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Raider112

Member
Off topic.
I was told that an 800 acre farm about 2-3mls west of your Swindon road land is coming on the market. If true it will be interesting to see who ends up buying it and for what price.
It will be really sad if such a level farm with good soil ends up being bought by an organisation that you mention :mad:
Will farmers be in a position to stipulate that the land must be farmed for the next so many years or will they go for the highest bidder? Pretty sure I wouldn't want to kick the previous generations work into the long scrub for a few thousand more.
 
Apologies
But
Why can anyone control or dictate what someone else wants to do with their property,
Fact of life,

You can’t but they are doing it because they aren’t educated in food production requirements and general countrywide stewardship.

They think they are doing the right thing ……. We know they aren’t so some kind of protest is required to bring it to their attention, because let’s face it our pathetic farming union won’t do anything because they need to support rewilding to appease their main membership.
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
Off topic.
I was told that an 800 acre farm about 2-3mls west of your Swindon road land is coming on the market. If true it will be interesting to see who ends up buying it and for what price.
It will be really sad if such a level farm with good soil ends up being bought by an organisation that you mention :mad:
Lol, yes, I drink with the owner 3 times a week in the local. Certainly be an interesting one, none of his children wish to farm, the only farm I know in these parts to have some Grade 1 land. I'm pushing him to have a ploughing match on it before it's sold.
A lot of roll-over money about and too fashionable to be bough by a re-wilder, Cotswolds darhling!!!
 
Dumfries and Galloway
Well put it this way, plantable land around here has gone from around £1500/ac to £6000/ac in the space of 18 months.
I have only ventured into Scotland once, a couple but of months ago, travelling from the M6 past Dumfries to Dalbeattie and I thought the countryside was rather similar to a lot of mid wales, looked to be a lot of decent mixed stock farms.
Such land in mid wales has been selling either side of 10k an acre in recent years depending on quality and local interest, local interest pushing some well above that
 

toquark

Member
I have only ventured into Scotland once, a couple but of months ago, travelling from the M6 past Dumfries to Dalbeattie and I thought the countryside was rather similar to a lot of mid wales, looked to be a lot of decent mixed stock farms.
Such land in mid wales has been selling either side of 10k an acre in recent years depending on quality and local interest, local interest pushing some well above that
I’m talking about hill ground which is suitable for forestry, which I’m sure there is plenty of in mid wales. A decent stock farm will fetch around £8k an acre and over £10k for silaging ground in dairy country along the southern edge of D&G, where you would have driven. To be fair it hasn’t really changed much since the pandemic but the more marginal places in the hills and uplands have seen a serious lift, mainly down to forestry potential and carbon accreditation. Great if you’re looking to sell, terrible for tenants and new entrants.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
you also have to accept that somethings are not within your control

make the best of the hand you are dealt
Buy to let was encouraged by gordon brown , which has led directly to todays housing crisis.
Labour govts are not supposed to encourage landlords.
Rewilding and tree subsidies are pushing land way beyond the means of farmers to buy or rent, so will have the same catestrophic consequences.
 
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