Machinery dealers/manufactures, have they lost touch with farming reality?

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
You ain't seen machines work until you've seen them on a livestock farm. Started every day at 4am etc. Same work, day in, day out. It's where machines earn their crust, I can tell you. If there is any man on this forum who should be able to justify a brand new Fendt, loader, shovel, anything, it will be a dairy farmer. Just feeding your cows 4 hours late can get very very costly. You need machines that are reliable and going to work every day. A week of no wheels turning on an arable farm? Nothing by comparison.
Saw a post on SM of a scraper tractor swapped in after 2 years with 4000 hours on the clock!
 

redsloe

Member
Location
Cornwall
I think Clive should give it a go. He'd love the challenge and all that money. :bag:
Oh, I expect he has the money, just rather spend it on a Range Rover for himself than a tractor for an employee.
Each to their own but I spend more time on the bog than in a car so I don't see the point in having a nice car. A nice tractor on the other hand.....👌
 

Cowabunga

Member
Location
Ceredigion,Wales
Oh, I expect he has the money, just rather spend it on a Range Rover for himself than a tractor for an employee.
Each to their own but I spend more time on the bog than in a car so I don't see the point in having a nice car. A nice tractor on the other hand.....👌
I meant to give dairy farming a go. That would eat up a few million of his fortune and keep him occupied somewhat and educate him on critical priorities. At the least it would keep him out of mischief.
 
do own your farm ?

if just a farmer and not a landowner there must be a LOT more money in milk than cereals ?

i need my tractors to be reliable but there is no way its viable to swap them at 2k hours ........ they do more hours per year than you 526 did so i guess we depend on them more ?
cereals have little barrier to entry any farmer can grow them or sell them hence why theres very little in it, dairy is all about the contracts as ive discovered, those lucky enough to be in an area where they can get a cop milk contract are making serious money, 600-1000/cow NET profit depending on how efficient they are
 

marco

Member
do own your farm ?

if just a farmer and not a landowner there must be a LOT more money in milk than cereals ?

i need my tractors to be reliable but there is no way its viable to swap them at 2k hours ........ they do more hours per year than you 526 did so i guess we depend on them more ?
If you had a tractor that kept breaking down, different problems each time. Down for a week or two. Would you honestly stick with it and proclaim to all that the shitbox is going to stay till 10,000 hours?
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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