Campbell
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- Herefordshire
Radical thought for a farming forum: As everyone on the planet needs to eat........invest in food production..
Best "inflation proof" farm investments?
- Thread starter steveR
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- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Food processing. Food production is about 1000x overinvested, processing is thus where the returns lie.
I can picture the discussion with my accountant....
"So can we put the new property in Devon down as an overwintering shed or not....?"
Accountant falls of chair...
l'ordinary bonville
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- N Yorks
The governments of the world will all have massive debts now. I reckon inflation is their method to reduce their debts in real terms. So if you leave your debts unpaid, inflation will reduce them anyway.
Better to have invested last year though before prices went up for everything.
Radical thought for a farming forum: As everyone on the planet needs to eat........invest in food production..
Well that was kind of implicit in my OP, as in a looking for a farming related investment.
But the way the present incumbent in No.10 behaves towards UK Ag, maybe invest in food production elsewhere?
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- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
They have to eat but they dont want to pay for itRadical thought for a farming forum: As everyone on the planet needs to eat........invest in food production..
Gold..... gotta be gold.
Nearly
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- North of York
Farmer I knew said he used to 'rent out holes' as a sideline.Just for balance, when I was a tenant, one of our assistant Land Agents did similar.
It took me a while to understand.
SilliamWhale
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I think I agree with you.
The other thing is that covid has strangled productivity for a bit so when we realise finally that a lot of the covid stuff was an overreaction prices will settle again.
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As far as the official inflation figures go, no one actually believes them do they? The basket of goods is specifically chosen to make the inflation figures appear low. Then you have the "relaxing" of tolerance over the official 2% target to allow for a bit of inflation before they have to put interest rates up. And that's before they move the 2% up to 3% and then 4%. Simple fact is, the way the financial system has been utterly corrupted around the world, economies won't stand big hikes in interest rates. The whole shebang would come crashing down, so they keep on with the same delusion. We are in the middle of an unprecedented global experiment with this MMT experiment. It hasn't been tried on a global scale before, only a single country up to now. When it's a single country it always ends the same, wheelbarrows. Christ only knows where this is gonna end up. What a time to be alive.
startinghandle
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I was going to comment but I decided against as someone will definitely take the pi$$
- Location
- Lincolnshire
In the 1930’s the old folks bought household goods with any spare cash they had. We were still opening up and using packages of perfectly good unused bed sheets, underwear and vests from that era right into the 1970’s. Real quality at a fraction of the price we would have paid though some of the sizes were a bit out, but they couldn’t have predicted that.
SilliamWhale
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As long as all governments and the populace still believe in it then we should come through ok.
At the end of the day there are more people in the world every day, quality of life is still improving by and large.
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- Lincolnshire
I agree. Real wealth creation in China and other up and coming powers will carry us all through. They have ever greater spending power for food and luxuries, holidays etc.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Mcdonalds or Tesco? Or maybe someone like ABF?
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Any or all of them. Ditto anything "health" related, this time we're in is basically the baby-boom of supplements and heath stuff.. as if "you can't take it with you" has finally been heard
- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
Clip board manufacturers, red tractor are working hard to keep them busy
Breakthru
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- Scottish Borders
Buy a second hand JCB digger. One you get Tax relief on buying it and two when if kept dry have you ever seen one lose value. Look at second hand plant, farm tractor and machinery auctions. Some making original new price.
When you retire 10% tax. Why do you think some people have vintage tractors they never move.
Inflation on everything other than food (yet, ref OZ deal etc to keep it that way) I touch is between 20 and 100%.
When you retire 10% tax. Why do you think some people have vintage tractors they never move.
Inflation on everything other than food (yet, ref OZ deal etc to keep it that way) I touch is between 20 and 100%.
This dry powder looks like be on black market before long!
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