What would it take.

TB is a massive risk to cattle farmers and especially ones on the cusp of retiring. Cowfarmer Dan has just lost about 45 cows to it I think. He's also under movement restriction until tests are clear of course. I know of farmers that have been locked down for over a decade.
Oh , I totally agree , although we have been in a tb cull area for a while and went clear again yesterday. What a relief!!!
So many ball and chains already-keep smiling everyone .:geek:
Some really cheery comments on this thread despite all the gloom :cool:
 

Oldmacdonald

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Scotland
1. People with City property and cash

2. who want a paradise in the country.

3. See 1.


It helps if the farm is by the coast with leisure and development potential, has a council road with great access not a mile from a main trunk route. Has stunning views across the bay. Not too many acres and not too few. Ultra fast broadband. Nicely maintained hedges. Nice big, but not too big [four bedroom, two bathrooms, living room, parlour, dining room, utility room, cellar, modern kitchen, fire escape from upstairs, central heating, insulated loft. Garage for a nice BMW and Range Rover. Nicely maintained hedges. Room for helipad.
Great potential to rent some land out and hold events and parties on really idillic pastures with bay views. Quiet beach with access to launch a fair size boat.


By shear coincidence, that sounds remarkably like my farm.😸 Any takers? Sell with or without stock and machinery. Make a sensible offer.

If I was serious, and I really could be tempted, the time is probably right for me. I have no intention of investing huge amounts of money into expanding cattle facilities as 1. I am too old now. 2. I have no successor that is interested.

So why aren't you calling the estate agents today?
 
Much harder but ... so last Monday here was a holiday, well into Sunday night out in the field a cow couldn’t calve herself, we finally got it out, dead, after midnight; then she prolapsed 🙄. So I was waiting at 1 am on a holiday Monday morning for the vet to come out and put her insides back inside looking at a dead calf. Cow also didn’t get up for four days.
Veg and cereals didn’t give quite such delights😂
Mind, it wasn’t raining👍
I can raise you that for this years calving but I don’t really want to relive it typing it up. However it did result in 2 dead génisse and a dead calf in the space of one vets visit in the middle of the night, at least my annual crisis is hopefully over and it was indoors.
 
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holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer
I’d stop farming tommorrow and my life would improve dramatically
Rent the farm out/contract arrangement etc so someone else dealt with RT and all the rules
But my staff would lose their jobs and homes which would become holiday cottages
And the local economy would suffer to the tune of £100,000+ with me not buying the services of local mechanic, local diesel, local rat man etc

I’d love to stop
Wouldn’t need any Govt incentive
Would any of them do the same for you?
 

Flatlander

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
That’s twice the size of my acreage . Looks like it’s you guys that should be planting trees/hedges to save the planet , not us lot with average field size of 15 acres .😀
Closer to the south end by the river are trees. Around most farmsteads are treed pretty heavily. Go east 20 miles and you’d be pushed to tell the difference between Canada and the flatter parts of the uk. Go an hour and the trees are so dense that walking between them is impossible. Vast areas of Canada are tress.
 

czechmate

Member
Mixed Farmer
I am struggling to make my days long enough at the moment... with my obsession for examining emerging crops🙄


Mind you, it’s not such a bad obsession. I was looking so hard for slugs early on that I found this drill width with no plants. I had knocked the fan off. At least found it early enough to fill it in, in good time. Phew

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Flatlander

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
Mind you, it’s not such a bad obsession. I was looking so hard for slugs early on that I found this drill width with no plants. I had knocked the fan off. At least found it early enough to fill it in, in good time. Phew

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That’s no so bad Hutterite colony drill with three drills usually in the same area. One had a primary manifold blocked on one outlet. Apparently he checked as the blockage monitor was showing it plugged. Once the fan was turned off and manifold opened up the blockage would drop out of sight. After a few attempts at finding the issue he decided the blockage monitor was faulty. Lots of acres planted before it was found. Always feared it happening to me. My OCD would have me in tears
 

Pilatus

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Location
cotswolds
Land buyer here in Canada have changed over the past twenty years I’ve been here. When I came here European immigrants were the main buyers and seen as a cash crop. After the high interest rates of the eighties coupled with multiple drought years there were few sons wanting to take the farms over. now it’s more multi generational family farmers that are expanding and mostly dairy and hog farms. Has a lot to do with having enough acre to spread manure On to meet new rules for nutrient management. Other are grain farms that are expanding to get enough acre to remain viable when a son is added to the business. Also heard by a friend that has lost rented land to an investor from the Bahamas buying land as part of a long term investment. up until the last ten years land here was cheap compared to other major grain growing regions in the world. As for where the money comes from Well we’ve had some good years in the past ten and with interest rates at historic lows and good commodity prices it all makes for some aggressive buyers. Here buying or farming another 500 acres for a 5000 acre farm isn’t much more than a days drilling and a couple of combining.
How does someone from the Bahamas buy land in Manitoba, as I thought you had to be a Canadian or have landed immigrant status to buy land in Canada?
 
There are several dairy farms in this area that have expanded or popped up in recent years on borrowed money that are now in severe financial distress. What for? Why have they done it? Why leave massive debt to children who will despise them for it, and that's even if they can avoid being foreclosed.
I find this a really interesting comment about leaving a massive debt to children who will despise them for it. I've been thinking about it all day.
 

Flatlander

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
How does someone from the Bahamas buy land in Manitoba, as I thought you had to be a Canadian or have landed immigrant status to buy land in Canada?
It used to be like that. Now there are many outside investors looking to buy land. Like most things in life if there a will there a way Especially when money is involved. large Tracts of land in Saskatchewan has been bought by East Indians fir pulse production as an exporter they are trying to secure product to export back to India. Going forward I think food security’s going to be a big issue.
 

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

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