Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Would the wife agree with chatting up quare ones?

When I stayed home as a young lad to help on the farm there was no expectation of getting any money for "entertainment". Started my own little enterprise on the side to keep me going. That's what led to the second enterprise. Some lads now have a sense of "entitlement". If the OP wants to have a future farming then get on with it.

How do you go about drying off the affected quarter? Just abrupt stop or do you gradually dry it off, i.e. one milking in four I think I saw teagasc recommend

There’s a little lady here Whelan and she’s in with a very good shout 😂😂

If someone want to be a farmer go be a farmer all this nonsense of high paid jobs pods aul rubbish talk never heard the like of it you wouldnt hear any other profesdion at it people quit far to easy seen it over the years lads quitting farming cus they can get get xyz here for doing sfa

They'll be the only option by then as there won't be any builders to do it the old fashioned way.

Ah will ya stop, 38! Any young lad worth his salt would want to be stepping up at 26 or the parents should sell the place!

there was no 30k to pay me when I got stuck in here. We barely made 30k profit those years. I had to create my wage if I wanted it.

sometimes I wonder if I had the choice would I have gone off traveling and working abroad for my 20s but then If I had I wouldn’t have a hope of farming after. I’d have missed out on what land we’ve leased and the building we did when concrete was cheaper. I doubt I’d be farming now tbh with the cost of everything. When you’re in it it’s easier than trying to get going I think

30k is huge money to be getting off the old man at that age from the farm. Are you using it to help improve the farm are just saving the most of it. He can’t be to bad with those wages. Roughly what size farm will he actually sign over to you. I’d be slow walking away from it at this stage if you like the place and would like to live there. Travelling is grand but it’s nicer to be working hard for yourself than someone else.

€33k is the work permit level for an Bangledeshi chap I have met a few times on my travels, working on a farm, living in a run down mobile home in the yard. If the op above is doing 10 milkings a week that's most of the wage earned not to mind any other labour.

Thing of people saying that he can earn extra cash if he wants, if he is putting in 50 or 60hrs a week on the farm as a lot of lads here would there ain't much time to earn extra cash without an education to at least a trade.

Youngsters here are 15 and 17 and if they really want to farm they will have it in their mid to late twenties. If not they will get a fair wage for any labour they provide. It's at that age they need money a lot more than I will need it in my late 50s.

His issue isn't money, he's rightly took stock of the situation that includes a 93 year old grandfather still hanging onto 20 acres of land, a abusive 63 year old father whos dogging him out of it, and making it known he'll be the boss man till hes at the pearly gates...

Take home messages, he isn't allowed to make any improvements to yard, huge arguments if he does a few hours work off-farm, the red flag of succession issues not even sorted between his father and grandfather, looming fair deal issues on the above if it plays out that way....

Family friend is having to go to the Highcourt to contest his father's will, has been disinherited after spending 30 years working for his father, for 300 a week, when he asked for more money , he was told no, so went out on his own and stopped financially supporting parents, he had circa 300k spent on the yard in the 5 years previously to the blow out...

The sister then got in his ear and had him sign it over to her and the son, under precarious circumstances as he had dementia at the time, a promise and a expectation your parents will do the right thing is a dangerous game to play especially when siblings are around looking for payouts