Most stressful,lambing or corn harvest flat out?

[Yale]

Lets pitch corn versus horn.

A bit of fun,which is the most demanding on staff?

I say lambing is walking sleep deprivation however I hate corn dust,especially barley,makes me itch something rotten.

 

[Bill dog]

Lets pitch corn versus horn.

A bit of fun,which is the most demanding on staff?

I say lambing is walking sleep deprivation however I hate corn dust,especially barley,makes me itch something rotten.

Barley awns in the socks
The devils work !

 

[bobk]

Animal work is 100 x more stressful than crops everytime

 

[Adeptandy]

I'd like the knowledge of stock to try, but it looks a lot harder then flat out corn harvest, you can always dry corn

 

[RhysT]

Selling bales to horse customers!

 

[David.]

Arable is a part time job; stock is every day.
I'd miss having animals, but if health or something became an issue arable would be much easier to cope with.

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

Arable is a part time job; stock is every day.
I'd miss having animals, but if health or something became an issue arable would be much easier to cope with.

Sheep and Arable are both part time.

 

[Banana Bar]

Done both for years, sheep have now gone.

 

[abitdaft]

When another life is in your hands, your responsibility and you feck it up, whether it be through ignorance, not being there on time, misjudging the situation or simply a case of it cannot live due to whatever is wrong with it is pretty stressful. There is a feeling of guilt that you got it wrong, even if you did all you could. Example- You have a lamb/calf that you know is going to die and yet you throw everything at that you can, it still dies, you knew it would at the start and you are still left feeling like it was your fault, does any arable farmer throw money at a crop they KNOW will die?

 

[David.]

Sheep and Arable are both part time.

But you can go on holiday for a week and nobody need look at your corn twice a day whilst you are gone.

 

[GTB]

Out in the wind, rain or snow vs sitting on your arse in an air con'd Fendt, wearing shades, bit of fluff on the passenger seat and speaking on the phone all day? I know where I'd rather be!

 

[yellowbelly]

Out in the wind, rain or snow vs sitting on your arse in an air con'd Fendt, wearing shades, bit of fluff on the passenger seat and speaking on the phone all day? I know where I'd rather be!

^^^this post concludes this thread

I think all it needs is the phrase "Quod erat demonstrandum"....(QED)

 

[exmoor dave]

Out in the wind, rain or snow vs sitting on your arse in an air con'd Fendt, wearing shades, bit of fluff on the passenger seat and speaking on the phone all day? I know where I'd rather be!

The big question is.....


Is the number of flashing beacons directly proportional to the standard of said bit of fluff on the passenger seat??

 

[Yale]

The big question is.....


Is the number of flashing beacons directly proportional to the standard of said bit of fluff on the passenger seat??

It’s known as the ‘instructor seat’.

It’s only many years later you realise when you have married said bit of fluff why it is called that.....

 

[4course]

Id have areal job getting my bit of fluff into the tractor now ,it was ok in the 70s when the old window less zetor was the only farm tractor with a passenger seat. but it was an all season job as we had both arable sheep and cattle back then oh happy days

 

[ARW]

I think it’s equal, how much stock work is there to be done through summer? Make a bit of hay, move a few sheep, spend a day at market, lead some straw in? It’s nowhere near to having a few hundred acres in front of you to drill in late October while your trying to spray, sell corn, cut hedges etc

 

[Gulli]

Out in the wind, rain or snow vs sitting on your arse in an air con'd Fendt, wearing shades, bit of fluff on the passenger seat and speaking on the phone all day? I know where I'd rather be!

Out in the wind rain and snow?

I'd pick livestock most days over a tractor

 

[Tim W]

Stress is what you make it ----

 

[Gator]

As to be lambing this year, had just about everything the weather and the sheep can think of to p1ss you off and can throw at you, as for corn harvest doesn't apply here so not stressed over that.....better thing to worry about

 

[yellow belly]

if it is stressfull there is no difference between lambing when it is not going well too cold and no grass or white out snowing or raining every day when you should be drilling corn or when hail is forecast a week before harvest or raining every day in august

but seeing a pair of new born lambs skipping about the field
or an field of wheat in full ear on a sunny july day is why we do it

currently waiting for ground to dry out to drill but also feel for all the sheep farmers a couple of weeks ago no grass and snow

whichever farming you do it relies on working with the weather the weather