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<blockquote data-quote="Red Fred" data-source="post: 8201729" data-attributes="member: 189"><p>Dad died just after I left college and I often wonder how things would have panned out if he had still been here with his experience and different skills.</p><p>In her later years, ,mum would ask what I was doing and it might be any of the things we all take for granted such as cattle passports, field areas for IACS, or ordering sprays and she would say "Your father would never have been able to cope with all the things you do". This extended to fixing things, making up bitzer tractors and things like basic welding and shed building. </p><p>Dad came from the older generation where you got people to do all these things as he wouldn't have seen them as proper farming. However he had much better animal sense and people skills than I ever will and was used to dealing with employees where I will always try to do it myself. I think this is a common result of the decrease in manpower on farms, but I think that if dad had had to spend his working life as a one man band doing all the silage baling on his own and getting his hands oily every day, he would have packed it in. </p><p>Whether one way is better than the other is debateable since you end up doing what you are comfortable with, and the economics have changed so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Red Fred, post: 8201729, member: 189"] Dad died just after I left college and I often wonder how things would have panned out if he had still been here with his experience and different skills. In her later years, ,mum would ask what I was doing and it might be any of the things we all take for granted such as cattle passports, field areas for IACS, or ordering sprays and she would say "Your father would never have been able to cope with all the things you do". This extended to fixing things, making up bitzer tractors and things like basic welding and shed building. Dad came from the older generation where you got people to do all these things as he wouldn't have seen them as proper farming. However he had much better animal sense and people skills than I ever will and was used to dealing with employees where I will always try to do it myself. I think this is a common result of the decrease in manpower on farms, but I think that if dad had had to spend his working life as a one man band doing all the silage baling on his own and getting his hands oily every day, he would have packed it in. Whether one way is better than the other is debateable since you end up doing what you are comfortable with, and the economics have changed so much. [/QUOTE]
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