300 acres starting from scratch

oil barron

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Location
Aberdeenshire
Would it grow tatties? 300 acres is a nice size to do cereals, 50 acres of tatties between you and a few Neighbour’s and have opportunistic beef finishing to consume the waste, add fertility.
 

Old Tup

Member
Advertise it for an FBT or similar…..absorb the offers and then decide…
Let someone else have all the fun of the transition to real life farming post BSP etc and post the realisation of the reality of ELMS …
 
Contact Terravesta to see if they have a need in your area. Once established Miscanthus only needs cutting and baling annually from year 2 to 3 onwards.
No regular herbicide or ferts.



 
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Hilly

Member
Best thing you could do is do what you really want to do as that way you will find a way to make it work for yourself , if you end up farming just for £££ you be end up disappointed .
 
Ok, bit more info. of ideas I'm thinking as it needs to provide a good full time income for a family:


  • Build a basic dairy and milk 300 jersey cows once a day as a flying herd
  • Continuous wheat
  • Continuous spring barley with cover crops in between
  • 180 spring calving suckler cows with calves sold as stores
 

kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
Ok, bit more info. of ideas I'm thinking as it needs to provide a good full time income for a family:


  • Build a basic dairy and milk 300 jersey cows once a day as a flying herd
  • Continuous wheat
  • Continuous spring barley with cover crops in between
  • 180 spring calving suckler cows with calves sold as stores
How much rent per acre could you get? Would that not be a good income for no effort, top it up doing something else?
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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