Letting the family down, is the big one.

[Steevo]

Brutal honesty is one if my many many character flaws.

I don't think it's ever a flaw in a person. It's just many don't know how to react to it......and I think as they represent the majority then it's become less accepted in society.

I'm also reliably informed that brutal honesty is a more common trait abroad - so again it's the minority speaking against the majority.

 

[ollie989898]

Much of that reasonates with me- although I have never done anything notable in my life.

Until you have seen your old dear's card declined trying to pay for the weekly shop I will be very dubious of 'times are hard' type comments I'm afraid particulary when it's from people sat on assets.

 

[Sheeponfire]

It has been easy to justify keeping going with the last 20 yrs of capital appreciation.
Next 5 yrs, who knows.

I totally agree +1

 

[unlacedgecko]

Thank you for sharing that!!

I take my hat off to you for both those achievements and sharing the challenges so openly.

It's great that you've found something that inspires you so much and you have a passion for after such a turbulent history.

Thanks. I'm fit and healthy and was born into a western capitalist democracy. I've already won life's genetic lottery. Now it's down to me to capitalise on that win.

As with most people, the biggest challenges I face are within my own mind. I thrive on chaos/challenge. I need to be busy as routine bores me.

 

[le bon paysan]

Wealth dont make you happy , it can have the reverse effect

As Billie Holiday said
I've been rich and unhappy , I've been poor and unhappy, rich was better.

 

[Lowland1]

My aim has been to educate my kids living here there is no free education so they had to go to England so we have had to expand in order to make sufficient profit to pay for things that most people take for granted. We are tenants and as such if we stop making money we will walk away from it. When i look at my Dad i wonder why he didn't just cash it in 20 years ago and live on what was left rather than struggling on with something that became less and less viable each year. Problem for me now is my Son wants to farm so we can't get off the treadmill. But again the problem is always if you're comfortable with what you have today you probably won't be tomorrow.

 

[bumkin]

i think some young ones stay on the farm because its an easy option some of them are unemployable because they are the boss's son and no one has ever told them what to do, my son was never encouraged to farm its just what he was going to do its in his blood when he was still in nappies if i wanted to shut him up just sit him in the tractor seat with the radio on and the key removed a bottle of juice and he would sit there for hours and these days at nearly forty he lives to farm. i never encouraged him to farm i always said go and get an education and if you want to farm after you will find the farm waiting for you but unfortunately he did not heed my advice he just stayed at home it wasnt for the lack of intelligence when he did his o levels or the equivalent he had straight A stars ,one day we were harvesting i said to him when does school start back he said last week why arent you there he said im not going back .

 

[czechmate]

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The farming is for me. I enjoy it and believe I can become very very wealthy from it.

The landownership is for me. From 18-28 I didn't live anywhere longer than 18 months. I'm acutely aware that my current business exists solely at the indulgence of landowners. I will get a huge amount of security and satisfaction from owning land. It's also my best chance of being able to emigrate to my as yet undetermined country of choice.

I own property now. I'm not sentimental about it. I'll own further property in the future, in fact it's a key part of my wealth building strategy.

The wealth transfer via landownership is for my son. It won't be a noose and he will be free to do whatever he wants with it.

Again off topic, and I hate to be a “downer” but...
I am surrounded here, as I was previously in England, by farmers having to work very long hours just to earn an excuse for a wage (and lots of these guys, unlike myself, are professionals who really know what they are doing), so your optimism to create wealth I find sadly overly optimistic

 

[unlacedgecko]

Again off topic, and I hate to be a “downer” but...
I am surrounded here, as I was previously in England, by farmers having to work very long hours just to earn an excuse for a wage (and lots of these guys, unlike myself, are professionals who really know what they are doing), so your optimism to create wealth I find sadly overly optimistic

maybe I’m arrogant? Let’s talk again in 5 years.

 

[Gerbert]

My dad made an interesting observation, selling your farm used to be a big no-no, and only done when there was no other way. Now it is more looked at as a savvy business disicion, to the better we both thought.
I admire some peoples openess on here, hats of to you!

 

[Hilly]

maybe I’m arrogant? Let’s talk again in 5 years.

You might achieve your dream a lot have failed going head on , the savey ones achive land ownership by swerving the farming bit it dose r make enough quick enough.

 

[Treg]

maybe I’m arrogant? Let’s talk again in 5 years.

A touch of arrogance can be a good thing

 

[Hilly]

A touch of arrogance can be a good thing

For the dentist ?

 

[JP1]

None , I feel a lot of the time it’s all been a waste of time.

Don't ever think like that. You've moved the place on from what you started with, have two grand boys that you and M have raised and your farm is up to scratch with good buildings, very correct stock and land in good heart































Besides which you'd have been a total basta if you'd become a traffic cop

 

[Treg]

For the dentist ?

??? I meant as in sometimes believing in yourself & not listening to others advice .
Is that what dentists do ?

 

[Hilly]

??? I meant as in sometimes believing in yourself & not listening to others advice .
Is that what dentists do ?

I meant most arrogant gits I have been unfortunate enough to meet soon get a few teeth knocked out sooner or later , their arrogance drives them to pick the wrong target now and again ? some call it karma

 

[Hilly]

Don't ever think like that. You've moved the place on from what you started with, have two grand boys that you and M have raised and your farm is up to scratch with good buildings, very correct stock and land in good heart































Besides which you'd have been a total basta if you'd become a traffic cop

Just now and then all the farmer bashing etc etc etc daft really but sometimes loan working can be extremely difficult in many ways.

 

[Treg]

Just now and then all the farmer bashing etc etc etc daft really but sometimes loan working can be extremely difficult in many ways.

I think mentally end of February/ beginning of March are the toughest times of year, I don't know why? Maybe you think its nearly end of the winter but your still in a winter routine? My dad use to say his 2 worries , January & February.

 

[czechmate]

I think mentally end of February/ beginning of March are the toughest times of year, I don't know why? Maybe you think its nearly end of the winter but your still in a winter routine? My dad use to say his 2 worries , January & February.

Hmm, I was just wondering the reason during this last week.
Generally I don’t like the cows inside, but having said that during the mid winter, the bedding, feeding etc etc etc that goes with it - is the job, but as we start to move out of winter (i was spreading n last week for eg) the work around the cows being inside, as well as getting totally boring is now in the way of doing more interesting stuff. Maybe something of a downside of mixed farming.

 

[Lowland1]

maybe I’m arrogant? Let’s talk again in 5 years.

I don't like talking money but the amount of money we turnover in a year we would need to be farming 6-7000 acres of 3.5 tonne per acre wheat land and we are definately not wealthy. Money in farming comes from owing assets over a long time not from the process of farming. Selling land you bought in the sixties or selling the farm yard for building etc. We put money aside for a rainy day but those rainy days come along pretty regularly.