She thinks my tractor's sexy

[Wagtail]

Looks like there could be a run on SCUTs...

More women finding passion as farmers

:thumbsup:

 

[econometrics]

Looks like there could be a run on SCUTs...

More women finding passion as farmers

:thumbsup:

That's good news! Working the land is a very rewarding, and invigorating thing to do! I know that my wife loves living the country life.

 

[Wagtail]

I'm all for the rural life. The land sizes and operations in the article all described small 'hobby farm' operations... which is fine if you can keep at it.

I guess what I'm getting at is that, here in Tasmania, it's no longer possible to find new 6-10 acre properties. The hobby farm experiment during the 80's led to 50+ acre farms being broken up... which led to much of that land eventually going out of production as the people who bought them found that farming is hard work, so they took to gardenning & turning their places into landscaped parks.

Now there's nothing wrong with that, it's their land after all. But the Tassie government now doesn't allow any more large rural properties to be broken up. My next door neighbour has a 26 acre place that he'd like to subdivide but can't due to this legislation brought in in the mid 90's.

Is this the case elsewhere in the world?

 

[Tomtint]

I'm all for the rural life. The land sizes and operations in the article all described small 'hobby farm' operations... which is fine if you can keep at it.

I guess what I'm getting at is that, here in Tasmania, it's no longer possible to find new 6-10 acre properties. The hobby farm experiment during the 80's led to 50+ acre farms being broken up... which led to much of that land eventually going out of production as the people who bought them found that farming is hard work, so they took to gardenning & turning their places into landscaped parks.

Now there's nothing wrong with that, it's their land after all. But the Tassie government now doesn't allow any more large rural properties to be broken up. My next door neighbour has a 26 acre place that he'd like to subdivide but can't due to this legislation brought in in the mid 90's.

Is this the case elsewhere in the world?

Here in the north east, local and state gubment have made it time consuming and very costly to subdivide property. They extort acreage during the process just because they feel that it is more theirs than yours.

 

[Tomtint]

I'm all for the rural life. The land sizes and operations in the article all described small 'hobby farm' operations... which is fine if you can keep at it.

I guess what I'm getting at is that, here in Tasmania, it's no longer possible to find new 6-10 acre properties. The hobby farm experiment during the 80's led to 50+ acre farms being broken up... which led to much of that land eventually going out of production as the people who bought them found that farming is hard work, so they took to gardenning & turning their places into landscaped parks.

Now there's nothing wrong with that, it's their land after all. But the Tassie government now doesn't allow any more large rural properties to be broken up. My next door neighbour has a 26 acre place that he'd like to subdivide but can't due to this legislation brought in in the mid 90's.

Is this the case elsewhere in the world?

Here in the north east, local and state gubment have made it time consuming and very costly to subdivide property. They extort acreage during the process just because they feel that it is more theirs than yours.

 

[dragoneggs]

I'm all for the rural life. The land sizes and operations in the article all described small 'hobby farm' operations... which is fine if you can keep at it.

I guess what I'm getting at is that, here in Tasmania, it's no longer possible to find new 6-10 acre properties. The hobby farm experiment during the 80's led to 50+ acre farms being broken up... which led to much of that land eventually going out of production as the people who bought them found that farming is hard work, so they took to gardenning & turning their places into landscaped parks.

Now there's nothing wrong with that, it's their land after all. But the Tassie government now doesn't allow any more large rural properties to be broken up. My next door neighbour has a 26 acre place that he'd like to subdivide but can't due to this legislation brought in in the mid 90's.

Is this the case elsewhere in the world?

Hey I caught a glimpse of your property while driving along the south coast of Australia earlier this year. So far not too hard to find some 'decent' sized land in the Seattle area but you are going to pay for it!!! Got to go inland.