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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1394424" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Just lost a pasture & hayfield rent to someone who offered the landlady an outrageous price. Been there over 10 years, never more than a handshake agreement. The pasture was a great place to run 20 heifers for summer grazing, put a bull with them and they grew great. They are going to grow corn there. Hayfield has been in hay for over 20 years and was pretty poor when we got it. Have fertilized, done soil samples, sprayed for some weeds and gotten it in good shape. Lot of rock and ledge. The pasture is side hill, with lots of rock and steep, we have been slowly reclaiming that which we can get on to bushhog and spray a bit every year. After being shocked, we just said go right ahead. We are tired of years of doing for the landowner, and also helping do alot of little things as neighborly gestures. If she had even come and said, that she needed more rent, or anything it wouldn't have been such a kick in the butt.... In a few years, if she doesn't sell since her husband passed away, she will come back and practically beg us to take it back - it has happened several times at different places - and we have basically said no to most. Did take back 2 different places and pay no rent due to the amount of work it is taking to try to get the places reproductive again. Unless we have at least a 5 year agreement now, we do what we have to, to maintain it in decent shape, but no more "taking care of it as it should be"; no more extras. </p><p>Couple of years ago lost another place as they said we didn't get it cut soon enough - partially true we were late that year - and we didn't get the round bales moved soon enough...etc and so on. So the real estate agent/caretaker agreement got someone else to do the hay. Didn't pasture the other part, only cut the hay once, we cut twice, didn't do any of the bushhogging we did.... Now it's been sold again, and a friend came and asked if we would be interested in it again as the new owners are looking for someone to come in and cut the hay and use the pasture. We are thinking about it because it backs up to another place we rent and used to "rotate" the grazing back and forth. But the fences are probably all on the ground in the woods, pasture is grown up and getting weedy and trash brush growing in it, and the hay ground has all kinds of blackberries and such in it....don't know if it will be worth it. Will wait to see if the new owners contact us, the friend was going to give them our number. We have so many of these "landlord" types that buy 10 to 50 acre "estates" and then want someone else to do all their work for them and keep a "country estate" to come out to. If they want rent then probably not....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1394424, member: 25884"] Just lost a pasture & hayfield rent to someone who offered the landlady an outrageous price. Been there over 10 years, never more than a handshake agreement. The pasture was a great place to run 20 heifers for summer grazing, put a bull with them and they grew great. They are going to grow corn there. Hayfield has been in hay for over 20 years and was pretty poor when we got it. Have fertilized, done soil samples, sprayed for some weeds and gotten it in good shape. Lot of rock and ledge. The pasture is side hill, with lots of rock and steep, we have been slowly reclaiming that which we can get on to bushhog and spray a bit every year. After being shocked, we just said go right ahead. We are tired of years of doing for the landowner, and also helping do alot of little things as neighborly gestures. If she had even come and said, that she needed more rent, or anything it wouldn't have been such a kick in the butt.... In a few years, if she doesn't sell since her husband passed away, she will come back and practically beg us to take it back - it has happened several times at different places - and we have basically said no to most. Did take back 2 different places and pay no rent due to the amount of work it is taking to try to get the places reproductive again. Unless we have at least a 5 year agreement now, we do what we have to, to maintain it in decent shape, but no more "taking care of it as it should be"; no more extras. Couple of years ago lost another place as they said we didn't get it cut soon enough - partially true we were late that year - and we didn't get the round bales moved soon enough...etc and so on. So the real estate agent/caretaker agreement got someone else to do the hay. Didn't pasture the other part, only cut the hay once, we cut twice, didn't do any of the bushhogging we did.... Now it's been sold again, and a friend came and asked if we would be interested in it again as the new owners are looking for someone to come in and cut the hay and use the pasture. We are thinking about it because it backs up to another place we rent and used to "rotate" the grazing back and forth. But the fences are probably all on the ground in the woods, pasture is grown up and getting weedy and trash brush growing in it, and the hay ground has all kinds of blackberries and such in it....don't know if it will be worth it. Will wait to see if the new owners contact us, the friend was going to give them our number. We have so many of these "landlord" types that buy 10 to 50 acre "estates" and then want someone else to do all their work for them and keep a "country estate" to come out to. If they want rent then probably not.... [/QUOTE]
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