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End of the Road for Small Livestock Farms?
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<blockquote data-quote="holwellcourtfarm" data-source="post: 7612304" data-attributes="member: 42914"><p><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" /> </p><p></p><p>Not sure your point. Certainly not applicable down here.</p><p></p><p>The economy had crashed, much worse than we've seen recently. Many Manorial estates around here were sold off as they couldn't afford to keep them. Land lay idle because nobody wanted it. Those who had funds (often not the land owning gentry you seem to despise) picked up farms for almost nothing. Many were Scots.</p><p></p><p>Then, from the 60s onwards working farmers competed to buy up any farms that came free. 2 neighbours of ours assembled farms over 1000 acres by the mid 70s, very big in those days. All paid for from working farm income.</p><p></p><p>Since then the value of farm land has become completely disassociated from what it can earn. It's now an asset class, not a production asset.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="holwellcourtfarm, post: 7612304, member: 42914"] :scratchhead: Not sure your point. Certainly not applicable down here. The economy had crashed, much worse than we've seen recently. Many Manorial estates around here were sold off as they couldn't afford to keep them. Land lay idle because nobody wanted it. Those who had funds (often not the land owning gentry you seem to despise) picked up farms for almost nothing. Many were Scots. Then, from the 60s onwards working farmers competed to buy up any farms that came free. 2 neighbours of ours assembled farms over 1000 acres by the mid 70s, very big in those days. All paid for from working farm income. Since then the value of farm land has become completely disassociated from what it can earn. It's now an asset class, not a production asset. [/QUOTE]
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