You manage to graze the clay okay?
Dairy Farm For Sale
- Thread starter Fergieman
- Start date
It's very shorter grazing season on the other farm, has got longer since it is youngstock only, but still is early April to November is about it, even would struggle to graze white lice on half the farm during winter, as water table can be very high as third of the farm was reclaimed, but was green and kept growing during 2018 drought.
A lot of eyes
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Good sheds count for more if it's in a National Park, AONB etc as planning can be harder there. I agree on the soil first though, the rest can be changed.
- Location
- Northumberland
Do you know anything about West Trailtrow farm?
ColinV6
Member
- Location
- Northumberland
Thought it might be near you.4 mile North of Annan.Never heard of it?
Happy at it
Member
- Location
- NI
Always find it sad to see good farms with great set ups on them for sale, and always wonder at how quickly circumstances can change for the families that own them. Not all simple in this job....
ColinV6
Member
Family fall outs and/or simple overstretching with the banks money will be the main reasons.
One is sometimes sadly unavoidable, and even more sad than the sale of a farm is the often permanent family damage that occurs.
As for over borrowing, it’s basic farmer greed and sometimes comes back to bite them.
Family fallouts/payouts will be the biggest. If a family are all working together and pulling together then you would be surprised what can be overcome. Moment they pull 2 different ways you need to split
Fair few set the farm up like a show farm in five minutes and then find they cant go . Takes most us a lifetime if not longer, not much point racing towards setting up the perfect farm only to find you cannot afford to farm it. Once you start down the road of rotary parlours you need 500+ cows and a bloody good contract to pay for it.
Really, 3 of my discussion group put in rotaries this year, one 300+, one under 300 and one 400+, not especially fantastic contracts, but all got a good handle on costs.
dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Yep High milk price and profit don’t always have a correlation. Only have to look at the cop model. But a higher milk price does make life easier.
Dont think its a nice thing to discuss the reason for farm sales on here only my opinion usual reason is some misfortune.
- Location
- Northumberland
I thought @ColinV6 lived in the area,and that he may know something of the physical qualities of the farm. It was for sale last year by Galbraith,and now by Threave Rural.
Goodluck to them
- Location
- South Molton
Local farm for sale with Arla milk contract by separate negotiation.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
pine_guy
Member
- Location
- North Cumbria
by the farm, cows, plant, everything so that basically today joe sends milk, tomorrow milk is sent but the only difference is the name on the top of the milk check.