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Definition of a part time farmer

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  • #32
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,519 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    alps wrote: »
    How come the wexford an Waterford boys have no tolls?..

    Well except going to Cork...

    There is tolls going to Cork at portlois and Fermoy. The Jack lynch tunnell should be tolled but was not because camera tolling was not available. What was the name of the Minster from down there. he was I think a former labour member and was the Minister for Voting Machines. He refused to let tolls go on the Dublin/Waterford motorway

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  • #33
    wrangler
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    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    I think it would be impossible to define a part time farmer...

    I do a bit of farming, but the majority of the farm is let on a long term lease. Some posters here would say I shouldn’t be considered a farmer, why I don’t know...

    Everyone’s situation will be different, and they will then judge others by their experience - so that’s why we all have names like hobby / armchair / part-time / gentleman farmer...

    The reality is it’s all the same - we are all only fighting over scraps... farming for the most part is on a downward spiral for a long long time - but we shouldn’t be surprised really. How many of us had fathers or grandfather who were full time farming and reared a family, and now the same farm barely returns a few grand...

    But - maybe i’m wrong. Maybe I will be classed as not a part-time farmer, maybe I will lose my SFP - the big question then is what label will we use for lads that are farming but aren’t farmers :)

    Tenant should be getting the SFP , I've my land leased too and I'm saying this, We will get the benefit of it but it's madness that the whole SFP is handed over to the landowner in some cases.
    It'll be a big loss here when it's taken from me :mad:


  • #34
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    wrangler wrote: »
    Tenant should be getting the SFP , I've my land leased too and I'm saying this, We will get the benefit of it but it's madness that the whole SFP is handed over to the landowner in some cases.
    It'll be a big loss here when it's taken from me :mad:

    No - in my case the SFP is only on the few acres I have (its only a small payment)
    There is no SFP going with the leased land...

    It’s hard to know what’s madness when it comes to farming now Wrangler. I am thinking more and more than actual farming land is madness... :(


  • #35
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    Ha ha - part time lads are the ones who post about farming online... :)

    I'm more a city boy with a very big back garden :D


  • #36
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,528 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    No - in my case the SFP is only on the few acres I have (its only a small payment)
    There is no SFP going with the leased land...

    It’s hard to know what’s madness when it comes to farming now Wrangler. I am thinking more and more than actual farming land is madness... :(

    In the 1990s a friend, who was a teacher and had seventy sucklers, said to me that if he had 30 acres more he'd give up teaching.
    It was only the other day that he reminded me of saying that and then added ''Wasn't I shocking lucky that someone didn't leave me a farm'' :)
    It's actually sad that it has come to this, I saw plenty I didn't like in New Zealand and now this country heading teh same way


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    There is tolls going to Cork at portlois and Fermoy. The Jack lynch tunnell should be tolled but was not because camera tolling was not available. What was the name of the Minster from down there. he was I think a former labour member and was the Minister for Voting Machines. He refused to let tolls go on the Dublin/Waterford motorway

    No road should be tolled, we are paying for these roads on the double and paying for them long long after they are fully paid off basically paying a toll operator to man it and make a lot of profit. They should never have been allowed,, we are paying tax through the nose both income taxes and motoring related taxes tolls on top of this is a total joke.


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