Farm Finance: Lease, contract rear or buy your way out of banding trouble
Holstein cows in a field
A number of changes are coming soon, which are creating significant demand for land rental and, as a secondary option, contract-rearing services.
The changes to nitrates regulations will see around 15% of dairy farmers having to significantly reduce stock numbers or acquire additional land to absorb the extra nitrates loading these higher-yielding cows are deemed to be producing.
