
Originally Posted by
Gee
Nothing like free research...
Strange how ....Consumers, Government.....the Media all seem to assume that farmers will continue to produce .....regardless.
Whats the figure??? 50 or 60% of Farmers are cash rich?
Able to if they feel the need to wind the business down.....more profitable to do nowt!
Instinct would be against it, but needs most.
Either invest a few £million or pay rent on it, work seven days a week and end up with F ### all to show for it!
Not much of a business plan.
Previous generations in our family farmed through the Twenties and Thirties up to the Second World War.....each year the end of year valuation was less than the year before.....but they were in good company....world wide depression meant the most of the population were in similar circumstances.
War was Salvation......followed by governments that appreciated a consistent supply of readily available cheap food, rationing continued for several years. Difficult to appreciate today.
I was often told that those that came through best were the larger farmers with large numbers of staff......all were paid off, the business was shut down to “dog and stick” farming....cattle grazed through the summer and that was it.....when the scent of recovery appeared they had the cash to take farms that no one else could or wanted.
Given the choice.....I would say goverment could shove their Health and Harmony somewhere “dark and warm”......just another transient politician pedalling his bike up the greasy pole!
Is it too late to change your course to something not related to agriculture?
gee