Masseyrk662
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If ya got both youd be really laughingMy father used to say that everyone marries for love.
In cases love of the person.
In other cases love of their possessions or capabilities to provide a good lifestyle
If ya got both youd be really laughingMy father used to say that everyone marries for love.
In cases love of the person.
In other cases love of their possessions or capabilities to provide a good lifestyle
How about marrying a lady with a heap of land?! Sounds like the best way to get into farming to me.
My friends mother always told her to marry for money and learn to love 😂😂
An aul fella I used to work with used to always say to me "marry the land and take the woman to the altar". Unfortunately his wisdom dawned on me too late, as I often remind Mrs TafkatMy father used to say that everyone marries for love.
In cases love of the person.
In other cases love of their possessions or capabilities to provide a good lifestyle
My friends mother always told her to marry for money and learn to love 😂😂
I would think very much so and she's doing quite well for herself in fairness, she was always destined for it...Did she listen to her mother ,
How did her domestic arrangements work out for her ?
There's no fortune in that either bar you can get slurry cheap or free, very few people factor in the P&K replacement requirements when selling grass and before they know where they are they have the ground run down to a low indexYou'd get good ground around here no problem.
I would say the neglected ground would probably the best place to start.
If sums didn't add up set it in grass and sell the grass off it.
I looks to me that you are suffering from the " clay disease " .You'd get good ground around here no problem.
I would say the neglected ground would probably the best place to start.
If sums didn't add up set it in grass and sell the grass off it.
Therein lies the eternal optimism of the farmer.amenI looks to me that you are suffering from the " clay disease " .
The best thing you can do is rent a couple of rough fields at as small a price as you can .
Burn them off, get a soil sample done and start from there .
Spring barley or oats and as you have slurry available correcting the nutrient status shouldnt break the bank ..
Dont forget to lime if the ph is low and engage the services of a good crop man who can tailor the spend to suit the potential output.
Avoid the " can salesman " type like the plaque as the end result could be a bill to be paid after all grain is delivered if things go badly for any number of reasons
Will you make money ?? Hopefully but life is not all about money and like a junkie on methadone you will be happy !!!
Oh and remember its the man who grows the crop not the machine so dont go overboard on expensive stuff .
As others have pointed out the days of making a good living from conacre are probably gone but it was not always thus and the future been unwritten who knows maybe the great days of the seventies , eighties and the first half of the ninties could return .
I must write a piece about my conacre adventures over 30 odd years sometime and how things changed .
Its a funny old game tillage but i can honestly say id beg before id give it up !!!
Some years i nearly had too !!
Best of luck to you .
You'd get good ground around here no problem.
I would say the neglected ground would probably the best place to start.
If sums didn't add up set it in grass and sell the grass off it.
I'd get all the slurry and dung I wanted. But I agree it's not cheap put work into land eitherNeglected ground usually needs loads of dung, slurry and in particular lime which is all needed regardless of whether It's tillage or grass.