Food & Farming

We understand that modern farming covers a wide range of activities and is increasingly complex. Our expert team is highly experienced and dedicated to developing and diversifying your farm business in the direction that best suits you. 

Our national Food & Farming team of over 40 farm business consultants provide a range of specialist farm management and consultancy services to food and farming businesses, delivering practical support and guidance in a constantly evolving industry. Our consultants are industry leaders, often with first-hand experience in many areas of the farming industry.

Through our dedicated team of farming, rural business and environmental specialists, we are able to provide a wide range of services. Our services are broadly split across two categories - management and consultancy: 

Management 

• Day-to-day management of existing farm businesses
• Overseeing in-hand farming operations 
• Managing contract farming operations 

Consultancy 

• Grant applications
• Business reviews and audits
• Farm diversification plans
• Business plans
• Crop rotations 
• Farm carbon audits 
• Setting up joint ventures, including contract farming agreements and share farming 
• Staff recruitment

Our management service offering provides a bespoke level of advice aimed at helping run the day-to-day farming business. Working independently and directly for your business or providing a supporting role for an existing in-hand management team, we can deliver a service designed around you and your business needs.

Our consultancy services are much more ad-hoc, predominantly focusing on helping farmers and landowners with one-off projects such as grant applications, diversification, recruitment and business reviews. Some of the consultancy projects we have been involved with are: 

• Appraising an existing farm shop and retailing business, providing advice on new income streams to improve overall profitability
• Negotiating a joint venture agreement for arable farming with environmental Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

Many farms are becoming increasingly complex businesses, which in turn need innovative and experienced consultants to assist them. Our team of agricultural consultants are able to draw on wider colleague expertise across land and property in the UK as well as their own practical experience from within the sector. This ensures that you have access to the leading food and farming consultancy, estate management, planning, building consultancy, natural capital, renewables, and tax and funding advice.

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