Were you not aware of what you were signing up for?? When I went for a national trust farm couple years ago they made me very aware of how they wanted it farmed and what’s schemes I was expected too take part in and stocking density’s I was expected too adhere too Ect ect... I went for it but at a hell of a lot lower rent than I’d of offered it I was allowed more freedom... didn’t get it of course but decided not too go for any national trust farms again as there business model isn’t capable of sustaining a full time wage even off a large acreageAttached a shot of the NT information board to the land I farm. Equate the second paragraph with the idea of “no cultivation and no winter feeding” that the NT and their bedfellows NE seek to impose on the long-suffering tenant farmer!
The NT gave me a AHA tenancy in 1991for which I am grateful. However the NT and have spent last 9 years encouraging NE to undermine that tenancy.View attachment 958384
I have experienced much the same situation although I am on an FBT tenancy, about the first one ever created by NT. They were very insistent that the farm had to be let as a whole, the farmer had to live here and there were very few restrictions on the so-called partnership between landlord and tenant. Recently they have made it evident that they do not wish it to be farmed and suggested that we were too commercial in our farming to be suitable tenants and would have to change if we wanted to stay here.. With these FBT tenancies they have you by the balls so consequently we made the decision to walk.Difference is the agreement I have was signed 30 years ago when they wanted a family to live and farm this holding....now they don’t want a mixed farm they want a part time organic enviro-grazier but they have an aha tenancy agreement in place.
The use of NE and EIA regulations to further the aspirations of the NT and undermine the AHA tenancy is “below the belt” and not a proper use of public funding. Nonetheless it is currently occurring.
now they don’t want a mixed farm they want a part time organic enviro-grazier but they have an aha tenancy agreement in place.
It’s about “trust.”Sounds great, where do I sign up?
They've got to hit the 25% target of land in enviro schemes. Rent normally is a minor income, not last year.
Rents £50m as part of a total turnover of £683m
Farm rents or rents in total? They own a lot of houses.