Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Hilly]

Should be 50/60k if you were taking into account the level of investment required with land machinery inputs ect…

Easily, my youngest is apprentice engineer earns more than the accountant ! And drives tractors on the side loli .

 

[Hilly]

I know of auctioneers on 75k+ on 4 day weeks!!!

Unreal eh , sit in the rostrum looking at the land owners dressed like tramps

 

[muleman]

I’d say 30k was a very good wage

I'm on 2.5k

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I'm on 2.5k

Per month?

 

[muleman]

Unreal eh , sit in the rostrum looking at the land owners dressed like tramps

My father once went into town to do a bit of business, bank maybe, he never bothered to change up much, my mother despaired at times,
Anyways he went into the market hall and as he was going in a tramp gave him a pound and said, here old lad, get yersel a cup o tea

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Per month?

Per day

 

[muleman]

Per month?

Year

 

[livestock 1]

Year

Did you buy a welly yesterday?

 

[muleman]

Did you buy a welly yesterday?

Np job wasn't that good!

 

[Henarar]

I think them that were lambing in the midst of beast from the east might disagree .

we were lambing when the beast from the east came, the night the snow came I went out snow ploughing then my mate took over but he came back after a while as the snow had blocked the rad on the tractor and the air intake, lucky didnt feck it up, we were thawing it all out in the workshop with heat guns about 2 in the morning, mate was frozen but I was warm couldn't make it out, council rang and called us off as it was freezing so hard, next morning I was rough as feck with flu that's why I didn't feel cold, one tap outside that didn't freeze to water all the cattle and sheep and still had to go out snowploughing, great fecking fun that was,

 

[livestock 1]

I went to help uncle and auntie putting bales in took a few lads with me to help after a few days when we finished she landed out with a fiver for them a piece

 

[muleman]

I went to help uncle and auntie putting bales in took a few lads with me to help after a few days when we finished she landed out with a fiver for them a piece

She maybe never had any change!

 

[som farmer]

Full time farming BSE year just after he bought a wagon load of cows, and they collapsed

1996, the year l started on my own, bought the cows/hfrs 95, when they were on a roll, then bang slam thankyou. Milk and wheat price went into decline, buggered.

not really sure how we survived it, all my assets went into a steep decline. Looking back, l think it was sheer cussedness, bad accident didn't help either. They reckon hard work never killed anyone, might not, but pretty certain it buggered a few up, a month in hospital, and 18 months to get back to near normal. But it got me in the end, relapse, then down to disabled, 12 years later.

but can honestly say, pretty well enjoyed my farming career. OM wanted me to be an auctioneer, he never stood a chance !

my two, decided by 5, what they wanted to do, daughter reception teacher, and she still is, 40 yrs on, son, farming, and he is. They never wavered. Perhaps they inherited the stubborn streak from me.

 

[muleman]

In other news grass has grawn an inch today

 

[hill shepherd]

Yes ,we get most away with two but lot of work.
Be nice to lamb some 150% maybe

Well that's the difference between your lambing and ours, you'll still have a higher % than we do because we never had them to loose in the 1st place because we've alot of singles but you think you've done badly when we think we've done ok

 

[Northeastfarmer]

In other news grass has grawn an inch today

Been a grand day today

 

[Stw88]

How old where the lambs?

Born 10th march onwards. The single lambs would be 20kg+. One person commented that 1 lamb was bigger than the hoggs in the next ally

 

[Optimus]

He can , but tou can be away from it to long as well …….

Lad near us Is an accountant also has a farm.has good pedigree Charolais too.

 

[Top Tip.]

The problem with farming is that when things are going right there’s a huge amount of job satisfaction and it is the best job in the world. The problem is that we have to endure the bad bits to get to the good bit.

 

[kfpben]

The problem with farming is that when things are going right there’s a huge amount of job satisfaction and it is the best job in the world. The problem is that we have to endure the bad bits to get to the good bit.

Is enduring the bad bits what makes it good though?

Anything that is good all the time just becomes a bit easy and unfulfilling I reckon.

Going to the pub occasionally with your mates and having a few too many is great laugh. Going to the same pub night after night with the same people and drinking too much….isn’t so great!