Starting from Scratch - Advice Welcomed!

[bluebell]

Anyone read the article about the UK pig industry, in this weeks farmers guardian, about the growing shortage of home grown pigs, national pig numbers in the UK herd, continue to decline, , makes sobar reading?

 

[Magnum Man]

Hey

I have £130,000
5 years experience

no customer base at the moment, but have had interest from a buying group. Will be looking to get contracts in place initially if I can start

You know that old saying about the best way to make a small fortune being to start with a large one? I can't think of any current faster way to lose money than putting it into pigs. Investing in land is one thing. Spending it on sure-fire money-losers is quite another. With feed (grain) prices the way they are, the market already oversupplied, and even the added-value niches such as speciality sausages already saturated as someone said above, it's hard to see this being a good investment. That's why I left pig farming at home long ago!

 

[Dry Rot]

I remember advice from college, "Get your experience from working for others and lose their money instead of your own".