I have 20 acres, no livestock right now, and other than my house garden, I don"t plant anything. I do selectively spray some weeds, but that could not amount to more than and acre or two. I do brush hog about 5 acres to keep the brush from taking over the open area and to maybe cut down on the fire danger. But the rest of the property is mostly pine trees. I have not filed a Form F for at least 20 years. I don"t employ anyone to help me work on my property. But I do live in an area that used to be farms and ranches before it was subdivided into 5, 10 and a few larger plots. I suppose I could make some hay if I felt like it.
I filled out the census of Ag because they wrote that it was mandatory, but almost all the questions were answered no or 0. It probably took me over half an hour to complete it, which did not please me at all!
I wrote on the form that I thought it was STUPID to waste my time and the government"s time considering the facts that I am not really farming, made no profits (what I did cost me a few hundred dollars, and I pay high property taxes), have no livestock, and don"t really plan to try to farm any of my property next year. I suggested that they have a box right at the start of the form that says NOT FARMING, so I could check that and be done with it.
I live on a corner of the ranch I grew up on. My parents subdivided the ranch in the 70"s, and now there are at least 10 families living on the resulting acreages. When I was a kid, we raised hay, had up to about 50 head of cattle, milked up to 5 cows by hand all the time and had hogs and chickens. Now I don"t think there are any cattle on the former ranch, but there may be a few horses. I don"t think they even cut the hayland any more.
I call it "rapidly becoming suburbia", with a little disdain. But my parents had a wonderful retirement, and traveled the world.
I still wonder what would have happened if I just tossed the form in the garbage...maybe I will next year!
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