How remote is you farm?

[Nithsdale]

Whats it like in South West Scotland then? Is that Stranraer, or Newtown Stewart?

He's at Newton Stewart or Castle Douglas. There's no other markets farther West

 

[puppet]

I feel I am on the run and they are closing in. Looking at the other thread about knowing TFF members I may have blown my cover.

South West is fine but too wet for everyone else and I am somewhere between Dumfries and Stranraer

 

[Nithsdale]

I feel I am on the run and they are closing in. Looking at the other thread about knowing TFF members I may have blown my cover.

South West is fine but too wet for everyone else and I am somewhere between Dumfries and Stranraer

It's a bugger when someone has local knowledge isn't it

 

[jendan]

I feel I am on the run and they are closing in. Looking at the other thread about knowing TFF members I may have blown my cover.

South West is fine but too wet for everyone else and I am somewhere between Dumfries and Stranraer

Well thats narrowed it down a bit.Just somewhere along the 80 miles of A75.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

4.8 miles to nearest village.
57 miles to London
20 miles to Cambridge
20 miles to Bury St Edmunds
7.5 miles to Ely

I like it here, far enough away but not too far from anywhere.

 

[TripleSix]

Nearest neighbour is half a mile
Town 4 miles but takes 10 minutes
Nearest tractor Dealer is 11 miles
Nearest engineering is about 18 miles and 30 mins in any direction

Yeah just look up Helmsley on the map...

 

[Bill dog]

Stayed before Rydale n Pickering show years ago in the Black Swan in Helmsley.
It was very nice, chuffing pricey, but a lovely place !

 

[jerseycowsman]

Not remote enough.
Get me away from these bloody horse paddocks and traffic as far as possible!

 

[spin cycle]

5 miles to nearest kebab shop....nuff said

 

[egbert]

All right then...
nearest house 1/4 mile, then 1/2 mile to next one
1 mile to pub - part owned by farming neighbour.
6 miles very small village shop,
10 miles to town with spar.
15 miles to supermarket.

Hospitals ...a difficult 20+ miles to a decent one,
30 easier miles to both one with a lesser reputation, and another good'un.... choice depends on how big a hurry up it is!
(try to be adept with field dressings etc)

15 miles either way to small livestock marts, 30 to bigger one.
(one of the near ones is still very vibrant)
app 450 miles to Castle Douglas, 660 to Lairg.

130-150 miles to easily available straw
30 miles to cake mill

But the whole outside world is over a 7'10" granite bridge - and heading West, 2 of the sodding things.
That is the measurement which costs me the most.

 

[Fendt516profi]

All right then...
nearest house 1/4 mile, then 1/2 mile to next one
1 mile to pub - part owned by farming neighbour.
6 miles very small village shop,
10 miles to town with spar.
15 miles to supermarket.

Hospitals ...a difficult 20+ miles to a decent one,
30 easier miles to both one with a lesser reputation, and another good'un.... choice depends on how big a hurry up it is!
(try to be adept with field dressings etc)

15 miles either way to small livestock marts, 30 to bigger one.
(one of the near ones is still very vibrant)
app 450 miles to Castle Douglas, 660 to Lairg.

130-150 miles to easily available straw
30 miles to cake mill

But the whole outside world is over a 7'10" granite bridge - and heading West, 2 of the sodding things.
That is the measurement which costs me the most.

@ColinV6 can help you with that

 

[Alan88]

1 mile to a very handy mechanic (worls from his house)
2 miles to get hydraulic hoses fixed (worls from his house/van)
3 miles to an excellent engineering workshop
4 or 5 miles to 3 towns the feed mill, massey and deere dealer
10 miles to the bigger town and the bank
50 to belfast

Gonna be in trouble when the first two retire as they're both near 70 if they're not already over it

 

[toquark]

Remote enough that I can let off a 12 bore without worrying about moaning neighbours.

 

[Grassman]

But the whole outside world is over a 7'10" granite bridge - and heading West, 2 of the sodding things.
That is the measurement which costs me the most.

How do you deal with those bridges?

 

[Bury the Trash]

All right then...
nearest house 1/4 mile, then 1/2 mile to next one
1 mile to pub - part owned by farming neighbour.
6 miles very small village shop,
10 miles to town with spar.
15 miles to supermarket.

Hospitals ...a difficult 20+ miles to a decent one,
30 easier miles to both one with a lesser reputation, and another good'un.... choice depends on how big a hurry up it is!
(try to be adept with field dressings etc)

15 miles either way to small livestock marts, 30 to bigger one.
(one of the near ones is still very vibrant)
app 450 miles to Castle Douglas, 660 to Lairg.

130-150 miles to easily available straw
30 miles to cake mill

But the whole outside world is over a 7'10" granite bridge - and heading West, 2 of the sodding things.
That is the measurement which costs me the most.

why so far for straw?

 

[egbert]

How do you deal with those bridges?

Patience, keeping a 7.5 tonne wagon, receiving everything inbound on hgvs 1/4 mile outside the yard gate.
ensure all new gear fits before purchase - tolerate derision when enquiring.
(Quite fancy pit silage, but have never met a forage wagon salesman who didn't first look blank, then pitying, then derisive. ALL say the wagons are too big. Fair enough...stick with the rubber band round baler then. Until last summer in Austria and South Tyrol, where I saw every size of pick-up wagon down to what would just about fit on a 110 chassis Defender.)

Bridges are 'mentioned' in rent negotiations.

why so far for straw?

Long experience has shown arable growers closer- IE in livestock denser areas- generally value every stem of straw, quoting the delivered in merchant price, as a starting point.
Little bales are worse, as the 'bulk off field' price is somehow closely correlated to the 'safe barn stored individual April/May' price to the horsey wimmen.
It simply isn't worth the argument EVERY effing year.
I know there are exceptions, but my time is worth more than such sordid bickering.

I simply order X loads from a local merchant, and pay the going rate, never bicker, never complain unless it's been rained on.
Which is a WHOLE other discussion.....how come the grains have to be rushed back to the barn, even when I'm paying - as I do some years- nigh on the same for the fudging straw...which can be left outdoors?
It's not the merchants fault, but an attitude prevalent through the chain.
(We hand bed everything -for bovine behavioural reasons- and I've been hospitalised with farmers lung before now. I don't want mouldy straw)

 

[ImLost]

Patience, keeping a 7.5 tonne wagon, receiving everything inbound on hgvs 1/4 mile outside the yard gate.
ensure all new gear fits before purchase - tolerate derision when enquiring.
(Quite fancy pit silage, but have never met a forage wagon salesman who didn't first look blank, then pitying, then derisive. ALL say the wagons are too big. Fair enough...stick with the rubber band round baler then. Until last summer in Austria and South Tyrol, where I saw every size of pick-up wagon down to what would just about fit on a 110 chassis Defender.)

Bridges are 'mentioned' in rent negotiations.


Long experience has shown arable growers closer- IE in livestock denser areas- generally value every stem of straw, quoting the delivered in merchant price, as a starting point.
Little bales are worse, as the 'bulk off field' price is somehow closely correlated to the 'safe barn stored individual April/May' price to the horsey wimmen.
It simply isn't worth the argument EVERY effing year.
I know there are exceptions, but my time is worth more than such sordid bickering.

I simply order X loads from a local merchant, and pay the going rate, never bicker, never complain unless it's been rained on.
Which is a WHOLE other discussion.....how come the grains have to be rushed back to the barn, even when I'm paying - as I do some years- nigh on the same for the fudging straw...which can be left outdoors?
It's not the merchants fault, but an attitude prevalent through the chain.
(We hand bed everything -for bovine behavioural reasons- and I've been hospitalised with farmers lung before now. I don't want mouldy straw)

Have you thought about importing some of the smaller machinery you refer to?

 

[egbert]

Have you thought about importing some of the smaller machinery you refer to?

I've thought about it, but not for long.
I daresay the shopping mission might be a worthy excuse Mrs E might permit......maybe.

i am bemused that reps - when I've asked- don't make enquiries and come back with suggestions. It's often the same companies making the gear
But I have a strict rule about NOT begging people to take my money.

 

[shearerlad]

I’m not too bad
1 mile to the pub
2 miles to town (shops, fuel, vet, school)
35 miles from main machinery dealers
46 miles from abbitior and mart

but a shearing customer is 20 miles from anything!! Top of Glenlyon is getting to the upper end of the remote scale.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

It's a bugger when someone has local knowledge isn't it

Even worse when someone 18,000km away knows!!!