Passing on your farm to a young farmer is possible, but you have to be patient!

“It’s like a marriage. The farm had to please him and it had to suit me in order to pass the baton to the right person, who will continue to keep the farm on a human scale, not to someone who is buying just to expand, enthuses Pierre Robert. Above all, we must show the beauty of the profession because we cannot attract young people by only promising them misfortune! »

After 38 years of getting up at dawn to milk his fifty cows, this 62-year-old farmer is slowly starting to slow down. Since 1^is January, its farm of around a hundred hectares in Terre-de-Bancalié in Tarn now belongs to Laura Olivé, a 28-year-old breeder from Aude.