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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 6441540" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>EDIT that bloody strikethrough text strikes again. I wish I knew how to reverse it or even which keystrokes causes it in the first place. It doesn't appear as I compose a message, but only when it is posted. Anyhow read the words of wisdom regardless, as it is not meant to have a line through the middle.</p><p></p><p>Many farms cannot actually afford the necessary quantity or quality of labour that they really do need to do the best quality job that they should do. Far too much corner-cutting, running around ragged and being overworked with no time away from the job or enough quality time with families. The job, certainly on livestock and mixed farms is far too intense with too little return. Anyone worth their salt is actually worth at least £25k a year these days and employing two to allow cover for days off and some holidays costs as much as the net profit on many such farms. So they only employ casual labour and contractors at peak times instead. Gates get tied up with string. Too many cows get lame. The paperwork isn't done. Budgeting isn't done. Debudding calves gets missed and so does routine worming and vaccinating and general maintenance. The family suffer. The farmer becomes insulated and knows nothing about the world situation more than the man on the moon. He becomes a complete bore. Only cow and calf, cow and calf, sheep and lamb occupy his every waking moment. Either until a family breakdown or a mental one.</p><p></p><p>The answer? More off-farm social interaction. Higher income level. Possibly a change of career with the liquidation of some capital assets to be traded for a better life. Something has to happen if the job cannot pay needed labour and provide a good living to the farmer. <s> Something has to change.</s></p><p><s></s></p><p><s>Anyone who thinks things are going to change for the better by doing nothing, whatever happens politically, are in cloud-cuckoo land. The farmer is, or should be the master of his own destiny, not allowing the farm to be a masterful burden on him or his family. Therein lies the root of much of the resentment featured by a significant group of contributors to this forum who claim to have been so hard-done-by for the last 40 years, oblivious to the fact that other farmers around them have and continue to thrive.</s></p><p><s></s></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 6441540, member: 718"] EDIT that bloody strikethrough text strikes again. I wish I knew how to reverse it or even which keystrokes causes it in the first place. It doesn't appear as I compose a message, but only when it is posted. Anyhow read the words of wisdom regardless, as it is not meant to have a line through the middle. Many farms cannot actually afford the necessary quantity or quality of labour that they really do need to do the best quality job that they should do. Far too much corner-cutting, running around ragged and being overworked with no time away from the job or enough quality time with families. The job, certainly on livestock and mixed farms is far too intense with too little return. Anyone worth their salt is actually worth at least £25k a year these days and employing two to allow cover for days off and some holidays costs as much as the net profit on many such farms. So they only employ casual labour and contractors at peak times instead. Gates get tied up with string. Too many cows get lame. The paperwork isn't done. Budgeting isn't done. Debudding calves gets missed and so does routine worming and vaccinating and general maintenance. The family suffer. The farmer becomes insulated and knows nothing about the world situation more than the man on the moon. He becomes a complete bore. Only cow and calf, cow and calf, sheep and lamb occupy his every waking moment. Either until a family breakdown or a mental one. The answer? More off-farm social interaction. Higher income level. Possibly a change of career with the liquidation of some capital assets to be traded for a better life. Something has to happen if the job cannot pay needed labour and provide a good living to the farmer. [S] Something has to change. Anyone who thinks things are going to change for the better by doing nothing, whatever happens politically, are in cloud-cuckoo land. The farmer is, or should be the master of his own destiny, not allowing the farm to be a masterful burden on him or his family. Therein lies the root of much of the resentment featured by a significant group of contributors to this forum who claim to have been so hard-done-by for the last 40 years, oblivious to the fact that other farmers around them have and continue to thrive. [/S] [/QUOTE]
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