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<blockquote data-quote="Aspiring Peasant" data-source="post: 5531456" data-attributes="member: 503"><p>You sound a bit like me when I was in my early 20's. I was working in accountancy for Massey Ferguson but hating it and wanting to do what I'd done most weekends and holidays since childhood which was practical farming. I got offered a job as a cowman through a friend and then did relief milking and tried to set up my own small dairy unit. But, the imposition of milk quotas and lack of capital made it impossible to move forward. So I went back to financial services, set up my own firm and now farm 140 acres of which 120 is owned debt free. The only problem is I am now aged 60! If I had stayed in financial services from the start I probably could have achieved this 10 years earlier.</p><p></p><p>So the advice from my experience is if you want to farm do it along side a good outside job for a period because farming is capital hungry and prices are very volatile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aspiring Peasant, post: 5531456, member: 503"] You sound a bit like me when I was in my early 20's. I was working in accountancy for Massey Ferguson but hating it and wanting to do what I'd done most weekends and holidays since childhood which was practical farming. I got offered a job as a cowman through a friend and then did relief milking and tried to set up my own small dairy unit. But, the imposition of milk quotas and lack of capital made it impossible to move forward. So I went back to financial services, set up my own firm and now farm 140 acres of which 120 is owned debt free. The only problem is I am now aged 60! If I had stayed in financial services from the start I probably could have achieved this 10 years earlier. So the advice from my experience is if you want to farm do it along side a good outside job for a period because farming is capital hungry and prices are very volatile. [/QUOTE]
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