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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 8150086" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>What does it mean?</p><p>As said we live off depreciation and undervalued family labour, and use our savings to smooth out cash flow. Some years we strike lucky and get and get the occasional bonanza like 2t per acre springs beans for a good price or 4t per acre winter barley, maybe even 4t winter wheat if every falls right but by and large we tread water.</p><p>Machinery prices are just insane for what’s in the job at our level. Wildly fluctuating costs and output prices are adding a new dimension of stress and pressure on cash flow. Spring droughts are putting us on a knife edge. We are bringing grass and sheep back but they are bloody hard work. This weekend with the ewes we’d normally be going round looking for mastitis, jabbing repeatedly then watching a gangrenous bag eventually fall off while trying to keep the flies off them. Wheat just doesn’t give that kind of gut wrenching grief. There can be losses with arable but not the kind of up close in your face painful sadness that typify livestock. Though maybe it’s because we’d been doing it all wrong or cared too much or over fed them or mollycoddled them or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 8150086, member: 2119"] What does it mean? As said we live off depreciation and undervalued family labour, and use our savings to smooth out cash flow. Some years we strike lucky and get and get the occasional bonanza like 2t per acre springs beans for a good price or 4t per acre winter barley, maybe even 4t winter wheat if every falls right but by and large we tread water. Machinery prices are just insane for what’s in the job at our level. Wildly fluctuating costs and output prices are adding a new dimension of stress and pressure on cash flow. Spring droughts are putting us on a knife edge. We are bringing grass and sheep back but they are bloody hard work. This weekend with the ewes we’d normally be going round looking for mastitis, jabbing repeatedly then watching a gangrenous bag eventually fall off while trying to keep the flies off them. Wheat just doesn’t give that kind of gut wrenching grief. There can be losses with arable but not the kind of up close in your face painful sadness that typify livestock. Though maybe it’s because we’d been doing it all wrong or cared too much or over fed them or mollycoddled them or something. [/QUOTE]
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