Organic vegetable Rent

[Spud12345]

Hi. Could someone please help me to set the rent of some farm land. Roughly 15 acres. Good quality land which will be used for organic vegetables. All land can be irritated as well. Thank you for your help.

 

[borderterribles]

Hi. Could someone please help me to set the rent of some farm land. Roughly 15 acres. Good quality land which will be used for organic vegetables. All land can be irritated as well. Thank you for your help.

You might want to edit that post before the forum wags pile in!

 

[Muddyroads]

All land can be irritated as well

Does it have an underlying health condition?

 

[Muddyroads]

You might want to edit that post before the forum wags pile in!

Too late!

 

[Spud12345]

I’m not sure how to edit it.

 

[Bogweevil]

Would that be spray irritation or a boom irritator?

 

[7610 super q]

£400 / acre.

 

[Spud12345]

£400 per acre would be for normal spud ground?

 

[Scholsey]

£400 / acre.

Organic spuds are £550 around here without water, veg has got to be up there with spuds?

 

[Spud12345]

That’s what I was thinking. Veg and spuds are normally about the same. It’s just the organic thing I’m not so sure about.

 

[delilah]

If it's 15 acres for organic vegetables then i'm taking a punt that it is to be some form of direct selling enterprise ? If so these folks would be able to advise.
https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

What has the land been before.
It takes time for it to be Organic supposedly!!

 

[Scholsey]

Would need to be grass for 2 years before can be organic veg if just started conversion.

 

[Jerry]

I used to rent out about 30 acres a year for veg, normally parsnips.

withdrew the offer 2 years ago.

Whilst the headline numbers are “impressive “ the ongoing costs of getting ground back in heart are not.

 

[Spud12345]

I used to rent out about 30 acres a year for veg, normally parsnips.

withdrew the offer 2 years ago.

Whilst the headline numbers are “impressive “ the ongoing costs of getting ground back in heart are not.

Yeah I know what you mean. I’ve got 20 acres in potatoes which are mine. Then 25 acres of veg rented out at £300. The organic will be going to the same person. They rent the land from me and supply me with veg at cost for my farm shops.

 

[betweenthelines]

Don't knock the OP-"organic" and "irritation" go together like bacon and eggs.

Or "vegan" and "gobsh ite"

 

[Muddyroads]

Yeah I know what you mean. I’ve got 20 acres in potatoes which are mine. Then 25 acres of veg rented out at £300. The organic will be going to the same person. They rent the land from me and supply me with veg at cost for my farm shops.

Will it be organic root crops or hand harvested veg?

 

[Spud12345]

Hand harvested veg

 

[Muddyroads]

Hand harvested veg

I guess it depends on how long term you want the relationship to be. It’s easy to look at yield values but they are expensive crops to grow and high risk. We often spend £1000/acre on plants, may get less than 60% to harvest and can spend £2000/acre on labour to harvest them, if you can get the staff. There are also the growing and weeding costs.

 

[Al R]

Yeah I know what you mean. I’ve got 20 acres in potatoes which are mine. Then 25 acres of veg rented out at £300. The organic will be going to the same person. They rent the land from me and supply me with veg at cost for my farm shops.

Is the land registered organic?