Farm Focus with FBD ... Explaining the Land Mobility Scheme

The Land Mobility Service has become an option for some people, marrying the resource of farm land with the separate resource of manpower.

An FBD Trust-funded initiative, its stakeholders include Teagasc, Dairygold and Glanbia. Austin Finn of the Service outlines some of the options available:

- The family farm partnership

- Share farming

- Long-term leasing

- Farm to farm

Any arrangement is based around ‘the three Ps’ — the person who will work the land, a fair, realistic and sustainable price, as well as the period of time.

Deterrents can be issues such as insufficient young trained farmer engagement, Basic Payment Scheme entitlement issues, low margins in specific sectors and some restrictions that may be attached to schemes such as GLAS.

- See: www.landmobility.ie for more information.

- Both Karen and Austin discuss land succession and transfer in the latest Irish Examiner farming podcast.

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Karen Walsh, Solicitor, who specialises in Agricultural Law, Renewable Energy, Property Law, Wills and Estates speaking on Succession Planning. Video: Larry Cummin / John Delea

Transferring farm ownership down the generations requires significant planning and advice. Noel Baker talks to Alan Jagoe, former Macra President and farmer, Karen Walsh, solicitor, and Austin Finn of the FBD-backed Land Mobility Service about this complex issue. The Irish Examiner Farming Podcast is presented in association with FBD.