nb844 Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Just curious to know people's thoughts on how brexit, more specifically the likelihood of losing farm subsidies, may affect them. Personally I've heard enough to be very wary of making any major investment in kit for stock fencing, instead I'm starting to build the domestic side up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premnayloon Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 brexit, well it could be great or a disaster, no one knows, it will be a suck it and see im intending to be out of the fencing game in ten years anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goaty Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Doom and gloom? I have little confidence in any politics, the reality is farming is a way of life particularly to livestock husbandry farmers, they will keep going until they are bankrupt trying many of them. Also the brexit situation will perhaps make importing expensive. Who knows what will happen, if it does dip in to a financial mess for farmers, unless everyone goes veggie, it's got to come back. Blue ear. Foot and mouth. Etc never stopped them, if anything in the long run it improved certain aspects, not all admittedly as bloodlines were lost and some never farmed again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb844 Posted April 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2017 I'm not trying to be all doom and gloom, in fact I'm a farmers son who is quite looking forward to the loss of subsidy as I'm hoping it would put me on a level playing field to farm. So in that respect I see lots of potential opportunity. The worry is that when money gets tight, farmers will be back to filling up hedges with old gates or pallets, fences will be seen as a lavish expense. On the other hand whatever environmental grant schemes come in could be hugely beneficial. I'm just curious to know wether others are thinking the same thing and wether it's affecting decisions to invest in your business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goaty Posted April 28, 2017 Report Share Posted April 28, 2017 Id agree with the subsidy going. If folk choose to do something for themselves hopefully more inclined to do it better instead of a box ticking exercise/monertary incentive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premnayloon Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 the thing about farming is that if any other business was ran like farming where it was commonplace to make a yearly loss, with only a sub sidy to push it back into the black, then the banks would shut it down, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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