Still can’t beat working land all I do is sumo trio it and then drillFarming system to zero/low till (this was already being done before to be fair but accelerated it), working hard to lower inputs whilst maintaing output spending countless hours reading, watching listening to podcasts etc to absorbing as much info from around the world on different farming techniques that could help us, machinery and labour joint venture, consultancy, agronomy, benchmarking our performance in all areas, carbon and natural capital markets. making sure the basics are sorted all ditches drains etc as zero till doesn’t work without that.
have done quite a bit of analsys of different scenarios after extracting true cost of production, so none of this not including family labour or opportunity costs.
plenty more projects we are working on but to put it simply is to make zero tillage/conservation AG work over a large area so also gaining economies of scale and offering land owners a service that can maximise their farming return whilst also being able to lock into other environmental markets.
I’m interested in making money in worst case scenarios.
We have zero diversifications (unless you count contract farming or agronomy as one) and 90% of the land under our management is owned by other people or bank. I am 30 and want to farm for the rest of my life so I need to make farming without bps work when wheat is cheap and inputs are high.