The best job in the World - Polish farmer.

dtaylor5632Threads: 49 Posts: 4,459 Joined: May 2, 09 ♂	Oct 19, 10, 23:30 #31
pgtx: it doesn't help the farmers, does it...? Not really, it's the opposite way around, for free range a farmer must pay even more of a percentage of his intake to buy suitable food, crop, ect.

pgtxThreads: 49 Posts: 6,327 Joined: Feb 14, 09 MEMBER ♀	Oct 19, 10, 23:36 #32
well, i still think they should be cheaper... :)

dtaylor5632Threads: 49 Posts: 4,459 Joined: May 2, 09 ♂	Oct 19, 10, 23:38 #33
pgtx: well, i still think they should be cheaper... :) So rear your own then, you will see it's not that cheap ;)

warszawskiThreads: 60 Posts: 2,385 Joined: May 21, 10 ♂	Oct 20, 10, 00:00 #34
dtaylor5632: For example do I wanna pay £2 for a chicken that has been reared intensively or am I willing to pay £6 for a free ranged chicken??? Lets get back to Polish reality, do you want to pay 3 PLN at carrefor for 12 farmed eggs or do you want to pay 11 PLN for 8 organic eggs? I know the answer, but my wife does not and she orders the shopping.

convexThreads: 46 Posts: 7,185 Joined: Nov 25, 09 ♂	Oct 20, 10, 00:39 #35
warszawski: Lets get back to Polish reality, do you want to pay 3 PLN at carrefor for 12 farmed eggs or do you want to pay 11 PLN for 8 organic eggs? People are willing to pay for it at Alma at least. It's picking up slowly but surely. People are actually interested in the quality of meat now! Restaurants buying grass fed beef for instance.

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Oct 20, 10, 02:01 #36

convex:

People are willing to pay for it at Alma at least. It's picking up slowly but surely. People are actually interested in the quality of meat now! Restaurants buying grass fed beef for instance.

I agree, my wife only buys organic products, or from the farmers outside of Warsaw. I just don't trust the quality in PL. I know the reality they are all out to make a fast buck. Buying eggs from your neighbors and selling them as stamped organic because you are certified, would be something I expect in PL.

enkiduThreads: 18 Posts: 983 Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂	Oct 20, 10, 19:15 #37
warszawski: Buying eggs from your neighbors and selling them as stamped organic because you are certified, would be something I expect in PL. That is possible. On the other hand, comparing to western standards, its fair to say that the majority of Polish farms are in fact "organic". Certificate is just a piece of paper.

warszawskiThreads: 60 Posts: 2,385 Joined: May 21, 10 ♂	Oct 23, 10, 02:46 #38
I say the best job in Poland is wildrowers, he is in the process of becoming a movie star,he has women adoring him from as far as Moscow, he is a biker by day, an internet guru by night, and all under the fall of the apple trees. Some of us have to work in the city...

Pinching PeteThreads: 1 Posts: 1,111 Joined: Feb 23, 08 ♂	Oct 23, 10, 02:49 #39
warszawski: ,he has women adoring him from as far as Moscow .. even though his main diet is beans.. he is truly a skilled human being.

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Edited by: warszawski Oct 23, 10, 02:59 #40

Pinching Pete:

. even though his main diet is beans.. he is truly a skilled human being.

Maybe she thinks he is sitting on a new alternative energy. These yorkshire men are a wee bit canny.

enkidu:

majority of Polish farms are in fact "organic". Certificate is just a piece of paper

That is a nonesense you have use cheap pesticide's for on your land for many years. The only god thing is that products are grown and animals farm in a semi natural way, but that is al about money and the small holdings farmers have.

hague1cmaeronThreads: 21 Posts: 1,648 Joined: Mar 30, 10 ♂	Edited by: hague1cmaeron Oct 23, 10, 04:44 #41
I wonder, is there some possibility of converting what use to be a farming property into some sort of a recreational area? In the future i might find myself in the position of inheriting some land around Podhale, about 7Km from Zakopane, i wonder what can be done with it, apart from selling of course.

Chicago PollockThreads: 10 Posts: 638 Joined: Apr 10, 10 ♂	Oct 23, 10, 05:47 #42
enkidu: - Average farm in Poland is 10,23 ha (102300 square meters). In the States farming 25 acres can get you $100,000.00. Truck farming (vegetables) and selling them at a farmers market or selling them to local restaurants, grocery stores. 12 hour days March through October and than you get the winter off. Farming can be quite lucrative.

f stopThreads: 33 Posts: 2,860 Joined: Dec 9, 09 ♀	Oct 23, 10, 08:27 #43
at my gandmother's farm, the villagers worked together. At harvest, they would get together and attack each field en masse, until they were all done. And then they would party for a month. And then the winter, which really sucked.

1jolaThreads: 33 Posts: 2,737 Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂	Oct 23, 10, 11:18 #44
f stop: at my gandmother's farm, the villagers worked together. Ah, the PGR was a beautiful thing, huh? That team spirit.

f stopThreads: 33 Posts: 2,860 Joined: Dec 9, 09 ♀	Oct 23, 10, 11:28 #45
1jola: Ah, the PGR was a beautiful thing, huh? That team spirit. This was not a PGR. Those were small family owned farms. My grandmother subsidized her retirenment by selling off pieces of land until she died.

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