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Are Contractors rates having to go up.
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<blockquote data-quote="Texel Tup" data-source="post: 7835077" data-attributes="member: 49448"><p>Two farms locally to me are now reliant upon Contractors ~ one I suspect sensibly, and the other most emphatically NOT.</p><p></p><p>Captain Sensible owns his land and he's struck up a deal with a contracting group. He takes a share of the crop and that is the end of his financial input. </p><p></p><p>The other guy ~ who is a tenant is prevented from entering in to the same arrangement as the other by his inherited and supposedly secure, tenancy agreement. Quite by chance, both are using the same group of contractors who are themselves, farmers. This chap pays an agreed rate every time that a wheel turns on his land, he is responsible for buying in all seed and spray and fertiliser ~ AND the group take 40% of his crop. Quite how he expected to survive, is a mystery and the reality is that the land-owners have talked/bullied him in to handing back his tenancy, a fact which has not pleased his son …….. </p><p></p><p>I worked for a contractor for a while, and he lived a constant battle fending off those who were irate because it seemed that he was being neglectful of his agreement ~ ~ well he would be FFS ~ he was attempting to serve 5 masters, whilst also managing his own crops.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texel Tup, post: 7835077, member: 49448"] Two farms locally to me are now reliant upon Contractors ~ one I suspect sensibly, and the other most emphatically NOT. Captain Sensible owns his land and he's struck up a deal with a contracting group. He takes a share of the crop and that is the end of his financial input. The other guy ~ who is a tenant is prevented from entering in to the same arrangement as the other by his inherited and supposedly secure, tenancy agreement. Quite by chance, both are using the same group of contractors who are themselves, farmers. This chap pays an agreed rate every time that a wheel turns on his land, he is responsible for buying in all seed and spray and fertiliser ~ AND the group take 40% of his crop. Quite how he expected to survive, is a mystery and the reality is that the land-owners have talked/bullied him in to handing back his tenancy, a fact which has not pleased his son …….. I worked for a contractor for a while, and he lived a constant battle fending off those who were irate because it seemed that he was being neglectful of his agreement ~ ~ well he would be FFS ~ he was attempting to serve 5 masters, whilst also managing his own crops. [/QUOTE]
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