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Torsten Brinch wrote in message
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It would seem to be rather more on-topic to get some input from UK,
where you imply land values are less closely related to what can be
grown (and as I have pointed to, apparently closely related to the
level of subsidy given by society to the land owners.) If high land
values is or has become a problem for UK farm profitability, as you
seem to suggest it could be, we should certainly look into the matter
with some focus.

currently farm land in UK is kept up by two factors.
1) it is a small island, and farm land is not over supplied.
2) it seems that there is still the feeling in urban dwellers that they
want to own an farm, not so much because they want to farm, but because
they want the privacy and rural dwelling. As most UK good farm land is
within commutting distance of one major city or another (indeed some
fell farms are within commutting distance of cities) and urban salaries,
and such things as city bonuses have been so high for the last ten years
or so, then small farms outside the SE, have been cheaper to buy than
small houses in the SE of England.

--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'