Does size matter?

[Bossfarmer]

I don't know. I have no idea how they come to these figures. It was in an article about shorthorns or similar I think.

In the real world i.e cashflow if everyone was losing that per cow nobody would be left doing it by now?

 

[Hilly]

Anyone else think boss might be Clive or sleep in disguise, or even old grumpy.
Just here to liven the forum up in quiet times

Yes, but grumpy aint old, i miss grumpy.

 

[Hilly]

There's a saying in my family, Being your own boss is worth half a living, (so long as the half that's left pays the bills) also a study I read found that the people with the highest IQ did not necessarily have the highest incomes, conclusion, that the intelligent realise there is more to life than pound notes, and the perceived status they convey.

Na its because intelligent types lack commonsense and drive to make money, commonsense business acumen from a poor background with drive to get up in the morning to make money type of person do best imo.

 

[Hilly]

I was reading in FW that the average loss per cow for beef is £128. Maybe you should have only sold 50 as you would have done better........
Have a look on eBay. There are 'businesses' on there selling everything and anything at a loss. I assume they are either avoiding VAT registration or simply running up huge credit with suppliers before pulling the plug.
I'm afraid boasting about turnover does very little for me these days.

Dont belive everything you read in that rag.

 

[Pasty]

Dont belive everything you read in that rag.

I don't. I get it second hand and a week late. Usually feel depressed by the time I get to the farms for sale bit.

 

[Hilly]

I don't. I get it second hand and a week late. Usually feel depressed by the time I get to the farms for sale bit.

I haven't bothered with it for over a decade, waste of money.

 

[Bossfarmer]

A lot of big time clowns in there they forget the value of having cows/grass/dung in the rotation towards their arable yields/sustainability and mainly they forget deliberately because cows are too much work for them

 

[Clive]

Not read the entire thread but if BPS goes it will be the big guys that are hit worst, the loss of the sub is much more significant to them than a smaller farm that can fill the gap in otherways

I think the future is better for the smaller farm than it is the big guys in the UK - if you want to do corporate farming of 10's of K's of Ha then the UK is the wrong country for a start !

 

[Hilly]

The future of farming imo is a size you can do most things yourself as labour will be near impossible to get.

 

[Clive]

The future of farming imo is a size you can do most things yourself as labour will be near impossible to get.

robots will sort that mostly I think

 

[Hilly]

robots will sort that mostly I think

Hence running the farm yourself, tractors made it easier after horses.

 

[Clive]

Hence running the farm yourself, tractors made it easier after horses.

There is a scene in one of the transformer movies I was watching with my son at the weekend where the farmer is sat on his veranda and the combines are harvesting the maize crop - think its not far from how it will be

 

[Sonoftheheir]

My son gets plenty of training in operating his i-Pad, I'm sure he will Farm from it one day.

 

[Bossfarmer]

Robots will surely suit these massive farming operations as they have the scale to cover the cost i cant see 150 acre farms affording robotic tractors when they appear (which they will)

 

[Derrick Hughes]

To many Robots baling straw and hay already . As simple thing like is it ready to bale no robot on earth coukd ever answer

 

[New Puritan]

Robots will surely suit these massive farming operations as they have the scale to cover the cost i cant see 150 acre farms affording robotic tractors when they appear (which they will)

I'll just wait 'til I can buy a really unreliable second hand one which I spend all my time trying to fix.

 

[Pasty]

Robots will surely suit these massive farming operations as they have the scale to cover the cost i cant see 150 acre farms affording robotic tractors when they appear (which they will)

It will be way cheaper than paying a human.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It will be way cheaper than paying a human.

as long as its not a Corbyn Supporter and it stacks the dishwasher evryday

 

[traadilooar]

It will be way cheaper than paying a human.

But we will have to pay humans.

There is a scene in one of the transformer movies I was watching with my son at the weekend where the farmer is sat on his veranda and the combines are harvesting the maize crop - think its not far from how it will be

It is probably a topic for another thread, but at a conference the other week Elon musk and co brought up the matter of robots and jobs and reckon in 15 years 40% of the workforce won't be needed, so we have to decide whether to let it happen and pay everyone a living wage (dole). Or we draw a line in the sand and say no more mechanisation.
They reckoned even doctors lawyers lorry drivers etc can easily be replaced by robots.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

How long have computers been invented, to have one that could compete with a human brain it would have to be the size of planet earth , please dont make me laugh if you think your stupid bot can replace one of my straw warriors drivers