The area in the Netherlands that is used for agricultural purposes has been decreasing for many years. Large agricultural businesses are becoming even larger and slowly but surely ousting the smaller family farms.

Agricultural businesses hold the land and/or buildings they farm in ownership, on a long-term lease or on an agricultural lease. The term 'agricultural lease' is reserved for the lease of land and/or buildings specifically for agriculture. Production rights, such as milk quotas, manure quotas or sugar quotas, are in many cases bound to the land itself.

If you are the owner, leaseholder, lessor, lessee or a private individual involved in agriculture, CMS Derks Star Busmann can advise you on all forms of land use and land transactions in the agricultural sector.