Posted by Brian806 on June 01, 2015 at 16:12:26 from (70.199.4.77):
I just thought I'd explain the farming in my area cause some other people have posted about picking up ground rent free and other people comment how it must be junk thiers some reason nobody else has farmed it etc etc etc! Ok I from north central pennsylvania and farming here stopped in the 70s and the few that survived I'm talking small scale family dairy farms have farmed with the same equipment and the Same ways since the 70s! Up until the late 70s things were progressed barns built silos new tractors then boom stopped! Farming went to hell in the 80s the coal bussiness was booming and alot of frames got turned upside down with mining! (That's why the Amish came in here seen all this strip mined ground got it for nothin and thought they were gonna be bug farmers until they hooked thier horse into that old sod rock garden called a strip job! Well that's another story! So a few dairy around here still survive my parents including! Now here in this area we have lots of hills water ways trees small fields are biggest field was 7 acers until I got one 15 acers two years ago! Where at a higher elevation which gives us late and early frost! So short growing season! Now over last 30 years alot of farms shut down so they either sat and grew up in brush or the weekend farmer has them to pud around on or people big into hunting buy them have fields get tired of mowing them with Kubota and are looking for a farmer to farm it for free cause thier glad they don't half to mow it and they get a free food plot for part of the year! Now in the past few years with better farming technics better seed better spray and spending the money for new planting equipment! The few here that are still farming full time and the ones like me getting serious about getting into our own farming bussiness seem to be able to actually make a profit and grow larger and pick up the old land that was once farmed hard and sat idle for 30 years! Well I'm sure I could write more but that's it here in a nutshell!
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