A pig farm for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté rarely takes the form of a large specialised site. Production here leans on the cereals of the Burgundy plateaux, on the comté cheese dairies of the Jura massif and on mixed crop-and-livestock systems in the Saône valley, with a genuine role for curing and on-farm selling. The offers published on this page, entrusted by farmers nearing retirement, rural agencies and notarial offices, state the type of unit, the capacity of the livestock buildings, the housing system and the commitments in force. They belong to our national selection of pig farms for sale.
You will also find here the benchmarks the listings leave out: land values across the eight departments, the areas where units come free, the signs that betray a building nearing the end of its life, and the administrative checks specific to the sector. If you are preparing to set up, our white paper « Créer une exploitation agricole » (in French) details the steps from the agricultural qualification to the funding plan.
Land value drives much of the asking price for a pig farm. French tax transfer statistics (DVF, vineyards excluded) show, for 2025, a median of €2,773/ha in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, an average of €2,907/ha and 1,303 sales; 80% of transactions settle between €1,813 and €4,185/ha, against a national median of €5,307/ha.
On the SAFER side, the value of vacant land and pasture is set at €2,740/ha for 2025, moving -6.2% over a year and -8.1% over ten, against €6,460/ha nationally; expect an average discount of 17% where a lease is running.
What you buy goes far beyond the hectares advertised. What counts first is the livestock building and how well it is fitted, the slurry store and its capacity, the spreading area genuinely available, the administrative regime of the site, the quality of the sow herd and the strength of the outlet, whether a contract or a direct customer base. Gauge the gap with the market through our land price observatory and cost your takeover with our financial calculators.
Sites offered for handover alternate between fully slatted houses, straw-bedded finishing units built against a cattle shed and small farm-scale units designed around processing. The visit starts with the farrowing house and the weaner rooms: pens, floors, drainage, ventilation and its control, heating, liquid or dry feeding. Then come the ancillary works: slurry store and its usable volume, dung pad, loading bay, biosecurity entry room, on-farm feed mill, cereal storage bins. In a region where many buildings date from modernisation programmes predating group housing for gestating sows, the price gap between a compliant site and one still to be upgraded is considerable.
The sow herd is assessed independently of the walls: health status, genetics, average parity of the sows, batch management, consistency of farrowings. Ask for the technical results rather than the seller's verbal assessment. Where the listing covers a holding with a dwelling house, land and cattle buildings, request a detailed breakdown of the asking price: the production tool, the animals, the machinery and the house are neither financed nor depreciated in the same way, and a careful notary will have this set out before the preliminary contract.
The Haute-Saône (70) shows the clearest pig density: farrow-to-finish units in the Saône valley and around Vesoul, cereals available locally, land prices that have stayed moderate. The Doubs (25) answers a different logic: small units, often linked to comté cheese dairies and to using up whey, supply the curing houses of the Haut-Doubs, where the smoked sausages of Morteau and Montbéliard hold a leading place. The Jura (39) extends that pattern, with lowland units in the Bresse jurassienne and land that grows markedly dearer as soon as you approach the vineyard and the best-exposed slopes.
The Territoire de Belfort (90), the smallest of the eight, holds only a few holdings, geared to the town's customers and to direct selling. The Côte-d'Or (21) offers sites on the Châtillonnais plateaux and in the Auxois, where cereals feed the animals, but land becomes expensive as you near Dijon and the wine slopes. The Saône-et-Loire (71), Charolais country above all, still reveals units in the Bresse louhannaise and the Saône valley, frequently tied to a nearby outlet.
The Yonne (89), open to arable farming and close to the Paris region, combines favourable conditions for contract finishing: feed grown next door, a short haul to consumer markets, and roomy farmsteads. The Nièvre (58), dominated by grass, Charolais cattle and forest, posts the region's gentlest entry prices, with buildings that often need complete upgrading. Keep this geography in mind: the most numerous units lie east and north, the curing outlets in the Jura massif, and the most affordable takeovers in the Nièvre and western Burgundy.
The balance sheet of a pig holding turns largely on feed. A site with an on-farm feed mill, storage bins and cereals grown on its own land copes far better with cost swings than a unit wholly dependent on delivered compound feed. Look at the grinder, the mixer, silo capacity and where the raw material actually comes from. Then study the outlet: membership of a producer group, the integration contract in force, its remaining term, the conditions under which a new operator may take it on, or conversely a personal customer base built around a cutting room.
Quality schemes weigh heavily on value: label rouge, outdoor rearing, organic farming, and the smoked charcuterie chains of the Jura massif, whose rules cover among other things what the animals are fed. These labels secure a selling price, but they rest on commitments, a health approval and sometimes a drying room or smokehouse that the buyer must be able to keep. Check the distance to the abattoir used and the terms of access to the market quotation.
Every pig unit falls under the classified installations regime, with three tiers according to the number of animals housed: declaration, registration or authorisation. A change of operator is notified to the prefecture and cannot be improvised the day before signature. Obtain the prefectural order for the site, since older requirements may cap capacity, impose air treatment or set separation distances now hard to meet. Biosecurity is the other hard point: zoning, entry rooms, loading bay, rendering arrangements, visitor protocol. A poorly zoned site can be brought into line, but the cost of that work is negotiated before the offer, not afterwards.
The spreading plan deserves a line-by-line reading, particularly in nitrate vulnerable zones: committed area, agreements with third parties, their expiry dates, and storage capacity sufficient to cover the closed period. On the land side, the rural lease 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, and SAFER. Where the farm is held by a GAEC, a joint farming company, the handover may take the form of a share transfer, whose tax consequences are best prepared well in advance.
This page draws on mandates entrusted by sellers, rural estate agencies and notaries across the region. Adjust your criteria by type of unit, capacity or attached acreage, set up an alert so no new listing escapes you, and if your project is still open, browse all the farms for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
