Working with us
TWB Farms manages land for other owners across Staffordshire and the neighbouring counties, and Clive Bailye advises organisations and farms that want a working farmer's view.
For landowners
The business has grown over twenty years largely through agreements with neighbouring landowners, and that is still how it grows.
The structure depends on what suits the owner. A farm business tenancy is the simplest. A contract farming agreement keeps you in occupation and in the business, with TWB Farms providing the management, labour, machinery and know how in return for a share of the result. A share farming arrangement sits between the two. We will explain the options plainly and tell you which we think fits.
Whatever the structure, the land is farmed as part of one unit, with the same team, the same kit, the same rotation and the same attention as our own. Agronomy, harvest, grain marketing, record keeping and scheme applications are all handled here, and you get regular updates through the season and a proper account at the end of it.
Why it works
A conventional contractor's charges are built around cultivation passes, big horsepower and the labour to run it. Direct drilling takes most of that out. Fewer passes, less diesel, less labour, less depreciation. That gap is what makes the arrangement work for both sides.
Advisory and consultancy
Clive Bailye takes on a small number of advisory, non executive and consultancy roles alongside the farm. He farms, he has built and run companies for nearly thirty years, he reads what farmers think every day on The Farming Forum, and he has put AI to work on his own farm.
That mix suits organisations that need to understand farmers rather than guess at them: levy and assurance bodies, government and its agencies, supply chain businesses, investors and technology companies. Individual farms making the move to direct drilling are still welcome to ask, as they have for twenty years.
If you own farmland in the Midlands, or you are thinking about how your own farm is run, the contact form is the quickest way to reach Clive.
