What’s a 300 acre farm worth to rent

Cattlepen wrote: »

Lads, if ye had a 300 acre well fenced grass farm in good heart with a good private road network through it, what would ye expect an acre in rent? Meath ground, no waste.
Also how much extra would accommodation for 350 cattle with silage pits and top notch handling be worth. Any advice gratefully recieved

lets just say you can afford to charge well. land isnt going cheap now.

does the land have any entitlements?

how long would the livestock and farmer be allowed in the land?

is it cows or sheep you want in it? all questions you need to think about.

but be careful, get the wrong guy in... a rooter, per se... and your farm will be ruined.

100 per day?
week?
month?
year?

Cattlepen wrote: »

It’s naked land. A man could claim his own entitlements

not much growth Feb/March and November. if it were cows, it would be in the farmers best practice to keep them indoors these months... that is if you don't mind your field being ploughed and mucky :cool:.. sheep farmers around that part of the country would be delighted to rent from you through the winter though.


for clean land go more than 150/acre ...young farmers with the green cert make LOTS on grants €€€€€€€

would you not consider farming it yourself and getting grants?

The maps alone would bring 150 in north Wexford.

Cattlepen wrote: »

An acre for 10-11 month grazing

On con-acre so? If your looking to rent it do your costs and include whatever land cost you can afford and still make an acceptable return. Wouldn't rent conacre for any more than 200 anyway. If it was longterm lease if would be different

stanflt wrote: »

It’s worth 250 an acre with accommodation and you could do a deal to get 80% of the single farm payment if you lease it for 5 or more years- you can then claim the majority of the income tax free

cap is 40k for 15 year lease

minerleague wrote: »

think you can double this if land is in joint names ( wrangler on here ithink mentioned this )

Yes. That seems familiar alright. Not too many would go for 15 years though I'd say. It's only 18k for 5 or 6 years.

400 acre Dairy farm outside Navan long term lease through auctioneer made over €400 per acre in the last month or so . Makes no financial sence imo. Moral of the story give it to an auctioneer. He'll find the fool for you

tismesoitis wrote: »

400 acre Dairy farm outside Navan long term lease through auctioneer made over €400 per acre in the last month or so . Makes no financial sence imo. Moral of the story give it to an auctioneer. He'll find the fool for you

Person leasing could be anticipating inflation in rental prices.


That said, for a fully fitted out ready-to-go operation, what would you expect to pay? Lets guess that land in that area is making 250 an acre currently.


What would the facilities cost you to build? Then you'd need a required return on those. You wouldn't be long getting up to 400 an acre. And then that is fixed for you for the next 10 or 15 years.



And unlike building it yourself, you probably set up as a company and if the shit hits the fan you walk away and dissolve the company.

€50k

Somebody would be daft to rent that much land under conacre and likewise the owner would be mad to not lease and get the tax breaks

I think we would need more context OP. For short term like that you would be looking for one of the factory boys to take it on. They can scale the numbers quickly and I have seen them do it in Meath. As it’s not Dairy and you don’t want tillage I think they would be nearly the only option.on a short term lease. If your talking 5/10 years different ball game. If you want a credible answer give Raymond Potterton a call.