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<blockquote data-quote="Jabes0623" data-source="post: 1289976" data-attributes="member: 23051"><p>I'm way down in SE Ohio & am starting out myself. We purchased 100 acres, when we bought it, there was roughly 30 acres of good pasture, 2 barns 1 useable the other we tore down & no fence. After over a year of hard work & expense I've got about 50 acres of really high quality pasture. I'm going to start building the fence & corral this week, with a little luck I hope to be done by spring. By the time all is said and done I'll probably have close to $100,000 in to just getting this 50 acres ready to use. The other 50 acres is divided between a nice creek bottom & some heavily wooded hillsides, a portion of which is in a CRP conservation that the .gov pays me to just leave alone. I'll decide what to do with it when the contract expires here in 7 years. </p><p></p><p>I share this story with you to say; if at all possible find a place that's already ready, or at least mostly ready to go. Buy a place with nice open pasture at the very least. You can find some pretty enticing deals on rough land but by the time you get it ready to farm you'll have just as much, if not more money in it than you would've just buying land that was ready to roll from the start. Plus you'll lose a considerable amount of time getting it useable. I do not mind the clean-up work on this property as we purchased it for sentimental reasons as much as practical ones, it's directly adjacent to what's left of my great-grandparents old home place, the vast majority of which is now under a lake that was built by FDR in the new deal way back when. If it weren't for that, I would seriously regret my choice to purchase such overgrown rough land.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jabes0623, post: 1289976, member: 23051"] I'm way down in SE Ohio & am starting out myself. We purchased 100 acres, when we bought it, there was roughly 30 acres of good pasture, 2 barns 1 useable the other we tore down & no fence. After over a year of hard work & expense I've got about 50 acres of really high quality pasture. I'm going to start building the fence & corral this week, with a little luck I hope to be done by spring. By the time all is said and done I'll probably have close to $100,000 in to just getting this 50 acres ready to use. The other 50 acres is divided between a nice creek bottom & some heavily wooded hillsides, a portion of which is in a CRP conservation that the .gov pays me to just leave alone. I'll decide what to do with it when the contract expires here in 7 years. I share this story with you to say; if at all possible find a place that's already ready, or at least mostly ready to go. Buy a place with nice open pasture at the very least. You can find some pretty enticing deals on rough land but by the time you get it ready to farm you'll have just as much, if not more money in it than you would've just buying land that was ready to roll from the start. Plus you'll lose a considerable amount of time getting it useable. I do not mind the clean-up work on this property as we purchased it for sentimental reasons as much as practical ones, it's directly adjacent to what's left of my great-grandparents old home place, the vast majority of which is now under a lake that was built by FDR in the new deal way back when. If it weren't for that, I would seriously regret my choice to purchase such overgrown rough land. [/QUOTE]
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