- Location
- East meath/dublin
I fail to see why well educated siblings who have never contributed to the farm never put in the long days at harvest or got up at night to calve cows and only show up on Sunday to eat the roast beef that your sweat is paying for should get any share of the farm lf you encourage any of your children into farming then you should not expect them to mortage the place to the hilt to buy out the rest of the family especially if the worked hard for small money in the expectation of inheriting.Why? You've just provided them with a job that's all. If mum and dad are still in control of the farm you're just a farm worker.
If a farm worker worked on one farm all their life, they wouldn't expect to inherit the farm would they.
If the parents want you to work on the farm in order to take over one day then it should be properly discussed before hand.
In the situation up thread what happens if there's only room for one and the oldest stays?
Or one leaves is successful and wants to buy the farm off their parents so they can have a comfortable retirement?
Both of my non AG brothers have 6 figure salaries and sicken my arse with their constant references to how much my farm is worth and how LUCKY i am.
Never a mention of how their education was funded or what i was at when you the were enjoying the student lifestyle.
As for the Sisters dont please get me started , my relationdhip with those witches and there grabby partners is to say the least diffucult.
My mother thank god is healthy and extremely active and i also inherited the obligation to provoide for her needs which currently i pay her an allowance of 2000 euros a month while the rest of them eat her out of house and home every sunday and dont even mow the lawn