Land to be cut

Hatch1989

Hi guys, inherited land in the past year roughly 8 acres about an hour from home. I wouldn’t have a great knowledge of the locals only just saluting them.

The grass is very high in the fields at the moment. How would one go about getting it cut?

Markcheese

You'd probably be better posting this in the farming section ,
But, it depends what you want it for - you can leave it - you can offer it to a neighbour either to graze or for silage - the easiest option would be to rent it out , year by year to another farmer. ..

SouthWesterly

Find out whose cutting the grass in the area. To get it cut and baled will probably cost you about 14e a bale.

Nekarsulm

Depends on what's growing on it.
If its halfway decent grass, someone will be happy to cut it and bale it and take them away.
You might even get €5 a bale.
Ask a fewneighbours if they're interested.
If it's not been cut, fertilised etc for a period of time, or is growing weeds, then it'll cost 30 to 40 euro per acre to cut, and 7 euro a bale to round bale it.
Plus you'll need to get the bales moved to a corner to rot down.
If you are doing this, tell the baler man not to chop them or net wrap them either.
If fences are secure, let it for summer grazing.
What's the plan for it going forward?

Hatch1989

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Depends on what's growing on it.
If its halfway decent grass, someone will be happy to cut it and bale it and take them away.
You might even get €5 a bale.
Ask a fewneighbours if they're interested.
If it's not been cut, fertilised etc for a period of time, or is growing weeds, then it'll cost 30 to 40 euro per acre to cut, and 7 euro a bale to round bale it.
Plus you'll need to get the bales moved to a corner to rot down.
If you are doing this, tell the baler man not to chop them or net wrap them either.
If fences are secure, let it for summer grazing.
What's the plan for it going forward?

Thanks guys.
Plan would be to sell but I was told there is a considerable amount of tax to pay on it the first few years after inheriting if you sell.

Geuze

Hatch1989 wrote: »

Thanks guys.
Plan would be to sell but I was told there is a considerable amount of tax to pay on it the first few years after inheriting if you sell.

What tax?

You have already paid CAT on acquisition, if applicable.

You may pay CGT on sale.

What other tax applies?

Geuze

Geuze wrote: »

What tax?

You have already paid CAT on acquisition, if applicable.

You may pay CGT on sale.

What other tax applies?

It being farmland they might have gotten relief on it when inheriting it like say a favoured nephew relief - this has a clawback if sold within x years.

It might be possible to lease it out tax free - just check that that doesn't affect your other tax reliefs.

_Brian

Call to a local auctioneer and they will find someone easily to either graze it or take bales of it.

Remember though it it’s rough weedy grass it’s feed value as bales is degraded so you may just end up giving the em away to get the land cleared.