Westbridge Hills farm management

Milky farmer, love it. One prob but I only gots chickens, those are notoriously hard to milk

Hello fellow farmers, my name is Chester Eely as you already know I am working for Bryan, our awesome salesman.
His cousin Chet ran his farm in WBH into the red.
Bryan put in 1.5mill to save the farm from bank. Its my job to get him his money back then the farm is mine, sound good to me.
Have 50k in account that Bryan left for expenses and only 200 cash in my pocket.
Enough rambling, I am currently standing at the railway station realising I forgot to get directions to the farm. Oh well I'm sure some one in the nearby park might know, I'm off to see if I can find some food, it was a long train ride and they had no buffet car.

Turns out Lucas knew Chet well, and regularly hired him to do fieldwork.
Before he dropped me off at the farm he also hinted that if I ever found myself with nothing to do he might be able to find something.

After unpacking I had a look around the lovely house that I may one day own. Venturing outside I immediately noticed the chicken pen, as it had been a few days since anyone had been here I figured they would need feeding.
Bryan had told me he left some feed and sure enough under a tree was a big bag.
In the shed past the tree I spotted a Fendt 511c with front loader and forks conveniently attached. Also in the shed is a New Holland TX harvester and Case 5250 pro.
Chickens feed I decided to check out the fields as it was a lovely early spring morning I walked.
Farm comprises of field 16 which has wheat sprouting and 17 which has stubble from last years crop.
So I went straight to the shop in the trusty Fendt to purchase an Agromasz BM75 mulch harrow for the sum of 32,160 dropping the account balance to around 18,000.
On the way home I discovered I forgot just how heavy the BM75 is when I had a rather scary wheel standing moment. After a slower drive from then I got to the farm and immediately swapped for a bigger weight.
Just having a tea break before heading out to the field.
Chester Eely, now getting back to work.

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That was nice of you, Chester. Just make you sure you pay him the same as any other farmhand. No special treatment.

Before I could get out to weed and spray heard a car pull up and a knock at the door.
It was Chet, he had another local farmer wanting their field mulched today and willing to pay 10k
As I wanted to get on top of the weeds in the wheat I told him if he wanted he could take the Case and mulched to do it.
Chet headed off and I got to weeding and spraying. I finished around 6pm, Chet didn't get back till around 8pm.
I thanked him for his work and payed him an extra $500 as I believe he earnt it.
$24,000 income so I am to believe that 10% $2400 is to be transfered to Bryan's acc

Dear Bryan,
I cannot thank you enough for getting me out of hot water with the creditors.
I was sad to have to give up the farm. I found farming to be very enjoyable and I had become quite skilled at operating the machinery, however I obviously lacked the necessary bookkeeping skills.
It wasn't as easy as you made it look.
I was driving past the other day and seen someone working the fields.
He pulled up and came over to introduce himself as Chester Eely.
He told me that he would be running the farm and getting your money back.

As I have no other work in the area and welfare barely covers living expenses,
I offered to work as a farmhand.
Chester immediately took me up on the offer and set me off using his newly purchased mulching harrow, while he went off to spray a field for Lucas.
I finished before he returned so headed home.
Around 5pm I had a call from a friend who seen the mulcher in action and wanted me to do a field for them. I explained I didn't run the farm anymore but I was now working as a farmhand. They asked if Chester might agree to do it so I went to find out.
Turns out Chester was busy weeding so got me to take on the contract. Didn't finish till 8pm but it was worth it as Chester must of been impressed, he payed me a bonus $500.

Hopefully I can help him to get your money back ASAP. I still have quite a few contacts that regularly need work done so I might find myself doing contracts to boost the farms profit while Chester focuses on the farm.

Give my love to Auntie, will be coming to visit once I get back on my feet and can afford airfare.
Best wishes Chet

While waiting for rain Chet visited and offered to help get the wheat in the ground. We had some lunch and around 1pm rain passed so I headed out to get the Class going.
Meanwhile Chet got the seeder and front tank hooked up to the Case and joined me in the field about 30min later.
Once seeding was done (about 4-5pm) we called it a day.
Time for some well earnt rest...
Earning today totalled $10k so $1k is going to Bryan, making $2.4k total, I think?

$8.4k repayment total.

Recently purchased through an online trader a used Case 490 disc harrow from a bloke named FarmerCaseIH, so this morning I met Chet at the dealers with a leased D754 truck and Lizard Trex6 trailer.
I gave Chet the address and off he went.
Meanwhile I headed home to do a little accounting, discovered that I am paying just over $8000 per cycle for maintenance. No wonder Chet ended up in the red...
Will post again asap, for now I gotta work on profitability

Well I know I shouldn't be wasting money on impulse buys but an online trader offered discounts on all trucks in stock.
Unluckily for the farm account they had a D754, my fave truck, and they gave me finance with only 10k down payment and 5%interest rate.
So it should arrive sometime tomorrow.


Anyway with that new expense I decided I better get some contract work to pay the bills.
After a few phone calls I was offered a job from the last farmer (Ben) we did the big cultivation contract for.
He wanted Corn planted and paying $30k I planned to do it with my own gear however,
He insisted we use his Steyr 6300 with his Horsch Maestro 12 as well so I called Chet to come help running our planter while I used Bens gear.
We got it done pretty quickly with the 2 planters. So off home for a break and some food then back looking for another bit of work

Well its been a busy day, Chet got us a job drilling some wheat for a nice payment of $27k. He used their Fendt 900 Vario MT with a Hatzenbichler Terminator setup for that.
Chet also picked up some fertilizing for $12.5k, I swear Chet is worth his weight in contract contacts.

Meanwhile today I focused on repair of the farmhouse and outbuildings to try to reduce the maintenance costs.
Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter and $12k later I had managed to reduce the costs to just over $1000.
That's way better than the $8000+ before the work.

Also noticed that my fields are in need of some fertilizing, but that's for the morning.
All in all it was a productive day, just enough time to go do the books then off to bed.

Early phonecall from dealership was more welcome than one would expect, my new truck had arrived!
Quickly got hold of Chet to ask him to come sort out fertilizing my fields while I went to grab the truck.

Salesman talked me into buying brand new, full retail, no discount Lizard BP-9 back and a Lizard WM fert/lime spreader for an extra $24k (they threw in a 3pt adapter modification for free).
2 contracts and $66k later I cannot disagree that it is paying its way.

Also decided to sell my 2 Strautmann SEK 802 trailers, hopefully in the next few days I will get a chance to put an add in the online trader.

$6600 to Bryan today

Paying extra $24950 to round total up to $50k neat

I actually planned to order the accessories for the truck through the online FS Community Trader. The pieces they sold me were not exactly what I wanted but the staff were just so pushy they wouldnt take no for an answer. (Paid on commissions i bet)
So very likely you will get a trade in request shortly