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The on-going up hill battle that is agriculture.....
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<blockquote data-quote="Spud" data-source="post: 7548912" data-attributes="member: 78"><p>It's all well and good saying get closer to the customer, but it's not possible to be all things to everybody. Too many things to focus on reduces the attention to detail, standards slip, so greater scale is required to justify more people to do things properly, then corporate requirements and policy take hold etc etc. </p><p></p><p>A wise man told me many years ago "Do what you do best, and do it better" Good advice. As is 'If it doesn't work, change it'; and 'It won't fix itself' Madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results.</p><p></p><p>Personally the idea of a one man band doesn't appeal. If in 20yrs time this farm is a 21/2 man farm, I want to be the half a man, not the silly old bugger struggling on 85hrs a week scrabbling about for casual labour to work knackered kit.</p><p>That said, I have little ambition to farm half of Yorkshire, and be on the treadmill of big shiny. Its a funny thing is scale - I'm all for growing my business, but don't want the baby turning into a monster. </p><p></p><p>I'm right with the OP on the cost of tackle - 25yrs ago we bought tractors new and traded them at 4yo. Now we're buying them at 2-3yrs old and keeping them 5yrs/til reliability declines.</p><p></p><p>The staff thing is a difficult one. Having been through a period like the op describes a while back, I appreciate a more settled team now. Contracting (and spud growing) is always going to demand big hours at times, some love it, some hate it. Some people stay in jobs a long time, some will always move on after a couple of years, we're all different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spud, post: 7548912, member: 78"] It's all well and good saying get closer to the customer, but it's not possible to be all things to everybody. Too many things to focus on reduces the attention to detail, standards slip, so greater scale is required to justify more people to do things properly, then corporate requirements and policy take hold etc etc. A wise man told me many years ago "Do what you do best, and do it better" Good advice. As is 'If it doesn't work, change it'; and 'It won't fix itself' Madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Personally the idea of a one man band doesn't appeal. If in 20yrs time this farm is a 21/2 man farm, I want to be the half a man, not the silly old bugger struggling on 85hrs a week scrabbling about for casual labour to work knackered kit. That said, I have little ambition to farm half of Yorkshire, and be on the treadmill of big shiny. Its a funny thing is scale - I'm all for growing my business, but don't want the baby turning into a monster. I'm right with the OP on the cost of tackle - 25yrs ago we bought tractors new and traded them at 4yo. Now we're buying them at 2-3yrs old and keeping them 5yrs/til reliability declines. The staff thing is a difficult one. Having been through a period like the op describes a while back, I appreciate a more settled team now. Contracting (and spud growing) is always going to demand big hours at times, some love it, some hate it. Some people stay in jobs a long time, some will always move on after a couple of years, we're all different. [/QUOTE]
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