Farmers weekly 1974

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
We've got the whole archive in the office - might be able to put pics up from time to time if there are requests
That would be interesting and a good idea. " This week in 1974" etc...........I can remember Hadfields Fertiliser and the guy cleaning his Zetor tractor and then starting on his muck spreader before sunday lunch..................that might have been the adverts on the telly though, before the proper farming programe.
 
Aye, and every time somebody bought a bit everybody in the pub 'tut-tutted' into their beer and said, "They must be bonkers, how can it be worth that much?"

Now we all wish we'd bought some, doesn't look so bonkers now, does it? :facepalm:
Dad started out on his own In The early sixties , bought a run down farm and a couple of comments he heard behind his back were he’s put a millstone around his neck and a fool and his money are easily parted.
Seven years later a lot had been done to improve it, it was paid off and he bought another just up the road.
Of course at that time government grants were there to help with all the improvements.

In the early 80’s they were both sold to buy a farm on the flat for more than 10 times the purchase price, more or less sold in thousands per acre what he paid in hundreds, which puts the land price rises of the last 20 years or so into perspective .

Reckon I’ll do well to double the land owned in my lifetime which doesn’t sound great considering dad started with next to nothing
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Dad started out on his own In The early sixties , bought a run down farm and a couple of comments he heard behind his back were he’s put a millstone around his neck and a fool and his money are easily parted.
Seven years later a lot had been done to improve it, it was paid off and he bought another just up the road.
Of course at that time government grants were there to help with all the improvements.

In the early 80’s they were both sold to buy a farm on the flat for more than 10 times the purchase price, more or less sold in thousands per acre what he paid in hundreds, which puts the land price rises of the last 20 years or so into perspective .

Reckon I’ll do well to double the land owned in my lifetime which doesn’t sound great considering dad started with next to nothing
The 'like' is for what your dad did, not for your doubt about you being able to increase the acreage.

Food was 'valued' much more in his day - just compare how many gallons of milk or how many tons of wheat it takes to buy an acre now to whar it did then.
 

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
.Meanwhile AMC rates had gone up to 14%.

That's the bit people forget about in the "good old days"

Land was cheap but interest rates were large.

100acres @£3000/acre over 25yrs at 18% is£4552/month
100acres @£10,000/acre over 25yrs at 3% is£4742/month.

Interest rates didn't stay at that level for long I admit.
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Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
And how much was a farm then? the biggest difference is the relation of cost of land and profit from it? take todays prices land growing crops over £10,000 an acre, if you can find any to buy? farming up to the end of the 1970s was profitable? even the bad farmers made money? i remember talking to old farmers, their rule of thumb was first ton an acre paid all the costs anything plus was profit? that and generous grants, free advice from adas no paperwork etc etc?
Dad used to say with the wheat ...ton for the costs , ton for investment , ton into the building society .
 

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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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