Farm partnerships are proving to be an excellent progressive mechanism for succession planning and management of the family farm.
Some of the supports available through partnerships have proven to be very beneficial to families who are developing their farm or changing enterprise as a result of a son or daughter getting involved in the farm.
In addition to the normal benefits of partnership, the Department of Agriculture Succession Register offers additional special tax credits, provided the partnership is part of a succession plan. This succession plan does not have to involve all the farm and is not confined to direct family.
This is a very positive policy measure to encourage succession and inheritance planning among farm families, leading to the eventual transfer or partial transfer of farm assets to a successor or successors. The income tax credit is not restricted to within family situations.
All existing registered farm partnerships or new farm partnership registrations are eligible to apply to go on to the new succession register.
This enhances the benefits of partnership which now include:
a) Easier management of the farm.
No need for multiple herd numbers.Better work-life balance.Shared responsibilities, shared workload and shared expertise.b) Partnerships allow both younger and older generations to be actively involved.
c) Partnerships have positive EU payment benefits, including Young Trained Farmer Top Ups and TAMS.
d) Partnerships offer tax-saving opportunities through stock relief, personnel allowances and succession planning, including income tax credits for succession partnerships.
Between now and the end of February is a good time to be looking at partnership formation for 2019.
The Land Mobility Service (info@landmobility.ie) provides support in helping with partnership formation.
In order to avail of extra TAMS thresholds, special supports and succession tax credits, the partnership must be registered with the DAFM partnership registration office, www.landmobility.ie.
Land mobility
opportunities
A key element of the Land Mobility Service is matching people to opportunities.
This is a brokerage service to find the ideal farmer match for you.
Call 01-4199555 to speak with our specialist team and provide your details and preferred option.
Confidentiality is assured. Qualified leads will be passed to you for further consideration.
Farms for Lease
Wanted grassland farmer with land to graze beef cattle on a headage based system. Willing to make upfront payment if required. | REFERENCE tx39Dairy farm for lease, south Cavan area. A 90-acre dairy farm with an additional 18 acres support ground near by. A six-unit milking parlour, 60 cubicles, Calf house, Grassland of excellent quality and good fertility laid out in paddocks. The owner wishes to step back and is looking to lease/share farm. |REFERENCE NE08Dairy opportunity
Dairy farm for lease Tipperary/Borrisleigh/Thurles area. A 90-acre dairy farm with an additional 16 acres support ground if required. A10-unit Dairymaster milking parlour with feeders, 10,000 litre Bulk Tank, 120 cubicles, Calf house, 120 cubicles, surplus slurry storage. Grassland of excellent quality and good fertility laid out in paddocks. The owner wishes to retire and is looking to lease the farm long term either as a milking farm or else a heifer/support farm. | REFERENCE OK16South Cork dairy farm for lease in the Carrigaline area. Eighty acres all in one block and all in grass with farm roadways and paddocks in place. Facilities include a 12-unit Dairymaster parlour with stall work in place to increase to 16 units, Dairymaster feeders with 10t meal bin and 6t secondary meal bin, 11,000 litre bulk tank, 84 cubicles with automatic scrapers, slats for 70 cattle, calf shed, calving shed, various other storage sheds and slurry storage capacity of 350,000 gallons. Also current silage stocks of 166t of 2018 pit silage and 420 2018 silage bales. Owner is looking to establish a long-term lease.
| REFERENCE TX40Cork - a 120-acre dairy farm all in one block presently carrying 90 cows located in Mitchelstown area. Infrastructure includes 90 cubicles, calving area, calf shed, 250,000 gallons of slurry storage, 12-unit Dairymaster parlour, 6,500 litre bulk tank and water system. The owner is open to the farm being used as either a milking farm or heifer farm. This farm is naked land with no entitlements attached. The owner is looking to identify a suitable collaborator with a view to establishing a long-term lease.
| REFERENCE TX37Share milker wanted for 200-cow dairy farm operating on 220 acres of land of which 160 acres are owned and the remainder is on long lease. The dairy platform is 180 acres. The owner is working and living off farm. Owner wishes to link up with a skilled young dairy farmer to develop a share milking or dairy partnership arrangement. Co Kerry. | REFERENCE CA03 Seeking
opportunity
Experienced farm manager with proven track record looking for opportunity in the Bandon/Dunmanway/Clonakilty areas. All options considered including share-milking, partnership and whole farm leasing of cows and land. | REFERENCE TX38Contract heifer rearing
Contract rearer available to rear 100 heifer calves from weaning stage to point of calving. Good grassland farm, in paddocks and reseeded on a yearly basis. Heifers to be weighed on a monthly basis. Previous experience in rearing heifer calves. Midland’s area. | REFERENCE IL03Contract heifer rearing service available in Co Kilkenny. Can take up to 100 0-1 year olds and 100 1-2 year olds. Calves must be weaned. One to two year olds returned by end of November. Good husbandry skills and good grassland management skills. | REFERENCE TN14 Contract rearing service available in east Co Clare. Can take up to 50 1-2 year old heifers from late March to 31 December. Good husbandry skills. Operating paddock system with good grassland management on dry farm. Regular weighings can be provided. | REFERENCE NM06 Looking to rent
Experienced dairy farmer looking to take a lease on a dairy farm in the Meath/Westmeath/Cavan area for a minimum of five years. Has livestock ready to go and would use leased farm to milk a second herd on. Open to different types of arrangements. | REFERENCE NE07Dairy farmer looking to lease grassland farm of 50-150 acres in size for a minimum of five years in order to expand farming enterprise. Would use farm for grazing replacement heifers and dry cows and for silage making. Would maintain farm to the highest standard. South Limerick area. | REFERENCE NV10Young farmer looking to lease land in east/mid-Clare with a view to expanding current enterprise. All farms (both dairy and beef) considered regardless of size. References available from landlords of existing lease arrangements.
| REFERENCE NM07Qualified farmer looking to rent 100-150 acres on a long-term lease. Ideally located within a 5-6 mile radius of Dromcolliher, Co Limerick. Intended to use this farm as a support block to a well-established dairy enterprise. Open to different types of arrangements. | REFERENCE NV09150-200 acres wanted in the north east area for a beef enterprise. Minimum five-year lease sought by enthusiastic and trained young farmer. Five years experience in farm management and holder of Bachelors degree in agricultural science. Willing to upgrade farm infrastructure if required. References available and upfront payment if preferred. | REFERENCE WN08Qualified tillage farmer looking to rent or lease long-term 50-200 + acres. Open to option of share farming also. Land maintained to highest standards with hedges cut, wild oats controlled, limed, organic manures applied if allowed and crop rotation practice implemented growing a wide range of crops. North Cork area within 30 miles of Fermoy. | REFERENCE TX41Young enthusiastic dairy farmer looking to lease 60+ acre block of land in the Munster or Leinster areas for minimum of seven years. Preferably on existing dairy farm. Open to different types of arrangements. |REFERENCE OK13
Farm partnerships are proving to be an excellent progressive mechanism for succession planning and management of the family farm.
Some of the supports available through partnerships have proven to be very beneficial to families who are developing their farm or changing enterprise as a result of a son or daughter getting involved in the farm.
In addition to the normal benefits of partnership, the Department of Agriculture Succession Register offers additional special tax credits, provided the partnership is part of a succession plan. This succession plan does not have to involve all the farm and is not confined to direct family.
This is a very positive policy measure to encourage succession and inheritance planning among farm families, leading to the eventual transfer or partial transfer of farm assets to a successor or successors. The income tax credit is not restricted to within family situations.
All existing registered farm partnerships or new farm partnership registrations are eligible to apply to go on to the new succession register.
This enhances the benefits of partnership which now include:
a) Easier management of the farm.
No need for multiple herd numbers.Better work-life balance.Shared responsibilities, shared workload and shared expertise.b) Partnerships allow both younger and older generations to be actively involved.
c) Partnerships have positive EU payment benefits, including Young Trained Farmer Top Ups and TAMS.
d) Partnerships offer tax-saving opportunities through stock relief, personnel allowances and succession planning, including income tax credits for succession partnerships.
Between now and the end of February is a good time to be looking at partnership formation for 2019.
The Land Mobility Service (info@landmobility.ie) provides support in helping with partnership formation.
In order to avail of extra TAMS thresholds, special supports and succession tax credits, the partnership must be registered with the DAFM partnership registration office, www.landmobility.ie.
Land mobility
opportunities
A key element of the Land Mobility Service is matching people to opportunities.
This is a brokerage service to find the ideal farmer match for you.
Call 01-4199555 to speak with our specialist team and provide your details and preferred option.
Confidentiality is assured. Qualified leads will be passed to you for further consideration.
Farms for Lease
Wanted grassland farmer with land to graze beef cattle on a headage based system. Willing to make upfront payment if required. | REFERENCE tx39Dairy farm for lease, south Cavan area. A 90-acre dairy farm with an additional 18 acres support ground near by. A six-unit milking parlour, 60 cubicles, Calf house, Grassland of excellent quality and good fertility laid out in paddocks. The owner wishes to step back and is looking to lease/share farm. |REFERENCE NE08Dairy opportunity
Dairy farm for lease Tipperary/Borrisleigh/Thurles area. A 90-acre dairy farm with an additional 16 acres support ground if required. A10-unit Dairymaster milking parlour with feeders, 10,000 litre Bulk Tank, 120 cubicles, Calf house, 120 cubicles, surplus slurry storage. Grassland of excellent quality and good fertility laid out in paddocks. The owner wishes to retire and is looking to lease the farm long term either as a milking farm or else a heifer/support farm. | REFERENCE OK16South Cork dairy farm for lease in the Carrigaline area. Eighty acres all in one block and all in grass with farm roadways and paddocks in place. Facilities include a 12-unit Dairymaster parlour with stall work in place to increase to 16 units, Dairymaster feeders with 10t meal bin and 6t secondary meal bin, 11,000 litre bulk tank, 84 cubicles with automatic scrapers, slats for 70 cattle, calf shed, calving shed, various other storage sheds and slurry storage capacity of 350,000 gallons. Also current silage stocks of 166t of 2018 pit silage and 420 2018 silage bales. Owner is looking to establish a long-term lease.
| REFERENCE TX40Cork - a 120-acre dairy farm all in one block presently carrying 90 cows located in Mitchelstown area. Infrastructure includes 90 cubicles, calving area, calf shed, 250,000 gallons of slurry storage, 12-unit Dairymaster parlour, 6,500 litre bulk tank and water system. The owner is open to the farm being used as either a milking farm or heifer farm. This farm is naked land with no entitlements attached. The owner is looking to identify a suitable collaborator with a view to establishing a long-term lease.
| REFERENCE TX37Share milker wanted for 200-cow dairy farm operating on 220 acres of land of which 160 acres are owned and the remainder is on long lease. The dairy platform is 180 acres. The owner is working and living off farm. Owner wishes to link up with a skilled young dairy farmer to develop a share milking or dairy partnership arrangement. Co Kerry. | REFERENCE CA03 Seeking
opportunity
Experienced farm manager with proven track record looking for opportunity in the Bandon/Dunmanway/Clonakilty areas. All options considered including share-milking, partnership and whole farm leasing of cows and land. | REFERENCE TX38Contract heifer rearing
Contract rearer available to rear 100 heifer calves from weaning stage to point of calving. Good grassland farm, in paddocks and reseeded on a yearly basis. Heifers to be weighed on a monthly basis. Previous experience in rearing heifer calves. Midland’s area. | REFERENCE IL03Contract heifer rearing service available in Co Kilkenny. Can take up to 100 0-1 year olds and 100 1-2 year olds. Calves must be weaned. One to two year olds returned by end of November. Good husbandry skills and good grassland management skills. | REFERENCE TN14 Contract rearing service available in east Co Clare. Can take up to 50 1-2 year old heifers from late March to 31 December. Good husbandry skills. Operating paddock system with good grassland management on dry farm. Regular weighings can be provided. | REFERENCE NM06 Looking to rent
Experienced dairy farmer looking to take a lease on a dairy farm in the Meath/Westmeath/Cavan area for a minimum of five years. Has livestock ready to go and would use leased farm to milk a second herd on. Open to different types of arrangements. | REFERENCE NE07Dairy farmer looking to lease grassland farm of 50-150 acres in size for a minimum of five years in order to expand farming enterprise. Would use farm for grazing replacement heifers and dry cows and for silage making. Would maintain farm to the highest standard. South Limerick area. | REFERENCE NV10Young farmer looking to lease land in east/mid-Clare with a view to expanding current enterprise. All farms (both dairy and beef) considered regardless of size. References available from landlords of existing lease arrangements.
| REFERENCE NM07Qualified farmer looking to rent 100-150 acres on a long-term lease. Ideally located within a 5-6 mile radius of Dromcolliher, Co Limerick. Intended to use this farm as a support block to a well-established dairy enterprise. Open to different types of arrangements. | REFERENCE NV09150-200 acres wanted in the north east area for a beef enterprise. Minimum five-year lease sought by enthusiastic and trained young farmer. Five years experience in farm management and holder of Bachelors degree in agricultural science. Willing to upgrade farm infrastructure if required. References available and upfront payment if preferred. | REFERENCE WN08Qualified tillage farmer looking to rent or lease long-term 50-200 + acres. Open to option of share farming also. Land maintained to highest standards with hedges cut, wild oats controlled, limed, organic manures applied if allowed and crop rotation practice implemented growing a wide range of crops. North Cork area within 30 miles of Fermoy. | REFERENCE TX41Young enthusiastic dairy farmer looking to lease 60+ acre block of land in the Munster or Leinster areas for minimum of seven years. Preferably on existing dairy farm. Open to different types of arrangements. |REFERENCE OK13 
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