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<blockquote data-quote="Cowcorn" data-source="post: 6549932" data-attributes="member: 107020"><p>In poor price years its getting to be a very expensive hobby !! Makes playing golf almost attractive. Back in 2005 when entitlements were brought in to replace straight Arable aid we availed of the opportunity to consoldate our entitlements on 50% of our farmed area. We dropped from over 600 acres of crops to 350 kicked a lot of rented ground back to its owners so the could look for another mug to work for buttons . Best decision ever for years after we pocketed a large SFP cheque on land we no longer rented just reward for years of been turned over by greedy land agents. Sure it was hard to pull out of fields we had farmed for decades but with labour costs gone through the roof and the retirement of our last remaining worker a couple of years before I my brother and elderly father were doing it all on our own. Many times i returned home late at night with a load of grain loaded the drier and then went for the cows to milk them . My wife would be alone half the night and although she never complained it was hard on her . Capital released from the sale of some of the kit and the insurance cheque from the combine which went on fire were invested in the dairy enterprise which for years had played second fiddle . Best of luck Teslacoils , remember you are not retreating just advancing in another direction......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowcorn, post: 6549932, member: 107020"] In poor price years its getting to be a very expensive hobby !! Makes playing golf almost attractive. Back in 2005 when entitlements were brought in to replace straight Arable aid we availed of the opportunity to consoldate our entitlements on 50% of our farmed area. We dropped from over 600 acres of crops to 350 kicked a lot of rented ground back to its owners so the could look for another mug to work for buttons . Best decision ever for years after we pocketed a large SFP cheque on land we no longer rented just reward for years of been turned over by greedy land agents. Sure it was hard to pull out of fields we had farmed for decades but with labour costs gone through the roof and the retirement of our last remaining worker a couple of years before I my brother and elderly father were doing it all on our own. Many times i returned home late at night with a load of grain loaded the drier and then went for the cows to milk them . My wife would be alone half the night and although she never complained it was hard on her . Capital released from the sale of some of the kit and the insurance cheque from the combine which went on fire were invested in the dairy enterprise which for years had played second fiddle . Best of luck Teslacoils , remember you are not retreating just advancing in another direction...... [/QUOTE]
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