Question on leasing/renting farmland

egbert

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Livestock Farmer
Surely if somebody had this kind of money they would be contacting land agents not a forum. SCAM

Oh I think someone will be contacting him if he seriously suggests he's got punters with £100m to put in....HM dept of anti-money laundering.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Re Land for sale I'm all good, I need 100+ acre plots for lease or rent ;)

That seems to be the difficult thing to find

I think a few posters in here are being a bit harsh on you.

Wouldn't you be better offering contracts to grow hemp? Have you researched the history of UK hemp production. If so, you could prove your authenticity by posting it in here please.

As above, your best bet if you wanted to rent land is to contact the land agents. Savills, Strutt & Parker, Carter Jonas, Staggs, Symonds & Sampson, WebbPaton, Greenslade Taylor Hunt, Tayler & Fletcher. Perhaps touching base with these guys might help get you some contacts https://www.rau.ac.uk/cirencester-growth-hub
 

cattleman123

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Location
devon
Think there is some confusion here (my fault I didn't word post well but can't seem to edit or delete it!?!)

Fundsurfer are brokers, not the final investors. We represent clients looking to raise funding (e.g Hemp farms) and investors looking for investment opportunities.

For some reason, I can't edit the post as should have made that a bit clearer obviously!

We are only here to connect with potential landowners, not trying to 'scam' anyone - not sure what that would even look like! Considering we are looking at this on behalf of investors interested in helping to boost industrial hemp growth in the UK.

Been a very long time since I've been called a bellend though so that's pretty funny :)

Kind regards,

Oliver

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Bull sh!t...go back to fairy land
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
5acre were grew by a hippie woman who was bought the land by friends of the earth near me. It got to flowering stage and then it was wiped out overnight, by every idiot who wanted to smoke it. Impressive they harvested it in 1 night by hand! Talking to a known “smoker” in the pub and he said it wouldn’t smoke right and was like newspaper x asbestos.
 

JLLM

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Tyddewi
5acre were grew by a hippie woman who was bought the land by friends of the earth near me. It got to flowering stage and then it was wiped out overnight, by every idiot who wanted to smoke it. Impressive they harvested it in 1 night by hand! Talking to a known “smoker” in the pub and he said it wouldn’t smoke right and was like newspaper x asbestos.
That suggests they had tried the newspaper/ asbestos option, i know someone who tried some very dry silage when he ran out of baccy once.:facepalm:
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
That suggests they had tried the newspaper/ asbestos option, i know someone who tried some very dry silage when he ran out of baccy once.:facepalm:
We’ve all tried that to eek it out a bit when running low late at night. Magda’s field down by us if you know it @JLLM ? I remember laying plastic and irrigating it when uncle had it, 20+ years of regenerative wilderness there now. :mad::banghead:
 

JLLM

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Tyddewi
We’ve all tried that to eek it out a bit when running low late at night. Magda’s field down by us if you know it @JLLM ? I remember laying plastic and irrigating it when uncle had it, 20+ years of regenerative wilderness there now. :mad::banghead:
Yes remember it farmed well, quite a few fields being left around the place now.
 
To be fair I know a man who had 3 million you invest and didn' know where to start and asked me on Facebook. .... he ended up buying 90 acres and a forest... lived in my.village and found me on the village group because he heard my name as "the young farming lad".

Never be surprised how little people can actually know about the land market! The more money often the furher removed from farming reality they are
 

mezz

Member
Location
Ireland
To be fair I know a man who had 3 million you invest and didn' know where to start and asked me on Facebook. .... he ended up buying 90 acres and a forest... lived in my.village and found me on the village group because he heard my name as "the young farming lad".

Never be surprised how little people can actually know about the land market! The more money often the furher removed from farming reality they are

The difference is your neighbour is a private investor, looking after his own money; how he goes about that is his own business.

The OP was claiming to be a professional, either a custodian of other peoples' hard earned cash, or working as an agent for someone who is. The naiveté and ignorance displayed was astonishing.

The reality is there was nothing professional about his conduct. Even when Brisel, offered him an opportunity to redeem himself, and show he had actually done some serious research, so he could be taken seriously, he didn't take it.
 
Its' taking off bigtime in my locale, we have the climate for it, people coming from as far away as New York city renting land to grow the stuff.
It will go into mainstream ag now as it has been included into last weeks new farm bill.

In addition the growing of marijuana in Colorado seems to be moving to a more commercial level, huge greenhouses going up.
 
The difference is your neighbour is a private investor, looking after his own money; how he goes about that is his own business.

The OP was claiming to be a professional, either a custodian of other peoples' hard earned cash, or working as an agent for someone who is. The naiveté and ignorance displayed was astonishing.

The reality is there was nothing professional about his conduct. Even when Brisel, offered him an opportunity to redeem himself, and show he had actually done some serious research, so he could be taken seriously, he didn't take it.


True - it is worrying that the person acting as an intermediary between the money and the farming does not already know the farming industry, so at best their will be two levels of intermediate management taking a skim.

Ive done some research as it appears a few people round here have grown hemp over the years.... and their used to be a flax and hemp mill down the road - the retting ponds location are near my office (day job as farm manager on another farm). (The mill shut in 1920....)

Hemp was tried alot about 6-8 years ago and without fail harvesting in sept and oct meant product totally rejected by processors, conditions meant it was simply not possible to harvest a clean crop. THe other issue is supply - no farmer wants to put eggs in one basket so it was done as a consortium - lots of 20-30 acre blocks spread on different farms, which makes sense. Feedback was good root system like flax/linseed but it raped the soil for PK - pig to harvest and if even slightly damp the fiber wraps around every moving part.

Plus side is if cut short in a forage as quite alot did in the end it makes an excellent bedding which is slightly abrasive and kept cattle clean. Cant see it working and certainly cant see you securing 100 acre blocks easily given the land ownership structure in britain is mostly smaller blocks - I myself farm a 130 block made up for 20 of mine, and 3 other landlords all with different wants and needs, creating a single block.... getting them round the table is impossible!

To be frank, not a business for the UK IMO
 

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