Slim pickings!

[Fools Gold]

Milk price ain’t very exciting unless you have an aligned contact or are with Arla, costs of inputs seem to be rising by the day (feed, fert, consumables, silage wrap, machinery, building supplies etc) and it seems that we are being lined up to pretty soon take a hammering in the climate change proposals........
But does anyone else feel that a total lack of labour might be the thing that finishes the job for many producers? I know that staff availability can be very area specific, and debates rage about working hours and days off etc but what happens when you advertise a job several times with flexibility in what your looking for and get no response, not even from a numpty!
is a lack of staff the new milk quota?

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Milk price ain’t very exciting unless you have an aligned contact or are with Arla, costs of inputs seem to be rising by the day (feed, fert, consumables, silage wrap, machinery, building supplies etc) and it seems that we are being lined up to pretty soon take a hammering in the climate change proposals........
But does anyone else feel that a total lack of labour might be the thing that finishes the job for many producers? I know that staff availability can be very area specific, and debates rage about working hours and days off etc but what happens when you advertise a job several times with flexibility in what your looking for and get no response, not even from a numpty!
is a lack of staff the new milk quota?

Government giving people too much money and fewer young people working. How it goes in my area

 

[lazy farmer]

Not here.

 

[Beef farmer]

Not here.

Whos post is not here?

 

[lazy farmer]

Ha. No labour issues around here.

 

[pappuller]

Ha. No labour issues around here.

Tory stronghold in the sacred Vale?

 

[lazy farmer]

Tory stronghold in the sacred Vale?

Almost a one party state unfortunately

 

[jackrussell101]

Not here.

You're lucky

 

[Flatlander]

This side of the pond you’ll be lucky to get anyone willing to get their hands dirty unless your promising a fortune. The oil fields took any one with a work ethic with very high paying jobs. Now that’s slowed down they come home but still expect 50$ an hour to drive your new tractor into the ground. Sister is still in the uk milking cows and is dedicated beyond belief. She’d rather milk cows than go on holiday and get job offers often. Used to milk her own but fell fowl of can’t do it all all the time and burnt out. Now she is happier knowing someone else is taking care of everything else leaving her to milk and rear the young stock.