Texas PaPaw said:
DCA farm said:
callmefence said:
Careful you can spend to much quick. Especially if you don't have a long term deal
Family member bought it planning to build a house but decided not to. Told me I can run cows on it long as I want
If you are expending any significant money or labor getting the place going, you need to get a long term written lease. Have heard of numerous situations where person did quite a bit of fence work and pasture improvement. About the time place was getting productive enough to repay them, the owner either leased place to someone else or sold it and tennant got the shaft. Heard of situation where owner died with no written lease and the heirs sold land, leaving tennant no time to recoup his fairly recent improvements. If not in writing, very difficult to prove or enforce.
I realized when I bought this property upon which I currently live, that one day I wouldn't be able, nor want to maintain a large place. So I leased most of my land for my farming effort over the years.....being 78 today, my aspirations were correct.
All the land I leased was in shambles and the owners wanted a "sucker" to clean it up for them, or do something associated with agriculture so that they could maintain their Ag. Ad-valorem Tax status. I saw potential in the places I selected and around here word of mouth is how you did business so a handshake signed the agreement. I always felt that anything I put into the place was a loss. With that mentality, I wasn't all that concerned when I lost or left a particular place.
I just revisited the pictures posted with this listing. I think I saw half a dozen weeds, otherwise all I saw (viewing from the eyes of a cow) was Yum Yum! I'd run a hog around the perimeter to get a perimeter clean line established and install a crude hot wire, 14 ga. single strand, standoffs 30' apart, 3' off the ground, using the trees for corner posts when available, run by a solar charger.
With what's there I doubt there will be much if any wire challenging and as soon as it got bumped a couple of times by unwary bovines, you could turn off the juice. I've seen a single wire 6" off the ground maintain a 30ish steer herd in a 30ish lot. Cows would even stand on their side and eat across the wire but never did any cross it. I didn't see what transpired prior to my observation on that particular herd nor lot, and they probably got acclamated to the fence, or an electrified fence there prior to what I saw.
Let them clean it up and then execute Plan B.