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The on-going up hill battle that is agriculture.....
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7553345" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I’ve said it before. The price of wheat is better and that’s welcome (while it lasts) but relative to the rise in input costs and machinery it just isn’t keeping pace. It’s also more difficult to grow having lost OSR as the break.</p><p>I’d say machinery prices have quadrupled over the last 20 years but wheat certainly hasn’t. There is this ever narrowing differential between commodity prices and cost of production. Shrinking profits in other words, where either massive scale or a gradual rundown to retirement is the only way forward. I’m not too despondent about it as we have always ducked and dived on a small farm to keep going and will continue to do so. But if we had to pay people and if we had enough land to wear machinery out quickly then I’d be concerned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7553345, member: 2119"] I’ve said it before. The price of wheat is better and that’s welcome (while it lasts) but relative to the rise in input costs and machinery it just isn’t keeping pace. It’s also more difficult to grow having lost OSR as the break. I’d say machinery prices have quadrupled over the last 20 years but wheat certainly hasn’t. There is this ever narrowing differential between commodity prices and cost of production. Shrinking profits in other words, where either massive scale or a gradual rundown to retirement is the only way forward. I’m not too despondent about it as we have always ducked and dived on a small farm to keep going and will continue to do so. But if we had to pay people and if we had enough land to wear machinery out quickly then I’d be concerned. [/QUOTE]
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