Handed down on a plate.

[Albedo]

Truth hurts:biggrin:

 

Touche (touchay)

 

Never judge a book by its cover.... Springs to mind:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

IF ANYONE has the ridiculous idea that farming is a walk in the park, especially in the U.K then take a long walk off a short peer!

 

They are held to ransom by the supermarkets these days, you have no friggin idea!

 

talk to the dairy boys, go on I dare ya!

[RobRainford]

IF ANYONE has the ridiculous idea that farming is a walk in the park, especially in the U.K then take a long walk off a short peer!

 

They are held to ransom by the supermarkets these days, you have no friggin idea!

 

talk to the dairy boys, go on I dare ya!

 

Agree to that. Only way to make any decent money is to join together and have big groups all working together. A group of brothers near me does that and they rent a huge amount of land for their crops. Which then gets them kit to match. But they don't live flash lifestyles, I never see them doing anything but working!

[Albedo]

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn:001_smile:

[18 stoner]

IF ANYONE has the ridiculous idea that farming is a walk in the park, especially in the U.K then take a long walk off a short peer!

 

They are held to ransom by the supermarkets these days, you have no friggin idea!

 

talk to the dairy boys, go on I dare ya!

 

Quite an interesting comment that Tony, especially as it was the farmers who founded supermarkets!

[Mick Stockbridge]

All i have i've bought myself and worked for myself, i paid for all my courses. I pay my way and have always grafted for whats mine.

 

I don't like taking help from family etc, thats just the way i am.

 

 

 

Same as that.

[geoff]

I certainly am. I find it immensely irritating when sweeping generalisations are made about such a large group of people (50% of the worlds population work the land), and usually these are repetitions of stereotypical, unfounded opinions.

 

Yes there are rich farmers, there are also farmers who struggle their whole lives, never gaining much other than physical and mental damage. People see the big house in the countryside and the shiny tractors, not realising in a lot of cases these things aren't owned, they're financed or helped by subsidies (the £48bn spilt between the roughly 300,000 farms doesn't buy a whole new tractor these days, let alone set anyone up for life as you may see it albedo)

 

I am a farmers son, I haven't been given a yard or splitter. The most useful thing I've gained from my family is the mentality and ability to graft day in, day out.

 

Thats spot on,well put.

[john k]

(the £48bn spilt between the roughly 300,000 farms doesn't buy a whole new tractor these days, let alone set anyone up for life as you may see it albedo)

I reckon most of us could manage to find a reasonably tidy tractor for £160,000 if we had to!

[Dan Curtis]

I reckon most of us could manage to find a reasonably tidy tractor for £160,000 if we had to!

 

Yeah I did the maths too, in the grand scheme of things, it's not that much in the worlds of modern farming. Plus you need more then a tractor to be able to do any work.

 

There is a big difference between buying a tractor and a chipper too, they're not really comparable

[skyhuck]

Yeah I did the maths too, in the grand scheme of things, it's not that much in the worlds of modern farming. Plus you need more then a tractor to be able to do any work.

 

There is a big difference between buying a tractor and a chipper too, they're not really comparable

 

Yes but if the government would just pay 50% of my costs I'd be delighted!! in fact 40% would great!!! or even 30%!!! come on!! lets be honest any help would be great!!!!!!!

 

Please give me an example of any other industry that gets paid NOT

to produce:001_huh:

 

How cool would it be to get paid not to cut trees down!!!!!!