I bought the 40 acres next door uphill from my farm a few years ago, part swamp, part field. Paid $2500 an acre, dad had passed on but he thought folks were nuts to pay $1500 for good ground, he likely spun over in his grave..... That forty was the whole farm of a good friend of his, so maybe it was ok..... ;)
That was the year land prices started up, the county has it valued at triple what I paid for it now, could sure get my money back of I needed to.
Grain prices went up and in the dry years that low poorer drained stuff yielded better than the low ground. I worked a little harder to farm the extra with my old equipment, nice grain checks tho. Nothing I coulda planned, just dumb luck.....
We took that money and put some tile in where we could, can't touch the swampy part but some of the farm land, it pulls the water off better now and improved 10 acres of ground on my original farm so that 40 doesn't drown out my field, so now in the last few wet years 20 of the new land and the 10 acres of my farm grow much better crops than they ever did.
Its nice to make something out of it, even if its a struggle.
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