Dairy farmer pays €560/ac as land leasing hits last year’s heights
Tillage farmers and dairy farmers are going head-to-head competing for scarce land
Any hope that the price of leasing land might settle back from the highs of last year were dashed last week when €560/ac was paid by a cattle man for a 13.75ac field in Co Laois.
The holding was let on a seven-year lease while a yard on the land with accommodation for 100 store cattle on was taken for the period by the same tenant for €4,500 per annum.