Buying a goat farm for sale in Indre-et-Loire means settling in the home of one of France's best-known goat cheeses: the Sainte-Maure de Touraine protected designation covers the whole department, and its eastern edge also touches the Valençay area. The properties shown here reach us from breeders preparing to step back, from firms specialising in rural estates and from notarial offices across Touraine; herd size, the design of the livestock building, milking equipment, any processing workshop and the land attached are set out each time. Every file joins our national panorama of goat farms for sale.
Listings carry the essentials and little else: what pasture and arable land fetch here, the districts that regularly release a dairy goat holding, how to judge an old building, and the checks that come with a protected designation. To prepare your project, the white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) covers the setting-up route, from the professional qualification to the funding plan.
Land weighs heavily on the budget for a goat farm. Transfers published by the French tax authorities (DVF, excluding vineyards) put the median for farmland in Indre-et-Loire (37) at €5,477/ha in 2025, with an average of €5,460/ha over 201 sales. Eight transactions in ten settle between €3,092 and €7,916/ha, where the national median is €5,307/ha.
A second reference, the SAFER land value benchmark, sets vacant land and pasture at €5,370/ha for 2025, -2.0% in a year and +33.9% over a decade; the French average is €6,460/ha, and a sitting tenant costs a plot roughly 17% of its value.
Price rests on the working tool and the outlet: housing and ventilation, parlour and bulk tank, cheese room with drying room and ripening cellar, the genetics of the milking herd and the steadiness of lactation, the designation licence or the dairy contract, and the direct clientele where Loire valley tourism carries farmgate sales. Measure the land side with our land price observatory, then stress-test your takeover plan with our financial calculators.
Touraine offers a wide spread of set-ups: functional goat houses built for shipping milk, farmhouse units grafted onto old tuffeau stone barns, and sometimes troglodyte caves turned into ripening rooms. Review the frame and roof, the height under the ridge, ventilation and natural light, how batches and kidding are organised, and covered storage for hay and forage. Then the milking plant: number of units, cluster removal, washing, cooling, tank size against the herd actually milked, and the condition of the milk room and its drains.
Processing changes the nature of the asset. Make room, drying room, cellar, cold store and shop form a tool whose value depends on the health approval, the volumes produced, the reputation built and, where relevant, the designation licence. The herd is counted separately: usually Alpine and Saanen, with a few Poitevine herds, along with the age of the goats, the bucks, replacement kids and health status. If house, outbuildings and land are included in the sale, have the price broken down item by item.
The plateau around Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine and the southern Indre valley hold the densest concentration of herds, with well-structured holdings, dairies close by and firm land values. The Lochois and the Montrésorois, more rolling, mix crops, woods and pasture and host many farmhouse units. The Richelais and the edges of the Chinonais combine goats with mixed farming, while the Gâtine tourangelle, north-west towards Château-la-Vallière, keeps grass and roomy buildings. The vineyard slopes of Vouvray, Bourgueil and Chinon, and the ring around Tours, leave little room for livestock and trade on another scale entirely.
Loire valley tourism supplies a direct outlet few departments can match: farmgate sales, markets, delicatessens, restaurants and producers' shops. A goat cheese farm with a shop that is easy to reach and clearly signposted is valued accordingly, whereas a unit tucked away at the end of a track will lean more heavily on milk collection.
The designation licence deserves close reading: the specification governs what the herd is fed, the share of forage grown on the holding, and the conditions of making and ripening; the licence transfers only after inspection and does not follow the sale automatically. Depending on herd size, the unit falls under the departmental health regulation or under the French classified installations regime, by declaration or registration, with the change of operator notified to the prefecture and with distances to neighbours, effluent storage and the spreading plan all to be verified before committing.
Add the animal health file: testing records, CAEV history, that is caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus, paratuberculosis monitoring and the replacement policy. For the cheese room, require the food safety plan, the approval or the exemption covering direct supply, and the latest self-checks. On land, rented parcels remain under the rural lease, which continues with the buyer subject to the landlord's agreement, and the deal goes through the structures control, the French authorisation regime for taking over farmland, then SAFER, watchful where vines and market gardening push land values up.
What appears on this page comes from private owners, rural estate agencies and Touraine notaries. Filter by area, by budget or by how the milk is marketed, then create an e-mail alert: listings are few and a well-run smallholding attracts several candidates within days. Organising your own handover? Post your listing. Continue with goat farms for sale in Centre-Val de Loire.
