HOW TO GET STARTED IN LIVESTOCK FARMING (COMPLETE GUIDE)

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Thinking about starting a livestock farm or dreaming of quitting your job to become a full-time farmer? In this step-by-step guide, I’ll show you how to get started in livestock farming, manage your finances, access land, and build a sustainable farming business over time. Whether you’re completely new to farming or looking to scale up your small farm, this video covers everything you need to know. From learning the basics to leasing land and making smart financial decisions, follow my personal journey and get actionable tips for making your farming dream a reality.

If you’ve ever wondered how to quit your job and go full-time into farming, or if you're interested in livestock farming, this video is for you. Let’s dive into how you can start your farming journey!

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[geoffeverist]

Mate, absolutely love your honest and genuine advice. I am a farmer in Australia with land, and if i met people like you i would want to help them . Keep up the good work up

[TaraFarms]

This was a great video! Really well thought out!

[carolineparkes]

Nice video i thought you were spot on im in NZ started just like you shearing and asked every farmer i knew to leese me land. Started off with literally 1 acre now i leese 850 acres on 2 farms own all the stock and don't have the problem of major debt. I just buy town houses as i can afford them and rent them out i enjoy this way it seams more stress free as a 42 year old with 5 kids 😂

[garymadden]

Great video Karl great advice for any young farmer 👌

[wendyrowland]

All great advice. I started with 3acres of our own and a lambing shed we built for a small itinerant flock in England, grazing the paddocks owned by the wealthy who wanted mowing services. We bought seriously run down properties and sold them on renovated and that gave us the capital to buy our farm in Wales when my husband took early retirement in our early fifties? Never too late. It was also handy experience that my husband worked occasionally with his agri contractor brothers whilst on leave from seafaring. As you say, building up experience on a small flock is a good tactic. We dispersed the flock in our seventies and now have dairy calves and forage harvested for the summer. We did have tack sheep for the winter but now being into our 80s can no longer guarantee they will be checked on. I would say we broke even, everything was ploughed back into the business to improve and buy equipment etc but we didn’t make enough to live on even with subsidies. That’s the hard bit. I did enjoy all the challenges and problem solving and best of all, living in God’s own acre.

[Salomaeful]

Brilliant job - only thing I'd add is don't forget it is a business also and running a small business is a job in itself.
I'd recommend learning about managing a small business in your area before starting out too so you can have systems in place to make it easier once you've started.

[williamwood]

Very good information, it applies to people from all over the world

[hillclimb]

This is fantastic Karol, these kinds of videos really help give the 'in the field' videos more context. I don't think you can overstate how important it is to make local connections. The laws, resources, parasites, climate, and predators are going to be different in every area. It's really easy to invest in management methods that don't work before finding a management method that does work. Having a bit of local guidance can save a lot of time, money, energy, and potentially lives by starting in a workable direction.

[johnconcannon]

Great video Karl really enjoyed your advice very well thought out

[johnbasler-hwr-moneytalks]

Great perspective at the end of your video. Thanks for that.

[davidhamilton]

Great video, some advice I would like to give, keep good records/diary when you dose/drench treat an animal write it down it’s impossible to remember everything you do so get writing. You need a love of livestock to be farming don’t get into it because you like driving tractors and using machinery go and work for a contractor if that’s your thing, as from a small farmers point of view shiny metal doesn’t make you money. Be good at animal husbandry love your animals help them be the best they can be and they will reward you ten fold. If you don’t know something quickly learn to ask someone who does no matter how small or trivial that might be find out because every time an animal dies or you can’t grow grass it’s costing you money. Farming is naturally in some people others it takes years to learn the most important thing of all is to love what you do as it won’t even seem like work then. Good luck to anyone out there willing to give it a go and enjoy it.

[terrynoland]

Excellent video again thanks for sharing great advice

[paulwalsh]

You may get that yolk back to cavan, his back is broke without it.

[HenryK]

Great video 👍🏻
Do you know is there shearing courses for absolute beginners around Connacht area.. thanks.

[ronaldlucas]

If you use # hash tags in front of your Thumbnails and descriptions examples. # sheep farming, # sheep shearing, # Ireland, etc...

[gerrymulligan]

How muck per acre is land lease in ya area

[caffrey]

Good advice 👌, work hard, mind the penny's & the pounds I'll come 🤠.

[qjgehzd]

Surely not a good idea to rent or lease land. Minimum wage is 13.50 per hour in any job. Very hard to make that from farming after taking costs out.
Rental land is too much money in a lot of areas. Just when you have all the effort put in the lease comes to an end and the landlord is looking for more money or he now has a good looking piece of land after your hard work to sell on the market to the highest bidder which is rarely a sheep farmer unless you won the lotto.
Things may change in the future it would be great to see young farmers supported and being able to buy land to get into farming or to increase a small holding to make it viable. The current situation of Teagasc and the farmers journal advising young farmers to take on leased land is doing nothing to improve the situation of young farmers, it easy to get burnt out at farming if all you have at the end of the year to look forward to is a upcoming leases payment while your counterparts in life are booking a sun holiday.

[marklen]

My advice for any young person that would like to farm in the United States is go to college become a doctor a lawyer or a New York banker and forget about farming. There's just no money in it