Renting ground for spuds

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This discussion was created from comments split from: Inheriting the family farm.

Donald Trump

I think lads must be mad to rent out ground for 400-500 for spuds or carrots when there are stories of 350-400 being got fairly easily for grazing/silage ground.

Dickie10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122352937#Comment_122352937

i was told here a few months ago that i was talking bull when i said spuds and carrots were making 600 an acre so i said i would give it a more conservative figure not to shock anyone! but yeah 500 for spuds easy got. id rather give it to spuds and carrot men because id know they are good for the money no problem. dairy not as huge around here as the south

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122352964#Comment_122352964

You'd have been wanting that money and more for spuds and carrots even before grassland went mental. Very hard on the ground.

As for getting the money out of them …. those lads can also have very good years…..and very bad years.

Dickie10

I used to be of the opinion with spuds and carrots being bad for land but a lot of farmers I know of that put their land in spuds and carrots seem to have no issue with it, is it more if a myth?

blue5000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122353702#Comment_122353702

Like everything, it depends on the weather. In a bad year a bull dozer might have to be used on the headlands to clear off topsoil so they can unload the harvester.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122355169#Comment_122355169

The land won't be the same after a destoner. The machinery is massive these days. Self-propelled harvesters (albeit many tracked). Big trailers.

Back in the day, renting a field to a spud man (or putting spuds in for a year) was a good way of getting rid of weeds and cleaning up ground before reseeding. That's not really a benefit any more as there are plenty of sprays available to anyone to control the weeds.

tabby aspreme

The destoner minces the earthworms and moves the stone's into rows, which effects the aeration and drainage of the soil , it's takes it a few years to come back right again

cap.in.hand.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122355430#Comment_122355430

Can the land be re-stoned if it can be de-stoned if putting it in pasture after spuds

tabby aspreme

Ive seen lads grubbing at right angles to the drills to spread the stones back into the soil