What do y'all think?

[tncattle]

I finally made contact with someone about leasing some pasture. The owner just e-mailed me with 60 acres for $3000 for lease. . This seems a little high but I don't really know, you middle Tennesseans can probably answer this. I'm just excited someone contacted me. Also, another guy contacted me with 39 bottom acres near a river that just wants me to cut hay. I only have one small problem, I have no tractor, no baler, no rake or hay cutter. At least I'm making contacts.

 

[Central Fl Cracker]

Is it fenced and have a water source? In Fla. we pay around $ 20 per ac. if you can even find pasture's to lease anymore.

 

[tncattle]

The owner hasn't responded yet. His e-mail just said "60 acres for rent, $3000" pretty short and to the point. Hope it wasn't just a joke.

 

[Alan]

I'm sorry, I'm new to the lease thing. $3000 for what?.... a month, a year. Just would like to know.

Thanks,
Alan

 

[skyline]

The owner hasn't responded yet. His e-mail just said "60 acres for rent, $3000" pretty short and to the point. Hope it wasn't just a joke.

If you can run 1 cow per 2 acres (doubtful), that would be about at least $100 per calf in land cost. Pretty high.

 

[bigbull338]

thats $50 an ac lease pre year.the q is can you afford it.as for the 40ac hay meadow you can hire somw1 to cut an bale it for you.you should be able to run 30 pairs on 60acs.would take 6 calves to pay the lease.the 50acs should make 160 bales.so that would give you enough hay for 30 or 40 cows.

 

[tncattle]

If it's really good grass pasture I was thinking of starting with a small number of maybe 10 and selling locally as grass fed beef. The grass fed market seems pretty good here. But I haven't seen it yet and the guy hasn't responded to my e-mail so who knows. The guy that has the 39 acre hay field just doesn't want any cows on it and it's only 2 miles from my house and it's fully fenced!! Dang it!! He wants to keep around 20 bales of hay for his two horses that are somewhere else, so I don't know what it would produce in hay. Probably pretty decent if we keep up the wet season like we've had so far. Also, on the 60 acres if is nice I was thinking of running 15-20 stockers on there and selling in about 3-4 months just to get me feet wet. Oh well, at least I'm making small step progress.

 

[Stepper]

I am a long ways West of you ( in North West Arkansas ) but right next door to me there are 61 acres that is above average pasture for this area with pond, creek, barn, handling faclities head gate, corral, chute. It leased for years for $400 a year with no expectations from the owner as far as keeping it fertlized, limed etc..., pretty well a use it like as if it was yours deal. Then the owner died and a fella from Mo bought it. I cut the hay off of it the first year he bought it and told him i would be interested in leasing it if he decided to let it out for lease.

So he ran a add in the papper taking bids on leasing it. He told me the best offer he had was $800 a year on it and that he was wanting to get $ 1200 a year. I passed on it.

I had another chance to lease 40 acres with pretty good fence arround it. The owner said they would give me the first years hay off of it for free to get it cleaned up and then i could tell them what a fair lease price would be. It had been let go for so long that the soil was pretty poor. It had some decent grass growing on it but it just would not produce much tonage.

I wound up having to pass on that because at what it would cost to get it producing enough hay to make it worth running cattle on. I would have more in fertlizer, hay, chemical getting it back into shape than what i would want to put in it and would not be able to pay for a lease on top of all the other exspenses.

I just lost a lease similiar like the deal i described above. With the only exception that the owner told me when i went and looked at it before i ever agreed to take it that they were and this is their exact words. " You can keep this for ever, i am never going to do anything with it ever." Yeah right ! Not only did i pay a lease on the property but also alot of money on fenceing, fertlizer, chemical etc....,

So in my opinion, $ 3000 is way to high and i know we are in different locations. But i bet the price of cattle is still about the same there as they are here. And i would be willing to bet you wont make a profit of any kind, not even enough to pay for the lease. But that is just my opinion for what ever it is worth.

 

[tncattle]

Get this, I've e-mailed the guy back three times and each time my e-mail comes back that his e-mail won't accept mine. I guess it could be a bad joke, I do know some people that have their e-mail set-up to only accept what they tell it to. Who knows, maybe I'll find out, maybe I won't.

The lease saga continues.