Has anybody ever got rich through farming?

[bobk]

Runaround

 

[multi power]

Chris Evans paid £12 m for a car , and everyone thinks he's a knob.

He is

 

[TripleSix]

You can bet some will try,after all nothing to stop you been buried in a field.

There's somebody buried at the end of our Hayfield...

 

[lazy farmer]

I know a poultry business thats done very well. I would say that its very profitable even today without counting its asset value and any diversification.

without subsides never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bill the Bass]

He only paid £6m for this

£6million, no roof and one wing mirror. Fool and his money.....

 

[bobk]

He is

He was on top gear , but tfi friday was ace.

 

[lazy farmer]

Who the feck is Chris Evans?

a tv and radio presenter.
currently he has a radio show which has the highest breakfast show ratings in Europe.

 

[gone up the hill]

Easy to make money out of farming....

Set up a cartel like the RT company, engineer things so farmers have to pay you a yearly fee to farm, sit back with your feet up, watch the cash roll in every day of the year and pay yourself £140K a year + expenses + a very generous pension scheme..

 

[lazy farmer]

funny reading all above.
I have always believed that being anygood was the important bit.

 

[lazy farmer]

oh and taking responsibility

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Who the feck is Chris Evans?

He sold that car for 8 mil profit

 

[gone up the hill]

He sold that car for 8 mil profit

Nearly as good as the straw job

 

[Tarw Coch]

Plenty of tenant farmers through the 70's &80's made enough, purely from productive farming/hard work/not drawing much to have the skiing holidays & shooting hobby that most seem to expect today, to buy land and add on. Once you own land, and you've paid for a chunk of it, it becomes easier to borrow to expand more.

I know, we were one. My father slogged his guts out on a rented farm, milking 330 cows by the late 70's (when that was a rarity). One of the first to put a herringbone parlour in, so that he could milk more. One of the first to put OOPF's in, so he could feed them better.
In the mid-80's we bought a nearby 129ac. In the early 90's we bought a couple more sizeable chunks on overdraft, and paid it off within a year or so. All that was done from farming income only.

I'm not sure it's possible for a tenant farmer to achieve the same today though.

There's a guy not too far from here, son of a county council tenant who started out himself on a 28 acre holding who now milks about 600 cows on a rented farm but has also bought at least 300 acres and 5 houses that I can think of and is now going into chickens.
When he was young he also started out doing a bit of contracting with any cheap tack he could get his hands on and is now one of the largest contractors in the area.
When he took the tenancy of the farm he's milking at he started putting buildings up on the cheap with help from local farm lads, that has developed into a farm buildings business.
I hate to think how far he's in with the bank, probably much further than most of us would be comfortable with but he's certainly done very well.

 

[Hilly]

I have cloths, heat, food, water , shelter and health so im rich, some are more wealthy then me and some are less wealthy than me but i dont care about others wealth or lack of it that is there business not mine.

 

[Kiss]

Lots of people can look rich, but you don't know who's swimming naked til the tides gone out!

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

John Campbell of Glenrath started with a few hundred blackies and a puckle hens.

Now owns 14,000 acres.

TSS

 

[simmy_bull]

You could own a Fendt tomorrow with a 3 grand deposit and a direct debit mandate.

I will stick with my old but well maintained fleet. It's the implements on the back that earn the money.

I seriously doubt I could!! Unless there going to give me a 30yr mortgage on said fendt!!

 

[Clive]

Runaround

Actually his daily is a Defender - bright orange adventure edition

 

[Hilly]

John Campbell of Glenrath started with a few hundred blackies and a puckle hens.

Now owns 14,000 acres.

TSS

First person that came to my mind when i saw this thread. Listend to him after Dinner speak once talked alot of sense imo, a hell of a lot of sense, hard working man done good.

 

[Bossfarmer]

Are yo

your in fantasy land if you think COP farmers are getting rich at the mo. They have higher cost production models and the USED to have a much higher price. not a good mix.

u Must be crazy i know one thats just bought a 5 million pound farm, they are rolling in it especially the sainsburys boys its been like a lottery win every year the last 5 years