Rents

[Steevo]

Are you still the sole owner of the forum, tell me to mind my own if you like, its just that someone i thought worked on here said he did not have a boss

Clive has said before he runs several businesses with Chris, including TFF.

Not that I think this is really any of our business.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Well I will have my say ........ I don't care where Clive gets his money or drive from but I joined the forum a few yrs ago and I think it's a good thing ....is Clive making money out of it .....I hope so else it wouldn't exist . I often believe it's harder to make something out of what you inherit as you don't normally have the same drive as the one who started it . Hence the saying in farming .....grandfather started it , son kept it going ,grandson lost it !
I don't agree with Clive's original post about the rents but he probably doesn't agree with a lot I say but I've gathered a lot of info of TFF and probably shared a load of rubbish because someone had the drive to get the forum going .

 

[Brisel]

This is getting a bit unnecessarily personal.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

This is getting a bit unnecessarily personal.

Agreed

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It is, and it’s silly.

Mind you, I think Clive likes to poke a wasps nest now and again!

But you’re right, no need to get personal. Be nice or be quiet, I suppose.

 

[Forever Fendt]

you are lucky ! even on our simple arable farm i’ve lost an employee (dad) as he's isolated and not PAYE so can not claim 80% of his wage

getting stuff done (tyres fitted) and parts is already getting tricky, a new 10,000sq ft shed can no longer be built this year etc ... . and this has only just begun

i hear dairy farmers are tipping away milk and prices are down on a lot of meat ... all that defies logic right now though !

mm

if you want the history my grandfather married a builders daughter and was given 8ac as a wedding present, he bought a couple of cows and deliver milk locally

by the time he died (aged just 65 i think) he and my father had grown that to 100 dairy cows and a couple hundred acres ........ a lot of which was actually “owned” by the bank and a lot of which was rented

i grew up in a very modest household with a leaky roof and attended state school, never holidayed abroad. My parents did a great job to keep food on the table for me and my sister but we were anything but rich it’s fair to say ! along with a student grant they managed to help me through higher education. Like most parents they did as much as they can and like most children i am forever grateful and in eternal debt that i try to pay bank through helping providing them with better lifestyle today, they are both partners in the significantly bigger farm business that I manage, live in a much nicer house and have travelled the world extensively over the last decade or so


That’s what i came home to and i’ve inherited nothing yet. Having “anything” to come home to was a great start though i admit and anyone who starts a farm from absolutely nothing has my upmost admiration, very few in my generation have that’s for sure !

none of the other businesses I run have anything to do with my parents and all were stated from nothing. The farm business has no resemblance whatsoever to what i came home to in either scale, assets or profits - my management, alongside my father is the reason for that. My children both attend one of the uk's best independent schools, my wife doesn’t work, i employ a housekeeper and gardener, have several nice holidays a year, live in a fantastic and very expensive house, drive nice cars and enjoy several very expensive hobbies ........... i inherited none of that so i reckon it’s a result ? .......... lucky ? handed on a plate ? ..... or hard, smart, high risk investment and work ? Ashamed of that ? No .... proud of that ? Very !

I am a landowner as that is how i have chosen to invest some of the profits made over the years. I am also a farmer, contract farming land owned by others on a profit share basis and we also rent some land we farm ourselves, I only farm to make money from it and because I’m clearly wired to want to do it, it will never be a hobby though, it will always have to be a viable business for me and my customers

now what’s your inside leg measurement please ?

fair play