Farming

[SaskMan]

Re: Farming

$2900 an acre, WOW, now that is incentive, some guys I know would be multimillionaires with that kind of agreement.

Sure is no incentive up here. Heck for that kind of $$ Superguide could retire and spend the rest of his days hunting.

[horst]

Re: Farming

saskman, dont quote me on this but i think thier getting in the nieghborhood of 4000$ an acre to for land here.Its a good deal for both parties really, the State saves 1100$ an acre on the cost of buying it outright and the landowners still responsible for the taxes on it{i think}.

The landowner gets a good chunk of money for it, gets it restored to prarie and wetlands at no cost to them, they do the actual seeding of the land with thier farm equipment which I suppose costs a little but not to bad, they keep the land and have a place just for them and thier family and friends to hunt on.

The public gets the benifit of more habitat, the overflow of animals from the property {a lot of public ground around there} and depending on the landowner they can probably hunt it if they bother to stop and ask in a lot of cases.Everyone wins in a deal like this.

Theres programs set up like this for all sorts of restoration, timber ground, grasslands, wetlands, etc... I dont know the specifics on a lot of them so I cant go into details on them, Im sure they dont all pay this well but they dont all take the land outta production for the next 100 years either LOL.

[superguide]

Re: Farming

Sorry there Horst a pretty touchy subject with me-ranchers for the most part take better care of habitat than farmers because what is good for deer is pretty much good for cows. I have no use for guys that destroy habitat then want to hunt on my place. Saskman knows who I mean lol. Most farmers though if they got compensated would leave habitat-it all boils down to money unfortunately.

[slugshooter]

Re: Farming

I wasn't going to post anything in this thread cause basically I know nothing about farming and don't know any farmers, all that and I live in the country basically surrounded by farms. There were some things said about the land owner should do this or that to benefit the wildlife regardless of how many crops he can reap. My general feelings on this subject are if it's his land he should be able to run it how he see's fit, farmers nowadays have to have every bit of usable land to plant on just to make ends meet it seems, and some of them still end up losing their farms, whether it be from a bad crop because of weather or some other unforseen natural occurence, or because the market for whatever they are growing isn't paying what it used to. If a farmer has to choose between 100 acres to plant corn so he can feed his family and pay his bills or 100 acres to create a natural habitat for the benefit of wildlife, well, I know which option I would take.

[horst]

Re: Farming

No problem superguide, ive caught enough crap from this post it dont even phase me anymore

I did misquote something, the average price for an acre of land heres currently around 2600$ an acre statewide.But in some of the prime hunting counties, i believe Scott county was mentioned as one, it is going for more than 4000$ an acre.Part of the reason for that is non residents buying the land strictly for hunting ground.

So strangely enough the more expensive ground isnt neccassarily the farmable acres but the ground thats untill recently been thought of as non farmable.ground with a lot of habitat left on it is fetching way more money per acre than the ground thats been plowed under from one end to the other and the people buying it up want to keep the ground in this condition rather than planting it.Hows that for incentive, an extra 1500$ an acre if you ever sell it