'Hanging up the wellies'

Hay_man

If the weather was going to be like this every year would anyone consider 'hanging up their wellies'?

Three months of rain apart from maybe two weeks has been tough to farm with heavy ground

Still managing fine so far, but sometimes when I see how wet the land is after being grazing I'm like 'Feck this, Time to hang up the wellies '

Cows moved onto a new paddock and I'm sound again But running out undamaged paddocks fast though

Any one feel similar ?

i_steal_sheep

I've just bought new hunters, so they've a lot of work to do before I hang 'em up :-) Ah, I've always been of the view that you have to take the good with the bad. A quarter of my land disappears beneath a turlough for a few months every year so I've grown up having to live and work with challenging conditions. I think we've developed the attitude that we have to be flexible with the way 'it is' rather than lamenting the way 'it should be'...

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Hay_man wrote: »

If the weather was going to be like this every year would anyone consider 'hanging up their wellies'?

Three months of rain apart from maybe two weeks has been tough to farm with heavy ground

Still managing fine so far, but sometimes when I see how wet the land is after being grazing I'm like 'Feck this, Time to hang up the wellies '

Cows moved onto a new paddock and I'm sound again But running out undamaged paddocks fast though

Any one feel similar ?

hope fully next year might be better

whelan1

was at group meeting today, i would have the heaviest land of the group, at one stage i just said lads if you want to see wet land come to my farm, the farm we where on today was like a dessert compared to mine and the pessimism was unreal... cop the fick on ... if you have that atitude you will get no where, you just have to plod along with whatever happens and do your best.. next year hopefully will be better

djmc

wont hang up the wellies but might do something different than milking cows in fields of sh1t losing money one year and making it back the next life is too short

20silkcut

It's hard to imagine ever having a decent summer in this country again. But then you look at the summer of 2011 and it was cool and damp and ****ty but there was fierce yields of silage and crops, so much so that in the spring of this year some guys were saying they were not going to bother making silage in 2012.