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Obviously a temp job leading up to Xmas, but this is what other industries are offering. How will livestock ag compete?
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Obviously a temp job leading up to Xmas, but this is what other industries are offering. How will livestock ag compete?
Move into the 21st century.
Obviously a temp job leading up to Xmas, but this is what other industries are offering. How will livestock ag compete?
I agree entirely. But how will livestock ag pay that labour and then retain economically viable?Move into the 21st century.
Agri undervalues labour so much, and then moans about not being able to attract or keep people. You’ve just got to read threads on here and Facebook regarding lambing labour etc to see the attitude of people
@unlacedgecko ’s FB post being one of them I had a few people send that to meMove into the 21st century.
Agri undervalues labour so much, and then moans about not being able to attract or keep people. You’ve just got to read threads on here and Facebook regarding lambing labour etc to see the attitude of people
That’s why we buy machines, job won’t stand lots of paid labour. Machines don’t want holidays, paternity, maternity, sick pay, days off. Then folk moan there’s no work in agriculture! We’ve been pushed down the mechanisation route since the war!!Move into the 21st century.
Agri undervalues labour so much, and then moans about not being able to attract or keep people. You’ve just got to read threads on here and Facebook regarding lambing labour etc to see the attitude of people
Move into the 21st century.
Agri undervalues labour so much, and then moans about not being able to attract or keep people. You’ve just got to read threads on here and Facebook regarding lambing labour etc to see the attitude of people
The average is well below that…lambs around 155 last week around here ,sure that could pay a wage ?
I'm very shy and retiring on Facebook.Aren’t most of those Facebook posts started by Unlacedgecko as well?
No undervaluing of labour there. I was making it clear in my own unique style that I wanted a professional and experienced contractor with trained dogs, rather than someone who's watched lambing live and fancies a go.@unlacedgecko ’s FB post being one of them I had a few people send that to me
I thought the post was perfect to be fair… I wish I’d put a similar post last year when I hired my lambing staff… she got a sharp awakening from what she’s seen as lambing on Instagram that’s for sureNo undervaluing of labour there. I was making it clear in my own unique style that I wanted a professional and experienced contractor with trained dogs, rather than someone who's watched lambing live and fancies a go.
Such contractors were invited to pm me with their rates. I put the onus on them to value their labour.
I've often said I love the lifestyle that farming gives me, even when the weather's at its worst, but if it was £26 an hour long term it might not matter how crap and repetitive it was ...Hang on ...... isn’t this one isolated short term contract working in a warehouse doing crap repetitive sh!t.
If £26 an hour becomes the standard wage for any basic jobs there are a lot more industry’s ahead of ag that are going to sh*t themselves.