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The Disappearance of the All Round Farmer
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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 4390126" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>There's a reason people specialise, its more efficient. If you have arable crops, you need arable kit, and arable buildings. If you have livestock you need livestock kit and livestock buildings. On a small to medium sized farm that means you need double the amount of kit (and maintain and replace it) to farm an area that you could do with half as much kit if you went for just arable or just livestock.</p><p></p><p>My father used to grow a field or two of barley to mill for his stock, he ran an old Ransomes combine to cut it. Every year he'd spend ages getting the thing ready to use, and more time fixing it when it broke down, in the end he realised it was cheaper (and a lot less hassle) to buy grain in from an arable neighbour. Specialisation really is cheaper.</p><p></p><p>(As an aside the Ransomes combine sat in the yard for years, one day a chap turned up having seen it from the road asking if he could buy it for export, for parts. Bits of it ended up going to Timbuctoo in Africa where they were still using them to harvest something or other. The front wheels I still have, my father fitted the axle to a Kidd rotaspreader, in what could have been the first every large wheeled spreader, at the time (70s) they all had small wheels that sank into the mud).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 4390126, member: 818"] There's a reason people specialise, its more efficient. If you have arable crops, you need arable kit, and arable buildings. If you have livestock you need livestock kit and livestock buildings. On a small to medium sized farm that means you need double the amount of kit (and maintain and replace it) to farm an area that you could do with half as much kit if you went for just arable or just livestock. My father used to grow a field or two of barley to mill for his stock, he ran an old Ransomes combine to cut it. Every year he'd spend ages getting the thing ready to use, and more time fixing it when it broke down, in the end he realised it was cheaper (and a lot less hassle) to buy grain in from an arable neighbour. Specialisation really is cheaper. (As an aside the Ransomes combine sat in the yard for years, one day a chap turned up having seen it from the road asking if he could buy it for export, for parts. Bits of it ended up going to Timbuctoo in Africa where they were still using them to harvest something or other. The front wheels I still have, my father fitted the axle to a Kidd rotaspreader, in what could have been the first every large wheeled spreader, at the time (70s) they all had small wheels that sank into the mud). [/QUOTE]
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