A flurry of launches across Wales and its bordering counties has sparked the region’s summer farmland market to life.

As Farmers Weekly reported last month, stunted supply was a feature of the Welsh land market last summer.

However, 12 months on, a variety of sales have been announced that will peak the interest of buyers looking for high-quality bare blocks, as well as traditional mixed units.

See also: Expanding farmers prop up Welsh land market

Bare blocks

One of the most unusual offerings of the year comes in the form of a large block of Grade 2 Flintshire loamy clay soil capable of producing root crops and first wheat yields of 10.5t/ha.

The River Dee borders the largest of the four lots – a 150-acre parcel at Sealand Manor, Sealand, which has 306 acres in total. The smallest block is 37 acres.

Fisher German has set a guide price of £3.363m as a whole – equivalent to about £11,000/acre.

On a smaller scale, Halls has brought a block of arable and grassland to the market 40 miles away at Bacheldre, near Churchstoke, Powys.

It will be sold in two lots – 22 acres currently put to arable and 30 acres of grassland oilseed rape – at auction on 14 September.

Whole farms

In Carmarthenshire, Carter Jonas is selling a 178-acre livestock farm with two houses either together or in two lots.

Ty Brych, Penmaen and Ty Uchaf at Llanddeusant is down to grass with grazing rights on a neighbouring upland common.

The houses are in need of renovation and it has a range of stone outbuildings suitable for livestock housing.

A guide price of £1.125m has been set as a whole, but farmers seeking 167 acres, a house and buildings will be interested in lot two, which is £800,000.

Roger Parry and Partners has two new instructions – one in mid-Wales and one on the England-Wales border.

Cynewill Farm near Welshpool in Powys comprises 242 acres of pasture, a traditional stone building plus Dutch barn and timber-framed shed.

A house is included in the guide price of £950,000 as a whole or in four lots, but entitlements are excluded.

Just over the border, the firm is selling a 283-acre mixed arable and dairy unit in the shape of Longslow Farm, Market Drayton, north Shropshire.

A well-equipped yard includes cubicle housing, a herringone parlour, 600t grain store and storage and sits centrally to the ring-fenced land, which is put to wheat, triticale and temporary and permanent grass.

It is being sold with a £5m guide price as a whole, but is being offered in up to eight lots, which could encourage farmers who are looking for bare land.