I've lived in the suburbs all my life, but have always felt a strong "calling to the land". I remember being a preschooler telling everyone I was going to be a grazier!

I've come to a point in my life were I can afford to buy property, and would like to. I've been causally looking around my home area, and land here is quite expensive. Honestly, for the price of an smallish urban block here, I could get 1000+ rural acres.

G'day,

I have an area of about an acre that at times gets quite wet.  It tends to wind up underwater for about 3 days about once a month.  I am in the Nowra area NSW.  I have regularly tried sowing Victorian Rye there and it doesnt take well as it dies everytime it floods.  What options do I have to put something in this area that would grow and be suitable for sheep.

cheers

Tim

My wife and I have bought 44 acres with the view of expanding our 9 dorpers into a flock of 30 - 40 and then "trading up" and eventually having a viable farm. 

Our accountant has informed us that to run the farm as a business and the associated tax benefits, we need to achieve a turnover of around $20,000. This is patently impossible with the dorpers, however we were wondering if anyone had any other ideas to achieve that kind of turnover? 

It doens't particularly matter if we can't run the farm as a business, we were just wondering if it was at all possible.

Re: Katiepooch's response in the above thread

Hi All

My husband & I have been looking into buying 100 acres for a while to run a few head of cattle on it.  We inspected a property over the weekend but is a little bigger than we planned, its 1600 acres.

Gday guys and girls

New to the forum and throwing up an introduction.

I have been advised that I can only get Mobile Broadband - as opposed to ADSL or cable - on my property outside Casino, NSW. Does anyone know if there are government rebates, discounts or any other subsidy for remote rural properties, as the cost of having this is very expensive (up to $90.00 for 15gb per month). I spoke with Telstra who could only offer a discount on the modem rental at $48.00 per year.

I would like to use the internet to run my online goats milk soap business and not sure if 15gb is even enough for this.

Thanks in advance