Has anybody ever got rich through farming?

[Bossfarmer]

Conclusion 1:

John Campbell has, as per OP question, "got rich through farming."

Conclusion 2:

@Bossfarmer "Call Me Dave" yet again proves he wouldn't know a balance sheet from a bed sheet.

TSS

Hows this?

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Personally I think when you own a fendt you are rich.

I thought only the banks owned Fendts?

 

[Tarw Coch]

I thought only the banks owned Fendts?

If you own a bank you must be rich

 

[Frodo2]

If you own a bank you must be rich

I own quite a few. Just about couped the tractor on one yesterday.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

If you own a bank you must be rich

...but not as rich as you could be if you had no banks and a combine harvester?

 

[A1an]

Its the same old story, the producer rarely makes proper money, unless its Class A drugs.

Renewables have changed that story somewhat.

 

[marshfarmer]

I remember a neighbour making a lot of money on the spuds. He showed us his new colour telly which had Ceefax, which was something nobody else had. He started dealing in shares and commodities using Ceefax to follow the prices, and blew most of it. He also bought a camper van and used to hire it out to us spudless neighbours for £50 a week so that we could go on holiday.... to a campsite in the shadow of the slag heaps near near Selby so we weren't too far away if the barley got fit to harvest. Dad would be in a phone box each evening checking that everything was OK back home. Happy days.

2012 set some up too

 

[Happy]

Theres no doubt hes probably in the top 5 most sucessful scottish farmers i dont see why he doesnt buy arable though the hill land could become worthless if subs go

What a ridiculous thing to say.
Earlier in this thread you said no one could ever have got rich from growing grain or sucklers so why on an earth would a man who has built his business and fortune while on hill land think that buying into arable would be a wise move?

Do you not see that he has become what he has without obsessing about subs? If he had just had that attitude he would most likely still just be farming that one hill farm up the top of a Glen scraping a living from sucklers and sheep. Instead he majored in on a non subsidised sector and expanded out from that one original farm onto bigger, better units nearby.
A lot of them are good productive stock farms. Only the original unit is out & out hill.

Hill counts by the way. It's not what you've got it's what you do with it.

 

[Bossfarmer]

What a ridiculous thing to say.
Earlier in this thread you said no one could ever have got rich from growing grain or sucklers so why on an earth would a man who has built his business and fortune while on hill land think that buying into arable would be a wise move?

Do you not see that he has become what he has without obsessing about subs? If he had just had that attitude he would most likely still just be farming that one hill farm up the top of a Glen scraping a living from sucklers and sheep. Instead he majored in on a non subsidised sector and expanded out from that one original farm onto bigger, better units nearby.
A lot of them are good productive stock farms. Only the original unit is out & out hill.

Hill counts by the way. It's not what you've got it's what you do with it.

i stick by that, i didn't say anything about growing vege though did i? vege on its own is enough to pay for land sheep are not and need the hill subs

 

[Top Tip.]

John Cameron , Mackintosh Dunragit are two self made men who made money from sheep and cattle ,there will be plenty more in Scotland. There will be a few millionaires in Aberdeenshire who made there money on feeding cattle. I think it is down to ability,hard work,nerve and a bit of luck.

 

[glasshouse]

John Cameron , Mackintosh Dunragit are two self made men who made money from sheep and cattle ,there will be plenty more in Scotland. There will be a few millionaires in Aberdeenshire who made there money on feeding cattle. I think it is down to ability,hard work,nerve and a bit of luck.

And being left a pile of cash.

 

[unlacedgecko]

And being left a pile of cash.

Do you want some gravy?

 

[Top Tip.]

And being left a pile of cash.[/QUOTE )

No,I quite deliberately mentioned these two by name because they are self made men,as are many others.

 

[glasshouse]

Self made men start right at the bottom with sod all.
did cameron start out as a tractor driver?

 

[Hilly]

Self made men start right at the bottom with sod all.
did cameron start out as a tractor driver?

Didnt he go bankrupt once ? or very close. Plenty inherited more than him and wasted it. That humungos chip on yur shoulder will dominate your life and spoil your life, if you want some good advice get rid of it it will grind you down to fuk all.

 

[Top Tip.]

Self made men start right at the bottom with sod all.
did cameron start out as a tractor driver?

No he started out as a shepherd.

 

[glasshouse]

No he started out as a shepherd.

really?

 

[glasshouse]

i was very disappointed when john cameron sold his land off rather than let it to new entrants.

 

[Top Tip.]

really?

Yes.

 

[holywell farmer]

I don't believe anybody has got rich purely through the business of productive farming.

There is always some other source of income or they make their money from the rise in land values.

Tell me I'm wrong!

Poor mans industry at the moment