how do you organise your farming day?

ganmo

as per title, how do you organise your day farming?
do you plan it out the previous evening or do ya just see what the day brings

stantheman1979

I keep a little diary of the major events if a cow is due to be bulling if someone is due to visit ie scanning, shearing. Other than that I don't really plan as u don't know what will happen.
Start in the morning check nothing has died, sick, on their back, head stuck in fence, broke into the wrong field. After that I try to get through stuff that's important and suggest stuff I don't like doing to the ol fella😀 Tractor work, machinery maintenance etc and hope he feels like doing it lol

Cattlepen

Badly

patsy_mccabe

Sitting here now. Local team playing a hurling match at 1.30. Mayo Kerry game at 3. 2 field of rushes to be kicked. Oh what to do ???

Siamsa Sessions

stantheman1979 wrote: »

I keep a little diary of the major events if a cow is due to be bulling if someone is due to visit ie scanning, shearing. Other than that I don't really plan as u don't know what will happen.
Start in the morning check nothing has died, sick, on their back, head stuck in fence, broke into the wrong field. After that I try to get through stuff that's important and suggest stuff I don't like doing to the ol fella😀 Tractor work, machinery maintenance etc and hope he feels like doing it lol

I'm inclined to have a similar approach - have a list of have-to-do stuff and when that's done (or at least under control) then I move onto the nice-to-do stuff and things that will help long term.

Depends on time of year as well obviously

kollegeknight

Academic year; Badly as well, barely get to check cattle in morning, small lady in van, get home from work around 5 so get to check cattle again before I collect small lady, then depends if my brother is around, I might get a small job or two done.

Summer and weekends: not great either: struggle to catch up on stuff. Have some time if the mother goes away for a few days- she takes up a lot of the time being lonely and looking for company so whatever I can fit in around her.

Keepgrowing

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

I'm inclined to have a similar approach - have a list of have-to-do stuff and when that's done (or at least under control) then I move onto the nice-to-do stuff and things that will help long term.

Depends on time of year as well obviously

I love that "under control"

I concur

Grueller

Up at 5:45. Chase my tail until 8 feeding and checking they have all survived the night. Off to day job then. Back to yard at 5:30. Do the remainders then and usually finished by 7:00 depending upon how everything is.

I said

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Sitting here now. Local team playing a hurling match at 1.30. Mayo Kerry game at 3. 2 field of rushes to be kicked. Oh what to do ???

Go for swill the rushes will be still there next year.

patsy_mccabe

I said wrote: »

Go for swill the rushes will be still there next year.

My thinking too. Both teams won, my local and Mayo.

The part time boy

Always had this dream That every monday morning after breakfast i plan my week. 95% of time never happened that way.

These days pressing jobs get done when needed. Seems to be no time for small jobs like maintaine or improvement.

I offen do up a do to list but they nealry always fall by the way side half way through

Pidae.m

I sound like a dinosaur but I keep a note pad and at night write out tomorrow's routine.... the satisfaction of ticking off a job on the list !!!!!

Who2

Check and feed daily and then try and squeeze everything else in between. I take a day every so often to do the routine dosing and such. Contractors are used fairly regularly but I still need time for bits and pieces. You get used to the mayhem.

freedominacup

Badly.

Biscuitus

From October - April I have a good routine but its all out the window during Summer. I work around the weather and plan my work depending on it.

I keep a farm diary to keep a timetable and stay on top of jobs. At the start of every month I wrote down a list of jobs that need to be done, highlighting the must ones like silage or slurry.

ganmo

How attempted to organise today.

Put the fert spreader on yday so that if the weather permitted I'd get some bag spread before the deadline, ould lad then announced he was thinking about spreading a bit on the outfarm today and I said the lambs needed moving.

Skip to this morning I was away from the house and rang to see if he was goin to head over with the tractor and I'd meet him there. I reckoned an hour and a half of work...he turns up in the jeep all set to dose the lambs...ARG!!

L1985

ganmo wrote: »

How attempted to organise today.

Put the fert spreader on yday so that if the weather permitted I'd get some bag spread before the deadline, ould lad then announced he was thinking about spreading a bit on the outfarm today and I said the lambs needed moving.

Skip to this morning I was away from the house and rang to see if he was goin to head over with the tractor and I'd meet him there. I reckoned an hour and a half of work...he turns up in the jeep all set to dose the lambs...ARG!!

This made me laugh-sounds so so familiar!!

FeelTheBern

ganmo wrote: »

How attempted to organise today.

Put the fert spreader on yday so that if the weather permitted I'd get some bag spread before the deadline, ould lad then announced he was thinking about spreading a bit on the outfarm today and I said the lambs needed moving.

Skip to this morning I was away from the house and rang to see if he was goin to head over with the tractor and I'd meet him there. I reckoned an hour and a half of work...he turns up in the jeep all set to dose the lambs...ARG!!

If you stick to what your plan was does he then say something like "Whatever I say you'll do the opposite anyway. I'll keep my mouth shut in future" and get a bit sulky. That's what happens here anyway!!

Who2

FeelTheBern wrote: »

If you stick to what your plan was does he then say something like "Whatever I say you'll do the opposite anyway. I'll keep my mouth shut in future" and get a bit sulky. That's what happens here anyway!!

It must be the same with every farm family in the country. but still it'd be harder not having them about too.

FeelTheBern

Who2 wrote: »

It must be the same with every farm family in the country. but still it'd be harder not having them about too.

Ah I know. Couldn't manage without my father being around during the day. What's worse though is that I can see myself being exactly the same as him when my time comes...

L1985

Just wondering if some sort of cloning went on 60/70 years ago in the farming world-my dad does the exact same statement and sulk after! And god help me if something goes wrong-cause I get the whole I told you we shouldn't do this today lol!!!

50HX

FeelTheBern wrote: »

If you stick to what your plan was does he then say something like "Whatever I say you'll do the opposite anyway. I'll keep my mouth shut in future" and get a bit sulky. That's what happens here anyway!!

jasus this is scary the amount people on here that can relate to this

i have the above followed by " i must have been doing it wrong so all these years"

the latest one after i forgot to log an AI of a cow on icbf, some how felt the need to tell this to the vet during scanning:D

" never had any problem when i was writing em down on the weetabix box....sure that's computers for ya"

be lost without him tho:)

Timmaay

50HX wrote: »

jasus this is scary the amount people on here that can relate to this

i have the above followed by " i must have been doing it wrong so all these years"

the latest one after i forgot to log an AI of a cow on icbf, some how felt the need to tell this to the vet during scanning:D

" never had any problem when i was writing em down on the weetabix box....sure that's computers for ya"

be lost without him tho:)

More annoying was the time I was scanning, and the vet goes we got a very late one here, due to calf down in mid July! I quickly worked out whatever October date she must of being bulled, during the week I was on holidays, my dad then casually goes oh sure we let her out to the bull then. Block calving didn't come without a fight here lol.

visatorro

Timmaay wrote: »

More annoying was the time I was scanning, and the vet goes we got a very late one here, due to calf down in mid July! I quickly worked out whatever October date she must of being bulled, during the week I was on holidays, my dad then casually goes oh sure we let her out to the bull then. Block calving didn't come without a fight here lol.

Years ago most of the stock were calved here in July and August, when the help was off school!