Farming is an attractive career
19/03/2012 Website News
The farmers' kids are as likely to be guzzling crisps and coke as your own lot. Farming is a business and a tough business at that. Yes, you buy in livestock at one end, feed them up for a while and sell them at the other with the difference being the profit. And right now, prices are good so there is a decent living to be made. But feed has to be sown and grown and harvested successfully, weather and disease permitting, and some of it has to be bought in, even when grain prices are rising -- so does the fertiliser and the diesel, and, most expensive of all, the machinery.Full story : Irish Independent: http://bit.ly/FPUJlu
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