Selling our farmyard and our home.

[@OllyBlogsAgricontractfarmer]

They say the harder the climb the better the view 😮 Good look for 2025

[@SpudSlingsby]

Bloody hell i feel for you sir, what a position to be put in. With challenge comes opportunity - and with sailing your own ship comes satisfaction. Hang on in there

[@raymondcarter3061]

Wishing you all the best for 2025 , head up , best of luck with your search

[@seanohare8496]

Good luck for the new year don't let it beat you

[@FredMurphy-d1n]

Brave video to make,good for you. Heads up and onwards.good luck.

[@welshhomestead]

Sorry to hear what's happening - best of luck for 2025 - you know what they say, "when you're going through hell, keep going!"

[@thombt963]

Don’t let the bastards get ya down pal, best of luck fr 25 😎👍🚜

[@metal1999]

Good Luck and God Bless and prosper you all in 2025

[@Andy_72]

Best of luck with your journey. Sometimes you have to go down to climb up. All the best for the future.

[@judemurphy3356]

Best of luck to you and the family for 2025 keep the head up !

[@aaronswanson6719]

Best wishes. You’re a very brave and decent man.

[@thomasjones3946]

😮what a kick in the nuts stay safe and well just come across your channel 👍 👏 keep on pushing without farmer's we all go hungry stand with them 👍

[@jasdunlop9907]

Keep positive and best of luck on your new adventures in the new year

[@martinwilliams9458]

Best wishes Richard. Keep looking forwards and keep in touch. So many memories of Downpatrick. M

[@jofasable]

Farmers are the backbone of Ireland, the governments should put their shoulders behind these hard working men and women. without farmers we have no food.

[@tommitchell1826]

Remember in 08 when ff crashed the country it was the farmers kept the lights on and we baled out the banks

[@helenebop]

The government is doing this.

[@jcoul1sc]

Who says farmers are backbone?

[@christinejeffrey5994]

Wishing you all the best for the future.

[@pattysmyth3210]

We will stand with all farmers

[@g-sailing4427]

Mate You should consider moving to France or Oz etc.. I know you are feeling down but remember this could also be viewed as the biggest opportunity of your life! For the last 20 years you have been rooted to a specific place and suddenly there’s an opportunity for YOU to decide where you go! Property in France especially farms can be had for a fraction of the cost and the weather alone would make family life better!

[@mikerenshaw7867]

Good luck for the new year.

[@paulthompson8467]

All the very best for 2025 hope you find what you are looking for this year am hoping to build a bedded cattle shed as I'm sick paying rent and having to travel to feed stock but the price of materials is frightening anyway mind yourselves and take care 👍

[@AMfarming1]

As you say the time and money saved will pay off in the long run. 👍🏻

[@camdig4385]

Having been involved with a family business not farming i understand yer predicament, the uncertainty gets to you but you are in full control of your destiny. Stay focused and keep going it will be worth it in long term

[@DesmondThomas-hb5yk]

Best of luck for new start

[@WayneCarolan]

Liked and subscribed. Be sure to look after yourself.

[@timmo645]

All the best in 2025

[@HawkMillFarm]

Best of luck with the new start. 2025 is going to be difficult for many of us I fear with difficult decisions to be made following the tragic (for businesses) UK budget. Onwards and upwards hey. 💪

[@AMfarming1]

Thank you. Yes all business is going to suffer under this budget. In every challenge is opportunity for those prepared to make change, best of luck in 25

[@SH66667]

Onwards and upwards, new chapter .Get at it .

[@WilliamPatrick-j2x]

Hi there, I just came across your channel on my homepage tonight. I really feel your pain as we have just come through the exact same thing. Father ran up a debt, then decided to divorce my mother, who then moved in with us. My wife and myself were renting the farm from my father but unfortunately, We were forced to move out of the farmhouse which i had grown up in, and now also lived in with my wife and 2 kids for the past 5 years. We also had to sell 20 acres of productive arable ground to a local veg grower. Luckily for us we were able to take a farmhouse and a bit of grazing gound where my wife grew up and hold onto the steading and most of the ground at home. It's only 16 miles between the 2 holdings so it does work. My heart goes out to you all as I know how you must be feeling, all I can say is keep fighting on, hard work and determination pays off in the end. All the very best of luck to you and your family mate, I really hope 2025 is a better year to you all.

[@AMfarming1]

Thank you very much for sharing your story, very similar unfortunately there is lots of us. I’m glad you’ve been able to get your situation sorted and totally understand how it will have drained you. I wish you and your family all the health and happiness and a fantastic 2025

[@WilliamPatrick-j2x]

@AMfarming1 it wasn't easy, and believe me, there were a lot of tears during the whole thing, which seemed to take forever. We were lucky that part of my mothers divorce settlement was that the farm or what was left of it was to passed to my wife and myself. We explored every avenue available to us. At one point we were going to buy dads debt but that would have put us in debt for years to come. Sadly the decision to sell the field and farmhouse was the right one, we're off and running now debt free. We've come to the conclusion that less is more. Again my very best wishes to you all, keep pushing forward and both me and the wife will watch for your continued progress 🥃🥃

[@diggerdog3974]

Good luck to you all 👍

[@seanmulligan-n7t]

Good luck in future

[@liamwebb2255]

Good luck take one day at a time door will open

[@alanwolfenden7586]

God help you

[@FrancisjMcWade]

But your Trust in the Lord. He will make a way for you and your family.🙏

[@jcoul1sc]

Eating whites porridge atm. Great stuff

[@Sewtired]

New subscriber from Nova Scotia, Canada. Good luck! Don’t forget to check if you could buy a farm here. I don’t know if Canada has an immigration plan for farmers.

[@Sewtired]

My goals for 2025 are to focus on my health. Have had a challenging few years for me in terms of a physical disability.

[@AMfarming1]

If I was 10 years younger we’d be there. Love Canada. If I can ever make some money love to spend more holidays there when the kids get bit bigger.

[@rorymccloskey854]

My goals and aspirations for life are to one day buy and start a small holding farm business, it might seem insensitive but this new tax system might help people like me who have not come from a farming family. In reality farms are very expensive but the price will drop if there is a saturated market.

[@AMfarming1]

I hope you can realise that dream, it is not insensitive. That is the major issue farms are soo expensive in comparison to the return on investment that it is extremely hard to get into. But believe me some of the best farmers I know today in there 60’s are first generation farmers. They had/have an open mind not blinkered by how it’s always been done. There is opportunity there an I hope you can take it. Best of luck

[@Agri-Farm-UK]

Onwards and upwards families are bastards for trying to stop you farming and put you down at times it usually makes you stronger and more successful. You will look back in future and be glad you are truly your own boss and making fully your own decisions. Keep up with KZbin its the ones that say don’t waste your time that shouldn’t waste their breath and just find a hole to go lay in

[@AMfarming1]

Families can drain everything you’ve got mentally and financially, sometimes the hardest but best decision is to remove yourself from the situation. Sinks and radiators…

[@Agri-Farm-UK]

@@AMfarming1definitely I remember well in my college days my uncle pulling the trigger and freezing the accounts and near on looking to sell everything, it was a tough start I had rubbish kitt no money half the farm but with some hellish resilience I now have a farm three times the size and with a fleet of fendts which were my dream and farm with my brother and by heck do we get shit done. Also people tend to respect you more when you earn it yourself rather than inherit everything on a plate. Even if you have to work on other peoples farms for extra money you can always find a way in farming and ask local old boys for some help to get ground and sheds. As for the uncle he lost all the rented ground his guy he had farming the rest went bust and he now doesn’t really farm bar some pigs.

[@Agri-Farm-UK]

@@AMfarming1also if you listen to the sound of someone else’s drum it can waste your whole life and potential I some of my dads friends their dad never gives hold of the reins and by the time they do they are old and it’s to late

[@AMfarming1]

That’s one of the biggest problems in farming, no succession plans, and the best years of persons life are wasted waiting on the one day it’ll all be yours. Your story is excellent example of what can be done with hard work and determination 👏🏼

[@WayneCarolan]

Shocking!

[@nigelspiers1715]

Oh no, oh dear, let's have a pity party.

[@c3pno]

Best thing to do get out while you can lifes too short you can't take it with you when your dead 👍

[@AbcdEfgh-zp1sn]

What utter nonsense. Farmers are asked to pay 20% over 10 years with first 1m tax free. No simpity here

[@camdig4385]

Thats because you have never worked yer fingers to the bone in all weather's. Il go as far as saying you don't run a business full stop, a million quid in farming isn't a huge amount.

[@drewmonty5661]

At least you can spell!