price per acre rent?

[rebhenhuns]

Anyone have any ideas on price per acre for grazing? I have a stables and want to rent more land from the farmer, what do you feel the range of prices for letting land are per acre per year?

I know agricultural rents vary wildly, so I am finding it hard to agree a level.

 

[scotsmare]

Where are you?

 

[rebhenhuns]

Dorset/Devon border.

 

[BigRed]

I live in Surrey where everything is usually expensive, but I rent grazing from a farmer, so he talks sensibly. There are no facilities, but I get to use the field next door (to my house and stables) at the rate of £1 per horse, per day. My Shetland is classed as half a horse, so I only get charged .50p a day for him., So I pay £45/month. As I say, there are no facilities whatsoever.

This wonderful man, has several fields full of people's youngsters and retired horses on summer grazing at this rate.

He provides plenty of grass and safe fencing, mostly good hedges, but you have to check them, etc.

 

[Faithkat]

Unfortunately it varies enormously even in the same area. I pay £700 (including £50 for the actual grazing licence) for just under 4 acres BUT it is only a 10 month lease; I have also seen £100 per month for 2.5 acres but the worst one was 1.77 acres with two crappy/almost derelict stables and barbed wire fencing that was the princely sum of £4,750 per year!!! And all these are within a 10 mile radius.

 

[Lonesome_Dove]

I know where you mean Forester - I wanted that field some years ago, but it was cheaper then!

 

[pottamus]

I pay £600 per year for two and a half acres with no facilities. I have no water or elec and put my own mobile field stable up. I also pay extra to maintain the field and hedges evry year.

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

We pay our lovely neighbours £100 per acre per annum for their field, which is the price which had come up on a former post on HHO.

 

[MizElz]

We rent a quarter of an acre from our landlords, and it costs us an extra £100 a month on top of the rent.

 

[nikkiportia]

Wow prices do vary don't they?
We pay £300 a month for 3/4 acres, but we have a stable block of 4 as well. No electric, and maintain the place ourselves. But owner will pay for improvements if we arrange them. (He has just re-fenced it with yummy post and rail fencing

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[Tia]

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We pay our lovely neighbours £100 per acre per annum for their field, which is the price which had come up on a former post on HHO.

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In the South, that is the usual ballpark price to lease land per annum.