- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Are all farms to rent 370 acres?
Seems so. I reckon £500/acre would get it.
I am wanting to put in a tender for a farm and need help as no idea what to put.
- Thread starter Brighter Times
- Start date
Seems so. I reckon £500/acre would get it.
Wombat was helping, if there is a large dairy farm nearby that needs extra land they would be willing to bid a very strong rent.
Bogweevil
Member
It is excellent advice you are getting here.
- Location
- Shropshire
Are you by any chance the same man who also wants to tender on 370 acres on another thread that started out by saying how farmers have ruined the countryside and your going to make 2000 an acre
Lili
Member
- Location
- Aberystwyth hinterland
I think this is the vegan whose previous thread has disappeared
Hi I’m christian I’m new to the forum. I have followed farming in the uk for a number of years from afar and seen the destruction and pollution it causes first hand living in rural areas myself. There is a 370 acre farm up for rent close by which I am interested in renting to farm in a sustainable ecological way. My question is how much money should I bid per acre to be the top bidder for the property. I have done some calculations on my potential income from the property and believe I could return at its peak £2000-£2500 profit per acre per year from the property. But this level would not be possible for a number of years till I have established all diversification revenue streams up and running. Would £350-400 per acre be enough or am I way out with my valuation?
Hi I’m christian I’m new to the forum. I have followed farming in the uk for a number of years from afar and seen the destruction and pollution it causes first hand living in rural areas myself. There is a 370 acre farm up for rent close by which I am interested in renting to farm in a sustainable ecological way. My question is how much money should I bid per acre to be the top bidder for the property. I have done some calculations on my potential income from the property and believe I could return at its peak £2000-£2500 profit per acre per year from the property. But this level would not be possible for a number of years till I have established all diversification revenue streams up and running. Would £350-400 per acre be enough or am I way out with my valuation?
- Location
- Shropshire
Pieces_of_Eight
Member
How do these tender things work?
If I were a Hedge Fund Consultant and my wife was a cardiac surgeon (private of course) and we had a spare £150k each year to help fund a giant hobby farm (all with paid staff and contractors), and we were perfectly honest about it all in our business plan, would we get the tenancy?
I think Bald Rick missed a trick locking the other thread, we would have had a interesting afternoon advising the vegan OP how much unicorn sh!t to put on his Shropshire avocados.Are all farms to rent 370 acres?
Oliveau
Member
- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Hmm - Acers again and horses? I think our dreamer is back again.
Brighter Times
Member
No I am Woman 49 wanting to start up my own company, I have owned a Fair Trade company before which I have sold on and got a Business Management Degree and thought someone would have good knowledge to help. I have a partner 3 sons and 4 daughters backing me and ready to help were needed. I come from a back ground of helping out at farms when i was younger but not growing crops. Any way lets leave it there and thanks for help given.
Glad I missed that one
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Just buy a 30-50 acre smallholding then. If your experience of animal husbandry is not contemporary and directly relevant then it is likely to end in welfare issues if you try to do it on the scale you indicate.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
In case you are genuine, 370ac is a sizeable unit, requiring a good amount of working capital and farming knowledge.
That’s not a million miles from here, with quite a few large, and expansionist, dairy units in the vicinity.
Without those dairy units competing for it, your ballpark figure (without seeing the farm) is going to be between £150 & £200/ac to even earn a second read of your tender.
Is that viable? No, I very much doubt it. Others that have tendered similarly for grass/livestock units locally certainly aren’t having an easy time of it.
Brighter Times
Member
At last some one with a proper answer, thank you. The farm is in 4 lots and the one I really want is the farm house and buildings and approx. 135 ACRE, which I was looking at putting in 250 an acre. Would dairy famers want land that floods all the time and stock unable to be out in winter and other times the way the weather is going. As this is what I have been told about the property land near to the river. PS I am genuine.
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
That must be the worst advert for a farm to rent i have ever seen! 2 photos! I took more photos of a table i gave away for free!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Land that floods would be more suited to cropping for grass (dairy) than grazing (sucklers and horses) anyway, I'd think.
@Brighter Times - you're the one with the Business Management Degree, you must have some sort of business plan drawn up and know what you can afford.
@Brighter Times - you're the one with the Business Management Degree, you must have some sort of business plan drawn up and know what you can afford.