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Everyones Opinions on Farmers

onrail

Folks,

Born and reared a farmer, working in the city a few years but will return to farm the land soon enough. I'm a culchie with notions I suppose.

Anyway, I've been debating with herself, a townie, for a bit about how people 'see' farmers. Looking for honest (i.e. slightly-anonymous) opinion of the general public on farmers in this country. Are we seen as:

Grass chewin', turf cuttin', GAA lovin' gob****es who couldn't function outside the bog;
Overly pampered, EU subsidised wealthy cute-whoors from the country;
Poor enslaved bastards working mental hours for f**k all
Normal people. Stop making an issue where there is no issue, you culchie gob****e.

Answers on a postcard. Or here I suppose.

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onrail

One final question (because you're destroying all of my efforts to discredit you

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Would you trade in the pressure and money to be a relatively lucrative farmer, making say €50-70k a year?

OldRio

The bollox spends most of his time posting on here. Hard work? Haha

CaptainInsano

12 year olds bombing around the place in tractors running people off the roads , bringing in the washing stinking of slurry, muck and sh1te spattered all over the roads,.shooting dogs once they can't round up their sheep any more. But sure they grow our vegetables.

Permabear

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Two Tone

Well I suppose the first part does not apply to all farmers.

Permabear

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onrail

Great answer - best of luck with it

RobertKK

I retired from farming this year, apart from a small bit but nothing major. I had too much work and not enough help and it wouldn't have paid me to get help in, especially with the price of milk.
Now I can take a holiday and it is 15 years since I had a holiday and that was 15 years of working everyday of the year. I had less than two weeks off in 21 years and I was feeling like a slave to the job.
Farmers are ripped off by supermarkets, the factories and milk processors. They take more and the farmer gets less and less and the consumer pays the same if now more.
Farmers are not appreciated enough in my opinion knowing that there is a lot of work involved especially in something like dairy farming.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Yeah I'm aware of the pressure in that area but you get paid much more money though to deal with the pressure and you could always have the option to walk away and take another job in finance.

Farmers don't have that sort of luxury.

You could decide to jack it all in in the morning and take another lucrative job in the financial sector if it all being a hedge fund manager too much pressure for you, which in a way means the pressure isn't all that great in real life terms.

Galwayguy35

You're way off the mark on this one, a lot of farm work is still very physical and live stock can be very dangerous to handle so I doubt your work is harder Mr hedge fund manager.

Permabear

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Dirty Dingus McGee

The vast majority of farmers don't have those sort of options.I doubt very many would stick at it if they could sell up in the morning for hundreds of thousand or even millions.

But you could quit which is exactly the point I'm making.

The greatest pressure of all in life is having no real options.

Permabear

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OldRio

Amazing how this thread is not about farmers but about one poster who is seeking validation from strangers on his occupation.

Kovu

Fixed that bit for everyone.

Permabear

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Galwayguy35

I do appreciate that there is a lot of pressure in the work you do and also long hours.

Dirty Dingus McGee

That's true but a lot don't and a lot need it to provide a decent standard of living from their family.

qm1bv4p8i92aoj

I think they are a sound bunch.

Dirty Dingus McGee

However jobs with physical labour are generally not as desireable and not as well paid and also may be more difficult to do over a long period of time.Also I think most people would take tiredness after a days concentrating at the office over physical tiredness from physical labour.

My father lost about 2-3 stone in the space of a couple of months a few years ago because of the physical toll his new farm labourer job was having on him, I doubt that happens to most people working in offices .

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jimbobaloobob

I suppose in the care of livestock your own health can come second at times of crisis or high demand

onrail

For context, I'm just getting to bed after finishing off a report for work tomorrow. Which will get fck all thanks and a fraction of the salary our hedge fund poster is on. .. Which is why I'm considering the move back to farming.

jimbobaloobob

What would make you happier in life onrail?

onrail

That's the million dollar question that I've been pondering for the guts of a year now. After a while you realize its nigh on impossible to keep everyone happy!

jimbobaloobob

It depends whose important to keep happy. This isn't a rehearsal

Wildsurfer

Farming must be still in you're blood... This is exactly what a farmer would be moaning about!

Wildsurfer

And by the way I'm a farmer, its before 5am and I'm heading to milking. But after that Ill have a two hour breakfast:)

Clampdown

And yet you still had time to make over 24,000 posts on boards during the last 8 years! Hillary and Trump are quite relieved that you're not US born I'd say.

Permabear

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