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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 639792" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>I can't talk about anyplace else; but here in Alabama thousands upon thousands of acres went out of crops into cattle range into timber. And that is outside the land that went out of all three into development. I read somewhere that we had lost 2 million crop acres here since the 50s. We have probably lost that many grazing acres since the 1970s. A guy has a solid ranch. He gets old. He bushogs less and less. Pine trees and sweet gums slowly start encroaching on the fields. He dies. Nobody does anything. Five years later you got pine trees, oaks, sweet gums, and privet hedges shading out the pastures. A lot of nice ~300 acre little ranches around here have also been broke up into ~6 50s. The folks build a house and decided to "farm". You go by some of those places now and there are 4 to 10 quasi-neglected horses of variable quantity and sometimes 2 to 4 cows in a pasture where last year's weeds are taller than the cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 639792, member: 7645"] I can't talk about anyplace else; but here in Alabama thousands upon thousands of acres went out of crops into cattle range into timber. And that is outside the land that went out of all three into development. I read somewhere that we had lost 2 million crop acres here since the 50s. We have probably lost that many grazing acres since the 1970s. A guy has a solid ranch. He gets old. He bushogs less and less. Pine trees and sweet gums slowly start encroaching on the fields. He dies. Nobody does anything. Five years later you got pine trees, oaks, sweet gums, and privet hedges shading out the pastures. A lot of nice ~300 acre little ranches around here have also been broke up into ~6 50s. The folks build a house and decided to "farm". You go by some of those places now and there are 4 to 10 quasi-neglected horses of variable quantity and sometimes 2 to 4 cows in a pasture where last year's weeds are taller than the cows. [/QUOTE]
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