Wanting a Farm to lease or Owner Finance

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I am looking for a farm/ranch with 20 to 100+ acres to start a cattle ranch. I am looking for something that is a lease, lease to own, or owner finance for 1 to 1.5 years until I can get my Farm Loan. Would also like it to be 10 miles or closer to town with low taxes and a nice area with good schools. any help would be great.

-- Charlie (farmerb3@yahoo.com), August 21, 2001

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I just saw this in the Mountain Grove Missouri News paper I picked up. It says " 40 acres, 4bd 1bath, heringbone barn with all equipment ready to milk. also lg hay barn and workshop, 6 miles to Walmart, 89,900.oo would lease with option to qualified buyer. More land avalible"The taxes out here are real low and I would guess it would be under 350.oo and thats a high end guess on my part. e-mail me for the phone #. I don't want to put somones number on the web. I mean I don't know who they are and don't know of the dairy but I do like the town of Mountain Grove. It is about a hour drive from Springfield Missouri. Hope this helps.

-- Teresa (c3ranch@socket.net), August 21, 2001.

I deal in land in saskatchewan, Canada. How does this sound: 30ac alfalfa, 50ac cropland, 1/4mi frfom lake, 80 acres for US$24500: or 40ac alfalfa, 40ac woods, large pond, US$27500; $500 down, $200/month, exchange privelege; Americans can legally live and own freehold land in Canada.

-- Alexander Levin (morsealexlevin@hotmail.com), August 22, 2001.

where in Saskatchewan and what is an exchange privilege?

-- Dave (somebody@somewhere.com), August 22, 2001.

Charlie:

I recommend you think long and hard about going into the cattle business. As the saying goes a farmer is the only one to have to buy at retail and sell at wholesale. I've been doing it for coming up on nine years and have yet to make a profit off of the herd when all related expenses are considered. In fact, I'm selling most of my cattle in a month or so. I can do far better just keeping a small hobby herd on some acres not suitable for cropping and renting out the fields I'm currently using for hay or pasture. Shortly I will transition to buying either stocker calves or very old cows with calves in early spring and then reselling them in late fall so I don't have to overwinter them.

It's just not me either. Neighbor across the road got out of the cattle business a couple of years ago. Neighbor to the side is also severely cutting back on the number he runs. I know others in the local area who have done one or the other.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), August 22, 2001.


Alexander, I sent you an email from my other email addy. One question I forgot to ask is, I remember a previous post about a year ago...

Someone lived in Canada, bought their own farm and then found out about all of the restrictions on the property. They couldn't do much except they had a lot of clay soil and wanted to know what they could do with that...

Just a thought,

Stephanie in VA

-- stephanie nosacek (pospossum@earthlink.net), August 22, 2001.



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