Partnership between neighbours

Siamsa Sessions

Hi all,

I've been thinking about a potential partnership with a neighbour where we'd combine the land holdings and share the work.

It'd be 2020 before it could come into being due to various lease and off-farm constraints. By that stage, neither of us would be a "Young Farmer".

I've searched on boards.ie here and there's been plenty discussions on partnerships but all seem to be about father/son set-ups.

Has anyone gone in with a neighbour? Or is there a particular discussion on here that someone could point me towards?

Thanks.

patsy_mccabe

Ear To The Ground featured a similar partnership like this a while back. If that's any good to ya. If you could track them down? Maybe talk to their adviser.

anthony500_1

patsy_mccabe wrote:

Ear To The Ground featured a similar partnership like this a while back. If that's any good to ya. If you could track them down? Maybe talk to their adviser.

Think they showed the presenter darragh joining up to such a partnership, it showed him and the neighbor joining up to go dairying as far as I can remember.he was taking x amount from milk sold be it good or bad prices darragh got a certain % of the milk check. For lands used.

Siamsa Sessions

Thanks folks.

I'll look it up on the RTE Player and maybe try contact Darragh thru Twitter.

It seems a good idea on paper but the downside of it would be as important to consider at this stage.

Siamsa Sessions

Can anyone offer some info on the following scenario?

* Partnership between 35-year-old farmer and 42-year-old farmer
* 42-year-old has a green cert but 35-year-old doesn't

Could such a partnership apply to the National Reserve for entitlements? Or does the whole idea depend on the younger farmer being the qualified/green cert one?