Tendering for 1 acre for Shetland grazing

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Waterhouses2025

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Hi all,

How much would you say for a yearly rate for just over an Acre, not sure if there is water (waiting to hear) for x2 Shetlands. Fencing isn't great but we are happy to sort this, one of the re, in the tender pack I am putting is that we want to able to put a shelter on skids and small storage building there too for a few bales of hay etc.

The tender is for 5 years, and with it being very close to our house it would be great.

How much do you think per year? I was thinking £350.00... but I don't want to go to short and miss out!
 
It’s a small plot but it must be worth at least £25/ week as that’s the going rate for very basic DIY livery (for one)
 
I used to pay about that (equivalent, with inflation) just to ride on a field for the summer! I used a track around the edge and they grew hay in the middle.

I think you are way under.
 
I was offered the same including water a couple of years ago. Priced at £100 a month down South which is actually cheap for the area.
 
I pay a grazing license fee of £755 per year for about 5/6 acres
I know someone else locally who pays similar.
I think it’s so dependent on who/how it’s let.
There seems to be two ways of letting grass land, one to horses for grazing at a cost of ££per horse per month or week and then a cheap as chips p/a usually for sheep it seems 🤷‍♀️
Not much help sorry but I think you need to get a ball park figure to have any idea what to offer.
 
Waterhouses2025 said:
Hi all,

How much would you say for a yearly rate for just over an Acre, not sure if there is water (waiting to hear) for x2 Shetlands. Fencing isn't great but we are happy to sort this, one of the re, in the tender pack I am putting is that we want to able to put a shelter on skids and small storage building there too for a few bales of hay etc.

The tender is for 5 years, and with it being very close to our house it would be great.

How much do you think per year? I was thinking £350.00... but I don't want to go to short and miss out!
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I would think that kind of money is an agricultural rate.
However, if you are going to entirely re do the fencing, return and keep the land in ‘good heart’ ( assuming it needs some husbandry?), then the overall package offer for the landlord might well be sufficient, with a rent review after the 5 years.
Have you a plan for the sheds after 5 years, move them, or donate to the landowner? Probably need to be very clear about things like that in your tender, also how regularly you intend to Harrow, roll, over sow - whatever.
If you start with mobile sheds, may find the local authority gets interested, too.
In UK, horses are no longer agricultural animals, so need some sheep or similar in with them if complying with ‘agricultural’, but then be unlikely to have sufficient grazing.
Finding out exactly what it is being offered for, what it has previously been used for, and possibly checking ownership title, would help you.
 
Friend pays £200 a month for 7 acres with 3 stables but has to do everything. Up keep of stables and land. No water or electric.
 
If its agricultural land i thought you can keep horses on it if you feed them?
Area, demand etc will make this vary hugely but if it was my acre i wouldnt bother with the hassle of renting it out for £350 a year, insurance alone would make it not worthwhile.
 
I’ve just taken on a 3.5 acre field that’s next to ours on a grazing contract for £100 per acre per year (not a typo). It is solely a grazing contract so all I can do is graze animals and take hay off it and I don’t have access to it for one day a year which is fine as it’s just supplementary grazing.
 
twiggy2 said:
If its agricultural land i thought you can keep horses on it if you feed them?
Area, demand etc will make this vary hugely but if it was my acre i wouldnt bother with the hassle of renting it out for £350 a year, insurance alone would make it not worthwhile.
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It's the other way around i believe. It states in my contract that I'm not allowed to supplementary feed my horses, no no hard feed and no hay in the fields :oops:
Weird!
Obviously they get both, no one has ever commented but I wouldn't for example push a round bale out like some people do. I just give piles that are enough for the day and rotate the area daily.
 
poiuytrewq said:
It's the other way around i believe. It states in my contract that I'm not allowed to supplementary feed my horses, no no hard feed and no hay in the fields :oops:
Weird!
Obviously they get both, no one has ever commented but I wouldn't for example push a round bale out like some people do. I just give piles that are enough for the day and rotate the area daily.
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I missed out the t, my mistake I meant you can't.
 
Muddy unicorn said:
I’ve just taken on a 3.5 acre field that’s next to ours on a grazing contract for £100 per acre per year (not a typo). It is solely a grazing contract so all I can do is graze animals and take hay off it and I don’t have access to it for one day a year which is fine as it’s just supplementary grazing.
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This is the same as this field too!!! Thanks for your comment, some of these on here are a bit brutal haha!
 
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