End of an Era

[Travlr]

Well... it's really not the time to look for alternatives when the well is already dry.

 

[greybeard]

Some states have enacted legislation requiring wind turbine blades that need repair or that are no longer any good, be shipped back to where ever they were made. It has been a pretty big problem here in Texas, as the old blades just pile up in fields or in 'recycle' facilities that seem to go belly up and many tons of fiberglass blades are left lying around.

I see them on trains all the time, mostly going West. I assume they come in to Texas via ship, then get loaded on rail cars for the trip farther West and Northwest from here.

 

[cowman82]

I've also noticed that the skies have been a lot blue'r, and a lot more puffy clouds and 0 chem trails. ever since kennedy said he was going to make it stop..

 

[Travlr]

I've also noticed that the skies have been a lot blue'r, and a lot more puffy clouds and 0 chem trails. ever since kennedy said he was going to make it stop..

You haven't been paying attention. The skies have been changing for longer than that.

 

[greybeard]

I've also noticed that the skies have been a lot blue'r, and a lot more puffy clouds and 0 chem trails. ever since kennedy said he was going to make it stop..

I see chem trails very often. The potential is always there but the sky has to be under specific metrological conditions for them to show up tho..
'skidmarks in the sky...the breaks of Naval Air'

 

[cowman82]

I see chem trails very often. The potential is always there but the sky has to be under specific metrological conditions for them to show up tho..
'skidmarks in the sky...the breaks of Naval Air'

in the last 2 weeks you've seen a lot of them?

 

[greybeard]

in the last 2 weeks you've seen a lot of them?

No, only because the sky was mostly solid clouds for the last 2 weeks. It's rained just about every 24hours and like clockwork, that will be the case later tonight as well.

 

[TCRanch]

We just received the summer magazine edition of LAND (website Land.com). Just thumbing through, here are a few properties for sale:

51,087 acres for $52,250,000 in Madras Oregon
2,511 acres for $14,900,000 in Hancock County, Mississippi
13,453 acres for $26,500,000 in Yellowstone County, Montana
12,979 acres for $16,750,000 in Brown County, Nebraska
634.2 acres for $3,875,000 in right next to us in Butler County, Kansas
1,225 acres for $12,500,000 in Washington County, Alabama
2,866 acres for $8,950,000 in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Geography matters. And, of course, the house, structures, etc. There are hundreds of large properties listed in just this edition. Why are they all selling? Probably because they can't afford the taxes - and it's the end of an era. And who is buying them?

 

[Dave]

We just received the summer magazine edition of LAND (website Land.com). Just thumbing through, here are a few properties for sale:

51,087 acres for $52,250,000 in Madras Oregon
2,511 acres for $14,900,000 in Hancock County, Mississippi
13,453 acres for $26,500,000 in Yellowstone County, Montana
12,979 acres for $16,750,000 in Brown County, Nebraska
634.2 acres for $3,875,000 in right next to us in Butler County, Kansas
1,225 acres for $12,500,000 in Washington County, Alabama
2,866 acres for $8,950,000 in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Geography matters. And, of course, the house, structures, etc. There are hundreds of large properties listed in just this edition. Why are they all selling? Probably because they can't afford the taxes - and it's the end of an era. And who is buying them?

Mostly overpriced some idiot comes along and makes them rich. That 51,087 acres in Madras OR would be mostly dry sage brush range land. Property taxes in OR aren't high and really low on that type of ground.

 

[Brute 23]

Lots of land being traded right now around here. People with money are wanting turn key properties. People who have turn key properties and putting big prices tags on them. If they get it, they are moving over and buying raw land and building again.

 

[greybeard]

Mostly overpriced some idiot comes along and makes them rich. That 51,087 acres in Madras OR would be mostly dry sage brush range land. Property taxes in OR aren't high and really low on that type of ground.

That's like the 26,000 acre Silver S ranch down near Langtry Tx. Dry as a bone down there except for the Pecos River. $44 million asking price last I saw. It might yield/support 1 cow per 100 acres most years.

The State (of Texas) got into it big time last year, buying part (353,785 of 420,000 acres) of the Brewster Ranch in the county of the same name. The state land commissioner hasn't said what they will do with it except
" Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham's October statement gestures at border security and unspecified "foreign adversaries" who she says could have purchased the acreage instead, as well as at "ensuring this mineral-rich property will be generating revenue for the school children of Texas.""

 

[Lucky]

Lots of land being traded right now around here. People with money are wanting turn key properties. People who have turn key properties and putting big prices tags on them. If they get it, they are moving over and buying raw land and building again.

I went to look at a set of cows several years back and after looking around a bit got to talking about his ranch projects. Seemed he had allot going on. He said he got his first ranch just how he wanted it and got offered a price he couldn't turn down. He bought another place and same deal. He said he decided to make his living doing it. Think this was his fourth or fifth place to fix up. He said the one that doesn't sell is were he'll live . Not a bad plan but flipping ranches wouldn't be an easy undertaking.

He had around 50 hd for sale and I only needed 32. We made a deal and then he called me the day before I was going to get them and said he had a man wanting them all. I didn't argue with him and passed on the deal.

 

[Warren Allison]

@Mark Reynolds , we decided not to lease to the state for a WMA. We are just making it all, plus about 270 acres of the 276 acre timber land next to it that I bought, into a private hunting club, kinda. I cut out about 5-6 acres on the road frontage right beside the entrance to the Kudzu place, for my barndominium and covered arena. The fence between the Kudzu Place and mine already has a couple of gates, so we will have about 12 acres to use for if I buy something and need to hold it til it is sold, etc. ..move our horses to when we need to do something in their pasture....keep the 5 Br x Dairy heifers in each year between weaning and when they are sold. Members will be able to park at the pole barn and arena area, where we always did the food at our annual dove shoots. There is water and electricity hook ups. They can pasture their horses or put them in the arena. We have about 6 dog kennels under the shed off the pole barn.
We have sold about 10 memberships to some friends and family. This will be more than enough to cover the taxes ( for now) .

It works like a hunting club lease, only me and Scott will be the only ones making the rules, bag limits, etc. We are just using the state's seasons and bag limits for quail, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, and coon. Only stipulation is we have a rule you can only shoot the same covey once a day...we put that in for the younger hunters who had never been taught this. This year we will have a 1 buck/3 doe limit til we see how the population is doing. You can call coyote any nights you want to. For now, hog hunting will be sans dogs.. still hunting stalking only. It will be on foot or horseback only..no motorized vehicles allowed, except a few days before archery season to put up your stands, and a few days after after deer season to go get them. And all 10 won't be after the same things. 2 just wants to deer hunt, 2 want to deer and turkey hunt, 2 of them just bird hunt and 2 just rabbit hunt. One guy just wants to turkey hunt the spring and coon hunt in the winter. You can call coyote. hunt hogs, and fish any time. Duck and goose seasons and bag limits will be the federal ones. This season, we aren't gonna hunt pheasants, but hopefully they grow and spread well enough to hunt next year. And all members and their immediate family will be able to hunt doves opening weekend, and any time else during the 3 open seasons.
The last of the herd left the 1st of June, and already the Kudzu is covering everything like it had never been grazed. The deer are already as thick as thieves in it, too. Scott said he has to put nearly as much in the mineral salt feeders as we did when we ran 100-120 Corr cows on it. I have a friend that sold his business about 15 years ago, and has bought an exotic game and whitetail hunting ranch in Texas. He sent me a mineral mix recipe they use out there to promoie antler growth, so I am about to change up the mineral mix a bit. So, I think the deer hunting will do well.