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Rostons, Rural Chartered Surveyors and Agricultural Valuers, are pleased to announce that Hywel Davies has joined Rostons for his placement year.
Hywel from Llandyrnog, near Denbigh, North Wales, has completed his second year of his four year course at Harper Adams University studying….
If you have a current Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) Agreement that started before 1 January 2012, you will not incur any deduction from your ELS payment.
Sam Catling of Rostons Land & property Specialist comments “However, if you Agreement started after the 1 January 2012
Rostons Young Dairy Group, set up by Director Tony Rimmer more than a decade ago, is aimed at young dairy farmers in Cheshire under the age of 30. The group visits two farms a year to pick up new ideas and meet fellow up-and-coming dairy farmers and innovators of the future. Following a visit the … Read more
Valuations of land, property and businesses aren’t just for buying and selling – agricultural businesses should have an understanding of their own worth at all times.
One of the key areas of Rostons’ business as Chartered Surveyors and Agricultural Valuers is valuation of land and property and director Tony Rimmer believes businesses must be more aware of their value.
He said: “Generally people believe valuations are only necessary in connection with proposed sales or compulsory purchase for the loss of land, but actually valuations are done for a huge range of issues.
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) – which include plans for water, waste, energy, transport, electrical lines, gas storage, highways, rail and rail freight … it’s a long list – all have the potential to impact on farmers and land owners.
All NSIPs are covered by the Planning Act 2008 and the Localism Act 2011 in terms of decision-making – but what does this mean for the people whose land is affected?
The new Single Payment Scheme, now looming large on the horizon, is set to bring with it new greening complications and already questions are being asked about the impact of ploughing up land which is classified as permanent grassland.
Fields which have been down to grass for five years of more have been denoted as PP1 in England and GR2 in Wales on this year’s Single Payment application.
It’s important to note, the long standing taboo that land defined as permanent pasture on your SPS form cannot be ploughed is misleading and not entirely accurate.
A landlord’s life is not always an easy one, as the Rostons team has been discovering in recent months.
The team is receiving more and more instructions from traditional landlords or former farmers who have let their land out on a variety of agreements, because a lack of pro-activity from the previous agents which, in turn, has raised a number of issues.
Reaction to the last edition of Farming Focus has proven that demand for land for purchase remains strong.
In the opinion of Tony Rimmer, Director of Rostons, while the heat has gone out of the market generally, demand is stronger than ever for the right parcels of land. The Cheshire average is holding steady at £8,000 to £10,000 per acre – and in a number of locations £10,000 to £15,000 can be readily achieved.
Rostons has recently agreed the first deals of the 2015 entitlement trading period. Even though the busy 2014 trading period only finished in April it won’t be long until deals are being agreed for this year’s trading.
In previous years, late spring and early summer has proven to be a quiet time in trading terms, but this year appears to be different. Even though the April 2nd deadline has only recently passed we have already received an unusually high number of enquiries and expressions of interest from both buyers and sellers.