Apologies if this has previously been covered in another thread.
I’d be very interested to hear how other tenant hill/upland farmers are planning to tackle the next few years. I may be being pessimistic but, I keep seeing red flags where agriculture in the hills is concerned, from environmental pressure to soaring input prices.
Watching the neighbours hasn’t really answered my questions, some continue to plough investments into production, some have almost completely backed off.
I, like most of us, am lucky enough to be able to do what I love doing for a living. But unfortunately that doesn’t pay this bills and looking at the margins without support payments isn’t particularly pretty. Which is a dilemma! Continue doing what I would love to do or put it on the back burner and ride the environmental train as far as it goes and diversify even further.
I’d be very interested to hear how other tenant hill/upland farmers are planning to tackle the next few years. I may be being pessimistic but, I keep seeing red flags where agriculture in the hills is concerned, from environmental pressure to soaring input prices.
Watching the neighbours hasn’t really answered my questions, some continue to plough investments into production, some have almost completely backed off.
I, like most of us, am lucky enough to be able to do what I love doing for a living. But unfortunately that doesn’t pay this bills and looking at the margins without support payments isn’t particularly pretty. Which is a dilemma! Continue doing what I would love to do or put it on the back burner and ride the environmental train as far as it goes and diversify even further.