Agriculture

We know how important it is to have advisers that speak your language, understand your business and are technically fluent in agricultural law to ensure you continue to thrive.

Keeping the farm in the family and reducing your financial liabilities.

Rural businesses come in all shapes and sizes; and experience a unique set of challenges and opportunities. There is no doubt that the agricultural sector is feeling the squeeze from uncertain medium-term support from the Government with regard to the Basic Payment Scheme and renewable subsidies, difficulty in turning a profit on agricultural commodities and a minefield of legalities and taxation issues to jump through when planning farm succession and non-agricultural commercial activities.

This, combined with a politically-undecided setting, has meant that rural businesses are thinking on their feet, preparing for financial tremors where they can and taking action to spread their risk, and improve their commerciality. As a result, many have chosen to diversify their traditional farming operations by introducing innovative new revenue streams – from renewable sites and housing developments, to outdoor pursuits and renting out commercial units.

With the agricultural industry hailed for its grit, determination and continual striving for modernisation, demand for commercially-astute advisers who can provide value at every turn, is high.

About our services
We are passionate about ensuring your rural affairs are in good order. From the formal and informal partnership arrangements held by many farming businesses, explaining what the intricacies of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and farm businesses tenancies mean for you, to advice on the entire spectrum of commercial real estate advice including restrictive covenants, rights of way, encroachment and land registration, we have the expertise to guide your business forward.

Our experience in contentious and non-contentious issues sees us support owner-occupier farmers, tenants and landlords, land agents, estates managers and landowners, with the complexities of running successful rural operations.

Working with you
The combination of some of the nation’s sharpest agricultural minds who genuinely understand the nuances of your sector, including a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association and firm and individual rankings in Chambers Directory of lawyers, town and country planners and a wider network of extended corporate and commercial expertise, means that your rural affairs are in safe, capable and experienced hands.

We don’t just act on instruction, we provide solutions that exceed your every expectation.