Re: Closed today

Posted by sixtyninegmc on May 02, 2013 at 22:21:31 from (216.67.21.14):

In Reply to: Closed today posted by sixtyninegmc on May 02, 2013 at 00:53:00:

Here is a google shot with the property lines on it, and the coordinates at the bottom, or just look up Delta Junction, Alaska and go 10 miles due east.



A few details, it is 125 acres total, approx. 65 acres in trees including treelines and the spring and bog, 40-45 hayable and the balance in the homesite, junk, and some fields that can be reclaimed fairly easily through junk cleanup and brush-hogging. Most of the timber is spruce, but a decent amount of it is big enough for mill logs, and a good friend of mine has a band mill and is willing to mill lumber for 50% of the finished product, so that will help things along quite a bit. Very few of the buildings are worth much, including the previous owners house, which she gets to live in until she is unable (she is 86 and in failing health, it will not be long, sadly). The spring just north of the house is open year round, 34 degrees water temperature. It has a fairly high rate of flow, in the middle it is a fast flowing stream 4-8 inches deep and 36 inches wide or so. I have seen fry grayling about 4 inches long in it, and would not be surprised if there are larger ones in it. There is a lot of cleanup to be done, but all in all I am very happy with the place so far and what there is to work with.

We are able to grow grass hay, some legumes though they are hard to dry down for hay they make great silage and pasture, oats, barley, spring wheat, canola, taters do excellent, as do most other vegetables that do well in cooler climates. The area I am in is mostly beef cattle and hay for resale to other beef folks and square bales for horses, with a few dairys, some vegetable growers, little horsey "farms", and a fair bit of grain all thrown in. One guy bought a flour mill, and is milling wheat and barley for flour for human consumption.

Right now I am just doing square bales for the horse market, $420 a ton makes it profitable enough to make a decent living, even with high fertilizer and fuel. My grand scheme eventually is to diversify, build a small herd of cattle to consume any lower-quality hay that gets baled, and rotate the land through hay, legume mix pasture or silage, and enough grain for my own use, and for the bedding that comes with it.

Oh, and one more fun tidbit, it is not in an incorporated borough, our version of a county, so there is no property taxes at all. :)

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