Farm business advice
Looking at a farm business from the 'outside' and weighing up the problems as well as the opportunities, is something which requires a level of experience and expertise that Carver Knowles can clearly demonstrate.
This service includes:
- Energy audits
- Complete business appraisals
- Business plans to support grant applications
- ELS, OELS, HLS and other conservation scheme assistance
- Supporting statements for planning applications
- Joint venture and contract farm agreements
- Business recovery services
- Diversification oppportunity analysis
- Renewable energy feasibility assessments
Dealing with specific farm business challenges in order to find a satisfactory route through a host of decisions requires a thorough knowledge of a very broad range of skills as well as a clear thinking attitude to problem solving and identifying a satisfactory end result
Bringing together a knowledge of valuation, planning opportunities, business earning potential, estate and succession planning and putting this into a family or partnership context, with specific personal objectives, and balanced against taxation consequences needs to be analysed first from an impartial commercial perspective before then applying a sensitive attitude towards how the plan might work in practice with the individuals involved
Such an appraisal is often of critical importance where individual businesses need to make important long term decisions, or when a family partnership is planning for the next generation of farming, or where larger rural estates require a 'one off' overview to balance against its traditional styles of management