Where's your spend going to be in 2018 ?

[digaholedumper]

With the help of a " crystal ball & magic wand " just wondering where the 2018 spend will be ?
Will it be Machinery , property , land , maintenance , Stock , diversification , opening areas to the public ?

We are trying to plan 2018 ourselves & it looks like a couple of new vehicles maybe , & then ride things out as we are & with what we already have. Looks like the next 2 or 3 years may be fairly level & flat.

I like the idea of buying an old roadside pub ( pubs are finished now ) & making a travellers rest, coffee stop & breakfast bar by day with mid class B & B by night to catch the travelling sales folk & tourists in the summer.

We are interested to here your views " big or small " crazy also welcome.

 

[topground]

Given recent doom and gloom on all economic forecasts I plan to spend any surplus on beer and wild women and waste the rest.

 

[GTB]

Cubicles, slats or sloping floors. Anything to avoid buying as much straw next year.

 

[Pan mixer]

Filling in holes in bank balance.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Sheep!

 

[ARW]

Not spending a penny (I say that every year)

 

[ford4000]

A new shed is going up, and we've planned on changing the mower for one that cuts both ways in a field......
A lot of other stuff is old like the 14 year old pickup so other things might be needed too

 

[neilo]

After a bit in the next month to take advantage of the Farm Business Grant, nowt else planned for the foreseeable with the hope of trying to ride out the coming storm.

Of course, there might be some woolly genetics that crop up that might scupper those plans, or the odd mechanical disaster that necessitates some ‘back of sofa’ searching.

 

[Walterp]

How about a bit of realism? Radical, I know, on TFF, but I'd suggest:

1. Sell all the sheep

2. Sell all the cattle

3. Put the proceeds on deposit

4. Add the BPS, when it arrives (Welsh farmers have, in the main, already received advance notification of payment on 01.12.17)

5. Go on a (well-deserved) holiday and think about the next move.

 

[DrWazzock]

Refurbish the 40 year old beet harvesters now that I have found a source of spare parts from a company in Birmingham that has been going since 1832. This way I can compete with world market prices for sugar.

I won't sell the cattle or sheep as they scavenge the by products from the arable crops.

I really fancy a new muck spreader though to cope with all the horse muck I now import

I might also buy a plasma cutter to help refurbish old trailers and kit.

This is a completely honest answer.

I might also buy a metal detector as a hobby.

 

[DrWazzock]

How about a bit of realism? Radical, I know, on TFF, but I'd suggest:

1. Sell all the sheep

2. Sell all the cattle

3. Put the proceeds on deposit

4. Add the BPS, when it arrives (Welsh farmers have, in the main, already received advance notification of payment on 01.12.17)

5. Go on a (well-deserved) holiday and think about the next move.

Won't get anything on deposit unless you use Zopa.

 

[Laggard]

Not a penny autumn 2018, buugger off to New Zealand for the winter and drill everything spring 2019.

 

[ollie989898]

Hoping on a new job, new house and new baby. So far only the last one has materialised!!

In terms of machinery purchases and other capital expenditure, I need to buy the extension kit for my pram and we will need a new car in the new year, a real 'dad tank', shall we start another pick-up/car thread?

 

[Walterp]

Won't get anything on deposit unless you use Zopa.

But the building society won't send you invoices for vet fees, medicine bills, fodder or straw, and they won't regularly deduct amounts for 'died'.

I think it's for the optimists to advance a case for retaining their stock.

 

[ollie989898]

But the building society won't send you invoices for vet fees, medicine bills, fodder or straw, and they won't regularly deduct amounts for 'died'.

I think it's for the optimists to advance a case for retaining their stock.

Ah but gotta be in it to win it, Rodney.

Farming is plenty risky enough given the weather, diseases, personal health and world markets, and these lot here are hardcore addicts for it, what makes you think any of them will give up now? Where is the fun in that! Plenty of opportunities to be had in the future, several people have told me as such. Tis like they old crows following the plough, plenty juicy worms to be had for those in the right place at the right time.

 

[Red Fred]

I might also buy a metal detector as a hobby.

I know someone who bought a piece of land and a metal detector and paid off the mortgage within a year with his finds.

 

[J 1177]

Roller mill for the cattle. (Its already paying for itself). Grab bucket thing for the tractor loader (picking that up today)as my current muck fork hasnt got any solid steel left to weld to and my current bucket is resembleing as seive.
And possibly a s/h tractor to replace my maxxum.
That will be me spent up for a decade.

 

[hendrebc]

A wedding. Something better for sheep handling without getting beaten up quite so much doing it. Lime amd fences. How much of those i do depends on how much the first one cost. Looking like more everytime the subject it bought up

 

[wasted years]

I've got enough farming so its in to energy production we go, with a spend of over half a million .

 

[pine_guy]

Possibly a second hand forage box, and if I finally get my tenancy succession sorted, some work in the farm house and if some spare cash, maybe some concrete round some feed areas that are currently a mud bath.