Land Prices Cork 2022

Yeah it makes no sense to be quoting prices for land if you are including entitlements mixed in with the price. The entitlements could be 50 quid an acre or 250. Or it might be naked.

I'm sure you'd have the money wrangler to make the investment and hire the farm manager and labour so you don't need to step foot inside the place. Do you think you'd get a decent return from your investment? I mean you might .... but you'd be taking on a fair risk that you won't.

Anecdotal stories of lads paying 400 an acre are either because the person renting is really stuck and has no other real option, or the occasional neighbours field across the hedge. Someone else posted the link to the registered commercial leases above. You have to do that for the long-term leasing relief.

Yes. We'd have around 100 acres taken that we mainly cut silage off. We have other bits taken that are used for grazing. The odd time we might not do a second cut on parts of the silage ground but normally just take 2 cuts from it.

That was why I framed it as you doing it just as a passive investment in the sense you'd just put in the money and hire a manager to look after things. The same way people might invest in a pub for example. You wouldn't have to work it yourself. The point being that most lads might realise that there wouldn't be that much money in it at all.

I know that things aren't always rational and simplistic, but speaking from purely financial logic, you'd have to ask whether, if you don't think it would work to pay a manager to manage it for you, why you would do it yourself?

I don't get the obsession with dairy farmers somehow setting rental prices. There is plenty of land rented out for tillage etc. across the country. The tillage lads are not paying anything near 400 Euro an acre.

If I had a choice between setting out land for someone to till, or to someone to grow grass, for the same money, I'd opt for the latter. So I don't know why there seems to be this belief that anyone can rent out their land to a dairy farmer for that money. If the tillage man is offering you 200, and the dairy man is offering you 250, why would you basically decide that either the dairy man gives you 400 or else you'll set it to the tillage man?