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Starting a farm from nothing... I mean nothing
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<blockquote data-quote="franklin" data-source="post: 5117146" data-attributes="member: 1118"><p>No, but must be simpler than setting up an actual farm. If the goal is getting urban folk to have a short insight into the farming world, then its a lot like work experience. I think many here would tell you that getting decent, motiviated staff is on a par with securing a tenancy! But you dont want to send someone to an arable farm in winter; you dont want to send someone to be on the business end of a shovel all week. You want someone who will give a week to show them several aspects of a job. So you need to find a decent sized company with a desire for a good public image to say "yes, we will offer a weeks placement where each day they will essentially shadow a different aspect of what we do". That is a lot, lot different from my day job on an arable farm which might be sat inside all week while it rains, and sat in a sprayer all week while it is sunny. </p><p></p><p>For that you would be better approaching the egg packers / meat processors / veg or salad packers, or other more integrated sectors of the farming ladder as they have the variety. I'd take someone on a weeks work experience for some pennies, but the nature of the job means that it could easily be a week where I do very little, or an awful lot. I expect that many new and young entrants for farming will begin doing some real drudgery, whereas through an egg packer they could perhaps spend a day or two hatching chicks, a day or two collecting eggs, another day sizing / packing them. We do a lot of jobs, but seldom a different one every day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="franklin, post: 5117146, member: 1118"] No, but must be simpler than setting up an actual farm. If the goal is getting urban folk to have a short insight into the farming world, then its a lot like work experience. I think many here would tell you that getting decent, motiviated staff is on a par with securing a tenancy! But you dont want to send someone to an arable farm in winter; you dont want to send someone to be on the business end of a shovel all week. You want someone who will give a week to show them several aspects of a job. So you need to find a decent sized company with a desire for a good public image to say "yes, we will offer a weeks placement where each day they will essentially shadow a different aspect of what we do". That is a lot, lot different from my day job on an arable farm which might be sat inside all week while it rains, and sat in a sprayer all week while it is sunny. For that you would be better approaching the egg packers / meat processors / veg or salad packers, or other more integrated sectors of the farming ladder as they have the variety. I'd take someone on a weeks work experience for some pennies, but the nature of the job means that it could easily be a week where I do very little, or an awful lot. I expect that many new and young entrants for farming will begin doing some real drudgery, whereas through an egg packer they could perhaps spend a day or two hatching chicks, a day or two collecting eggs, another day sizing / packing them. We do a lot of jobs, but seldom a different one every day. [/QUOTE]
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