Farming: Land, Livestock, Machinery & Supplies Across Scotland

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From the hill to the lowland, the byre to the auction mart, the tractor shed to the seed store — Farming is where every crofter, farmer, and smallholder in Scotland finds what they need and who they're looking for. Whether it's a second-hand baler, a field of grazing to rent, a breeding bull, or a pallet of fence posts, if it's to do with working the land, it belongs here.

Farming is the backbone of rural Scotland and a living thread in every council area — the hill farms of the Highlands and Borders, the arable land of Angus and Perthshire, the dairy runs of Ayrshire and Dumfries, the crofts of the islands, and the market gardens tucked round the cities. Farming is the meeting place for all of it: the buying and selling, the services, the land, and the people who keep Scottish agriculture going.

Who should post here? Anyone working the land or supplying those who do — farmers, crofters, smallholders, contractors, stockmen, machinery dealers, feed merchants, land agents, vets, and anyone buying or selling agricultural goods and services. Whether you're selling a tractor, advertising contracting work, listing grazing, or hunting for a bull to hire, this is your category.

What belongs here:

• Land — farms, smallholdings, and crofts for sale or rent; grazing and winter keep to let; rough ground and woodland.
• Farm buildings — barns, byres, sheds, silos, and stonework; planning and building services for agricultural use.
• Livestock — cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, goats, and rare breeds for sale; breeding stock, store animals, and finished stock; rams and bulls for hire.
• Machinery — tractors, balers, mowers, tedders, combines, quad bikes, telehandlers, and implements; new, used, and for parts.
• Equipment and supplies — feed, seed, fertiliser, fencing, water troughs, hurdles, gates, and handling systems.
• Contracting and services — silage and haymaking, baling, ploughing, harvesting, hedging, drainage, and groundworks.
• Animal health — farm vets, foot trimming, scanning, AI services, and worming supplies.
• Feed and bedding — hay, haylage, straw, silage, and hard feed by the bale, tonne, or load.
• Farming jobs — stockmen, shepherds, tractor drivers, and seasonal work.
• Farm produce — direct sales of meat, eggs, wool, and veg off the farm.
• Lifestyle and smallholding — polytunnels, hen houses, beekeeping kit, orchard trees, and the kit that turns a bit of ground into a working smallholding.
• Wanted ads — land wanted, stock wanted, machinery wanted, contractors needed.

How to list well: For livestock, give the breed, age, sex, numbers, and history — honest stock finds the right buyer. For machinery, state the make, model, year, hours, and condition, and be plain about any faults. For land, give the acreage, location, tenure, and what it's good for. For services, say where you cover and how to reach you. Photos matter across the board: a clear shot of the tractor, the stock in the field, the shed, or the ground tells the story at a glance.

If you're buying, ask the right questions and go and see it — a machine or an animal is only worth what it checks out at. If you're selling, the honest listing finds the right home and saves the wasted journeys. The farming world's a close one in Scotland, and a fair deal builds a name that lasts.

Perthshire's mixed farming country, but the farming thread runs through every council area — the hill farm in Argyll, the dairy in Ayrshire, the arable unit in Angus, the croft in the Western Isles. This is where Scotland's farming community meets.

Got land to let, stock to sell, a tractor to pass on, or a service to offer? Get it listed here.

Farming: your listings live here.