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<blockquote data-quote="Bill the Bass" data-source="post: 7486888" data-attributes="member: 1559"><p>I have worked off farm since foot and mouth 2001. It’s easy when your young and single and trying to build things up. I only work four days off Farm now, it’s getting harder with a young family as, rightly so they want me on the weekends when I would usually ‘catch up on farm’.</p><p></p><p>I always think with the right stock and if you are well organised you can run a fair few breeding stock, I am lucky as dad can keep an eye on things but at nearly 80 it’s a lot to ask if him - he finds the responsibility of calving hard especially as I don’t take death in stock well.</p><p></p><p>Things I am starting to consider are reducing numbers a bit; should we consider polled bulls - 1 less job; packing in cows all together, buying some more property with the funds released and do B & B cattle with the sheds - but that would be very boring.</p><p></p><p>You need a very big farm with low debt (or a sh!t standard of life) to drive all your income from stock I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill the Bass, post: 7486888, member: 1559"] I have worked off farm since foot and mouth 2001. It’s easy when your young and single and trying to build things up. I only work four days off Farm now, it’s getting harder with a young family as, rightly so they want me on the weekends when I would usually ‘catch up on farm’. I always think with the right stock and if you are well organised you can run a fair few breeding stock, I am lucky as dad can keep an eye on things but at nearly 80 it’s a lot to ask if him - he finds the responsibility of calving hard especially as I don’t take death in stock well. Things I am starting to consider are reducing numbers a bit; should we consider polled bulls - 1 less job; packing in cows all together, buying some more property with the funds released and do B & B cattle with the sheds - but that would be very boring. You need a very big farm with low debt (or a sh!t standard of life) to drive all your income from stock I think. [/QUOTE]
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