Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
carrot growers on contract are getting consistently richer year on year, as are SEED potato growers and dairy farmers on cop contracts
Vote Lib Dem!Cannabis farmers will be the richest I think, they don't get subs either
Your not often wrong but you are this time, im not sying there is a lot but they are out there.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!
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.
To be rich, is to be healthy and happy...
Vote Lib Dem!