Setting up on your own

[Beef farmer]

Always astonishes me how little the difference in fiscal value between the poorest ground and the best (talking farmable lowland here)
The farming output of good ground - heavy redland, good silt, deep loam or whatever- against a thin old ridge of shillet is huge, monstrous...but both have much the same fixed costs, and the former is generally only worth 150% of the latter.

Obviously, uprooting family and business to chase better ground mightn't be for everyone, but nonetheless....

Maybe the erosion of subs will sort the wheat from the chaff.
(it's been conversely affecting rents locally, with hi-value enviro subs making for huge rents when the right ground comes up)

Poor moorland ground makes more than prime ground locally..... because there are such great sub schemes.

 

[unlacedgecko]

But is it the land of milk contracts?

I don’t know. There’s 2 Arla herds within 5miles of me, and an additional one which direct sells everything.

 

[HasthorpeGrange]

I don’t know. There’s 2 Arla herds within 5miles of me, and an additional one which direct sells everything.

There’s not a lot of people offering contract across most of Lincolnshire. However I’m just into Nottingham now near Newark which isn’t much better

 

[unlacedgecko]

There’s not a lot of people offering contract across most of Lincolnshire. However I’m just into Nottingham now near Newark which isn’t much better

We should meet. PM me.

 

[HasthorpeGrange]

Has anyone done the AHDB dairy leader course?