Land next door.....

[Henarar]

At least at auction its as open as it can be, if someone wants it and can afford it all they have to do is wave their hand about

 

[Sid]

We have a small block that never made it to auction. It was sold before the rest was at auction to a non farmer who's drive passes over one of the fields.
Our family had lived next door to the farmer in question, helped and been on good terms with for a generation.
They never even gave us any idea they were selling up.
We now rent the fields but would have liked the chance to have bought them.

 

[jendan]

Nothing here adjacent been forsale for probably a 100 years...

The same with me.Surrounded by huge estates that are managing to stay intact.

 

[GTB]

Local garage owner wanted to buy the garage in town instead of a mile out. At the auction he saw the auctioneer supposedly taking bids from behind him against him. Thought he was being run. So he stopped. Auctioneer offered him 3 times before the gavel went down at a knock down price. The auctioneer had got another bidder in the room who got it for less than its true value. Guess there is a moral there somewhere

always stand where you can see the whole room.

Always arrive at the last minute and stand at the back

 

[Nearly]

In laws farm next to a supermarket family's estate. No-one in the parish has a chance on anything.
Best thing to do would be cash in and buy double the farm elsewhere?

 

[GTB]

In laws farm next to a supermarket family's estate. No-one in the parish has a chance on anything.
Best thing to do would be cash in and buy double the farm elsewhere?

A couple of farmers are thinking along those lines around here. Two big farming families are buying everything that's coming on the market near them. You have no hope of expanding if you're on their patch.

 

[jendan]

In laws farm next to a supermarket family's estate. No-one in the parish has a chance on anything.
Best thing to do would be cash in and buy double the farm elsewhere?

Only works if you are moving North from the affluent South.Probably into Scottieland.Guess one good Hampshire acre would buy two good ones up there.A reversal of the 20s and 30s when half of Norfolk was bought by Scotsmen.But you have to contend with the weather which is usually shite.

 

[GTB]

Especially with livestock when you can walk them from field to field.
I have some land only a few hundred yards up a busy B road and we now shift everything in the trailer as it's just too much hassle to walk them the way some lunatics drive.

I know. I bought a place 30 miles away in 2011. It was cheap compared to this area (nothing ever comes on the market here anyway). Put it up for sale now.

 

[glasshouse]

The same with me.Surrounded by huge estates that are managing to stay intact.

Mr corbyn may change that . Ha

 

[glasshouse]

Th

A couple of farmers are thinking along those lines around here. Two big farming families are buying everything that's coming on the market near them. You have no hope of expanding if you're on their patch.

that wont last forever

 

[jendan]

Mr corbyn may change that . Ha

Do you think so? Most have managed to stay together through all of the socialist governments of the 20th century.They would probably knock out the smaller 500 acre and less family farms by default instead.Alot of the very large estates are already "settled".

 

[Gatehouse Farm]

Only works if you are moving North from the affluent South.Probably into Scottieland.Guess one good Hampshire acre would buy two good ones up there.A reversal of the 20s and 30s when half of Norfolk was bought by Scotsmen.But you have to contend with the weather which is usually shite.

That's what we would like to do, but suspect it's just a pipe dream

 

[glasshouse]

I

Do you think so? Most have managed to stay together through all of the socialist governments of the 20th century.They would probably knock out the smaller 500 acre and less family farms by default instead.Alot of the very large estates are already "settled".

I hope so

 

[jendan]

Th

that wont last forever

Aye,can soon go tits up.On another thread i was looking up New Heaton farm,Cornhill,in the borders.Must be some story about it,new dairy investment on a good arable farm,but not the full acreage being resold.Got done for effluent going in the Till earlier this year.

 

[Nearly]

@Forever Fendt

This was on the looking / dreaming for farms thread

 

[jendan]

That's what we would like to do, but suspect it's just a pipe dream

Its perfectly possible to move from the garden of England into good land in Scotland,the Tweed,Cupar Angus,Fife,or parts of Aberdeen etc.But would you like to live among the rapacious Scots?

 

[glasshouse]

I well remember a farm sale in the borders where a property developer had "gone farming"
Everything was 3 or 4 yr old from the combines to the brush and shovel.
Dual wheels all had new tyres on, etc it was just awesome

 

[glasshouse]

I

Its perfectly possible to move from the garden of England into good land in Scotland,the Tweed,Cupar Angus,Fife,or parts of Aberdeen etc.But would you like to live among the rapacious Scots?

i beg your pardon sir

 

[Gatehouse Farm]

Its perfectly possible to move from the garden of England into good land in Scotland,the Tweed,Cupar Angus,Fife,or parts of Aberdeen etc.But would you like to live among the rapacious Scots?

Oh yes you can get a lot for your money in Scotland. And have to say every time we go up I find all the Scots to be very nice people.

 

[jendan]

I

i beg your pardon sir

Thats a joke,and copied from the late John Cherrington when he was talking about Scottish seed potato merchants from Auchterader in Fife.