WORKSHOP 1A Matching Platform website & checklist Landgilde Maria van Boxtel, Land & Co

Landgilde www.landgilde.nl Questions before Selection like a ‘job interview’

Farm transfer checklist: starting document. BOTH FILL OUT! BEFORE AND TOGETHER. For example….. What are the values of your farm you want to pass on? What would you like to be different about your farm, but you never got round to? What are the new values of the farm? What is built on existing values, what is a new value you would add? Who lives where and when? At what cost?

Webstats: Target group: 1500 -8000 farmers 600 unique visitors/month Facebook: 500, personal 40 ads/year 10 successions

www.landgilde.nl Partners: Warmonderhof school, BD verein, Land & Co; added advisors, notaries, accountant Advertisement and selection, talk to transfer Contracts made by others

Why a matching platform? Farming in the Netherlands 65.000 farms, 30 ha, variation large 3% reduction/year, upscaling 40% farmers over 55 years of age, 70% successor capital requirements (land easily € 75.000/ha)

We see changes… increase farm size and multifunctional: complex business = pension older farmer, capital needed in family  non-family transfer: living work ethic & soil fertility

Matching platform Landgilde aimed at organic farmers (and ml) Why? More non-family (Warmonderhof school 50%) More outside capital, start ups 25 to 50% multifunctional (13% regular)

Landgilde Found it helps to: Take it in steps Distuingish between exploitation and capital required Need to talk about it: article, conference, brochure, workshops