The market for a goat farm for sale in Loir-et-Cher rests on a department where goat milk is a leading production: it is the cradle of Selles-sur-Cher, crossed in the south-east by the Valençay area and reached in the west by that of Sainte-Maure de Touraine. Our listings come from farmers arranging their succession, from rural agencies covering the Cher valley and the Sologne, and from notaries in Blois, Romorantin-Lanthenay or Vendôme. Each one details the herd, the goat house, the milking plant, any processing workshop and the forage land. All of them join our national selection of goat farms for sale.
Here you will find what descriptions leave out: what pasture and cropland are worth locally, the districts that most often bring a dairy goat holding onto the market, the signs of a tired livestock building, and the checks tied to protected designations and to selling direct. Our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) also guides newcomers as far as 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 Loir-et-Cher (41) at €4,647/ha in 2025, with an average of €5,031/ha over 173 sales. Eight transactions in ten settle between €3,000 and €7,996/ha, where the national median is €5,307/ha.
A second reference, the SAFER land value benchmark, sets vacant land and pasture at €5,090/ha for 2025, +3.9% in a year and +10.7% over a decade; the French average is €6,460/ha, and a sitting tenant costs a plot roughly 17% of its value.
The asking price is built mostly beyond the acreage: the design and ventilation of the goat house, the parlour and tank, the cheese room with its drying room and ripening cellar, the worth of the herd and its replacements, the steadiness of milk output, and the outlet, whether collection by a dairy or direct sales at markets, through box schemes or at the farm gate. Compare those against the land price observatory and model your purchase with our financial calculators.
The department shows recent buildings designed for large herds shipping milk to a dairy alongside farmhouse units housed in old Sologne barns or in outbuildings of the Cher valley. Look at frame and roof, air volume, ridge ventilation, orientation, the quality of the bedded areas, the space given to kidding and to sick animals, and covered storage for hay and forage. On the milking side, count the units, check washing, pulsation, cooling and tank capacity, and inspect the milk room and lorry access.
The herd carries its own valuation: Alpine and Saanen dominate, Poitevine remains marginal; the age of the milking goats, the bucks, replacement kids, health status and any organic certification all bear on the negotiation. A goat cheese farm is judged in addition on its approval, its output and its customer base. Where the sale takes in the dwelling, outbuildings and land, the split must be written down: in the Sologne as on the Cher slopes, residential value quickly blurs the picture.
The south of the department is the caprine core: the Cher valley from Montrichard to Saint-Aignan and Selles-sur-Cher, and the Controis, where herds supplying dairies sit next to farms ripening their own cheese. The Sologne, between Romorantin-Lanthenay and Salbris, offers light soils, wooded grazing and available buildings, but land values propped up by shooting and forestry. The Vendômois and the Perche vendômois, to the north-west, bring hedged pasture and roomy farmsteads. The Beauce east of the Loire, by contrast, is cereal country where goat keeping is marginal.
Proximity to the designation areas weighs in negotiations: a licensed herd with compliant facilities and a place with a collector changes hands dearer than an equivalent herd outside the zone. Loire valley tourism and visitors to the châteaux also support farmgate selling, which lifts the value of holdings with an accessible shop.
Start with the designation licence where one is claimed: the specification sets feeding rules, a share of forage grown on the holding and conditions for making the cheese, and transferring it to the buyer requires an inspection by the certifying body. Then comes the classification of the unit: departmental health rules below a certain herd size, the French classified installations regime above it, with notification of the change of operator, distances to dwellings, effluent storage capacity and the spreading plan to examine before any offer is made.
Ask for testing records, the CAEV history, that is caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus, and paratuberculosis monitoring; where the farm processes, ask for the food safety plan, the approval or the exemption covering direct supply, and the self-checks. Finally, verify the status of the land: in the Sologne, part of the pasture and rough grazing is held under leases or agreements whose renewal is far from automatic. The sale remains subject to the structures control, the French authorisation regime for taking over farmland, and to SAFER's pre-emption right.
Private owners, rural estate agencies and notarial offices publish here as handovers arise. Select on herd size, forage area or budget, then switch on the e-mail alert: offers stay scarce against the number of buyers, and a working smallholding goes quickly. Selling your own holding? Post your listing. Widen the search to goat farms for sale in Centre-Val de Loire.
