Parm
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Think you must be looking in the wrong places Parm can show you a fair few if you like to come, how meany hours a week, rented farms, flooding, drought etc.
I was not a farmer, wife's father was he certainly was not rich, He started work around 0530 & finished about 1800 on a good day not saying he was penniless but certainly not rich
You seem to be looking at industrial farming rather than the run of the mill
"Last year we looked at potato growing, went to the largest grower in the U.K."
Finding people who want to work 40 hours is hard enough,let alone weekends holidays nights if carving lambing etc
I don’t know about “everywhere” and I’m sure there are folk just scraping a living. But the patch I covered was dominated by a few growers. Old farmers that couldn’t work anymore let out their land to the big boys, contract farming I think called. One firm has about 22,000 acres.
From my experience, generally aroud the Fenn’s east of Cambridge there are no poor farmers