I am wanting to put in a tender for a farm and need help as no idea what to put.

[neilo]

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.

Yes, a lot of those herds are sending heifers away for grazing currently, or keeping them home eating the grazing/silage ground.

 

[Sid]

Sound's like you wanna run a cowboy outfit?

Pop down here I could take you to see one of those!

 

[R J]

I am wanting to put in a tender for a farm it has 370 acers but its well know to flood as a river is next to it. It has a 3 bed house and a 4 bb and farm buildings. No live stock comes with it. Can some one please help as estate agents don't care as long as its a good offer. Its between Shrewsbury and wales.

About £1000 per acre should secure it

 

[Cowmansam]

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.

So you had 7 kids a career and a degree did you ever sit down in the past 35 years

 

[Brighter Times]

So you had 7 kids a career and a degree did you ever sit down in the past 35 years

Ha funny 2 are my step sons, I had 6 but my son died, worked all my life so not afraid of hard work lol Did my degree over 5 yrs part time while I worked and was mum.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Thanks, I have been told that they are looking for someone that knows farming as in growing and animals. So if anyone hears of a farm thats for cattle/crazing that for rent please advise. As well as horses I will have sheep and cows. looking for 100 to 250 acers. Thanks

Are you related to Christian or is it the same place

 

[7610 super q]

OK.......I gots to ask...........what's a " dude ranch " ?

 

[Brighter Times]

Are you related to Christian or is it the same place

No idea who that is.

 

[Brighter Times]

OK.......I gots to ask...........what's a " dude ranch " ?

Best if you look it up than me type it on here.

 

[wrenbird]

USA ranches where urban Americans go on holiday to play at being cowboys. Sounds a bit more upmarket than pony-trekking which would be the nearest equivalent over here.

OK.......I gots to ask...........what's a " dude ranch " ?

 

[Highland Mule]

USA ranches where urban Americans go on holiday to play at being cowboys. Sounds a bit more upmarket than pony-trekking which would be the nearest equivalent over here.

Had a mate visit me for the weekend a few years ago. I suspect we have all had similar. Worked him hard doing some chainsawing and spiltting logs, tidying a stack of small bales, putting out some stock with the quad/ trailer and rewarded him with a play on the tractor and some random implement (probably the topper). He told me I should be charging for 'experience' days.

That's pretty much what a Dude Ranch is.

 

[lloyd]

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.

First rule is not to tell thousands
of others how much you propose tendering.

 

[Cowmansam]

This is definitely your man from before

 

[Scholsey]

OK.......I gots to ask...........what's a " dude ranch " ?

have you seen brokeback mountain......?

It’s for that.

 

[Cowmansam]

I’m going to say you should probably contact your business partner with dementia

 

[7610 super q]

have you seen brokeback mountain......?

It’s for that.

Ah...right....OK. Bit YMCA then...... More of a slappers corral man myself.

 

[oldoaktree]

Have you done your figures on buying livestock and machinery then there’s insurance on just about everything which adds up , how long is the tenancy? Is there clauses that you have to make good and keep good shed roofs field walls fences etc ? Take it from this ex tenant farmer do your figures very carefully. I’d say you could be better off in the long run buying and @50 acre spot . If you manage that ok in the 1st few years then you can rent or buy more land.
Get your own Land Agent preferably not a red trousers wearing twit .

 

[Bongodog]

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!

I was about to post the same, its the land agent equivalant of a machinery dealer who posts one photo and price POA. The picture of the house and buildings gives the impression of a property that hasn't been a working farm for decades and the land has been rented out. If there was anything positive to say about the place and anything worth photographing surely the agents would havre done so.

 

[Goweresque]

This is all TFF is going to be soon. Dreamers and fantasists all thinking they can swap their urban property money for some sort of rural idyll. From the penniless ones who think that farmers will allow them to just set up their yurt on an 'unwanted' acre of land, to the marginally more realistic ones who think they might have to buy some land but imagine its being given away for pennies, to those who have plenty of money but not a clue to go with it.

Welcome to the future of UK farming industry........gone from the back bone of the nation to an unwanted pimple on its face inside my lifetime.

 

[Boysground]

USA ranches where urban Americans go on holiday to play at being cowboys. Sounds a bit more upmarket than pony-trekking which would be the nearest equivalent over here.

My son is in Canada and they have regular “cowboy competitions/ rodeo on the farm he’s on.

He had some wild heifers get out which they couldn’t round up, the management got the local red necks out to retrieve them on horseback. Junior said it was the best horsemanship he had ever seen (he would know) it took them minutes to rope the escapees.

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