Helping farm groups

Many people see the family farm

* keeping rural areas alive
* using farm methods that preserve the traditional countryside
* contributing to a healthy rural infra-structure
* providing a link with our past agrarian heritage
* creating a decent, responsible lifestyle for young people

Practical Farm Ideas can help keep traditional, medium sized family farms active. The magazine's editorial contributes to the following:

1.  Workshop projects reduce capital spending. Viable medium scale farms need to think hard before re-equipping with new expensive machinery.  Farm IDEAS has many low cost alternatives.

2.  Farm IDEAS projects can generate new income.

3.  Successful cost cutting ideas can contribute a 'feel-good' psychological factor that's as significant as the financial benefits.

Talking directly to farm groups at evening meetings helps farming members feel positive about their long term futures, and encourages farmers to see success in their financial performance rather than in the value of the equipment. Presentations encourage free thinking; a 'can do' frame of mind; an analysis which looks at assets in the round. The Q and A session provides an opportunity for discussion areas to be expanded, for an input from farmers on the front line.

The magazine itself provides a huge number of ways which help farmers save money, help increase efficiency, help reduce capital expenditure.

Access to free information can be achieved through web site links, even to the Farm Ideas 'Tip of the Day' which gives surfers a new innovation each day.

Farm IDEAS editorial, articles featuring cost-cutting innovations are inexpensive to source and positive in their effect.

Farming these past years has been inundated with promises and policy statements - helping smaller businesses, hand-holding, mentoring and so on. The intentions of all this are good, but often there's a shortage of reality.
Practical Farm IDEAS provides reality by the bucket load!

Let's say "good-bye" to the last decade and more when farm born and bred youngsters have been encouraged to look beyond the farm gate for a career - a decade when the farming parents themselves have said, even to farm-mad lads 'you don't want to do this'; 'there's no future in farming'; 'he's too bright to be a farmer'...  Practical Farm Ideas has many farm business success stories which can be told.