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Indre
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119 900 €
7.8 ha
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Indre
Goat farm with cheese production, direct sales and a house
614 800 €
19.3 ha
Terres & Domaines offers you, in the heart of a preserved rural environment in the department of Indre, a complete goat farm, immediately operational, offering a high-performance w...
Looking for a goat farm for sale in France? This page gathers the goat holdings offered by retiring farmers, rural estate agencies and notaries across the country: dairy goat herds supplying a dairy, cheese farms processing their own milk, organic units, holdings inside an appellation area and farms built on direct sales. Each listing describes the herd, the milking parlour, the goat shed, any cheese room, the forage area and the grazing land, so you can compare offers before contacting the seller. It sits within all the farms for sale in France published on ma-propriete.fr. You will also find the benchmarks you need to buy or take over a goat farm: farmland and pasture prices in each region, the areas where goat holdings cluster, what to check in the shed, the herd and the cheese room, and the steps of a takeover. If you plan to set up from scratch, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) sets out the conditions to meet and the steps to take.
Farmland and pasture prices for a goat farm in 2025 : our statistics and the SAFER benchmark
A goat holding needs fewer hectares than a cattle farm, yet land still matters: hay meadows, grazing land adjoining the shed, cereal or lucerne plots for feed self-sufficiency. Farmland and pasture prices therefore feed straight into the cost of a takeover and into future margins.
Across France, 14,328 sales of agricultural land were recorded in 2025, at a median price of €5,307/ha (average €6,059/ha; 80% of transactions between €2,500 and €10,537/ha). The SAFER benchmark of land values puts vacant land and pasture at €6,460/ha (+0.9% year on year) and tenanted land at €5,350/ha (+2.5%), an average discount of around 17% where a tenant farmer is in place.
Region
Sales 2025 (DVF)
DVF median price (€/ha)
SAFER vacant land (€/ha)
1-year change
SAFER tenanted land (€/ha)
Brittany
1,297
5,500
6,540
+0.3%
5,180
Pays de la Loire
1,873
3,267
4,100
+1.5%
3,350
Normandy
1,442
8,305
9,610
+2.9%
8,410
Hauts-de-France
1,365
7,976
10,890
-0.5%
7,650
Grand Est
1,233
5,611
6,510
-4.4%
6,120
Île-de-France
214
7,465
8,190
+5.7%
7,000
Centre-Val de Loire
1,195
5,480
6,260
-6.1%
5,700
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
1,303
2,773
2,740
-6.2%
2,750
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2,103
4,538
5,770
+5.5%
3,900
Occitanie
995
7,015
7,260
-0.3%
n/a
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
1,230
3,887
5,100
+4.9%
4,140
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur*
59
13,518
12,260
+2.8%
n/a
Corsica*
19
5,012
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n/a
Goat holdings cluster in regions where land remains fairly affordable, Poitou and the Loire valleys first, then the hillsides and garrigue of the South. The table compares each region's land, but the value of a dairy goat holding lies mostly in the shed, the herd, the milk or cheese outlet and the direct-sales customer base. From one region to the next, the benchmark varies fourfold, from €2,740/ha in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to €10,890/ha in Hauts-de-France. See the full analysis, department by department, on our agricultural land price observatory, estimate your plots with the land value tool, and work out notary fees and borrowing capacity with our financial calculators. * Fewer than 100 recorded sales: indicative value. n/a: no tenanted-land benchmark published for this region.
What makes a goat farm for sale in France different
Shed, milking parlour and herd of a dairy goat holding
The livestock building is the first measure of a goat farm: a ventilated straw-bedded shed, feed barrier and feed passage, hay and concentrate storage, a kidding area and space for replacement kids. The milking parlour, bulk tank and adjoining dairy room are its core; their condition, capacity and compliance shape much of the price. A recent shed, sized for the herd and easy to muck out, sells well above an older building that needs bringing up to standard. The herd is valued on its own: does in milk, bucks, replacement kids, dominant breed (most often Alpine and Saanen, Poitevine in its home area), yield, breeding management and health status. Machinery and forage stocks, hay first of all, are assessed separately. Where a cheese room exists, it comes with a customer base, markets, a box scheme or retailers, whose value is worked out apart from the walls.
Goat-farming regions and where to find a goat cheese farm for sale
Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Centre-Val de Loire form the country's leading goat basin: Poitou-Charentes, Touraine and Berry combine collecting dairies and cooperatives with a dense network of farmhouse cheesemakers, under the Chabichou du Poitou and Sainte-Maure de Touraine appellations. Pays de la Loire, with Vendée and Anjou, extends this basin westward. Holdings there range from well-equipped herds supplying a dairy to small cheese farms, and the takeover market is the most active in the country, even though supply falls far short of demand. In the South, the goat farm takes another shape: smaller herds, garrigue or hillside grazing, and often a farmhouse cheese room. Drôme and Ardèche (Picodon), Quercy (Rocamadour), the Cévennes (Pélardon), Provence and Corsica offer farms where the cheese outlet and direct sales make up most of the value. The Massif Central and the Alps complete the picture, often alongside other productions; this is where a smallholding with a small goat herd is most often found.
Points to check before taking over a goat farm
The first check concerns the outlet: a supply contract with the dairy or cooperative, whose transfer to the buyer must be confirmed in writing, or the health approval and food-safety plan of the cheese room. Then comes the herd's status: official health qualifications, disease screening, biosecurity and animal traceability. A goat shed most often falls under the departmental health regulations rather than the ICPE regime, but the processing unit may come under an ICPE heading depending on the volume of milk handled. As for land, grazing and meadows are frequently rented under a rural lease: the lease continues with the new farmer subject to the landlord's agreement, and the operation remains subject to the structures control and to SAFER's pre-emption right. The buyer must hold the agricultural qualification to claim setting-up aid, and should have shed, herd, cheese room and machinery valued separately rather than accept a single global price.
Buying, taking over or selling a goat holding in France
Selling a goat farm usually combines several operations: the sale of the shed and any owned land, the transfer of the herd and machinery, the handover of rural leases and of the cheese room's customer base. When the farm is run as a company, the buyer purchases shares in an EARL, GAEC or SCEA, with different tax treatment and warranties, as our article on selling the assets or the shares of a farming company details what each of the two routes involves. A gradual takeover, where the future farmer first joins as a partner to learn the herd and the cheesemaking, is common for a dairy goat holding. For the buyer, the order of the steps matters: define the project (supplying a dairy or processing, organic or conventional), confirm the agricultural qualification, analyse the accounts and the milk contract or cheese sales, then secure the land before signing. Our article on finding a farm to set up in agriculture details that search. For the seller, demand far exceeds supply: a holding with clear accounts, a monitored herd and a compliant cheese room finds a buyer quickly. Our guides on preparing a farm for sale and finding a buyer for your farm support that handover.
Frequently asked questions about buying a goat farm in France
How much does a goat farm cost in France?
There is no standard price: a small cheese farm on rented grazing and a herd supplying a dairy from a recent shed cannot be compared. The price is built item by item: land at the regional farmland price, shed and parlour according to condition, herd and machinery at market value, then the cheese room and its customers, the hardest element to put a figure on.
Can a foreigner or a non-farmer buy a goat farm in France?
Yes. There is no nationality restriction; buyers from inside and outside the EU take over French goat farms. The conditions are the same for everyone: obtain the agricultural professional qualification or partner with a qualified farmer, and pass the structures control. Goat farming attracts many career changers; a diploma, a short course or a placement on a goat farm are in practice indispensable and condition setting-up aid.
Do the milk contract and the cheese customers follow the sale?
Neither follows automatically. The supply contract binds the farmer and the dairy or cooperative; its transfer must be negotiated and confirmed before the sale. The customer base of a farmhouse cheese room, markets, box schemes, shops, passes on through a handover period with the seller, agreed in advance and written into the deed.
Does SAFER intervene in the sale of a goat farm?
Every sale of agricultural property is notified to SAFER, the rural land agency, which may pre-empt the land, with exceptions such as a sale to a relative or to the sitting tenant, and which can also help the seller find a successor. In parallel, setting up or enlarging goes through the structures control rules, which may favour a new entrant.
Which food-safety rules apply to a farmhouse goat cheese room?
Processing milk on the farm requires a health approval, or an exemption for direct sales and short supply chains, plus a food-safety management plan describing the self-checks. Raw milk demands close monitoring of the herd and of milking hygiene. Before buying, ask for the latest inspection reports: bringing a cheese room into compliance can be costly. The goat farms for sale on ma-propriete.fr come from private farmers, rural estate agencies and notaries' offices. Goat holdings sell fast and supply is scarce: filter by region, area or price, then set up an e-mail alert to be told as soon as a goat cheese farm comes on the market. Selling your farm? Post your listing and reach the buyers looking for this type of holding directly.
