[cattlefarmer]

I'd love to hear about that free farmland thing you mentioned.

I've spoken with a few entrepreneurs about trying to build something like a scaled up version of Farmbot [0] for small Japanese farms but most reactions I've gotten is negative. The councils don't want robots, they want young people back.

[0]: https://farmbot.io

[mikekchar]

If you want to farm on some land, usually you can just walk up to a farmer and ask if they know anybody that would lend you some land. The going "price" around here seems to be a bottle of whiskey for the year. Of course the land owner continues to get the tax benefit (and you must have the land in production or else they will lose that). Not sure what it's like in other places, but it's quite easy get get land here (unless it is an orchard or tea field). But then I admit that I spend half my day chatting with the farmers near my house ;-)