You seem to be very good at digging holes, you should go volunteer at a snowed in farm.
Farmers, Livestock and snow
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You seem to be very good at digging holes, you should go volunteer at a snowed in farm.
Do you really think we have cctv and alarms to tell us that there is a drift in field 4 out 30 in over 300 acres land with sheep stuck in a drift during lambing season when farmers are already doing round the clock shifts in the lambing shed. You really are a typical ignorant towny type who I'm guessing complains about the smell of manure and tractors on the road when you drive through the countryside.
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You never meet a poor farmer. Nor do you meet one who will say he is happy about anything. Most are marking time until a housing developer, utility or local authority come along looking to use their land. Then they screw them for every penny they can get - costs that have to be passed onto the wider population.
I know plenty of poor farmers.
Then you have not met many. Plenty struggle, day in day out. The bank owns large quantities of their farm. I like how you use the the word "most", there are a lot of tenant farmers in the UK and only the one who own land close to a town have chance of housing development, see farms tend to be in the countryside..
Before you go bleating old sayings
Farming has one of highest suicide rates as a profession in the UK
It is also one of the most dangerous jobs to work in.
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Do you really think we have cctv and alarms to tell us that there is a drift in field 4 out 30 in over 300 acres land with sheep stuck in a drift during lambing season when farmers are already doing round the clock shifts in the lambing shed. You really are a typical ignorant towny type who I'm guessing complains about the smell of manure and tractors on the road when you drive through the countryside.
My brother used to live and work on a farm thank you, and I live in an area surrounded by farms but don't let that stop you from having a decent discussion here without getting all emotional.
I find that very unbelievable with your utter ignorance towards farming. You may live next to farms but they would be more lowland arable type farms and not hilly region farms which where worse effected by the snow/snow drifts.
Yeah you are right, we get this amount of snow every year
That's exactly the point. Even housed sheep have been affected due to shed roofs collapsing in with the amount of snow on them.
Some farms around here have not even been able to get to the sheep sheds to check on the ewes lambing for 2 days.
The trouble is people tend to think of farms as a farm house and buildings surrounded 360 degrees by land owned by the farmer and thats it, when the reality is that farms are spread out with land and buildings in different areas around the countryside, its 6 miles along small country back road for us to get from where we live to where we have 200 odd ewes lambing, and this is all upland welsh countryside.
You know that suicide in farmers is higher than any other occupation? Mostly it is put down to financial pressure and being too hard nosed to ask for help.
This thread is just ridiculous. Every farmer would love barns for all their livestock, or barns for all their crops so they dont have to sell straight off the field. But it is just not possible as has been stated many times already.
And how many is that?
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how many horses?
Where are you based?
How many horses do you have. 200acres isn't that big a area for hill sheep Infact its tiny
My father-in-law is an Aberdeen Angus farmer in Norfolk. He farms on leased land spread across Norfolk into Suffolk and also pockets of Cambridge. We are talking about an area of over 100 miles squared.
Are the ignorant amongst us seriously suggesting farmers must build barns they cannot afford on land they do not own in areas of the counties that they seldom visit for a, weather event that happens once every 3 decades?
Are they then suggesting that farmers visit each corner of this land daily to check on the 100, neigh 1000s, of animals that may or may not be roaming in a particular piece of inaccessable land?
Granted, my father-in-law has not been as heavily affected as others have been by the adverse weather, but his example of farming in remote, disperse locations is not unique.
The ignorant amongst us, don't comment on things you know nothing about unless you're trying to learn from those who know about it.
Are the ignorant amongst us seriously suggesting farmers must build barns they cannot afford on land they do not own in areas of the counties that they seldom visit for a, weather event that happens once every 3 decades?
Are they then suggesting that farmers visit each corner of this land daily to check on the 100, neigh 1000s, of animals that may or may not be roaming in a particular piece of inaccessable land?
Granted, my father-in-law has not been as heavily affected as others have been by the adverse weather, but his example of farming in remote, disperse locations is not unique.
The ignorant amongst us, don't comment on things you know nothing about unless you're trying to learn from those who know about it.
Yup. 70 Milking cattle at home and a chunk of young stock!
I go off to another farm to work. 100+ Beef cattle and 1400 Pigs.
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seems to me people think farming is just like watching emerdale or something -.-
more than likely a stud farm with over 12 employees and a stable for each horse
I know a few of the shropshire yfc lot(rea valley mainly, some clun), my cousin farms in minsterley and the other one next door to acton scott.
You really do remind me of Alan Partridge. Sorry.