What would you do with ~5 acres of land??
04-19-2008, 06:09 PM
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How is the hay business up in your area, Peakstryde?
Is it level land? Are you able to irrigate it? Why not harvest hay?
Thats what we've done. The family farm went under several years ago and we've recently in the past few years turned the 11 acres right around our house into a solid field of Tifton-85. Made about $10k in profit last year from it. Not bad for a side project.
Or, you could make it into a graveyard. My family knows a guy who is in the "graveyard business" and he claims that you can fit 1,100 bodies in one acre...
1 acre of land...
1,100 bodies...
$10k per plot...
$11,000,000????
Did I do that math right? Im horrible at it.
Is it level land? Are you able to irrigate it? Why not harvest hay?
Thats what we've done. The family farm went under several years ago and we've recently in the past few years turned the 11 acres right around our house into a solid field of Tifton-85. Made about $10k in profit last year from it. Not bad for a side project.
Or, you could make it into a graveyard. My family knows a guy who is in the "graveyard business" and he claims that you can fit 1,100 bodies in one acre...
1 acre of land...
1,100 bodies...
$10k per plot...
$11,000,000????
Did I do that math right? Im horrible at it.
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04-19-2008, 06:24 PM
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We're on 3.5 acres and I don't see where 1.5 more would be all that great.
To do hay takes some pretty fancy equipment too.
Come to think of it I don't have a recomendation....
To do hay takes some pretty fancy equipment too.
Come to think of it I don't have a recomendation....
04-19-2008, 08:46 PM
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04-20-2008, 09:23 AM
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I am going to look at a acerage tomarrow that has 6 acers with it and the only thing that would prove profitable with out huge amounts of work would most likely be hay. Thats most likely what I would do with the ground.
04-20-2008, 10:43 AM
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Call me stupid, but what the heck is a cannibas?? I asume buy other posts that its ilegal but I have never heard of it.
I am going to look at a acerage tomarrow that has 6 acers with it and the only thing that would prove profitable with out huge amounts of work would most likely be hay. Thats most likely what I would do with the ground.
I am going to look at a acerage tomarrow that has 6 acers with it and the only thing that would prove profitable with out huge amounts of work would most likely be hay. Thats most likely what I would do with the ground.
04-20-2008, 11:02 AM
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Ok here is what I come up with. Fence part of it off, start some grass for a sod farm, buy the goats, Plant some trees.
Now you qualify for a farm credit loan with subsidies.
Then start a small cemetery, with a church. Now you are tax free.
Get some graves in, move the fruit trees to areas between the graves.Goeats will keep it mowed and trim. you won't need to fertilize and as the occupants will pust the flowers and trees up. Goats will eat the flowers, weeds and grass.
you have income from the sod, plots, u-pick-em trees and if daring enough, some canibis(cash crops), you will have very little to do!!!
Oh, give a free plot to the sherriff.
Now you qualify for a farm credit loan with subsidies.
Then start a small cemetery, with a church. Now you are tax free.
Get some graves in, move the fruit trees to areas between the graves.Goeats will keep it mowed and trim. you won't need to fertilize and as the occupants will pust the flowers and trees up. Goats will eat the flowers, weeds and grass.
you have income from the sod, plots, u-pick-em trees and if daring enough, some canibis(cash crops), you will have very little to do!!!
Oh, give a free plot to the sherriff.
04-20-2008, 01:21 PM
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Ok here is what I come up with. Fence part of it off, start some grass for a sod farm, buy the goats, Plant some trees.
Now you qualify for a farm credit loan with subsidies.
Then start a small cemetery, with a church. Now you are tax free.
Get some graves in, move the fruit trees to areas between the graves.Goeats will keep it mowed and trim. you won't need to fertilize and as the occupants will pust the flowers and trees up. Goats will eat the flowers, weeds and grass.
you have income from the sod, plots, u-pick-em trees and if daring enough, some canibis(cash crops), you will have very little to do!!!
Oh, give a free plot to the sherriff.
Now you qualify for a farm credit loan with subsidies.
Then start a small cemetery, with a church. Now you are tax free.
Get some graves in, move the fruit trees to areas between the graves.Goeats will keep it mowed and trim. you won't need to fertilize and as the occupants will pust the flowers and trees up. Goats will eat the flowers, weeds and grass.
you have income from the sod, plots, u-pick-em trees and if daring enough, some canibis(cash crops), you will have very little to do!!!
Oh, give a free plot to the sherriff.
04-20-2008, 01:29 PM
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Ok here is what I come up with. Fence part of it off, start some grass for a sod farm, buy the goats, Plant some trees.
Now you qualify for a farm credit loan with subsidies.
Then start a small cemetery, with a church. Now you are tax free.
Get some graves in, move the fruit trees to areas between the graves.Goeats will keep it mowed and trim. you won't need to fertilize and as the occupants will pust the flowers and trees up. Goats will eat the flowers, weeds and grass.
you have income from the sod, plots, u-pick-em trees and if daring enough, some canibis(cash crops), you will have very little to do!!!
Oh, give a free plot to the sherriff.
Now you qualify for a farm credit loan with subsidies.
Then start a small cemetery, with a church. Now you are tax free.
Get some graves in, move the fruit trees to areas between the graves.Goeats will keep it mowed and trim. you won't need to fertilize and as the occupants will pust the flowers and trees up. Goats will eat the flowers, weeds and grass.
you have income from the sod, plots, u-pick-em trees and if daring enough, some canibis(cash crops), you will have very little to do!!!
Oh, give a free plot to the sherriff.
04-20-2008, 01:53 PM
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If the land is flat and you have water availble for irrigation, plant it in any of the grains. Have you seen the prices for grain lately. It has almost quadripled in the last 4 months. We will be paying 4 dollars a loaf come next winter. Don't worry about machinery you can hire people who have the machinery to harvest the crop. My dad has been farming all his life, he used to own the equipment and then figured out it was cheaper and less of a headache to operate and maintain the equipment if you contracted out the harvesting to someone else. You could even lease out the land to some farmer for farming. Anheiser Busch is paying big money for barley, contact them, you might come up with some kind of an arrangement to provide barley.
Another option is to fence it, build a pole barn and rent out as pasture for horses. People pay big money for a place to board their horses. Who wouldn't like to wake up in the morning and see a bunch of horses in a pasture out side their house.
Another option is an RV park or RV storage lot.
Another option is to fence it, build a pole barn and rent out as pasture for horses. People pay big money for a place to board their horses. Who wouldn't like to wake up in the morning and see a bunch of horses in a pasture out side their house.
Another option is an RV park or RV storage lot.