The partnership will give the Cardiff-based packager access to UKAF’s funding for non-regulated loans secured against agricultural land and property across England, Scotland and Wales.

UKAF offers bridging and term loans ranging from £100,000-£10m to help farmers nationwide to diversify, acquire more land, buy livestock, restructure their business or build renewable energy projects.

These loans are for one to seven years with a maximum LTV of 65%.

Alun Winter, managing director at Intelligent Loans (pictured above), said: “We’re hugely excited to announce our partnership with UK Agricultural Finance and we’ve already begun working closely with their team to enhance our proposition.

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“We look forward to enabling more UK farmers to achieve their growth objectives and gain a greater foothold in such a thriving industry.

“We’re committed to offering a flexible and diverse product range to our intermediaries and, with the addition of UKAF to our lending panel, they’ll be able to provide their clients with more choice and take advantage of the increasing number of loans being processed within the agricultural market.”

Robert Suss, co-founder of UKAF, said it was very pleased to be working with Intelligent Loans.

“As a principal lender providing traditional, responsible lending to farmers and the rural community throughout Britain, we needed a provider that shared our values of transparency, simplicity and speed, while having specialist lending expertise and an extensive network – Intelligent Loans ticked all the boxes.”