Starting Out Farming.

Westwood

Hello all. I'd just like to gauge how viable it would be for someone with no prior farming knowledge or land to get into the industry and try their hand with farming. Ive done no prior research so forgive me but A few questions answered would be great

Is it easy to rent out fields and at what prices?

What would the best thing to grow or produce be?

Would I generate more then €300 a week take home pay on startup.

any advice

bob charles

Westwood wrote: »

Hello all. I'd just like to gauge how viable it would be for someone with no prior farming knowledge or land to get into the industry and try their hand with farming. Ive done no prior research so forgive me but A few questions answered would be great

Is it easy to rent out fields and at what prices?

What would the best thing to grow or produce be?

Would I generate more then €300 a week take home pay on startup.

any advice

im a pessimistic one around here so I would say you might aswell forget about what you are thinking. Renting land is hard come by, difficult to generate the rental income to pay for it especially if you are a start up farmer. unless you target a high end product with say high labour input, along the lines of veg etc. were closer to finish up:D:D and there are lots of weeks I wouldn't have 300 quid in my pocket. just had a lovely animal die and thats a negative of €1500 to begin this week on. Go work on a farm first and see the difficulties first hand

Muckit

Westwood wrote: »

Would I generate more then €300 a week take home pay on startup.

any advice

There are alot of well seasoned part time farmers on here that would pack in the day job if they could earn €300 take home, myself included.

Markcheese

What exactly did you think was going to put 300 euros a week into yr pocket from the start... That said have a look and see if there's a Market for a specialist crop /something a bit different.. Sometimes it takes an outsider to spot an opportunity .Veg, herbs ,flowers, eggs/ poultry .....smaller the scale the cheaper entry is.... But the closer you have to be to your Market... (ie direct selling) Might depend a bit on where u are or where u want to live/ farm/ grow

AMurph1979

You would probably get land for around €200/acre/year. Almost impossible to make money at that no matter what you're at.
What sort of farming are you thinking of ?