Does anyone know what the rental value is for a game crop? Someone else has shooting rights over our land. I get on with this person well and he has done me quite a few favours in the past so I haven't charged much for renting a game crop to him. He has given up now and let the shooting rights to someone else. The new guy shoots at least twice a week over it and puts a lot of birds down on these crops. It's good arable land really so I should be charging a lot more to the new guy but I don't know how much.
Game cover rent.
- Thread starter jd6420s
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
£500/ac
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
£500/ ac plus the same for the area that will get destroyed by Pheasants and partridges.
Yes it's always a difficult conversation that one because every gamekeeper says they don't eat the crop. The thing is they didn't put any birds down last year because they were too pricey. To my surprise the area next to the old game crop is perfect this year.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's not a difficult conversation. It's ££££ or they get no cover. They'll all turn up in range rovers and fancy gear.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
£500/acre and they do all the work. Any operations I do I charge by the hour with a minimum charge of 1 hour.
- Location
- Shropshire
In all of these things, if you go in low to start with, you will never get it higher.
Go in at what you feel comfortable.
will depend if you get shooting back etc or purely let.
If you get shooting back, minimum should be £170/ acre. Think the stewardship option is £420/ha.
If it’s just a load of blokes driving around your farm for no benefit to you, then considerably more.
- Location
- Shropshire
That was kind of my point. I’d go day/couple of days shooting plus £170 per acre plus payment for any work done
ZXR17
Member
- Location
- South Dorset
Exactly the same here . This is the first year I have 100% crop against the game covers due to very few birds being put down last season.
- Location
- Worcestershire
Bit steep 500 acre ( really ). are you joking around 
ZXR17
Member
- Location
- South Dorset
Not with all of the grief involved.
- Location
- Worcestershire
Could said that about the els scheme.
ZXR17
Member
- Location
- South Dorset
True, but Els is self inflicted grief.
ollie989898
Member
Bit steep 500 acre ( really ). are you joking around
It's not just the output of the land in question but the fact folk will be walking all over the shop, driving vehicles around and the game being released will attack any crop plants they find in the vicinity. Then you will have the grief of a complete botanical garden of weeds to clean up after a few years when they change the location of the strips.
Pieces_of_Eight
Member
How many acres of cover are we talking?
I have 60 acres in total in that land parcel. I have already let 2 acres of game cover and the new guy is wanting another acre. They do drive a lot of vehicles up to these game covers and TBH they need me a lot more than I need them. I think £500 an acre is fair considering the hassle. I was just wanting to know how much they make out of something like that? It does seem a big concern and he will shoot every week and sometimes twice over it.
There is also the arable crop next to the game cover that gets eaten by the birds which I need to factor in as well.
I don't own the shooting rights so I can't stop them shooting on my land but if I stopped the game cover altogether they wouldn't shoot over the land anywhere near as much.