Dairy Farm For Sale

aangus

Member
Location
cumbria
I think its a good farm and a snip at £1.5 million.I think it will make much more.The house looks reasonable and the buildings not too bad.A big acreage all in a ring fence.With a budget of £3 million,you would have enough to put in any kind of dairy set up you wanted. Longtown only 8 miles away,and there are some big dairy herds around there.Carlisle just 17 mile away; two of the biggest cattle and sheep marts in the whole country.Whats not to like? You will never find anything in Yorkshire,England,or Wales that size for the money.Does it not tick all your boxes? I think a guy called Irving farmed dairy cows there in the 70s,80s,90s.
Ivie Mcllwraith milked there many many years ago.
 

pappuller

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
it’s a lot of land for the money and the house looks decent structurally wise and nothing 50k spend wouldn’t fix. Surely dairy building wise you will be £600k minimum on a set up
Realistically with a guide of £1.9m for the whole how much will it actually make tho ? £2.5 ??
Would it carry a cow to the acre ?
Buy for 2.5 spend £2k a cow on infrastructure and £3.5 m gets you a 450/500 cow unit.
You'd add £2m to get that round here and then have to start spending.
 

Fools Gold

Member
Livestock Farmer
Realistically with a guide of £1.9m for the whole how much will it actually make tho ? £2.5 ??
Would it carry a cow to the acre ?
Buy for 2.5 spend £2k a cow on infrastructure and £3.5 m gets you a 450/500 cow unit.
You'd add £2m to get that round here and then have to start spending.
Probably a bit optimistic at a cow to the acre, would have thought 300 plus young stock be nearer the mark.
Milk contract be the main stumbling block in Scotland atm.
 

Fools Gold

Member
Livestock Farmer
Whats the British Dairy industry come to? Its precisely why the MMB was set up in 1933.
Why not balls deep through a 50 point rotary, 500 coos flying herd plenty of debt and send it on 🤣🤣🤣
I believe there’s just about 830 producers left in Scotland with that expected to fall below 800 within the year, average herd size about 220 cows though, some seriously large herds about and some mind boggling expansion among them ( thus the lack of available new contracts) Get big or get out definitely seems the direction of travel!
 

NoParticularPattern

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
Is Scotland still in a massive milk surplus? I know it was a while back but I have no idea what covid etc has done to the specific Scottish market. I would expect a large nearby unit to take it on no bother with expansion, but not being from round there I’ve absolutely zero idea whether it even has any large units nearby. Although being where it is it can’t not, surely?
It’s a nice enough spot but yeah it’s not selling for that is it? It’s absolutely more like £2.5m money and the guide just your average Scottish attention getter. Would be worth I look I think, but husband doesn’t appear keen 🤷‍♀️
 

lady muck

Member
Location
Ayrshire
Why the need to spend £600,000 all in one go at the start.You could get up and running with dairy for a fraction of that.

it is likely to be in an NVZ so 6 months slurry storage
Parlour
Cubicles - how suitable are the existing sheds for cows
Entitlements at £155 per unit

I would thought if the farm was good the Irish grazers in the area would be all over it.

At the moment in scotland it is likely to be a Yew tree contract but you are very close to Arla and the border.
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire

NoParticularPattern

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
Looks like a useful spot. Shame it’s not a TB4 area. And I’m not sure on the implications of the SSSI situation. But nice ring fence and mostly decent sized fields too.
 

pappuller

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
Its been for sale for nearly 12mnths
Its been advertised with a different agent since last August, was originally offered as 440 acres in 2 lots, can flood quite badly on the lower lying land but will be a very good farm.
 

NoParticularPattern

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
Dont go for it. It will be TB hell...........and it floods..........and its been up for sale for ages,with more acres.
Don't worry I’m going nowhere near that TB area 😂. I didn’t even get as far as checking the flood situation when I saw the area it was in. Husband has decided he can’t possibly bring himself to look at a place that calls itself Mouldyhills either 🙈. My drawing board is getting pretty tired now 😂
 

Bipper

Member
Ive never been convinced with Robots and organics, must be a ball ache managing grass etc with the variable shifts.

If it foods then robots and inside might be the answer.
 

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