Sorry guys, I'm not sure this dog will hunt. As a city dweller, I am taxed to death and my dream of owning 40ac. in my retirement are fading. At the same time, my community wants to increase my taxes in order to start a fund to buy up development rights to farmland adjoining our community. I'm sorry but when I see these farms they are not exactly starving and in fact all indications are that this has been a fantastic year for dramatic increases in net worth for most farming operations.
Sadly, the same government that farmers have enjoyed being in bed with as long as all the supports were coming is now in some places wanting to encroach upon what they do with their land adjoining communities. Strange bedfellows.
Again, I have a hard time feeling sorry for a farm family who owns 180ac adjacent to a town and has watched their land value go from $300ac to $30,000ac. as developers compete to buy their farm. What always seems left out of these stories is the fact that you don't have to sell your land if you chose not to. Most mainstream media stories make it sound somehow like some evil person is taking the land away from the farmeers.
At the last several farm auctions I have attended, I have watched in awe as starving farmers bid on antique and collectable tractors, trucks and machinery and competed with each other to pay sky high prices for items needing total restoration.
And then the real revelation comes as the neighboring farmers bid outlandish amounts for the land itself.
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