SS55: This is not a sudden concern of mine. I have wondered for years when the farm would be put up for sale. I have even tried to buy it several times.
I also take some offence when you basically accuse me of paying lower rents than what the ground is worth. The farm is totally rented. ZERO crop cost to the owner. Rent is all paid April 1st each year and has been for over twenty years.
This farm has an average CSR (Corn suitability rating) of under 50. So it is not the best ground in Iowa. He is getting over $350 for the crop ground and over $150 for the pasture. That is not a sweet heart deal. It is market price or maybe even a little more than what I could have bargained it down to.
For the average larger scale farmer to farm this farm he would have to bulldoze all the pastures fences out just to get to the "farm" ground. It is one full mile from the road to the back field. You go through five sets of gates to do that. There is 13 acres in that back field. In one place there are two rock bluffs you drive between that are just 16 feet apart and 15 feet tall. large equipment just do not work on this farm. I will not share crop a farm anymore. If the landlord wants to "play" farmer then let him take all the risk.
As for the farm crops being changed for erosion control. That is what I am currently doing. There is 160 acres of corn on that farm this year. There are over twenty different "strips". Some are under an acre is size.
My concern is that the kids just read the papers about how land should be farmed and want that done on this farm. This is not an average grain farm in anyway. If the contour strips where taken out the fields would not be farmable for very long. I KNOW this for a FACT!!! It was farmed that way before we started farming it.
That back 13 acres had gullies that a D-8 Cat fit level in. It took us working on it for over en years to get it straightened out and stabilized.
As for the current owners "plan" yes it is working now. I am talking about how reality is different than what he and I have talked about over the years. He thinks his children will keep it forever just like he has.
Also he has lived over 150 miles away since he got out of college. He never has lived on the farm full time. So there really has never be a viable way for his kids to "bond" to the farm. He basically has held on to his childhood life of visiting the farm.
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