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<blockquote data-quote="sjr725" data-source="post: 318291" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>our place is near Helena (State Capital, so you can maybe get a paying job?) on the east slope. Prices of land vary hugely depending on location - you can probably still get some marginal pasture land out in eastern MT for reasonable price but in the west it's high - here near Helena expect to pay upwards of $5000 per ac for anything irrigated - there are still quite a few larger acerage tracts available but you get what you pay for. We're lucky and bought our place that adjoins my dads place from a neighbor in 1986 we bought a section (360 acres) with good house, small barn, corrals and wheel line irrigation with good water allotment from the irrigation co-op, and we have an old family lease on nearby forest service ground for summer pasture. We farm our 360 acres of alfalfa hay and part of my dad's place (about another 200 acres) then we summer cattle in the mountains. We only get 2 cuttings of hay most years - we water the fields again after the 2nd to bring up the hay for pasture in the fall when the cows come home. We will generally have to feed from late December (if the snow doesn't cover the pastures) until they go back to the mountains in mid May. Below zero temps are possible from late Sept until June - we've had snow in July and August! Get yourself a good team and sled to feed in the winter - tractors probably won't start if you don't have them in the barn and plugged in! We calve beginning of Feb. and wean in October. I can't think of anything else to tell you except buy good Carhart coats and White packs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sjr725, post: 318291, member: 4936"] our place is near Helena (State Capital, so you can maybe get a paying job?) on the east slope. Prices of land vary hugely depending on location - you can probably still get some marginal pasture land out in eastern MT for reasonable price but in the west it's high - here near Helena expect to pay upwards of $5000 per ac for anything irrigated - there are still quite a few larger acerage tracts available but you get what you pay for. We're lucky and bought our place that adjoins my dads place from a neighbor in 1986 we bought a section (360 acres) with good house, small barn, corrals and wheel line irrigation with good water allotment from the irrigation co-op, and we have an old family lease on nearby forest service ground for summer pasture. We farm our 360 acres of alfalfa hay and part of my dad's place (about another 200 acres) then we summer cattle in the mountains. We only get 2 cuttings of hay most years - we water the fields again after the 2nd to bring up the hay for pasture in the fall when the cows come home. We will generally have to feed from late December (if the snow doesn't cover the pastures) until they go back to the mountains in mid May. Below zero temps are possible from late Sept until June - we've had snow in July and August! Get yourself a good team and sled to feed in the winter - tractors probably won't start if you don't have them in the barn and plugged in! We calve beginning of Feb. and wean in October. I can't think of anything else to tell you except buy good Carhart coats and White packs. [/QUOTE]
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