News & Articles
14th December 2017 | by thisworksadmin | Anecdotes, News & Articles
Just to explain a little more about our ethos at Farm and Country Finance. A customer contacted us to enquire about finance for starting a rural business. The property was ideal for our farm start up finance product. We learned that they were intending to sell their current unencumbered property, to put in as a deposit […]
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10th June 2014 | by thisworksadmin | News & Articles
In the light of recent and very sad events, can we remind you all of the need to be careful around slurry tanks. Here is the text of the NFU’s guidance on this. What is Slurry gas? Slurry gas is a mixture of gases including methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulphide. The gases are […]
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9th June 2014 | by thisworksadmin | News & Articles, Planning Legal and Tax
Since 6 April 2014, changes to permitted development rights allow for the conversion of agricultural buildings to residential use. Farm and Country Finance can arrange farm development finance to assist with this. Do your buildings qualify? The new rights apply to buildings and their curtilage that were in sole agricultural use as part of an […]
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3rd June 2014 | by thisworksadmin | Agricultural Restrictions, Case Studies, Farm Mortgages, Mortgages for properties with land, News & Articles, Planning Legal and Tax
At Farm and Country Finance, we are receiving an increasing number of enquiries from customers who need a mortgage for a property with an agricultural restriction and we can arrange this type of finance but each case is different. An agricultural restriction is a condition imposed by a planning authority, when granting planning consent for […]
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16th April 2014 | by thisworksadmin | Farm Bridging Finance, Finance Types and Tips, News & Articles
In an article not so long ago we suggested, indeed insisted, that we were not connected with the UK Group or UK Farm Finance. It was hardly surprising that some of our customers were asking whether we were, having come across UK Farm Finance or heard of them. Some of them were trying to get out of […]
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3rd February 2014 | by thisworksadmin | Finance for Renewables, News & Articles
The Government has announced changes to the Feed-in Tariff levels for all renewable technologies. The changes will come into effect from April 1 and have been published on the Ofgem website at https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/tariff-tables The tariff for small-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) plants with a capacity of 250kW or less have been reduced from 15.57p/kWh to 12.13p/kWh; plants […]
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21st January 2014 | by thisworksadmin | Finance Types and Tips, News & Articles
Here at Farm and Country Finance, our new farm finance product is creating great interest and there are now completions under our belt, which makes this a very attractive proposition for rural finance or an agricultural mortgage. The lender is incredibly flexible on income proof and takes projected income into account. Our farm finance customers are […]
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15th November 2013 | by thisworksadmin | Finance for Renewables, Finance Types and Tips, News & Articles
Farm and Country Finance is the market leader for the arrangement of farm loans, farm mortgages and rural finance. We are pleased to announce we can arrange finance for biomass boilers and loans for biomass boilers. Biomass is a renewable, low carbon fuel that is widely available throughout the UK. It is a sustainable fuel […]
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23rd October 2013 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News, Farm Finance, Finance Types and Tips, News & Articles
Farm and Country Finance is pleased to announce it has a new rural loan product designed with farm start-ups in mind or where there is a need to create or repair a credit profile before refinancing elsewhere. It is also great for capital raising or where the bank is being difficult. The loan term is for […]
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23rd October 2013 | by thisworksadmin | Farm Finance, Farm Mortgages, Finance Types and Tips, Mortgages for properties with land, News & Articles
One of the questions any customer should ask is ‘Why should we use you to arrange our farm finance, agricultural mortgage or agricultural loan?’ These are the things to consider: Farm and Country Finance has been successfully raising farm finance and rural finance for years. Farm and Country Finance backs up what it says by […]
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