Serious Question Re " What farm do you want to buy with roll over money"
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Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
One with development potential
Sorry, you did say serious question, a working farm, flat land, good size fields, free draining, close to a reasonable size town where most things you need can be got, close to a pub, a Good house and buildings an advantage but if you've got rollover money these can be built.
How deep are your pockets, it's not for sale but if the offer were right.
Sorry, you did say serious question, a working farm, flat land, good size fields, free draining, close to a reasonable size town where most things you need can be got, close to a pub, a Good house and buildings an advantage but if you've got rollover money these can be built.
How deep are your pockets, it's not for sale but if the offer were right.
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
A ring fence
A nice house with character but not too big
An area without TB implications
I would have said a mixed farm in a region with more dependable rainfall - until this last Winter
No immediate neighbours but not remote
A few houses - or potential to build - for family
A nice house with character but not too big
An area without TB implications
I would have said a mixed farm in a region with more dependable rainfall - until this last Winter
No immediate neighbours but not remote
A few houses - or potential to build - for family
- Location
- East Sussex
If you made enough money why not just pay the tax and live well off the money. Then you don't have to worry about the weather or TB or the RPA or........
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Bet you'd still exchange the wagon and drag for a smaller box and go showing pedigree ......
- Location
- East Sussex
Campbell
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Heard recently of £35m or so, looking for a roll over, 18 mths left to decide.....
. I have my own worries........
. I have my own worries........
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Something that has good rental possibilities so you can get an income if you either no longer want to farm 24/7 or want to retire completely. Maybe land that is in a biodigester rich area, plenty of rental opportunities there, though that might disappear overnight as its entirely based on renewable energy subsidies. Otherwise good arable land that can grow a 3.5-4 tonne crop and will still be viable when subsidies go.
Basically productivity will be all in the years to come - marginal land that only works currently with subsidies will lose value and prove hard work to make a living even farming in hand, productive land will hold its value and still generate a rental income. Better to over pay for good land and get less of it, than buy more marginally productive acres.
Having said that there may be the possibility in the future of buying marginal land and sticking it all in the 'dog walkers paradise' Public Goods scheme and forgetting any farming and just taking the State cash as a guaranteed income................
Basically productivity will be all in the years to come - marginal land that only works currently with subsidies will lose value and prove hard work to make a living even farming in hand, productive land will hold its value and still generate a rental income. Better to over pay for good land and get less of it, than buy more marginally productive acres.
Having said that there may be the possibility in the future of buying marginal land and sticking it all in the 'dog walkers paradise' Public Goods scheme and forgetting any farming and just taking the State cash as a guaranteed income................
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
farm would have to be called something like manor farm, wheatacres etc ie positive , before id go and look at it and then the other parameters would come into play. An old boy told me years ago the those are the only farms worth looking at in a village as always have the best land around and I think theres more than a grain of truth in what he said
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
That one just over the hedge there, and the two beyond it.
I'd buy my 3 scraps of land that I farm... Well... Run a few animals on.. Just now.
I'd then let the one I'm least attached to out to one of my friends, either my ex, or my shepherd friend on a very long lease, I'd get the fences fixed up and build some decent sheds for them. then I'd get whoever had that farm to run some animals on the bit I'd want to keep... They could get that on a seasonal lease. Then I'd be free to go off abroad.. but I'd know I could come home and still be able to have the ground back if I missed it.
If I didn't miss it I'd swap the seasonal lease for a long term one and stay away.
I'd then let the one I'm least attached to out to one of my friends, either my ex, or my shepherd friend on a very long lease, I'd get the fences fixed up and build some decent sheds for them. then I'd get whoever had that farm to run some animals on the bit I'd want to keep... They could get that on a seasonal lease. Then I'd be free to go off abroad.. but I'd know I could come home and still be able to have the ground back if I missed it.
If I didn't miss it I'd swap the seasonal lease for a long term one and stay away.
Cowcalf
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- Location
- North of Scotland
Large ranch in northern Canada, cow country
But probably this !
- Location
- Ceredigion
could you roll over into a row of houses in Brighton
- Location
- Summer set
If I could I would buy 3 or 4 farms and start a trust where new starters could rent a farm at a reasonable rate
5 year leases maybe
5 year leases maybe
I think your idea is really great, but the trouble is lack of larger farms for the new starters to move on to.
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- Summer set