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<blockquote data-quote="Pennine Ploughing" data-source="post: 7673392" data-attributes="member: 999"><p>Aye now then,</p><p>1974 you say, that was not a good year for Champagne due to weather,</p><p>An MF 135 would of been about 12tons of wheat, a 185 about 16 ton of wheat </p><p>And a new combine about 24 ton of wheat </p><p>@ £1298 a ton today would make 135 @ £15,576, a 185 @ £20,768, and a new combine @ £31,152, so what went wrong there,</p><p>Interest rates on borrowing was 15% plus</p><p>And back then there was 4 times the farmers that there is now, all making a living, </p><p>So can someone explain this present day QUOTE of " economics of scale " that is widely banded about ?</p><p>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, </p><p>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,</p><p>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, </p><p>Yet it seems the "scale of non economics " would be more fitting</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pennine Ploughing, post: 7673392, member: 999"] 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 @ £1298 a ton today would make 135 @ £15,576, a 185 @ £20,768, and a new combine @ £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 [/QUOTE]
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