So much for extended grazing. The Spring deluge.

Bob the beef

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Scot Borders
Do they come round and tell you what you have to do ?
We have an annual visit from our “property manager” who is a complete waste of space, but otherwise no. We know what we want to provide for our guests and endeavour to do that. As @Hilly said though, there are some great interesting people and some total w.....s. Had to kick a couple out of a hot tub this afternoon as they were about to get out of hand, but on the whole not too much bother
 

Hilly

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We have an annual visit from our “property manager” who is a complete waste of space, but otherwise no. We know what we want to provide for our guests and endeavour to do that. As @Hilly said though, there are some great interesting people and some total w.....s. Had to kick a couple out of a hot tub this afternoon as they were about to get out of hand, but on the whole not too much bother
What were they doing in the hot tub ?
 

Hilly

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We had three let out as Holliday cottages and yes there’s good and bad
Just have them on full time tenancies now
Im
Fortunate my Mrs takes on the roll as cleaner for change overs etc , so I pay her and the whole lot stays with us 😂 if I had to pay outside cleaners and the hassles associated I’d rent it out as well , I did threaten to burn it down a few times when the council doubled the council tax while empty for a while 😂 and then when rates were threatend but small bussiness relief covers that 😂 , to be fair when it’s busy it’s a fair money spinner .
 
Im
Fortunate my Mrs takes on the roll as cleaner for change overs etc , so I pay her and the whole lot stays with us 😂 if I had to pay outside cleaners and the hassles associated I’d rent it out as well , I did threaten to burn it down a few times when the council doubled the council tax while empty for a while 😂 and then when rates were threatend but small bussiness relief covers that 😂 , to be fair when it’s busy it’s a fair money spinner .
Yes father threatened that years ago. We had a few good years at it but most of the local amenities closed and a few more Holliday cottages sprang up in the area. My Mrs did it all too but as the work increased here and some of the old folks in the family started to fail we decided just to rent them out
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
are you sure ? BBC forecast for here wet sun, mon then dry til 4th of June and the rain normally bypasses the coast and drops its self here!
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Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
Can’t say I blame him , I get loads of really nice people but also get my share of total toss pots as well, dealing with public is a tale of to halves I find either absolute pleasure meet great interesting people or total opposite .. 😂
There were far more tosspots than usual in this area last year, probably because they couldn't go to their usual Benidorm or worse. Whole families were shoplifting according to local shopkeepers and it was the worse experience they ever had. They were just swamped by thieving abusive scum. Probably be the same this year.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
we missed most of the rain for the last 3 summers, and were desperate for rain this spring, we have had some really good soakings, but thankfully, the really heavy continuous rain, has followed last summers practice, and missed us, we are a bit wet, but juggling fields, kept pretty 'clean', no last years silage, hay, just a bit of straw left, have got some bales from earlier this year, but they are for emergency use only. Reckon the grass is about 7/8 days late heading, thankfully,
h/rye and vetches looking good.
 

Cowcorn

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Mixed Farmer
we missed most of the rain for the last 3 summers, and were desperate for rain this spring, we have had some really good soakings, but thankfully, the really heavy continuous rain, has followed last summers practice, and missed us, we are a bit wet, but juggling fields, kept pretty 'clean', no last years silage, hay, just a bit of straw left, have got some bales from earlier this year, but they are for emergency use only. Reckon the grass is about 7/8 days late heading, thankfully,
h/rye and vetches looking good.
Well the ball has to hop in your favour sometime !! Hopefully you will have enough without getting washed out .
The old people always advised to "keep a wad of hay till the first of May " but unfortunately the didnt tell us what to do after that
Drought or flood and no fodder reserves is not a nice place to be .
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
Well the ball has to hop in your favour sometime !! Hopefully you will have enough without getting washed out .
The old people always advised to "keep a wad of hay till the first of May " but unfortunately the didnt tell us what to do after that
Drought or flood and no fodder reserves is not a nice place to be .
hay ? been buying that for 3yrs ! But we have been blessed this spring, had enough rain, but the real storms missed, and being a dry farm, we haven't made much mess. 270 tons of hay bought since spring last year, 200 maize, some pit silage, and bales, plus used a lot more conc, and outwintered the spr calvers/hfrs on rape/kale. And seriously altered the way we farm. We are looking to make more silage now, than last yrs total, and 2nd cut is assured, cousin always tells me, the wheel always turns full circle.
 

Devon Gurfallo

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Mixed Farmer
My holiday let is dead total dead I have one booking this year and that’s a carry over from last year .
I would speak to you booking company and make sure your still on there website. I'm in a different area but most place around year are fully booked from June till October.
 

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