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I think that's the same with every countryTrying to project where UK ag will be in 10-15 yrs is the tricky bit.
Should I stay or should I go.?
I think that's the same with every countryTrying to project where UK ag will be in 10-15 yrs is the tricky bit.
Should I stay or should I go.?
I would move to Romania. Already have a small Factory there with a Partner for my other business.I keep looking and currently am drawn toward South America Chile, Argentina and Brazil. but where else should I be looking?
And who has actually done it and how is it going.
My sister married a Kiwi and has farmed out there for the last 20 years but they no longer have the cheap land and are getting green washed like us
The local 'hand's' supplementing their wages with a bit of Cartel work while sending 'agricultural' products to Europe in your good nameHonest, your 'onour it is hemp.
Did Hugh Grant shag them?I've heard that, I know a Rhodesian family who moved there after Mugabe took over and met the son again in the Army here. He's spent nearly all his life there, yet is pretty objective and doesn't play down the real problems there; but, on balance, he reckons the positives outweigh the negatives five to one.
For him the great advantage is the 'freedom' - and I can really appreciate that, having felt the same in Zim before its collapse. The greatest drawback is, unsurprisingly, that most of the locals aren't as 'efficient' as you get in other places.
Strange thing, there are a fairly large number of people of Japanese descent there - by an odd coincidence at one time we both had Japanese girlfriends here in the UK, mine from Japan itself, his from Bolivia. Funny old world...
Not mine for sure, no idea about the other one.Did Hugh Grant shag them?
It's a major Romanian export...I would move to Romania. Already have a small Factory there with a Partner for my other business.
Lot of EU money going in. Still vast areas of land which has been left .
You could pick up an old "Collective " ( ex Soviet term for large Farms)
Excellent standard of living and most young people speak English. Anyway lots of UK TV !
Lots of opportunities and crime rate extremely low.
I'd like to go to
Lowland Lincolnshire
Up land Yorkshire
Herefordshire for good soils & not far from Welsh sheep
Aberdeen for the swede growing soils
A strawberry growing business in Kent
A caulie growing operation in Coastal Cornwall
South West coastal Lancashire for the brassica growing soils.
Somerset lowland to have a dairy herd
Most parts of this country for the SFI grants.
A chain of Hotels near Dover
I like the UK.
Any where but Barnsley in the UK.Barnsley doesn’t play much of a part
It does have the most cultured & attractive Women in the country.Barnsley doesn’t play much of a part
I left because I don't like the cold and grey and as a farm worker couldn't really see me earning enough to have a nice house outside of the main towns.Any where but Barnsley in the UK.
Seriously I'm in quite a good postion asset wise & often wondered about investing everything I have in safe assets renting them out via agents & hitting the road. Doing a working tour of the UK working for a few months on different types of farms. Lambing Jan to April, May June & July on strawberries, August Spetember on grain harvest. October on potatoes & finally November/December on brassica in Lincolnshire. Actually I think I might be better off.
ps Be nice to fit in some drystone walling around expensive houses on the Cotswolds too.
I do most of this stuff at home, but life on the road appeals.
Why do people want to leave the UK?
I would move to Romania. Already have a small Factory there with a Partner for my other business.
Lot of EU money going in. Still vast areas of land which has been left .
You could pick up an old "Collective " ( ex Soviet term for large Farms)
Excellent standard of living and most young people speak English. Anyway lots of UK TV !
Lots of opportunities and crime rate extremely low.
I left because I don't like the cold and grey and as a farm worker couldn't really see me earning enough to have a nice house outside of the main towns.
I like your work idea, I'm kind of planning something similar for NZ when the kids are old enough to be left.
Probably get a camper and cruise round, most little towns have a camp site where I could hook the camper up, seasonal work, keep moving
Few years off yet and I'll be getting a bit old by then.
TBH if you don't have children, I would do it. Nearly 1am & we're sitting here trying to balance the books for our little farming enterprise.Any where but Barnsley in the UK.
Seriously I'm in quite a good postion asset wise & often wondered about investing everything I have in safe assets renting them out via agents & hitting the road. Doing a working tour of the UK working for a few months on different types of farms. Lambing Jan to April, May June & July on strawberries, August Spetember on grain harvest. October on potatoes & finally November/December on brassica in Lincolnshire. Actually I think I might be better off.
ps Be nice to fit in some drystone walling around expensive houses on the Cotswolds too.
I do most of this stuff at home, but life on the road appeals.
Why do people want to leave the UK?
If you're talking about crime then that's funny !It's a major Romanian export...
A few spoil it for the rest. All my colleagues are Romanian both at the business here & of course in Romania. Very honest, hardworking and extremely religious.If you're talking about crime then that's funny !
Religious for a reason, repenting sins?A few spoil it for the rest. All my colleagues are Romanian both at the business here & of course in Romania. Very honest, hardworking and extremely religious.
I would be prepared to bet that farming in France will be pretty much the same in 10-15 years as it is now.I think that's the same with every country
Any where but Barnsley in the UK.
Seriously I'm in quite a good postion asset wise & often wondered about investing everything I have in safe assets renting them out via agents & hitting the road. Doing a working tour of the UK working for a few months on different types of farms. Lambing Jan to April, May June & July on strawberries, August Spetember on grain harvest. October on potatoes & finally November/December on brassica in Lincolnshire. Actually I think I might be better off.
ps Be nice to fit in some drystone walling around expensive houses on the Cotswolds too.
I do most of this stuff at home, but life on the road appeals.
Why do people want to leave the UK?
Always liked the look of NZ. Large sheep and beef south island somewhere. YouTube really gives you a proper insight into the reality day to day anywhere.
Over there looks hard going tbh. Farm gate prices much lower maybe even 50% than us and no subs. You’d have to run at least 2 or 3 times the stocking numbers, have no subs and way less opportunity’s for easy diversification because of the lack of people.
Then the lack of people is the main thing that attracts me to it in the 1st place.
Also having a young family it’s surprising how often you rely on someone to help you out, that would be tricky abroad