Farming in France
- Thread starter Walterp
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Might be more if you are in a producer coop was supposed to be 28 but i think 26 is the max possible but others will know better than me, with DPB ICHN PMTVA payments on sheep quota, the annual sub cheque in certain areas of elevage has increased at the expense of the larger arable farms,
Sparky270
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- Lathus st remy
He will regret that !
Sparky270
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Arable men don't need it ,it's the poor eleveur that needs the dosh !
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Do you remember the show tom, maybe your too young.....
Comedians, it was called
You should farm sheep , perfect fit .
Surely that depends on the size of his welliesYou should farm sheep , perfect fit .
but they call it the land of meat and money (on the estate agents particulars)
Surely that depends on the size of his wellies
I wasn't suggesting that Will , heaven forbid
You wont remember blackadder and flossie then!
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Sparky270
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- Lathus st remy
Bunch of lying tits !but they call it the land of meat and money (on the estate agents particulars)
Funny you say that , first farm we looked at in france just down the road from roger and annie , 80ha of crap 55 pmtva 600 ewes , in 2005 they received 73k in sub ffs
David Wilson put us off it ... well that and the neighbours .
Sparky270
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Good subs for 80ha
Sparky270
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WtfDidn't stop him blowing his brains out in the grange
Muppetdave
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Hi guys
Apologies, first time poster here as it were. I have read through entire post (some time ago), and I could post a million questions and do have a great deal of research to do, but thought I'd pose a couple of quickies up for consensus. I'm not coming from a blinkered view of 'wow look at this property' as there would be a hell of a lot of due diligence, but want to just get some ideas on bits and pieces to maybe investigate further.
I would love to move over to France, and it's the only place my wife will consider moving to outside of the UK. We have young kids (4 yo and 18 months). Ideal world situation I would like 'some' land for the freedom etc. That said, I have a Degree in Ag from Harper, and whilst I don't work in agriculture now, my parents still farm and I've been brought up with that background.
There is a property on the market we fancy investigating further; nice house, old-style barns and 50+ acres of pasture with some woodland. From what I can see, cattle graze it currently - no idea on what arrangements that is done under; there is no mention of tenancy within the scant information. The property is on the market for a touch more than our UK house is valued at, with the potential to add a couple of bedrooms quite easily. As far as I can see it's being marketed as a house with pretensions rather than a farm - there's no mention of any subsidy/title anywhere that I can see either.
I currently work as a business/marketing consultant, predominantly from home. I had had the notion that if I plan block return trips to the UK I could potentially make it work, but as I come further along the line think this would be difficult. It might be possible, maybe it's a case of scaling back to just the clients with whom I know it can work... All that said, with maybe £60K 'extra' mortgage to cover on what we have now, can we we make that acreage return enough to move even if it is more of a subsistence life (If I was to say broadly in UK terms I think that would be a mortgage of sub-£1K/month still) I'm certainly not afraid of moving back to agriculture, and appreciate there is investment on that side of the business if we were to go that way.
I have a couple of ideas of a little niche tourism that we could investigate at a small scale to potentially help things along. What are the realities for a smaller scale farm operation such as that? My thoughts if we were considering in the UK would be the 'straight to market' route of value-adding from the product (lamb/beef on the grazing, pigs possibly in the woodland (if there are no truffles...). Does this stand in France or are there too many hurdles? As a very rough rule of thumb, how do the types of figures in Nix transpose to France (so I can do some fag packet calculations).
Apologies for the waffly, slightly indirect post, but I just want to get a feel for what may be possible.
Apologies, first time poster here as it were. I have read through entire post (some time ago), and I could post a million questions and do have a great deal of research to do, but thought I'd pose a couple of quickies up for consensus. I'm not coming from a blinkered view of 'wow look at this property' as there would be a hell of a lot of due diligence, but want to just get some ideas on bits and pieces to maybe investigate further.
I would love to move over to France, and it's the only place my wife will consider moving to outside of the UK. We have young kids (4 yo and 18 months). Ideal world situation I would like 'some' land for the freedom etc. That said, I have a Degree in Ag from Harper, and whilst I don't work in agriculture now, my parents still farm and I've been brought up with that background.
There is a property on the market we fancy investigating further; nice house, old-style barns and 50+ acres of pasture with some woodland. From what I can see, cattle graze it currently - no idea on what arrangements that is done under; there is no mention of tenancy within the scant information. The property is on the market for a touch more than our UK house is valued at, with the potential to add a couple of bedrooms quite easily. As far as I can see it's being marketed as a house with pretensions rather than a farm - there's no mention of any subsidy/title anywhere that I can see either.
I currently work as a business/marketing consultant, predominantly from home. I had had the notion that if I plan block return trips to the UK I could potentially make it work, but as I come further along the line think this would be difficult. It might be possible, maybe it's a case of scaling back to just the clients with whom I know it can work... All that said, with maybe £60K 'extra' mortgage to cover on what we have now, can we we make that acreage return enough to move even if it is more of a subsistence life (If I was to say broadly in UK terms I think that would be a mortgage of sub-£1K/month still) I'm certainly not afraid of moving back to agriculture, and appreciate there is investment on that side of the business if we were to go that way.
I have a couple of ideas of a little niche tourism that we could investigate at a small scale to potentially help things along. What are the realities for a smaller scale farm operation such as that? My thoughts if we were considering in the UK would be the 'straight to market' route of value-adding from the product (lamb/beef on the grazing, pigs possibly in the woodland (if there are no truffles...). Does this stand in France or are there too many hurdles? As a very rough rule of thumb, how do the types of figures in Nix transpose to France (so I can do some fag packet calculations).
Apologies for the waffly, slightly indirect post, but I just want to get a feel for what may be possible.
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