FARM AND RURAL BUSINESS CONSULTANCY

Samuel Rose offers a comprehensive range of farm and rural business consultancy services to farmers, landowners, tenants, contractors, prospective farmers, rural entrepreneurs and other professionals including:

Business appraisals - assessing performance and sustainability of all manner of rural enterprises and comparing them to the proprietor’s objectives, suggesting and analysing options for change.

Business management - working with regular clients to plan, monitor and strategically guide businesses of a wide range of types and sizes. Based around a core of sound financial planning with our own system of profit, capital and cash flow budgets, we offer a complete monitoring and control service.

Strategic business consultancy - providing objective, independent and confidential advice and guidance through all manner of difficult situations and exciting opportunities, from family disputes and financial problems through business restructuring, to new enterprises, new businesses, asset management and investment opportunities.

Business planning - we have experience in planning and market analysis covering a wide variety of rural projects and business enterprises and are excited by and open minded to new ideas. We can help you turn a good idea from fantasy to reality.

Contract farming and joint ventures - from sharing a combine through a conventional contract farming agreement to large joint labour and machinery syndicates, we have extensive experience in the establishment and ongoing successful management of joint ventures.

Funding - assistance with obtaining or rearranging finance for new and existing businesses.

Grants and subsidies - help and advice in all aspects of the Single Payment Scheme and the current England Rural Development Programme.

Environmental management - establishment, management and funding of environmental projects through the Environmental Stewardship schemes.

Farm and land management – All aspects of management from the in hand management of farming operations to management and maintenance of land designated for non agricultural uses. Please talk to us about your specific requirements for a tailor made solution.

Our core skills lie in business consultancy and the ability to apply good management discipline to a range of different situations. In addition we have the benefit of being able to pull in the wide ranging skills within the company to explore every option and issue available to a business from matters of valuation and tax planning through landlord and tenant issues to planning and strategic development land promotion.