Warburtons Contract

[ollie989898]

No because I believe that after heavily investing in infrastructure they are now turning profit.

So an activity cannot be a hobby if it actually turns a profit? Not sure I agree with that.

 

[ajd132]

So an activity cannot be a hobby if it actually turns a profit? Not sure I agree with that.

Well I suppose so!

 

[ollie989898]

Well I suppose so!

This brings into focus my wife's sewing hobby which strikes me as rather like the Dyson farming model. You invest about £2000 in a sewing machine and then spend a lot of time making quilts which are quite intricate and ornate meaning they often change hands for hundreds of pounds. Given the cost of materials and thread (couple of hundred quid at most), some may regard this as quite a profit. If she continues with this endeavour I will probably try to convince her to invest the proceeds into an anaerobic digester the main feedstock of which will be cat muck. Can't possibly lose.

 

[ajd132]

This brings into focus my wife's sewing hobby which strikes me as rather like the Dyson farming model. You invest about £2000 in a sewing machine and then spend a lot of time making quilts which are quite intricate and ornate meaning they often change hands for hundreds of pounds. Given the cost of materials and thread (couple of hundred quid at most), some may regard this as quite a profit. If she continues with this endeavour I will probably try to convince her to invest the proceeds into an anaerobic digester the main feedstock of which will be cat muck. Can't possibly lose.

The point I was trying to get at is that farmers all constantly encouraged to diversify in order to prop the income of a failing farm up. This seems wrong and pointless. Put a glamping pod up and spend the profit on more worthless sheep!

 

[ollie989898]

The point I was trying to get at is that farmers all constantly encouraged to diversify in order to prop the income of a failing farm up. This seems wrong and pointless. Put a glamping pod up and spend the profit on more worthless sheep!

I don't think many people can argue with that. I know a few people who have diversified and who actually enjoy their alternative ventures so much the farming is very much a sideline or something they do as a past time or for history's sake. Bit of a shame but few things stay the same forever.

 

[lloyd]

The point I was trying to get at is that farmers all constantly encouraged to diversify in order to prop the income of a failing farm up. This seems wrong and pointless. Put a glamping pod up and spend the profit on more worthless sheep!

Why are sheep worthless ?
A decent fat lamb was worth nearly as much as a ton of barley last week.
Perhaps you should be investing in glamping pods instead of growing lots of spring barley

 

[lloyd]

This brings into focus my wife's sewing hobby which strikes me as rather like the Dyson farming model. You invest about £2000 in a sewing machine and then spend a lot of time making quilts which are quite intricate and ornate meaning they often change hands for hundreds of pounds. Given the cost of materials and thread (couple of hundred quid at most), some may regard this as quite a profit. If she continues with this endeavour I will probably try to convince her to invest the proceeds into an anaerobic digester the main feedstock of which will be cat muck. Can't possibly lose.

Where there is muck there is money especially if you have pedigree cats.

 

[ajd132]

Why are sheep worthless ?
A decent fat lamb was worth nearly as much as a ton of barley last week.
Perhaps you should be investing in glamping pods instead of growing lots of spring barley

It was just an example of what is happening in some places. I would definitely invest in glamping pods, I wouldn’t use the money to prop up growing spring barley though as that profitable by itself!

 

[lloyd]

It was just an example of what is happening in some places. I would definitely invest in glamping pods, I wouldn’t use the money to prop up growing spring barley though as that profitable by itself!

I know what you meant but sheep have not been the poor man's relation
the last few years that's why it's important the export market remains .
Spring barley is ok and we normaly get decent yields but unless you've
managed to get a favourable malting contract Its not going to
let you take early retirement.

 

[ajd132]

I know what you meant but sheep have not been the poor man's relation
the last few years that's why it's important the export market remains .
Spring barley is ok and we normaly get decent yields but unless you've
managed to get a favourable malting contract Its not going to
let you take early retirement.

We are very close to to quite a few malsters such as boortmalt. Camgrain is very good at sorting spring barley out and supplying them. No worries about rejections or ergot etc

 

[lloyd]

We are very close to to quite a few malsters such as boortmalt. Camgrain is very good at sorting spring barley out and supplying them. No worries about rejections or ergot etc

That sounds very helpful.
Openfields were paying £125-130t six months ago upto 1.85N around here.
Sat on it now going for a fiver more as feed

 

[SilliamWhale]

As farmers we should be providing exact spec to our processors. We would send back sh!t seed, fert or Machinery. Excellence is expected.

What about when you buy dodgy seed spuds?

 

[bobk]

That sounds very helpful.
Openreach were paying £125-130t six months ago upto 1.85N around here.
Sat on it now going for a fiver more as feed

Have they diversified ?

 

[lloyd]

Have they diversified ?

We all slip up sometimes

 

[ajd132]

What about when you buy dodgy seed spuds?

I have no idea about that trade so cannot comment

 

[ajd132]

That sounds very helpful.
Openfields were paying £125-130t six months ago upto 1.85N around here.
Sat on it now going for a fiver more as feed

It takes all the worry out of growing and storing spring barley.

 

[bobk]

We all slip up sometimes

Not sure there would be big queue to sell anything to openreach .

 

[lloyd]

Not sure there would be big queue to sell anything to openreach .

If Frontier took over them we would probably be clapping.

 

[Lincsman]

Enterprises should stand on their own. Spending money from other enterprises to subsidise farming is a hobby.

Unless you can get more money for a world priced commodity you cant change much, wheat will probably do in the next 35 years...what it has for the last 35 Years... average £150/tonne