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Are Contractors rates having to go up.
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7836227" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>perhaps we should count up how much money, was spent on that vast array of kit, and attempt to justify that figure, on the prices, farmers receive for the end product, basically it's impossible. Now a lot of that kit will be leased etc, those bills still have to be paid, l wonder how much of the sale value, will end up, in their pocket.</p><p></p><p> Farming must have been much simpler/cheaper, when we fed little bales of hay, to stock, baled with your own baler, and only the weather to fight.</p><p>Perhaps the big machinery syndrome, has grown with the 'modern farming' syndrome, each driving each other. I rather expect both have hit a rather bumpy patch.</p><p></p><p>When l started farming, our main tractors were 2 daisy brown, 880 implematics, 60 hp ? and they did all the work on 500 acres, a fordson major, as back up. Today, it's a n holland, 160hp, on 250 acres, with contractors doing all the 'big' jobs, it really doesn't add up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7836227, member: 86168"] perhaps we should count up how much money, was spent on that vast array of kit, and attempt to justify that figure, on the prices, farmers receive for the end product, basically it's impossible. Now a lot of that kit will be leased etc, those bills still have to be paid, l wonder how much of the sale value, will end up, in their pocket. Farming must have been much simpler/cheaper, when we fed little bales of hay, to stock, baled with your own baler, and only the weather to fight. Perhaps the big machinery syndrome, has grown with the 'modern farming' syndrome, each driving each other. I rather expect both have hit a rather bumpy patch. When l started farming, our main tractors were 2 daisy brown, 880 implematics, 60 hp ? and they did all the work on 500 acres, a fordson major, as back up. Today, it's a n holland, 160hp, on 250 acres, with contractors doing all the 'big' jobs, it really doesn't add up. [/QUOTE]
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