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Coming Home For Lambing.
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Thing is, sometimes some thing happens to make you look at what you are doing and that can be an opportunity.
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
It is appalling how good land is allowed to revert to scrub. I bet the well off city gent has never been hungry in his life. There seems to be a total disconnect between farming and the food on your plate.
CopperBeech , I have every sympathy with your position, farming can be very cruel sometimes. I will offer my own experience in case it might help.
I was just getting started on a small farm in the early 80's when milk quotas came in. I was about 2 years to late to get a decent quota and ended up with enough for about 20 cows. To cut a long story short I had to give up before I had really started .
Life is a bit of a lottery and this seemed especially so when farmers I knew who were retiring anyway got big money for their quotas.
I was so p***ed off with agriculture that I didn't want anything more to do with it even though it had been the only thing I wanted to do since the age of 8. I did something completely different and after about 20 years my farming bug was rekindled and I had made enough to come back in albeit on a smallish scale (30 cows and 300ish ewes)
Unfortunately I left it to late to come back in because I'm to old to make a real go of it.If had my time over again and was in your position I would look for a more lucrative business outside of agriculture and buy some land as a base when you can. You can always rent some more but would have a secure base to work from. You wouldn't be able to keep the numbers you do now but it would be a more enjoyable lifestyle.
CopperBeech , I have every sympathy with your position, farming can be very cruel sometimes. I will offer my own experience in case it might help.
I was just getting started on a small farm in the early 80's when milk quotas came in. I was about 2 years to late to get a decent quota and ended up with enough for about 20 cows. To cut a long story short I had to give up before I had really started .
Life is a bit of a lottery and this seemed especially so when farmers I knew who were retiring anyway got big money for their quotas.
I was so p***ed off with agriculture that I didn't want anything more to do with it even though it had been the only thing I wanted to do since the age of 8. I did something completely different and after about 20 years my farming bug was rekindled and I had made enough to come back in albeit on a smallish scale (30 cows and 300ish ewes)
Unfortunately I left it to late to come back in because I'm to old to make a real go of it.If had my time over again and was in your position I would look for a more lucrative business outside of agriculture and buy some land as a base when you can. You can always rent some more but would have a secure base to work from. You wouldn't be able to keep the numbers you do now but it would be a more enjoyable lifestyle.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
That's the worst of a lot of it. These days owner don't put a penny into the land/maintenance... they expect ground thats been neglected for 20 years to perform exactly as it did before they let it rot - and they think fences full of holes bit still standing are fine
I got completely fed up with some crap, bad fenced and flooding ground that they put into schemes 5 years ago, I told them that they had to buy the sheep and I would shepherd them and charge them for electric fencing every field that the sheep go into. I do much better out of the job now and don't have an extra £40k worth of sheep that potently might drift down stream to London!
That’s the crux of it but when there are 20 farmers wanting to rent the land, why would they bother ? Unless they are stand up guys who look past the next rent cheque. There are both types and I have farmed land for both types. Once give up a small farm with a great land lord who I got on very well with for a much larger unit where the land lord promised the earth but did nought and turned out to be a proper greedy bas*ard. You live and learn.
- Location
- Lancashire
Last few days shiftin sh1t.
Pulled the pens down
Ready for the prattley un combi clamp to be set up
On ta the next
Sh1t sheds fillin up
Pulled the pens down
Ready for the prattley un combi clamp to be set up
On ta the next
Sh1t sheds fillin up
That red Marshall trailer looks handy, what size is it mate? You been quiet lately, busy?? Sny grass up your way yetLast few days shiftin sh1t.
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Sh1t sheds fillin up
- Location
- Lancashire
Just
, had mi second covid jab yesterday, arm feels like lead today so just pottered about.
Trailer belongs a mate 5t I think
, like you say it's a handy size, needs a bit of work on the chassis.
Grass still on the slow side to shows its head, Johnny greens late in coming this year that's for sure .
Just getting going again, been off the last week or so
, had mi second covid jab yesterday, arm feels like lead today so just pottered about.Trailer belongs a mate 5t I think
, like you say it's a handy size, needs a bit of work on the chassis.Grass still on the slow side to shows its head, Johnny greens late in coming this year that's for sure .
- Location
- Lancashire
Brucie bonus on the moor, one of the geld uns lambed so might be an odd un more. must of just bin tupped beginning of the year judt as I took tips out, didn't show on the scan
Yeah had mine this week, knocked me off a bit, bad head, aches an tired, nothing to bad though just groggy! Grass has gone ape sh1t down here now, not stopped for a fortnight an warmed up too!! Lambs will be motoring on now, bout bloody time!!Just
Just getting going again, been off the last week or so
Trailer belongs a mate 5t I think
Grass still on the slow side to shows its head, Johnny greens late in coming this year that's for sure .
Brucie bonus on the moor, one of the geld uns lambed so might be an odd un more. must of just bin tupped beginning of the year judt as I took tips out, didn't show on the scan
no wonder you finished before me if you not classing late lambers
- Location
- Lancashire
Bruce bonus, had no ideano wonder you finished before me if you not classing late lambers
.Even wi mi late uns a still finished before ya
Bruce bonus, had no idea
Even wi mi late uns a still finished before ya
well thats if ya late ens have finished or just started, i mean who knows
nice bonus for ya though
- Location
- Lancashire
I'd only 6 geld uns I kept back, not a clue if there all in lamb or not, just kicked um out to run wi the gimmers, hopin to worm um today so I'll check the other 5 see if the pushin any bags upwell thats if ya late ens have finished or just started, i mean who knows
nice bonus for ya though
i'm starting to think that en of mines a phantom pregnancy
all we need now is for spring to start, been a bludi long slog this since autumn
- Location
- Lancashire
Aye Johnny green seems to have done one this year , wonder if the covids got himi'm starting to think that en of mines a phantom pregnancy
all we need now is for spring to start, been a bludi long slog this since autumn
- Location
- Lancashire
Tipical...
Fine when I got up, and ya think about messin wi sheep and it starts ta p1ss down, 4 hours un still at it . Feels like winter..
Rain stopped play
Fine when I got up, and ya think about messin wi sheep and it starts ta p1ss down, 4 hours un still at it
. Feels like winter..
Rain stopped play
- Location
- N.Lincs
Not exactly p!ssing down here but rain stopped play tooTipical...
Fine when I got up, and ya think about messin wi sheep and it starts ta p1ss down, 4 hours un still at it
Rain stopped play
...about half way through crotching ewes, worming and spraying lambs.
Had to put the ones I've done in the shed to stop it washing off and the ones I haven't done in to try and keep them dry
