This Farming Life

Dave6170

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I’m just in awe of livestock farmers who can earn a living in a place where the grass doesn’t grow from October- May and is often snow covered for 4-5 months a year.

I know what our livestock accounts look like and while we’re currently profitable it wouldn’t take much for things to go wrong.
I took part in a small sac project with 6 other farmers in my area. They looked at our performance, livestock and financial and we were better than the national average. Which suprised us all.
 
Location
southwest
At least Stevie hasn't just carried on farming the same way his forefathers did-he's been innovative and forward thinking. And I bet he's created lots of jobs were there weren't many. More power to him I say!

All the series have concentrated on innovators though-the solicitor flogging Scottish mutton around London out of his Trooper, the pedigree breeders and the dairy farm retailing milk etc.

They are all a good advert for farming, but lets not give the viewers the idea that every farmer can sell bulls for £10k or that every dairy farmer can sell all his milk door-to-door.
 

Muck Spreader

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin
But they said last night that the Croft hadn't been worked for 30 years, so they walked in with no facilities or infrastructure to handle stock. I think they said that the plan was to bring on cows and sheep later in the year when they were ready for them .

What they're doing might be more of a representation of start up farmers than you think.

I also think people like this are excellent promoters of farming to the general public and a great counter to the current vegan fad. Far better than some dyed in the wool farmer trying to justify the survival of his 2000 acre unit, which the public often see as more like whinging aristocracy.
 
I also think people like this are excellent promoters of farming to the general public and a great counter to the current vegan fad. Far better than some dyed in the wool farmer trying to justify the survival of his 2000 acre unit, which the public often see as more like whinging aristocracy.
Yes. Before you can ever explain yourself to an audience, you have to be able to talk to them on their own level, and be articulate enough to get it over.

I thought they were really good, and were the sort of people that many could identify with

Often I'll watch farmers , and I'd include supposed farming leaders in this, talk about something from the industry on telly, and wonder if the audience will ever have a clue what they're on about.
 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
when pig prices are low someone with half a dozen rare breed pigs that sell them direct in to some posh eatery may well be making money where the person with a few thousand may well be losing it, now who is the proper farmer and who is the hobbyist
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
when pig prices are low someone with half a dozen rare breed pigs that sell them direct in to some posh eatery may well be making money where the person with a few thousand may well be losing it, now who is the proper farmer and who is the hobbyist

The hobbyist will still be a hobbyist and will never feed the nation and will probably struggle to consistently supply the one small eatery. Something like 75% or more of the food we produce in the UK is grown by only 25% of farmers.
 

Hilly

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The hobbyist will still be a hobbyist and will never feed the nation and will probably struggle to consistently supply the one small eatery. Something like 75% or more of the food we produce in the UK is grown by only 25% of farmers.
Feeding the nation pish is the propaganda farming has been fed for generations and is one of the underlying problems of the industry , more for less is a sh!t model.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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