What exactly is included among land, buildings, livestock and machinery?
Compare production yields, sale prices, input costs, direct payments and owner labour over several years. Separate exceptional weather and biological cycles from sustainable operating performance.
How should earnings be normalised across very different harvest years?
Verify title or tenancy for every parcel, water and access rights, buildings, livestock, machinery, inventories, financing, supply contracts and regulatory restrictions.
Which leases, access rights and direct-payment conditions need confirmation?
Informal land use, expiring leases, disease or weather exposure and underinvested buildings can make historic output impossible to repeat.
When can the farm change hands without disrupting the production cycle?
Allocate crops, livestock, stock, costs and payments at a clear cut-off and include practical transfer of machinery, farm records, suppliers and administrative routines.