Do you enjoy farming?

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
I love farming and am lucky enough to have an OH who takes up the pressures of the paperwork . I just can't be done with it .
Supposed to be slowing up but no sign of that happening at the moment .
Nothing better to me than going up to one of the cattle sheds and seeing a newborn calf up and sucking !
Nothing more destroying than seeing the one born yesterday has been lay on by its mother !!

Hey Ho .......soon be mowing !!
 

Gedd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Enjoy the actual farming bit no more than yesterday 5 year old grandaughter with me all day helping and hindering with lambing we near the end so could afford a bit of time its the red tape and over regulation along with the rising costs that are scary 60 tomorrow another few years yet i think no one to take over though son and daughter doing their own things
 

BrianV

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
I love farming and am lucky enough to have an OH who takes up the pressures of the paperwork . I just can't be done with it .
Supposed to be slowing up but no sign of that happening at the moment .
Nothing better to me than going up to one of the cattle sheds and seeing a newborn calf up and sucking !
Nothing more destroying than seeing the one born yesterday has been lay on by its mother !!

Hey Ho .......soon be mowing !!
We’ve all been there, but when the sun starts shining …….
 

Landrover

Member
Not enjoying farming, not enjoying life much either, constant worry, two elderly partners and another who won't communicate, tax bills seem to get bigger every year, an elderly aunt that when she passes I will have a huge inheritance tax bill to sort out. I look around my farming neighbors and they all seem to be flying new tractors/machinery every year, flash cars, kids at private school, multiple foreign holidays a year, can't see how they do it ! Doesn't help that my dad is always saying " you're a millionaire you know with all that you will own" I have to remind him that we would have to sell up for that to happen ! In my mid 40s and ready to give up ! Don't see much future in the job to be honest ! I have 2 kids with leaning difficulty's and my wife has been recently diagnosed with adult ADHD and is on the autism spectrum. I know there's people who are far worse off than me, but at times it's difficult !
 

DRC

Member
Totally addicted
Dad used to carry me around the farm before I could walk ,all I ever wanted to do , still love it
But didn’t you go away from it for a number of years, renting your ground out.
Doing that has probably rejuvenated you and tye face you have other business interests.
Too many farmers are tied too farming with no other interests.
I am off to Birmingham this morning to play over 50s football. Got to be a balance .
 

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
The mechanics of production I enjoy very much. Planning and building fences, following my breeding vision etc. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

The constant uncertainty of the land base is a little stressful. But that's just the industry I've chosen to be in.

I like going away for a day's contracting as well.

All my sheep are out on tack this summer, so I'll mainly be spending it in a truck cab. Be good to have some money coming in, and it will make me appreciate the winter's farming all the more.
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Stock farmers have many livestock related setbacks as well as the usual weather / financial / regulation worries but just like the other thread "Pause and watch" (or similar), it doesn't take much to reset my clock and fall back in love with what I'm doing.

I know a few on here rail against the Dodge American video "On the Eighth Day God made a farmer" but to me the words read by Paul Harvey and the rhetoric strike a chord. It is a vocation as much as just a business and no amount of parasitic hangers on can remove your closeness to nature and the countryside .

This morning on my rounds a beautiful frosty scene

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I had a cow die unexplained and unexpectedly on Thursday, discovered when the vet and I went to the barn to do a navel hernia operation on another calf. Pretty devastating and now bottle feeding a two week old calf. The black belted heifer calf is recovering really well and looks like the red orphan belted calf may be getting a secret suck when blinded by her own calf

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And finally a screenshot off Twitter from this morning

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Two Tone

Member
Mixed Farmer
Much as I enjoy the physical side of farming, if I had my time again I’d have done something else.
The stress and uncertainty of it all is not conducive to one’s health.

People like @Janet Hughes Defra need to realise how this affects us all.

I’m sick of the fact that everybody needs to eat and we get treated so badly.

Farming is a noble profession gone sour.
 

jamesy

Member
Location
Orkney
Most of the time I love farming, but it is getting harder every year!

Despite producing one of the necessities of life in food, I’ve never felt farming to be squeezed from so many angles. Farming seems to be an easy target to blame the worlds woes on. What the future holds who knows.

I’ve been dealing with an abortion storm in the ewes this last week and some days I’d have happily walked away from the whole lot. Then yesterday morning as the sun was rising there was a gimmer walking along with a lovely pair of (UK, none of this NZ nonsense!) Suffolk x lambs trotting alongside. Instant smile on my face.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
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    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

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  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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