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Dairy Farm For Sale

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
I had a tour of a SW cheese company a few years ago. It was a reasonable sized company but small enough that it was the owner that showed us around. He said that they had £5m tied up in maturing cheese at any one time and all of it was borrowed against.

Dunno if it's still the case, but Dairy Crest pension pot was invested in cheese futures a couple of years ago.
 

Blue.

Member
Livestock Farmer
How much is $5m in gbp.
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Massey675

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bristol
It'll probably go off in lots to small holders, horsey folk or general farmers wanting to buy a few more acres I cannot see why a farmer would buy the whole place to milk, the milk industry is dead in the water, you'd practically be milking just to pay for the farm unless someone like Dyson takes a interest.
 

pappuller

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
It'll probably go off in lots to small holders, horsey folk or general farmers wanting to buy a few more acres I cannot see why a farmer would buy the whole place to milk, the milk industry is dead in the water, you'd practically be milking just to pay for the farm unless someone like Dyson takes a interest.
Don't think Mr dysons moving into Pennsylvania just yet [emoji23]
 

bigw

Member
Location
Scotland
I was in Pennsylvania years ago, loads of really rolling land a lot of contour farming and a big Amish population. One farm we visited had just put up a new tie stall setup for around 100 cows all staffed with Amish family members along side a slatted fattening unit for around 5000 head which the one brother had done in a 'normal' way using machinery. It caused a lot of friction between family members I think, all a bit weird if you ask me.
 

mixed farm

Member
Any house?
Yeah, modern house. Would be some of the very, very best land in Ireland in that location. There's housing set up for 500 head. Think he bought in 2003, started off with 50 cows. Ended up for sale. I have no knowledge of the place or people but it looks to me that someone went cow crazy.
 

coomoo

Member
Yeah, modern house. Would be some of the very, very best land in Ireland in that location. There's housing set up for 500 head. Think he bought in 2003, started off with 50 cows. Ended up for sale. I have no knowledge of the place or people but it looks to me that someone went cow crazy.
Ah right definitely looks like he’s enjoyed himself. 150 cows grazed through a big parlour probably even autumn block minimal relief staff make a bloody good living, 500 on that acreage however ?
 

I wonder what happened there. They used to have a FB page called Lundie farming but it's disappeared. That's an entirely new setup on a greenfield site less than 5 years ago. There must be £1m + in infrastructure easily.

They were milking 600 spring calvers. It looks good value.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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