Are you a full /part time farmer?

whelan2

So are you full or part time farming? I am full time

Milked out

Full time here as well

_Brian

Can we add an option to see if Many/ANY households survives on farming income alone and no "earned" income by self or spouse ??

If there were a sub-set of part time I'd tick that

whelan2

_Brian wrote: »

Can we add an option to see if Many/ANY households survives on farming income alone and no "earned" income by self or spouse ??

If there were a sub-set of part time I'd tick that

I have reported the thread and the mods can update the poll, dont know how many options you can have . might be better to do a new poll

Kovu

_Brian wrote: »

Can we add an option to see if Many/ANY households survives on farming income alone and no "earned" income by self or spouse ??

If there were a sub-set of part time I'd tick that

Hmmm, would work better as a separate poll I think, don't know how I could add it in without disrupting the current results.

whelan2

Kovu wrote: »

Hmmm, would work better as a separate poll I think, don't know how I could add it in without disrupting the current results.

Think we need to have more than one option to vote iykwim or a seperate poll

Kovu

whelan2 wrote: »

Think we need to have more than one option to vote iykwim

Yea, unless I move all to a new thread and we start again?

Can have more options then eg 'I am full time farming/partner works full/part time.'

whelan2

Kovu wrote: »

Yea, unless I move all to a new thread and we start again?

Can have more options then eg 'I am full time farming/partner works full/part time.'

nothing is EVER easy

tanko

Don't forget to put in "armchair farmer".

Kovu

whelan2 wrote: »

nothing is EVER easy

Too true, ah sure we can leave it as s, can explain in the comments if people feel like it

Reggie.

Other

emaherx

Full time farmer. But I'm a field service engineer in my other full time job. And a full time husband/father. and I like to restore/fix/gunter old machines in my free time

jimini0

tanko wrote: »

Don't forget to put in "armchair farmer".

Im a part time hobby farmer.
Can somebody explain what an "armchair farmer" is?
I have heard a couple of things like
1.farmer with land but has it rented out
2. Buys cows leaves them at grass and checks once a week.

emaherx

I've a couple of carpet farmers here, think their farming enterprise is doing better than mine.

Username John

jimini0 wrote: »

Im a part time hobby farmer.
Can somebody explain what an "armchair farmer" is?
I have heard a couple of things like
1.farmer with land but has it rented out
2. Buys cows leaves them at grass and checks once a week.

+1 for part time hobby farmer...

But I also have some of the lad let...

Am I an armchair farmer? Can we get this added to the poll?

Count Mondego

emaherx wrote: »

Full time farmer. But I'm a field service engineer in my other full time job. And a full time husband/father. and I like to restore/fix/gunter old machines in my free time

Where are you finding this free time you speak of?

emaherx

Count Mondego wrote: »

Where are you finding this free time you speak of?

Normally have to sneak off from one of the other activities when no one is looking

Grueller

I voted for part time. I have an off farm job but still put in more hours on the farm than in it. About 40-45 farming. I suppose I am full time farming and full time off farm working too.

Bullocks

Part time here and wondering is it ever worth the hassle. There's enough work around the farm to keep me full time but it wont pay as well as the plastering ( as bad and all as that is ) .

emaherx

Grueller wrote: »

I voted for part time. I have an off farm job but still put in more hours on the farm than in it. About 40-45 farming. I suppose I am full time farming and full time off farm working too.

Same here I also voted part time as it is not currently my main source of income.

patsy_mccabe

Part time here.

RedPeppers

Full time dairy and beef here worked for 9 years in IT but farming fulltime since dad passed away last year.

Miname

I'm in transition here, not sure whether I'm part time or the real job is part time. All I know is I'd love to be full time at it but I'm going to have to get the wife to get a better job first. I might fill my spare time playing golf or something.

tractorporn

Bullocks wrote:

Part time here and wondering is it ever worth the hassle. There's enough work around the farm to keep me full time but it wont pay as well as the plastering ( as bad and all as that is ) .

Part time here. Formed a partnership with Dad last year. Try and put in 20-25 hours a week in on the farm. Currently working in the agri sector as well and generally put in 50 hour weeks there as well. Starting to wonder if it ever will be worth it and am slowly coming to the realisation that Dad will be the last full time farmer on our place.

Sheep breeder

part time farming, and am working full time away from the farm and have a small business going as a sideline and wife working full time with two kids and try doing to do dad day care as much as possible,
work 7 days a week, as my neighbour who farms full time says a busy fool, as i work longer farming than him and he with less land than us.

CloughCasey1

Extremely part time. 2hrs max daily and Saturday. When your self employed I find it excellent for cashflow. If ya need a few quid for anything you have 10k looking over wall at ya!

davidk1394

Well I'm still studying for this ag degree. Don't want to go fill time farming yet because I want to travel and see different places. The father has me too involved and i notice him starting to slacken off now that I'm around, and with the contracting business starting to grow I'm afraid I'll end up being tied to the place. I

Bullocks

tractorporn wrote: »

Part time here. Formed a partnership with Dad last year. Try and put in 20-25 hours a week in on the farm. Currently working in the agri sector as well and generally put in 50 hour weeks there as well. Starting to wonder if it ever will be worth it and am slowly coming to the realisation that Dad will be the last full time farmer on our place.

Oh mine will last full time here aswell unless something drastic happens in the next generation .
To say I'll go full time wouldn't be true but when I get to the stage that I could live off 15/20k a year I could give up the day job and probably pull that from the farm if I was lucky

arctictree

Part time here, full time job and wife with full time job. Youngest will be going to school next year and I'm trying to convince the wife that I would be better off giving up the job and concentrating on the farm/kids!

Timmaay

davidk1394 wrote: »

Well I'm still studying for this ag degree. Don't want to go fill time farming yet because I want to travel and see different places. The father has me too involved and i notice him starting to slacken off now that I'm around, and with the contracting business starting to grow I'm afraid I'll end up being tied to the place. I

Hmmm firmly pin down with him now that you are planning on travelling, and square off with yourself also ha! You might be young and say you have your whole life aheada you and still time to travel etc, but you'll be amazed with how quickly you can actually end up getting tied down and jsut a year or so full time at contracting and it will become extremely hard to just up ship for a year/6months and drop all your customers etc.

lanod2407

It'd be a stretch to even claim to be a part-time farmer. Have 16 acres and try to keep it in order with some calves and cattle. I guess I should classify it as a hobby farm on the basis that it doesn't really provide much in terms of income, but takes up more time than I'd care to admit ..............

kollegeknight

In process of transferring land.. But am part time farming for my mam since dad got sick 2 years ago. 78acres- only 16 cows and bull. Young child and wife works evenings and weekends so barely get 2 hours a day mon-Thursday. About 5 hrs on Friday and sat and Sunday all day if I can get out.

tractorporn

arctictree wrote:

I'm trying to convince the wife that I would be better off giving up the job and concentrating on the farm/kids!

Let me know how that goes for ya!!!! Offsetting the cost of childcare is probably the only way I could justify going farming full time.

arctictree

tractorporn wrote: »

Let me know how that goes for ya!!!! Offsetting the cost of childcare is probably the only way I could justify going farming full time.

I reckon we could save about €1350 of after tax income on child care (2 kids). That must be 2K before tax. If I double my stocking rate due to more time being available for handling, it starts to become very attractive.

20silkcut

There was a debate on drive time last week about the new rural affairs ministry. One guy was for the other against it.
The main thrust of the argument for the against guy was that the mechanisation of agriculture had reduced the need for labour in the countryside and therefore more people were moving away into the towns. He argued that this is a global phenomenon and he had worked in countries all over the world and seen it first hand.I thought to myself what a load of bull sh1t. The lack of employment on farms has far far more to do with the price of produce to the point where mechanisation is almost irrelevant.
Go to the mart or the co-op and observe the farmers there and the various limps and stooped over backs and unusual gaits brought on by being torn asunder working endless hours alone on farms.
If farmers were able to justify clocking in and out for 39 hours a week and someone to cover their time off there would be plenty of jobs in the Irish countryside.
There is a mountain of work on Irish farms everyday but the income not there to justify getting help doing it.

Bass Reeves

Work full time and my better half has a full time job as well. Farm about 70 acre hope to retire from the job at 60 and farm away. Two boys both have good interest in eldest will be through college this year. He hopes to travel next year for a few years to the US and Oz. By the time I retire he be f@@king back and I will have f@@k all to do.