Farming opportunities in Uruguay

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
Was there infrastructure already in place to trade with UK or do you have to deal with haulage and shipping etc?
We supply a packer here who does the export. Now the kids are home we are going do some of our own but really i’m happy to expand the farming side and let someone else do the marketing. Obviously you can make more money selling direct but they are a lot more hassles.
 

Bokey

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Mixed Farmer
I used to be in regular contact with a guy who moved out there and bought a property in the early 90s with his Partner. He is/was a fascinating character, and those of us of a certain age or who lived in mid Wales, will remember Operation Julie... He was one of the clever chaps who got their collars felt and he went inside for a couple of years... ex RAC as I recall, or HAAC...

Uruguay sounded a wonderful location to farm, but the socialist regime was a challenge, however Farmers were wanted and supported, as the Country relied on their productivity for revenue. China seemed to be buying the produce and increasingly, land. Flogging tractors, machinery and bikes back :unsure:

He was mainly arable but we had many email conversations about beef production. I'd hoped to meet him a few years back, but he was getting fed up Immigration causing hassles everytime he flew into Heathrow... ;) I do regret never taking up his standing invite to come over....
I'd never heard of operation Julie just read about it on Wikipedia! Heck of a story that! I wonder if he's still out there?
 

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
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Fife
I grow 4000 acres of crops mainl vegetables and we own 10 acres .i came for three months with a rucksack. I don’t think you can be an absentee landlord here there’d be nothing left when you came back. Interestingly my wife has land in Goa but because she doesn’t live there squatters have taken it and she’s unlikely to ever get it back. Generally the greater the oppurtunities the less safe the country. You’d have to grow 20,000 tonnes of wheat at last years prices to match my turnover and we started from scratch on this land 12 years ago. However it’s politically insecure there’s very little infrastructure, inputs cost much more and aren’t as readily available,from a family perspective our kids went to boarding school at age 5. If like me you are happy just farming it’s brilliant if you want the UK but in another country then it’s not so good.

I'd be well up to have an adventure en Afrique, but I've never come across a woman willing to risk it. Lots of security concerns.
 

czechmate

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Mixed Farmer
That's to exciting where would you go if you were starting a fresh en you can't say bloody France!

it’s funny what my friend above wrote regarding east anglia as I always wanted to go to North Norfolk, but hell its expensive and the winter weather is crap.
My own experience and what I see around me, if you go somewhere where they speak a different language, if you don’t get properly, fully fluent then you are going to miss out on so much😕.
So for me somewhere that speaks English but I can’t think where, I hate snakes, big spiders and -40 winters. So that’s most of English speaking out the window.
As far as foreign languages go, french is probably as easy as they get, there is shed loads I love about France... so, sorry, no France would still be my choice, even with a clean sheet 👍
 

Bokey

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Mixed Farmer
it’s funny what my friend above wrote regarding east anglia as I always wanted to go to North Norfolk, but hell its expensive and the winter weather is crap.
My own experience and what I see around me, if you go somewhere where they speak a different language, if you don’t get properly, fully fluent then you are going to miss out on so much😕.
So for me somewhere that speaks English but I can’t think where, I hate snakes, big spiders and -40 winters. So that’s most of English speaking out the window.
As far as foreign languages go, french is probably as easy as they get, there is shed loads I love about France... so, sorry, no France would still be my choice, even with a clean sheet 👍
😒 and I thought you an bob were the most adventurous people iv spoke to an all you could come up with is bloody Norfolk an France,very disappointing 😞
 

Bokey

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Mixed Farmer
Seriously South Africa is seriously good farming country we've been a couple of times and I'd move in a heartbeat but they aren't too keen about white folk coming in from outside .
But Kenya were OK? How often do you come back to UK?
 

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