This department lives by its valleys, and that is where most of the action lies when you look for an arable farm for sale in Lot-et-Garonne: the terraces of the Garonne and the Lot carry irrigated maize, wheat, sunflower and soya, while the plateaux of the pays de Serres and the Albret offer drier, more extensive units. Behind these sales stand farmers handing over, rural land firms and notaries in Agen, Marmande or Villeneuve-sur-Lot; the files give the rotation, the irrigable area, the storage, the contracts and the machinery. Place them among the arable farms for sale listed across France.
Here you will find what no listing states: land values measured in the department, the districts where takeovers follow one another, how to read a valley steading and its sheds, and the checks to run on a cereal farm that shares its ground with orchards. Our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) sets out the method.
Pricing the land comes first in any plan to buy an arable farm. On the basis of 2025 DVF sales (vineyards excluded), the median in Lot-et-Garonne (47) works out at €7,501/ha and the average at €8,547/ha, across 150 transactions. The central range covering 80% of sales runs from €5,015 to €14,141/ha; nationally the median is €5,307/ha.
The SAFER benchmark, the market's second yardstick, gives €8,870/ha in 2025 for vacant land and pasture (+0.3% over twelve months, +20.0% over ten years), beside a national €6,460/ha; tenanted land is worth about 17% less.
Beyond the hectares, several things open the gap in price: the depth of the boulbène or alluvial soils, how secure the irrigation is, whether drawn from the river, a licensed borehole or a hillside reservoir, how grouped the blocks are, bin capacity and the presence of a drier, the condition of the harvest machinery, the basic payment entitlements, and any seed maize or vegetable contracts that underwrite part of the turnover. Tune your offer with our land price observatory and our financial calculators.
The alluvium of the low terraces along the Garonne and the Lot ranks among the best land in the south-west: deep, easy to work and irrigable from the river itself. Move away and you meet the silty-sandy boulbènes, prone to capping and short of organic matter, then the clay-limestone terrefort of the hillsides, stickier and vulnerable to erosion. Insist on analyses, workable depth, the drainage history on boulbène and block-by-block yields over several seasons. Check too where the water comes from, the pumping point, the buried mains and the installed electrical capacity, because secure irrigation is what gives this land its working value.
Buildings often combine a brick and river-cobble house, converted tobacco or plum driers and more recent sheds. Check the bearing capacity of the yards, lorry access, the seal of the bins, the ventilation and the electrical compliance. A crop farm able to store its own harvest chooses freely between immediate intake and a later sale. The house and the heritage outbuildings, in strong demand, are valued independently of the land and the machinery.
Around Marmande, Tonneins and Le Mas-d'Agenais, the Garonne plain holds the most sought-after ground, with field vegetable growers competing hard for it. Upstream of Agen and along the Lot, from Villeneuve-sur-Lot to Fumel, plum orchards and hazelnut plantations take up a large share of the good terraces and pull land values up. On the plateaux of the pays de Serres, between Penne-d'Agenais and Prayssas, fields are drier and more fragmented; units there stay affordable but depend closely on stored water to get through the summer, so ask how the reservoirs performed in the driest recent seasons.
Westwards, the Albret and the Néracois, towards Nérac, Casteljaloux and Houeillès, mix sand, pine woodland and irrigated cropping on large cleared fields. Before committing, measure the distance from the blocks to the steading and the collection point, and note the pinch points: crossing the valley or using a weight-restricted bridge complicates harvest logistics considerably, and it adds hours to every load of grain sent to the drier.
No one takes this land on without an operating authorisation issued under the structures control; the sale is also notified to SAFER, the rural land agency, which holds a pre-emption right. Go through each rural lease: remaining term, rent, environmental clauses and the sitting tenant's right of first refusal. Irrigation warrants close study: abstraction from the Garonne and its associated groundwater is managed collectively, with volumes allocated each season and restrictions in low flows. Where the water comes from a hillside reservoir, check the status of the structure, its upkeep, its safety file and the easements attached to it.
Then verify that the graphical field register matches the areas sold, that basic payment entitlements transfer, whether the land lies in a nitrate vulnerable zone with the obligations that brings, the flood zones of the Garonne and the Lot, and the easements along the lateral canal. Where fields border orchards, spraying distances constrain certain operations. Finish with the crop-protection store, the fuel tanks and the condition of the pumping equipment.
The properties shown come from retiring owners, from agencies specialising in rural land and from notarial offices in Lot-et-Garonne. Set your area, budget and district criteria, switch on an alert to follow every new grain farm reaching the market, then widen your search to the arable farms for sale in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
