My thinking is that farm land is currently a bad investment in terms of potential income as opposed to the value tied up in an asset. Land that is really only farmable would be a toxic asset if its purchase meant no funds to farm it effectiveley. My landlord has 1500 ac plus more tennanted and he cant see the point in buying - sees it as a vanity because hed be dead before he saw a proper return and hes only 40 odd. I have a feling either farmland will crash at sone point (Im 32, I can play the long game) or we will all end up working for one massive "farmco". Either way, my skills are relativeley in demand, so I should be able to survive. At the moment land to rent is in fairly plentiful supply as older farmers without willing sons want to do less but not leave the farm, it seems. I'm mostly talking grazing here and I have heard cattle grazing is easier to get than sheep grazing. Get a good reputation and suddenly land seems to open up to you. You do, however need to knock doors/place as/ring people etc.
