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Father in law showed me a copy he had. Working on the price of the magazine then to the price of cereals a ton of wheat today should be Ā£1298
So not only has the wheat price deflated but the price of FW has increased out of proportionBank of England inflation calculator says less, but would be nice though !!
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The Ā£75 a hectare you spend on fungicides is the biggest variable between us and an Asian farm? There are some much much larger variables. Regardless, the extra yield we get in our temperate climate more than makes up for it.You folk are always banging on about the price of X.
Only in the last 40+ years the number of people producing raw materials has sky rocketed and so supply has increased exponentially. Few commodities have experienced any real gains in the same time frame.
The reality is that Europe is a particularly carp place to grow cereals or oilseeds- being wet and humid they get diseases for a past time. What you actually want is a dry climate with very modest rainfall which would let you grow cereals with basically fudge all disease. Farmers across the globe are growing wheat with fudge all fungicide because their climate is more arid so they don't get as much disease.
Only in the peculiar subsidy driven system that is the EU has massive herbicide or fungicide spending been made economically possible. You tell an Australian/Asian or American cereal farmer what your annual herbicide or fungicide spend is and they would laugh in your face because to them spending near Ā£100/acre on chemistry would never ever pencil in a million years.
Much the same has happened worldwide to oil, metals and other commodities, whether hard or soft. The higher the market price the more players can enter the market. I've posted graphs before from FinViz showing the same.
I agree with you but a full stop every now and again wouldn't hurt. That is probably the longest sentence I have ever read!Aye now then,
1974 you say, that was not a good year for Champagne due to weather,
An MF 135 would of been about 12tons of wheat, a 185 about 16 ton of wheat
And a new combine about 24 ton of wheat
@ Ā£1298 a ton today would make 135 @ Ā£15,576, a 185 @ Ā£20,768, and a new combine @ Ā£31,152, so what went wrong there,
Interest rates on borrowing was 15% plus
And back then there was 4 times the farmers that there is now, all making a living,
So can someone explain this present day QUOTE of " economics of scale " that is widely banded about ?
Oh this "the good old days" of driving a cabless tractor if you were lucky, or sitting in a tin greenhouse, sweating no end with rubbish wetter that an Otters pocket, and sitting in a deep freezer in winter,, and 40 years on suffering from tinnitus, and can still hear the drumming of combine going now, mucking cattle courts out with a hand held fork, (no seat on that), pulling turnips by hand in the cold rain of winter, and even if there was some tractor work to do, your bell bottom trousers caught on the gear stick each time you got on the seat, for warmth in winter was a hessian sack over the knee's and side burns right down to the neck, and no passenger seat for the GF, infact not many with a GF, as they had to work back then, most had black and white TVs back then not that it mattered as most fell asleep after Coronation Street, everyone passed time with there neighbours, a radio was found in the house and not the tractor, same for a landline phone, crop of hay, could be 20000 bales all to hand ball into the barn, and then out again over winter but before you could bale hay in the afternoon, the morning was spent hand hoeing turnips till the dew was off, potatoes hand picked off the ground, and swilling into trailer was hard if a few pickers, sowing corn with a 8 foot drill, after being ploughed, and harrower, oh and can you remember the picking of stones by hand to cart off the fields, then there was sheep to sort throughout the year on top,
Good old days, ya can fecking keep them, not only would you not get staff today to do all that lot, none on here would want to do it,
So today it bigger tractors and equipment, faster and cover more ground, has to have air conditioning, radio, CD, AND GPS, so able to surf the net or social media while working, and yet again the "economics of scale " is the way forward,
Yet it seems the "scale of non economics " would be more fitting
I think that's more 1964 than 1974. I worked on a farm then weekends and holidays. About 130 acres, 80 cows through a herringbone, self feed clamp and cows in kennels. Foraging on a DB 996 and I think Kidd in line forager. DB 880 for buck raking which also had loader. Ferguson TE20 scraper tractor.Aye now then,
1974 you say, that was not a good year for Champagne due to weather,
An MF 135 would of been about 12tons of wheat, a 185 about 16 ton of wheat
And a new combine about 24 ton of wheat
@ Ā£1298 a ton today would make 135 @ Ā£15,576, a 185 @ Ā£20,768, and a new combine @ Ā£31,152, so what went wrong there,
Interest rates on borrowing was 15% plus
And back then there was 4 times the farmers that there is now, all making a living,
So can someone explain this present day QUOTE of " economics of scale " that is widely banded about ?
Oh this "the good old days" of driving a cabless tractor if you were lucky, or sitting in a tin greenhouse, sweating no end with rubbish wetter that an Otters pocket, and sitting in a deep freezer in winter,, and 40 years on suffering from tinnitus, and can still hear the drumming of combine going now, mucking cattle courts out with a hand held fork, (no seat on that), pulling turnips by hand in the cold rain of winter, and even if there was some tractor work to do, your bell bottom trousers caught on the gear stick each time you got on the seat, for warmth in winter was a hessian sack over the knee's and side burns right down to the neck, and no passenger seat for the GF, infact not many with a GF, as they had to work back then, most had black and white TVs back then not that it mattered as most fell asleep after Coronation Street, everyone passed time with there neighbours, a radio was found in the house and not the tractor, same for a landline phone, crop of hay, could be 20000 bales all to hand ball into the barn, and then out again over winter but before you could bale hay in the afternoon, the morning was spent hand hoeing turnips till the dew was off, potatoes hand picked off the ground, and swilling into trailer was hard if a few pickers, sowing corn with a 8 foot drill, after being ploughed, and harrower, oh and can you remember the picking of stones by hand to cart off the fields, then there was sheep to sort throughout the year on top,
Good old days, ya can fecking keep them, not only would you not get staff today to do all that lot, none on here would want to do it,
So today it bigger tractors and equipment, faster and cover more ground, has to have air conditioning, radio, CD, AND GPS, so able to surf the net or social media while working, and yet again the "economics of scale " is the way forward,
Yet it seems the "scale of non economics " would be more fitting
Put up a pic of the farms for sale?Father in law showed me a copy he had. Working on the price of the magazine then to the price of cereals a ton of wheat today should be Ā£1298 View attachment 976108View attachment 976107
farms with a house/buildings for not much more per acreYou could probably buy land for Ā£200/ac
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?"You could probably buy land for Ā£200/ac
So not only has the wheat price deflated but the price of FW has increased out of proportion
Gets rid of the small change in the pocket,and a lottery ticket.Yet you guys clearly still buy it?
There was a huge increase in land prices between 1972 and 1974,as we joined the EEC,near 100%. At least there was around us.We missed out on a small 100acre farm in 1972 at Ā£30,000.The following year bought a similar one,slightly poorer land at Ā£72,500.Meanwhile AMC rates had gone up to 14%.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?