely has though? Everyone is in their climate controlled, auto steering and suspended cab tractors. Very little manual work involved. Livestock handling systems make that side of things so easy and safe as well. Farmers might not be making a fortune, but if I could choose between now and 20 years ago then I'd go for now.

 

[czechmate]

Bet farmers were still complaining about how tough it was though

Did a season for a farmer for the bumper harvest of 84. Rather than admit it was a good year, it was a case of "just as well it wasn't another bad year or we would have been looking to sell up". 31 years on, same old, same old

 

[Nearly]

Even if beef/wheat/tattie prices haven't gone up since then, standard of living and working surely has though? Everyone is in their climate controlled, auto steering and suspended cab tractors. Very little manual work involved. Livestock handling systems make that side of things so easy and safe as well. Farmers might not be making a fortune, but if I could choose between now and 20 years ago then I'd go for now.

No, 20 years ago for me, with today's knowledge.

 

[gone up the hill]

Bugger that is depressing, just shows how we loose sight of what we do and how we do it?? COP in 1981 can any body help?
But a talking point back in 1981 was do we Bettinson drill, or plough and drill, what goes around comes around!

@Qman posted on a thread a while back that around 1980 ( I think ) he was getting around £90t for wheat/ barley and paying around £100t for fert...

Fast forward to 2015 and Barley is what £105 and fert is £260t!!

What are people paying for weighbridge charges now?

 

[roscoe erf]

Bet farmers were still complaining about how tough it was though

i can not remember my lot complaining in the 70's and 80's why would they inputs where low outputs more than covered the inputs and you made a profit not like today

 

[franklin]

I recall 1995 was quite a good year. And before that 1984. And after that 2003? So should I be sticking at it waiting for 2020-somthing?

 

[Nearly]

I recall 1995 was quite a good year. And before that 1984. And after that 2003? So should I be sticking at it waiting for 2020-somthing?

I'll be in till then, after that don't know. Need to find an excuse to keep tractors though.

 

[czechmate]

i can not remember my lot complaining in the 70's and 80's why would they inputs where low outputs more than covered the inputs and you made a profit not like today

They all did around me. We you hard of hearing or you are loosing your memory

 

[roscoe erf]

They all did around me. We you hard of hearing or you are loosing your memory

neither

 

[Dukes Fit]

I recall 1995 was quite a good year. And before that 1984. And after that 2003? So should I be sticking at it waiting for 2020-somthing?

95 was a terrible year up here.

Amazing yields but then it pee'd rain non stop for the entire harvest season. Stuff lying in the sheds rapidly boiling itself

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I feel sorry for young farmers who will never get that experience of farming in the golden years , when Cow was called Butterfly, when Nitram was £20/ton and you could sell a house for more than you payed for the 200 acres it sat on