At the end of the day I want a good paying business which I enjoy doing but not sure where to start. I have a great interest in agriculture and I'm wondering which if there's any product or services farmers need but cannot provide themselves, e.g. spraying, tillaging, bailing, that kind of stuff and even general maintenance stuff like drystone walling, welding. Even opening up a farm shop to sell my own animal products ext. I'm still young enough to do go down the path I choose and I'm looking to specialize in one thing related to agriculture and I'm asking for advice on what that should be. Thankyou.
What services or products are in demand for farmers?
- Thread starter Unknown12
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Sheep shearing.
Seems to be hardly any left now.
If it can be done from a tractor seat it will be a cut throat job.
Seems to be hardly any left now.
If it can be done from a tractor seat it will be a cut throat job.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Butchering. Anything to do with driving tractors cut to the bone wage of time.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Mobile slaughter house .
- Location
- North West
If I was coming in with not a lot. I'd relief milk in the morning then fence for the rest of the day.
- Location
- Northumberland
Dry stone walling.
I take it you have just finished watching Amazon prime........
Do the shitty jobs and do them better than anyone else.
- Location
- Ceredigion
If you can erect fencing you will never be without work , no need for anything else
Simply because all the post put in in the last 25 years are falling over . Most are anyways [emoji23]
Simply because all the post put in in the last 25 years are falling over . Most are anyways [emoji23]
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Don’t work for farmers as they don’t like spending money. Find something for smallholders, who have plenty cash and are lazy - small batch shearing, quad bike based spraying and the likes. You can then charge twice as much for having half the machinery costs.
Avoid balers, combines or anything else that relays on the sun shining to work.
anything that hitches onto the back of a tractor to stir soil as well for that matter.
it’s all over subscribed as it is,
Muck and or slurry used to be a good number in the right areas but too many closed seasons and NVZs now so be sat thumb twiddling half the year.
If you go into Ag contracting try to think of something that will work 24/7/365 regardless of the weather. When you found it franchise it and sit back and let the money roll in.
anything that hitches onto the back of a tractor to stir soil as well for that matter.
it’s all over subscribed as it is,
Muck and or slurry used to be a good number in the right areas but too many closed seasons and NVZs now so be sat thumb twiddling half the year.
If you go into Ag contracting try to think of something that will work 24/7/365 regardless of the weather. When you found it franchise it and sit back and let the money roll in.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Learn to apply for grants for farmers.
snipe
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- Location
- west yorkshire
Shed erecting.
It's another example of the ''Law of Unforeseen Consequences). Badly treated posts last half as long as well-treated posts. So we need to import twice as much timber and waste time renewing fences twice as often.
Environmentalist often get things wrong.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I was looking for a change of direction when I moved north. First thing I needed was an accountant as I knew I'd be self employed. He told me to avoid trying to be a minnow in a big pond, avoid farms and stick to small holdings and domestic gardening. Over the last 15 years my most profitable and pleasurable days have been working (hard) for smallholders and horsey types. Small scale but necessarily very tidy fencing for pet sheep and horses pays really well if you can do it really tidily, strongly and from premium materials. Likewise spraying small paddocks with knapsack or small boom sprayer on quad/Gator type thing if you can show the folk your tickets AND know your chemicals. My 18hp Kubota with flail never stayed still for long and finishing with a strimmer in the last corners and fence sides impresses and adds value.
My mate who is retired started gardening for something to do, he's now working 4 days a week, turning down jobs and making more than he did in employment and he does no overtime or weekends. Fixed price regular lawn mowing with a strim and an edge always leads to hedge trimming or weeding that you can price any way you like. Do one garden well in a village and word gets about. He started a Monday doing a hedge in a street and ended up with 7 in the week making almost a grand for his 4 days. He works fast, he works smart and he works hard but it pays well.
Tractor work looks good on Facebook or Insta but nobody is going to put a rank noob in a 150k tractor so you need skills before you start and you need huge hours to get the big financial rewards. Working for small scale folk pays much better, often in cash with no receipt required (if that's your modus operandi) and the outlay is peanuts compared to buying a basic loader tractor.
My mate who is retired started gardening for something to do, he's now working 4 days a week, turning down jobs and making more than he did in employment and he does no overtime or weekends. Fixed price regular lawn mowing with a strim and an edge always leads to hedge trimming or weeding that you can price any way you like. Do one garden well in a village and word gets about. He started a Monday doing a hedge in a street and ended up with 7 in the week making almost a grand for his 4 days. He works fast, he works smart and he works hard but it pays well.
Tractor work looks good on Facebook or Insta but nobody is going to put a rank noob in a 150k tractor so you need skills before you start and you need huge hours to get the big financial rewards. Working for small scale folk pays much better, often in cash with no receipt required (if that's your modus operandi) and the outlay is peanuts compared to buying a basic loader tractor.