Electric tractors and fields monitored by drones is the future young people see for farms.
The Welsh farm ten years from now probably has electric tractors ploughing drone monitored fields, a holiday let and solar array helping pay the bills, a young farmer has said.
But the high cost of land means nearly insurmountable "barriers" for people trying to get into farming for the first time. "Opportunity for people to start farming is becoming a bigger barrier all the time," she added. "It's a bit daunting.""It could be that good people with new ideas are turned away because there isn't enough support," she said.She has started to raise pigs on her family's farm."I just thought it's something I can own myself," she said, explaining how she has used social media and word of mouth to develop a meat box business.
Anna Jones, 35, from Welshpool in Powys, recently took over her family farm with about 500 sheep and 40 cow."I think it would be a very sad day if we got to the point where we weren't a working farm here.""But I can't just do the livestock. It's not financially viable so I have to think of diversification ideas."
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