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<blockquote data-quote="Agrispeed" data-source="post: 5434066" data-attributes="member: 10619"><p>Thats not the opinion of people who actually farm in NZ. What are these lower welfare standards in NZ everyone mentions?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And what methods do most farmers do to mitigate this? There are ways of making a business more resilient to drought, floods, or anything else, but that seems to be largely ignored in the UK as its 'too much work'. Everyone complains about poor income but very few are actually proactive either in being progressive and trying new methods or in improving prices they receive.</p><p></p><p>I'm young - I'm 24 and run my own business, which I started in 2016, previously I managed a farm whilst doing a BSc, I then took out a private loan (as banks were not interested) of over 10x what I actually had in cash and started my own business. I could pay that loan off at the end of this lactation if I so wished (without any subsidies). Yet I am told over and over again that there is no money in farming, and no young blood would want to go into the industry. Do you not think that is because everyone is telling them they don't want to? Farming is as profitable as you make it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agrispeed, post: 5434066, member: 10619"] Thats not the opinion of people who actually farm in NZ. What are these lower welfare standards in NZ everyone mentions? And what methods do most farmers do to mitigate this? There are ways of making a business more resilient to drought, floods, or anything else, but that seems to be largely ignored in the UK as its 'too much work'. Everyone complains about poor income but very few are actually proactive either in being progressive and trying new methods or in improving prices they receive. I'm young - I'm 24 and run my own business, which I started in 2016, previously I managed a farm whilst doing a BSc, I then took out a private loan (as banks were not interested) of over 10x what I actually had in cash and started my own business. I could pay that loan off at the end of this lactation if I so wished (without any subsidies). Yet I am told over and over again that there is no money in farming, and no young blood would want to go into the industry. Do you not think that is because everyone is telling them they don't want to? Farming is as profitable as you make it. [/QUOTE]
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