Hello My names matthew Im new to the forums and am seeking help. I soon have to make the choice what i will do in life what uni should i go to.I have been into farming for a long time sice i was 12 but dont come from a farming family.I am planning on going to agricultral uni but ones iv qualified what do i do . farming runs in familys and i dont come from one. I know for sure i want to be a farmer and i know the life stile, i live over the road from a farm but cannot participate in and of the work down there.So what do i do? go and work for a contractor 

Please help me 

Best regards Matthew

Firstly, well done for having such a great name!!

 On a serious note - have you any work experience??

Also, look at the uni prospectus, they will tell you future careers - land agency, farm management (google - sentry or velcourt), agronomy, agri journalism, business advisor etc.

Theres lots to do but what is your goal? Do you want to drive a tractor when your 'knocking on' or do you want to sit behind a desk pushing paper? What interetsts you? Arable? Livestock?

Theres plenty of careers to have but you need to identify what you want to do - you dont have to come from a farming family to work in agriculture!

 I have no exspearenc i want to be outdoors farming thats why id like to do farming aswell as everthink els im looking at arable not to keen on livestock seen the dair industry now. iv been to country fairs . I would like to be a farmer growing crops and maybe some live stock. My parents have mentioned working for land egencys and all that but i want to be a typical farmer i know its sounds like a city boy im not that much of one Also what sort of a chance do i have of working for a local farmer ?

fergiefarmerfred:

Also what sort of a chance do i have of working for a local farmer ?

The only way you will ever know is to go out and ask.

I did and the first person I asked gave me a job and 2 years later I'm still there, as Matty has said you don't have to have a farming background to get along with this industry, yeah sure it helps but where's the challenge in that. From an experience point of view, I started with very little experience and after two years I am capable of completing most of the farms operations. It is a really interesting career that I am sure you will enjoy and sure there are high and lows but you get that with every job.

Hope you find the job you are looking for 

Never knew there were so many of us called Matthew a name only reserved for the best!

Matt

 Thanks

ill go down and ask laster on.

And your right Matthew a name only reserved for the best!

Thanks Best regards Matthew

I feel I have to reply if only to break the chain of Matthews!!! LOL

Go and ask local farmers for some work, get some experience and enjoy it.  If you read my blog (link below) you'll see that I'm not from a immediate farming family but when I was your age wanted to get some work experience.  I replied to adds in FW for my local area and got a part time job to get some experience.  It was a few miles from home and it was before I could drive and my dad wouldn't be taxi. 

It's a practical job so you do need some practical work.  Good Luck but more importantly Hard Work is what it's about

Graham

You probably have a fair chance of working for a farmer - look on fwi jobs - there's generally plenty of arable jobs etc which often include a house.

Owning it yourself though, that will require alot of initial capital (land, machinery etc). If your quite happy working for someone, go for it - a NDA would be good to have for working for someone - have a look on the jobs section anyway, you will find alot out on there.

My first job was through shooting, i started lambing for a farm etc, now i work there occasionally but work for a large estate - i did this by ringing them, getting wor experience and after that finished they offered me a job.Im still there now.

Also, even though the dairy industry is on a slight slump - if you want to go into dairy, theres some good jobs as herd managers etc.

To be honest, get work experience, it will teach you alot!

If you want to work outside, why are you going to uni?

Get  a job on a farm, get some proper hands on experience and then decide weather you still want to go to college as they might want to keep you on, college is a bit of a waste of time and you can do course's to get your certificates throw work, i started work when i was 16 straight from school and spent 5 years at that job without going to uni and ended up being head tractor driver, learned it all on farm and got all the certificates i needed and wanted. 

hi there matty glad to hear you want to join the farming scene,like some of the others have said try get some experince and then decide if its what you want to do,i did the uni thing for a while and they didnt seem to teach for the future only the past if you get what i mean,im 33 now and after a lot of hard work ive got to where i wanted to be head tractor driver combine driver sprayer op and all other work and did my certif while working so good luck matt hope you enjoy the farming scene . jim

 Im going to agri uni hopefully

( quote)postdriver

Whats a sertif

is it like a qualifaction?

 Thanks to every one who said go on the fwi space and alsio to every one who has commented ill go have a look now

Im one happy bunny

fergiefarmerfred:

Im going to agri uni hopefully

Sorry, do you mean going to somewhere like Harper post A-levels, or to ag college after GCSE's?

I wouldnt bother with the former. No real farming, pile of debt, and three wasted years.....unless you want to be a land agent :(

TeslaCoils:

fergiefarmerfred:

Im going to agri uni hopefully

Sorry, do you mean going to somewhere like Harper post A-levels, or to ag college after GCSE's?

I wouldnt bother with the former. No real farming, pile of debt, and three wasted years.....unless you want to be a land agent :(

Aye unless your wanting to be land agent or manager i wouldnt bother. If you want to be a farm worker or say foreman, just do a NDA - cheaper and easier 

 whats a land agent and the manager will that be the manager of the farm?

Matt did you go to agri collage or did you not bother seen as you work for a farmer

I'm doing A levels then im off to university as i want to be a manager, or land agent. I did also consider agronomy too.

I'l post a couple of links for you....

http://www.sentry.co.uk/index.php?pageid=2023&section=farms - Farm management careers

http://www.sentry.co.uk/index.php?section=advisory - Farm advisors

http://www.yara.com/careers/ - Agronomy/crop science

Random Arable Jobs - http://www.fwi.co.uk/jobs/search/searchresults.aspx?keywords=&sortBy=Date&sortdir=Descending&page=1&pageSize=10&cat7905=7907

Or if you want to get an idea of jobs/salary's/qualifications go to http://www.fwi.co.uk/jobs/default.aspx  and have a look through the different sectors

http://www.struttandparker.com/html/land-and-farm-management.php - Land management etc. A land agent is basically the same as an estate agent - but for farms and land

Answer these - What do you want to do in agriculture? Livestock, Arable, Veg, ?

Do you want to drive a tractor and do hard physical labour?

Do you want to sit behind a desk on rainy days with paper work, manage staff and still do bits of farm work?

Do you want to be out there every weather?

Do you want lots of money for doing a 9-5 job?

 I dont want to earn lots of money

i want to work out in all weathers 

I DONT want to be stuck behind a desk on a rainyday 

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