Plans for 2025

Happy new Yr all.

Getting married in March so will be very busy up to then.

Hoping to:

Get more fencing done

Spend less time flat out and have a bit more downtime. Big part of that will be dealing with the day job. Will either wfh more or go somewhere else as the 2hr commute is slowly killing me.

Hoping To look at easycare ram this year as like the idea of them.

Hopefully buy a baler here this year to add to the bit of contract gear I have here already..seems an awful shortage of balers when there is much hay and straw on the ground around me here

Meal bin. Fencing. Sheep race and just more efficient time wise. Maybe a Tedder but I’ll see how June goes

be carefull can become an addiction

I hope you’ve a good bank account is all I’ll say

for me I need to get back to farming properly again.have had a bad couple of yrs since march 23 when the weather took a bad turn where I took my eye off the ball and just couldn’t get going right at all.

Small steps in the right direction and do a couple of things I’ve been putting off and saying to myself I’ll do that next week and not doing it.

That’s my goal for this yr.

Since taking over the farm, was in quite a bad state when I got it, both yard and land. I've worked hard and spent alot of money on it. I try rotate it by focusing on either land or yard. So in 2024 I done alot of reseeding and Fencing, something that hasn't been done in over 30 years and finally have clearly defined fields and can keep different groups of sheep. Back focusing on the yard this year and the last job of 2024 was clearing up a big dirty corner that has almost doubled the size of the yard. The main goal for this year is to put up another shed and finally have enough housing capacity on farm for ewes rather than outdoor lambing which has become an absolute nightmare given the recent springs we've had. While I'm not quite starting with a blank canvas farm it certainly feels like that given how much time and money it's taken to get it to a standard where you'd be happy driving into the yard. At present everything is going straight back into the farm and improving it but if all goes to plan in 2025 I think I'll be happy.

on my own here since the father died in 2022. Fragmented farm. Have to visit 2 outfarms everyday. Time consuming. Also have 600 tons of beet to wash and deliver and this cold spell has told me I really need a 5 span slatted shed or sell the weanlings before the winter.