A lease of bare land to a single tenant farmer on a short-term farm business tenancy (FBT) for a fixed term of two years or less.

This document is for use where the land is in England. For land in Wales, see Standard document, Short form agricultural farm business tenancy: bare land (Wales).

To comply with the notice conditions for a farm business tenancy, the landlord and the tenant should each give the other a written notice before the beginning of the tenancy, stating that the tenancy is to be, and remain, a farm business tenancy. See Standard document, Notice under section 1(4) of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.

Note: The Basic Payment Scheme ended in England and is replaced by delinked payments from 1 January 2024, which reduce and are phased out at the end of 2027. Farmers can receive funding via a new system of environmental land management. For more information on delinking, see Practice note, Delinked payments.