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Post by thefisherj on May 29, 2021 2:52:34 GMT -6
Late Summer
So not much doing, just looking after the cows, I have been considering on my next career move, I am spilt on looking for another farm hand job or take a big gamble and buy a farm.
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Post by thefisherj on Jun 15, 2021 9:30:52 GMT -6
Autumn
With sad news The northern coast farm has been sold, the deed with change on the first day of spring. So what money we make now will go towards the farm debt. we sold 50,000L of milk for £38.537. lifted the potatoes out of the soil now we wait for the potato lorry to come so we can load them off from the field.
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Post by thefisherj on Jun 16, 2021 10:39:48 GMT -6
Winter
So the time is here to sell everything off including tractors and equipment, went well manged to get the debt down under the £1 million mark. So my next chapter of my career life begins I will mention my next career move in my next post when i have settledown
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Post by thefisherj on Aug 27, 2021 14:09:27 GMT -6
My next chapter has arrivedIt has been 2 years since my last post I have been doing seasonal work in the UK and USA mainly during harvest seasons, I have now settled down in Attingham Park UK....
I know own a farm called Brompton farm, which is a cow and chicken farm, it comes with two fields a grass field and a arable field, i have also bought the local fishery pond.
the farm and fishery cost me £249,000. which leaves me £351,000 for tractor and equipment. I had a surprise turn up as well from Northern coast.
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Post by thefisherj on Aug 29, 2021 7:06:39 GMT -6
March 2021So after visiting a local arable farm sale fair and a farm closure auction i come away with a Tractor and most of the implements I need minus a water trailer, tmr mixer and a animal transport trailer and a Fert spreader. in total I spent another £235,001 which leaves me with £116,000 in the bank. I managed to plough field 36 with a rented amazonne plough and spread fertiliser on the grass field with a Sulky spreader on a demo 
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Post by thefisherj on Aug 31, 2021 12:30:43 GMT -6
April 2021So I managed to plant field 36 with Spring oats, I have also looking around for some animal husbandry equipment.
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Post by thefisherj on Sept 7, 2021 13:48:18 GMT -6
May 2021I managed to cut my grass field for first cut silage which i got 47 siliage bales which i'll keep 20 and sell 27, i bought all my animal husbandry equipment on a online dealer site which my old employer used.
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Post by Bryan83 on Sept 9, 2021 6:31:42 GMT -6
How about an equipment tour of your current setup? Let's see those new machines.
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Post by thefisherj on Sept 9, 2021 14:18:00 GMT -6
June 2021So the new equipment arrived at my local dealer who generously delivered them to my farm. With some free time this month i have managed to get photos of the farm in between spraying field 36 and 34 with liquid nitrogen and buying 20 Holsteins cows for £1,778 per head.
     
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Post by thefisherj on Sept 14, 2021 13:56:27 GMT -6
July and August 2021July: I managed to cut the the grass field for second cut hay which I got 48 bales I couldn't get it in this month as it dried on the last day of the month.
August: I got all the hay bales in and spread solid fertilise on the grass field and ordered a fuel delivery to the farm. I am in talks with another Agri Graduate who is looking at setting up a grain harvest contracting business he has asked me whether I can store his combine at my farm and be a carter for him. 
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Post by thefisherj on Sept 18, 2021 14:39:52 GMT -6
September 2021Time to start my new job as a grain carter did a few trips from the field to the farm then the farmer asked if I can cart the straw bales from the field to the animal dealer, in total I made £15,000. ME and Bob made a deal he can store his combine at my farm for the price of allowing me to use the combine on my arable fields, and any grain he gets from the contracts I get 25% of the income from selling it as the price for storing it. He had a new Holland CR10.90 on demo specially for this field.
   Whats that in the bushes find out next time.....
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dimi88
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Preferred Brand: Fendt, Renault and i love mb tracs and unimogs!
Farm Location: The western shore and south of Brazil
Farm Size: small, 3 meter equipment.
Livestock: At the moment just sheep in England and some chickens in Brazil. but cows are my favorite!
Platform: pc
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Post by dimi88 on Sept 19, 2021 14:07:19 GMT -6
The old fastrack with that West trailer looks amazing!
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Post by thefisherj on Sept 19, 2021 14:48:18 GMT -6
The old fastrack with that West trailer looks amazing! Thank you |
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Post by thefisherj on Oct 2, 2021 11:43:16 GMT -6
October 2021Well i managed to harvest field 36 i got just under 10,000L of oats and 15 straw bales I also managed to do a third cut silage which I got another 47 bales. I was advised to take some soil samples which I did found out both fields have a low ph and is in need of liming, which i did field 36 before planting winter canola. There was a great demand for wheat which Bob tole me to sell
   
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Post by thefisherj on Oct 20, 2021 12:42:36 GMT -6
November and DecemberNot much doing just looking after the cows, fishery and now two greenhouses. trying to get parts in to fix the ford 7610. Sold my oats for £11,175 at County Stores.
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Post by DEERE317 on Oct 20, 2021 18:39:59 GMT -6
Whatever was in the bushes?
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Post by thefisherj on Oct 23, 2021 11:27:58 GMT -6
January 2022Well not much doing the parts for the ford 7610 came in so the bush tractor can work 
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Post by thefisherj on Oct 24, 2021 8:21:53 GMT -6
FebruaryNot much doing just working on the yearly revenue papers so I can send them in before march deadline.
so have a few highlight pics from last year
 
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Post by thefisherj on Oct 25, 2021 13:50:36 GMT -6
MarchSo i bought another field, which was a grass field but i decided to make it an arable field. I helped a neighbour farmer plant two fields with spring barley. which I received £6,050 what got me thinking of expanding my farm business to involve contracting. which i may look at getting a bigger tractor maybe a John Deere 6170R or a JCB fastrac 4220.
   
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Post by Bryan83 on Oct 25, 2021 20:53:53 GMT -6
If it would work for your operation, I have this Case Maxxum on my used lot. Give you a good customer price of $15,000 on it. |
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Post by thefisherj on Oct 31, 2021 14:21:17 GMT -6
AprilA busy month, planted field 32 with springs oats, the local jcb dealer dropped a jcb fastrac 4220 with a landguip sprayer. I mowed field 36 and got 53 siliage bales which then i spread manure and lime on it.
   
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Post by thefisherj on Oct 31, 2021 14:50:55 GMT -6
If it would work for your operation, I have this Case Maxxum on my used lot. Give you a good customer price of $15,000 on it. unfortunately im looking for a higher hp around 230hp |
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dimi88
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Posts: 309
Preferred Brand: Fendt, Renault and i love mb tracs and unimogs!
Farm Location: The western shore and south of Brazil
Farm Size: small, 3 meter equipment.
Livestock: At the moment just sheep in England and some chickens in Brazil. but cows are my favorite!
Platform: pc
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Post by dimi88 on Nov 1, 2021 13:17:26 GMT -6
Nice pictures again, may i ask where you got the sprayer for the jcb from?
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Post by thefisherj on Nov 1, 2021 15:37:17 GMT -6
MayWell not much doing spraying off weeds in field 36, spraying fertiliser in field 32 also helped out of nextdoor neighbour spraying his two fields with fertiliser for £19k sold off 33 silage bales for £21k 
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Post by thefisherj on Nov 1, 2021 15:38:19 GMT -6
Nice pictures again, may i ask where you got the sprayer for the jcb from? From a discord server |
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Post by thefisherj on Nov 3, 2021 13:43:10 GMT -6
JuneSpent the month doing a few fertilising jobs for a few neighbours, I also spread solid fertiliser on my grass field and said good bye to the JCB fastrac 4220.
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Post by thefisherj on Nov 4, 2021 13:48:24 GMT -6
JulyI sold 14,000L of milk for £21,258, and sold 18 hay bales off to the animal market for £9,795 to make room for this years hay 
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Post by thefisherj on Nov 7, 2021 14:32:40 GMT -6
AugustBusy month carting for Bob, with sad news that a farm has been over taken by a bank and the bank wants us to harvest and bale winter barley in field 2 and 29 and winter oats in field 28. I managed to harvest my winter canola in field 36. i enjoyed my nh t7 on a month demo I got £17,000 from the sale of the bales    
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Post by thefisherj on Nov 13, 2021 10:52:19 GMT -6
SeptemberAnother busy month with bob harvest two more fields plus my spring oats in field 32 which yielded just over 19,000L and 30 straw bales I also sold all my milk off
  
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Post by thefisherj on Nov 14, 2021 4:00:16 GMT -6
October, November, December, January and FebruarySorry for the lack of updates its been a stressful 5 months with a bank going bankrupt which the farm loan from previous owners is with them so i had to fine £225,000 and no other banks would lend me the money and of course my loan is also with them so on top of the first loan I got to find £250,000 to pay off mine.
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