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Buy a farming business in the UK
The oldest businesses on the platform by a distance, at forty years average trading, and the most heavily charged: seven in ten carry secured debt.
- 1,687companies you can search
- 100%trade from premises traceable to HM Land Registry
- 5employees on average
- 40years trading on average
- 71%have a charge outstanding
Figures read from the register data as at 20 August 2026.
How these companies are identified
Farming companies reach this platform when they declare agricultural activity to Companies House and the company owns the land or buildings it works from. No licence is claimed.
Why buyers look here
Forty years average trading means genuine succession pressure across the sector, and every company here owns land. The debt is the story: 71% carry charges, which is the highest anywhere on the platform, and land is what secures them.
What to check
- Land ownership here is company-owned. Much of British farmland is held personally or in trust, and that will not appear.
- Subsidy and stewardship payments are a material revenue line and are published separately.
- Tenancies, grazing licences and rights of way shape value and sit in the title, not the company record.
- Five employees on average: these are family operations, and the family is the business.
How to search
Choose Farming on the search screen and narrow by town, how long the business has traded, how ownership is held, and whether the premises are traceable. Searching is free and shows the shape of each company without naming it. A report on one company costs from £4.90.
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SME44 is an intelligence platform, not an adviser, and nothing here is for sale. Public registers contain errors and delays, and our matching of one register to another can too. Verify anything important against the source register before acting. Nothing here is legal, financial, tax or investment advice.