I hate weekends!

[Bury the Trash]

Sm

Small fields? My average is under 5acre. Ideal size for mob grazing on a normal year

Yep, and all the gateways that go with them.
my ambition is (on going) to fence both sides of the hedges , hasn't been helped by rotten stakes and strainers, but new ideas and approach is begining to help. turn the corner .
river frontage is another, but thats expected to wash away every now and then, got to try and keep that river running as well i suppose

 

[Al R]

Yep, and all the gateways that go with them.
my ambition is (on going) to fence both sides of the hedges , hasn't been helped by rotten stakes and strainers, but new ideas and approach is begining to help. turn the corner .
river frontage is another, but thats expected to wash away every now and then, got to try and keep that river running as well i suppose

Almost all centre of the hedge here thankfully so half the fencing.

 

[neilo]

Yep, and all the gateways that go with them.
my ambition is (on going) to fence both sides of the hedges , hasn't been helped by rotten stakes and strainers, but new ideas and approach is begining to help. turn the corner .
river frontage is another, but thats expected to wash away every now and then, got to try and keep that river running as well i suppose

Have you started timing the netting back to the hedge with bale string now?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Almost all centre of the hedge here thankfully so half the fencing.

several of ours are 4metes or so wide ,ditches either side doesn't help, they need cleaning out every few yrs as well.
current battle is keeping stock from crossing the river with its unseasonably low water, electric is the way there i think, me and the mrs been down driving ewes back across this avo as it happens.,
..... trouble is theres more and greener grass tother side

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Yep, and all the gateways that go with them.
my ambition is (on going) to fence both sides of the hedges , hasn't been helped by rotten stakes and strainers, but new ideas and approach is begining to help. turn the corner .
river frontage is another, but thats expected to wash away every now and then, got to try and keep that river running as well i suppose

I fenced a ditch with a permanent 3 wire electric fence, damn it was quick and easy

 

[Bob the beef]

How are your issues now?

Got to keep taking the pills

 

[CopperBeech]

As someone who has zero chance of ever buying a viable farm, despite being quite good at farming and profitable, due to the nature of taxation laws, the subsidy system and archaic nature of lambdowner ship, and has to run a farming enterprise with thousands of stock on nothing more permanent than a six month grazing licence........ I find it difficult in anyway to feel sorry for someone who own a farm.

 

[Agrivator]

One of my sisters used to be a member of a rambling group and she left for just that reason. What's the point in going for a walk in the country and not seeing anything?

You might be the one who was dressed in hand-me-down clothes as a lad.

The trouble was: you had three older sisters.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

As someone who has zero chance of ever buying a viable farm, despite being quite good at farming and profitable, due to the nature of taxation laws, the subsidy system and archaic nature of lambdowner ship, and has to run a farming enterprise with thousands of stock on nothing more permanent than a six month grazing licence........ I find it difficult in anyway to feel sorry for someone who own a farm.

There are those who have done what you're saying you can't.

 

[pgk]

There are those who have done what you're saying you can't.

Love to know how, mine came from money earnt outside farming.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Love to know how, mine came from money earnt outside farming.

"I never said it was easy"

 

[unlacedgecko]

"I never said it was easy"

The irony being the source of that quote inherited land

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

As someone who has zero chance of ever buying a viable farm, despite being quite good at farming and profitable, due to the nature of taxation laws, the subsidy system and archaic nature of lambdowner ship, and has to run a farming enterprise with thousands of stock on nothing more permanent than a six month grazing licence........ I find it difficult in anyway to feel sorry for someone who own a farm.

You don't know what you're talking about, your only a boy and you've no idea what life has ìnstore for you, you'll get there.

 

[CopperBeech]

There are those who have done what you're saying you can't.

Of course there are, but I would imagine that number will increasingly shrink going forward. Most farms here go for well above the asking price in a “I will pay whatever it takes to have it” scenario, and that will spread ever wider. Sad but true.

 

[CopperBeech]

You don't know what you're talking about, your only a boy and you've no idea what life has ìnstore for you, you'll get there.

Trust me, I have some idea. But I sincerely hope you are correct in your last statement!

 

[TripleSix]

As someone who has zero chance of ever buying a viable farm, despite being quite good at farming and profitable, due to the nature of taxation laws, the subsidy system and archaic nature of lambdowner ship, and has to run a farming enterprise with thousands of stock on nothing more permanent than a six month grazing licence........ I find it difficult in anyway to feel sorry for someone who own a farm.

What's really galling is relations had a very nice farm, productive land, loads of sheds, all owned outright.

Couldn't manage to make any money and have sold up.

We rent, the rent money absorbs all the sub money but we still manage to make ends meet!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

What's really galling is relations had a very nice farm, productive land, loads of sheds, all owned outright.

Couldn't manage to make any money and have sold up.

We rent, the rent money absorbs all the sub money but we still manage to make ends meet!

I can't remember where, but I was on a farming connect course and the course leader said something like " tenant farmers are always the most efficient"

 

[Estate fencing.]

I can't remember where, but I was on a farming connect course and the course leader said something like " tenant farmers are always the most efficient"

We have to be. Either sink of swim with tenant farming, we haven’t got the farm grandad bought to fall back on.

 

[pgk]

What's really galling is relations had a very nice farm, productive land, loads of sheds, all owned outright.

Couldn't manage to make any money and have sold up.

We rent, the rent money absorbs all the sub money but we still manage to make ends meet!

Presumably landlords will reduce rent in line with bps reduction over the next few years?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Presumably landlords will reduce rent in line with bps reduction over the next few years?

I wonder has that started to happen with commercial properties yet? As Covid I think will be the final nail in a lot of the high street shops, and I think our councils have put a lot of their money (our money) into shopping centres too