Age of posters

[organicguy]

Keep hearing mention of 40 years in farming in posts. Wondering the average age of posters.

 

[Kidds]

60 so a bit more than 40 years in farming

 

[David.]

Same.

 

[Gedd]

Knocking on the door of 63 been at it since i could walk

 

[Farmer Roy]

58

So 40 years in farming

 

[Boysground]

Feeling both old and also average on here

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[yellowbelly]

Feeling both old and also average on here

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Getting into that bracket where it takes all night to do, what I used to do all night, too

The only advantage is, that nice Mr Starmer sends me some money every month

 

[Wesley]

Getting into that bracket where it takes all night to do, what I used to do all night, too

The only advantage is, that nice Mr Starmer sends me some money every month

Could be worse ways to keep warm at night now he’s taken away your winter fuel payment

 

[ford 7810]

64 last March

 

[matthew]

Crikey - mere striplings.

 

[DrWazzock]

55 so 40 years in farming, though started at 9 with chickens and rabbits. Carted grain from about 12 years old.
Something that struck me the other day was the bureaucratic obsession with accuracy of field sizes. For all my life one of our fields has been “about 25 acres”. Then you get folk in an office ringing up questioning the area to 2 or more decimal places and wondering how you’ve managed for 40 years without knowing areas to that level of accuracy. Well when the field has a dome of a hill in it, “about 25 acres” is as good as it will get and is as good as it has ever needed to be.

 

[DrWazzock]

I’m actually glad that I’m older as at least I got a few decades without the kind of crap that’s now being heaped on the industry. And the pressure feels like it’s coming off me personally now so I’m back to chickens, the orchard and veg garden where I started. Others can do the hours of tractor driving and all that stuff which bores me now. I prefer the more interesting “pottering” jobs like maintenance, drainage repairs and the stuff my dad enjoyed at this age.

 

[lloyd]

55 so 40 years in farming, though started at 9 with chickens and rabbits. Carted grain from about 12 years old.
Something that struck me the other day was the bureaucratic obsession with accuracy of field sizes. For all my life one of our fields has been “about 25 acres”. Then you get folk in an office ringing up questioning the area to 2 or more decimal places and wondering how you’ve managed for 40 years without knowing areas to that level of accuracy. Well when the field has a dome of a hill in it, “about 25 acres” is as good as it will get and is as good as it has ever needed to be.

I thought you did a career outside farming at some point?
Apologies if I'm getting you mixed up with another member.

 

[Tucker]

Something that struck me the other day was the bureaucratic obsession with accuracy of field sizes. For all my life one of our fields has been “about 25 acres”. Then you get folk in an office ringing up questioning the area to 2 or more decimal places and wondering how you’ve managed for 40 years without knowing areas to that level of accuracy. Well when the field has a dome of a hill in it, “about 25 acres” is as good as it will get and is as good as it has ever needed to be.

It did make me laugh when they told me that the field we've called "18 acres" for generations isn't actually 18 acres

52.

 

[Castle Farm]

79 next month. Drove my first tractor lugging hay at 9 years old.

 

[DaveGrohl]

How rude.


58. Since you asked.

 

[lloyd]

79 next month. Drove my first tractor lugging hay at 9 years old.

Those were the days!

 

[teslacoils]

I'm 44. 20 years farming, contracting etc.

 

[organicguy]

I’m actually glad that I’m older as at least I got a few decades without the kind of crap that’s now being heaped on the industry. And the pressure feels like it’s coming off me personally now so I’m back to chickens, the orchard and veg garden where I started. Others can do the hours of tractor driving and all that stuff which bores me now. I prefer the more interesting “pottering” jobs like maintenance, drainage repairs and the stuff my dad enjoyed at this age.

it's slightly worrying that as we get older we start to do all the things that we thought were unimportant when we were younger.
It appears we are preparing it for the next generation!

 

[organicguy]

Just moved out of the farmhouse. Not a bad view from kitchen window. (The shed is only there to hold up the fence to get them in to chew down the meadow.