Agricultural Valuations: A Practical Guide

Agricultural Valuations: A Practical Guide has long been the standard text for students and professionals working on agricultural valuations. Taking a practical approach, it covers all the relevant techniques and legislation necessary to correctly value farms, assess farm rents, carry out arbitrations, inventories and records of condition, including valuation clauses on sales of farms, livestock, soils, management agreements, valuation in court proceedings and a glossary of useful information.

In this fifth edition, Gwyn Williams’s original text is taken on by Jeremy Moody and Nick Millard, renowned experts in the field, bringing the book right up to date to reflect recent changes in the rural economy, including development, diversification and renewable energy and specialist valuations and reference to all the latest legislation. Clear and accessible to students and professionals alike, readers will find Agricultural Valuations an invaluable guide to best practice in agricultural valuations.

Jeremy Moody is Secretary and Advisor to The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) and Assembly member of the European Group of Valuers’ Associations (TEGoVA). He was closely involved with the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, liaising with government at all levels and writing widely on the Single Payment Scheme as well as taxation, tenancy, valuation and other issues of both policy and practice.

Nick Millard has combined a career in commercial land agency, specialising in asset management, with academic work involving both teaching and research. He currently lectures at the Royal Agricultural University and Henley Business School at the University of Reading and is a consultant to Michelmore Hughes Stags. He is a Past President of the CAAV.