ABSTRACT
Whilst most valuers in general rural practice will principally focus on agricultural land and property, they will sometimes be called upon to comment on woodland or sporting interests, particularly where these are ancillary to other rural property. In turn, most rural valuers will feel that they have the necessary skills to value amenity woodland, drawing as that process does on the established valuers' skills of the collection and analysis of comparables. Standards of management may again be better where there is some sporting interest or where biomass is now a factor, but otherwise much potential timber output has been lost from farm woodlands. Whilst a number of river beats are offered for sale, principally by specialist sporting agents or larger management firms, there are very few sales of shooting rights and consequently it may be difficult to establish an appropriate yield to be adopted when seeking to establish a capital value for shoots.
