I am seeing more and more situations where there is no successor willing to take on the family farm business. In many cases it is not because there are no children, it is because there are no children willing to engage in active farming because they don’t see farming as a sustainable lifestyle, be it part-time or full-time.
Many employees, including farm workers and farmers working off-farm, will be impacted by the new auto-enrolment pension scheme recently passed into law.
Everybody has a future, whether that be days, months, years or decades. In my previous article I covered three out of the five decision-making arrangements provided by the new Decision Support Service (DSS), which came into operation last May to promote the rights and interests of people who may need support with decision-making.