YOU WON!!! YOU WON A FARM!!!!

[KY wild]

Last night at the New Year party instead of giving away a new car, the event gave away six farms and you won one and now you must decide which one you want for your major award. All six farms are within 30 minutes of your house and each have the same amount of road frontage and located on secluded country roads, each farm is rectangular shape. All are in the county that you reside and taxes are the same for each. OK, here are the six farms that you must choose from and you have first choice........ (of course your reasoning explained would be appreciated but not necessary)

A. 100 acres: The hardwood forest was select cut down to 14 inch trees(ABH) two years ago.

B. 80 acres: The land has a mature hard wood forest, covered with 20-26 inch white and red oak trees.

C. 60 acres: Flat crop ground, tiled and tillable, high yield. Currently .33 crop shares being paid to owner

D. 120 acres: Clear cut last year, took every tree and only tangled tops left everywhere

E. 100 acres: 50 acres select cut last year and 50 acres of cleared cow pasture

F. 90 acres: 20 acres open fields; 20 acres crops; 50 acres of medium age forest (16" and smaller trees)

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

E
Good balance. Woods are thick enough to provide cover but not too thick you couldn’t hunt. The open ground is ripe for the choosing and how you want to manage.

 

[TonySoprano]

E or F

 

[bigboreblr]

E then C then F. Brother in law does AG services and dairy cows.

Ag is aways fun hunting. Only downside is late season gets tough with no wooded areas to hunt. Need a way to keep deer cold is the key to AG.

 

[Double Creek]

E or F. Diversity is king and you can do a ton with open ground.

 

[BenA]

F then C depending on the surrounding area. If these 2 areas are being cropped, it means the areas around them probably are too. If that's the case, then the deer in the areas surrounding those two places have grown up on generations of high quality food (assuming corn/beans). It's easy to make cover. It's harder to put that much food on the landscape at that level. If the other areas are surrounded by the same type of habitat, the generations of area deer haven't bed fed as well to meet their potential.

 

[Native Hunter]

C sounds like it might be worth the most. I would take it, then immediately sell it and keep hunting where I am now. I would invest the money in gold and silver.

 

[Telemark]

E.

Good balance on a large tract, and I love the blank slate. In 5 years it would be a paradise with minimal effort.

 

[cbw]

I would take C. Then use the equity and income to buy B. Then harvest the timber, and use the income and equity to buy E and F.


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[Mortenson]

C also. Make money farming it then keep some powder dry for the next opportunity.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

All are in the county that you reside...

1 acre in my county goes for $100k to $2M depending on location.

So I would go for 120, sell it and never come back.

 

[marlin]

B. It takes 100+ years to grow oaks of that diameter. It’s the only thing I couldn’t reproduce on the other properties. I would think I could carve out a wildlife paradise starting with 80 acres of Oaks that size.

 

[bigboreblr]

1 acre in my county goes for $100k to $2M depending on location.

So I would go for 120, sell it and never come back.

The older I get, the more fishing in florida sounds like a better idea than hunting.... Pompano bite is good this year.

 

[omicron1792]

E

 

[bwoods11]

I’m a big fan of 50/50 farms, but if I just plain “won” the farm , I’d pick B. All the beautiful mature oaks !

 

[buckdeer1]

D or F

 

[hillrunner]

C without question here. Farm ground like that will go well over 20 to even 30 thousand an acre in my county.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

C without question here. Farm ground like that will go well over 20 to even 30 thousand an acre in my county.

Cropland is that high in your area or is that development land prices? Good tillable in southeast minnesota might hit $12k+ and that’s excellent soil

 

[BenA]

I didn't pay attention to the part where it was 30 minutes from where I live. I don't really live in an area with farmland, but there is some with sugarcane. There's one place for sale like that, but it might be a little further. It's listed at $40k per acre. If there's that much woods, it's swampland, and the value goes down unless you buy mitigation land somewhere else to offset draining it for development. So, I'd go for C, sell, and get out when the kids are out of school.

 

[hillrunner]

Cropland is that high in your area or is that development land prices? Good tillable in southeast minnesota might hit $12k+ and that’s excellent soil

The best crop land is that high. 20,000 isn't unusual, at least some have topped 30,000.