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<blockquote data-quote="Spud" data-source="post: 8012003" data-attributes="member: 78"><p>What to do? First, decide what YOU want to do, not what's best for the farm</p><p>Crop half, let some? is 100ac cropping going to keep you busy and pay bills? I'd say let the lot or none</p><p>Do another job? Do you have any livestock? Arguably 200ac arable is an after tea job with simple combinables</p><p>Get a contractor in? Alongside getting a job? Maybe. Expensive though, and you still have the outlay and risk without necessarily the control you have now</p><p>Let the lot to my cousin? An option, if you get on. Share farm it with him to retain active farmer status?</p><p>Carry on till the combine finally blows? Bonkers, get the thing changed, you don't need that hassle any more than the solobeet</p><p></p><p>iirc you have some sheep - are they something you enjoy?</p><p>Grass for grazing and hay on the awkward bits. Winter barley for early harvest, straw, early £ and stubble turnip entry. Follow with spring malting barley. Cover crop grazed by sheep. Then oats for feeding the sheep or milling and high grade straw. Wheat for £. Another cover crop. Spring beans. Back to winter barley. </p><p>Approx £100/ac in fert including a bit of p&k</p><p>Find yourself a nice blue 3m Moore drill that you can pull with 90hp and enjoy improving the soil.</p><p>If you want a bit less work and a bit more £ let a bit out for beet/maize/potatoes</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spud, post: 8012003, member: 78"] What to do? First, decide what YOU want to do, not what's best for the farm Crop half, let some? is 100ac cropping going to keep you busy and pay bills? I'd say let the lot or none Do another job? Do you have any livestock? Arguably 200ac arable is an after tea job with simple combinables Get a contractor in? Alongside getting a job? Maybe. Expensive though, and you still have the outlay and risk without necessarily the control you have now Let the lot to my cousin? An option, if you get on. Share farm it with him to retain active farmer status? Carry on till the combine finally blows? Bonkers, get the thing changed, you don't need that hassle any more than the solobeet iirc you have some sheep - are they something you enjoy? Grass for grazing and hay on the awkward bits. Winter barley for early harvest, straw, early £ and stubble turnip entry. Follow with spring malting barley. Cover crop grazed by sheep. Then oats for feeding the sheep or milling and high grade straw. Wheat for £. Another cover crop. Spring beans. Back to winter barley. Approx £100/ac in fert including a bit of p&k Find yourself a nice blue 3m Moore drill that you can pull with 90hp and enjoy improving the soil. If you want a bit less work and a bit more £ let a bit out for beet/maize/potatoes [/QUOTE]
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