300 acres starting from scratch

[Hilly]

Wouldn’t glamping involve interacting with people?

It would when the pig muck spreading began

 

[Foxcover]

120 acres winter wheat
60 acres winter barley
60 acres OSR
60 acres spring beans

swap barley straw for muck with a neighbour
Contractor for combining

180hp tractor
3m Claydon
3m Horsch fx
8m rolls
24m mounted sprayer, liquid fert
15t grain cart

 

[Courier]

120 acres winter wheat
60 acres winter barley
60 acres OSR
60 acres spring beans

swap barley straw for muck with a neighbour
Contractor for combining

180hp tractor
3m Claydon
3m Horsch fx
8m rolls
24m mounted sprayer, liquid fert
15t grain cart

What do you (hypothetically) want to do with your life?

If you want to borrow a whole heap of money and spend the next 20 years tied to a cow’s tail working it off, then build a dairy.

If you want to work off farm as well, put it down to cereals.

If you want somewhere in between, then sheep & arable.

If you want to p*ss off all the neighbours and write books about eco things, then let it go wild and have a couple of lynx/wolves/beavers escape.

Grain storage ? Means of loading grain ?

 

[Foxcover]

Grain storage ? Means of loading grain ?

Cheap Loadall or loader on tractor.
Stick 1000t shed up for £120k or sell it straight off combine or into local co-op

 

[goodevans]

120 acres winter wheat
60 acres winter barley
60 acres OSR
60 acres spring beans

swap barley straw for muck with a neighbour
Contractor for combining

180hp tractor
3m Claydon
3m Horsch fx
8m rolls
24m mounted sprayer, liquid fert
15t grain cart

I would shorten the rotation with 75 acres of turnips following the barly instead and get on and buy some of these cheap store lambs that are talked about,and split the beans with spring oats

 

[Foxcover]

I would shorten the rotation with 75 acres of turnips following the barly instead and get on and buy some of these cheap store lambs that are talked about,and split the beans with spring oats

There’s a lot more work with having sheep about.
With just cereals you could just work a couple of months over summer then a day a week the rest of the year spraying.
With livestock you have to be there everyday.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

New 140 hp tractor,
New small Square baler,
Loadall,
Trailer,
Plough,
3 meter combi drill,
Sprayer,
set of rolls
Topper,
New big class combine,
Hedge cutter,
Post knocker,

Grass, 250 acre
Spring barley, 50 acre
Feed rape, 50 acre

All fencing hedge cutting done in hand,
Let 200 acre of grass for summer grazing,
Make 50 acre of seed hay mostly to sell for horses,
Every year spray off 50 of grass, power Harrow and sow rape end of July,
Plough and sow undersown spring barley after rape in spring,
Make 50 acre of hay,
go cut @Clive grain for harvest,
Come back cut own barley,
Winter tack on grass, and rape for sheep

 

[goodevans]

True, but I would be stupid enough to be using all the grain and straw on the cheap store suckled cattle that are talked about

 

[Weasel]

Think you know very little about the Climate in Northumberland.

Prawn cock??

 

[Old Tup]

Seems to suit these :-

The Chillingham Wild Cattle

Key Characteristics Their behaviour is that of a wild herd with little intervention from man. The various bulls fight amongst themselves to establish a hierarchy for the right to mate. Females are fiercely protective of their calves. Cattle look like more primitive and angular White Parks. They...

www.rbst.org.uk

If you've never heard of them a bit of research or a visit will blow your mind with regards to all you have been taught about genetics....

Don't let the family connections to Dominic Cummings put you off the guided tour.

Make sure you also visit Chillingham Castle….there a couple of days ago…..far more than just a Castle.

 

[Old Tup]

Prawn cock??

????

 

[jackrussell101]

100 acre first wheat
100 acre second wheat
100 acre continuous wheat

Challenger 265hp
Triton Direct Seed Drill 3m
14 tonne grain cart
SP sprayer with liquid fert

 

[No wot]

Ok, bit more info. of ideas I'm thinking as it needs to provide a good full time income for a family:

• Build a basic dairy and milk 300 jersey cows once a day as a flying herd
• Continuous wheat
• Continuous spring barley with cover crops in between
• 180 spring calving suckler cows with calves sold as stores

180 s/cows , thought you mentioned "a good full time income for the family " you won't be seeing much of them then (the family)

 

[Baling Hay]

180 s/cows , thought you mentioned "a good full time income for the family " you won't be seeing much of them then (the family)

180 sucklers is a part time job if the set up is right.....

 

[YELROM]

180 sucklers is a part time job if the set up is right.....

@Chae1 can you vouch for it being a part time job

 

[farmerm]

£130 an acre or so I guess. Renting out not really an option.

£130/ac for letting someone else do all the work and having all the stress I did not make anything like £130/ac on a lot of ours last year, sometimes I have to question the sanity of not renting out and question even more the sanity of those paying high rents.

 

[farmerm]

no fun in that..........

I know some farmers whos entire yearly fun comes from their day out at the local county show...

 

[7610 super q]

50 hp tractor
8m Vaderstad drill
4 x Haybobs
Hi Viz jacket
Lister bale elevator
Pitchfork
Ladder
Trampoline
Swingball set
Cuddly toy
Large box of Tec screws

 

[farmerm]

50 hp tractor
8m Vaderstad drill
4 x Haybobs
Hi Viz jacket
Lister bale elevator
Pitchfork
Ladder
Trampoline
Swingball set
Cuddly toy
Large box of Tec screws

all makes sense apart from the Vaderstad, why only 8m?

 

[unlacedgecko]

I know some farmers whos entire yearly fun comes from their day out at the local county show...

What a horrendously miserable existence