Rental rates for pasture plus small barn?

[Mrs. Mucket]

We're trying to come up with a rental figure and there's nothing comparable in our area to go by. Does anyone have an idea of your local rates? I'm looking for a flat monthly rate, not the animal unit amount. We're in Washington State and I know it varies across the country, but maybe I can find an average. Even numbers for an acre of plain pasture without barn would help.

It's for:
One acre of mixed forage pasture, perimeter fenced
300' sq. barn (enclosed but no interior walls) within fenced area
Water and power to barn but no irrigation to pasture
No services included (ie. boarding, feeding, etc.)

Thanks...

[rambler]

More animals means more water, more wear & tear on the building/ fence, and more stress on the grass/ loafing yard. So I'd have a hard time renting it as a lump sum if it were my place. I'd rent it per head, depending on the type of critter, and I'd put a limit on the number of head for such a tiny place. No more than 3 horses, probably just 2 for only an acre...

The rate is going to be _very_ dependant upon your location, if there are fussy horse people with bucks in your area, the cost would be $125 a month or even more. If this is cow country the cost is often a little less than 50 cents per head per day.

Quite a range of course, but the cow rate is generally for a very rough big pasture supporting 20 head or more. What you are describing is more of a fancy horse place, with no real pasture, just a loafing area. The cow rate would also limit the time you are there, once the grass runs out you are gone - protect the pasture for another year - one of the resons it seems cheap, it's not full year bording, it's just grass harvesting.

I'm not sure I answered your question I realize, but as good as I can come up with to try to help understand from a land owner's point of view?

--->Paul

[RJMAcres]

I'd ask your local county agent.

[oregon woodsmok]

Are there stalls in the barn for horses?

You can sometimes rent that sort of place to a horse trainer.

Horses bring a lot more than cattle, and can do more damage.

If you've only got one acre, 2 head is probably the absolute max that you can take.

I get about $100 more for a rental that has pasture for 2 horses than I would get for the same house without any pasture.

If you are not going to provide any care, it will have to be someone close by that can drive out there twice a day to tend to their horses. Or some one with a couple of beef calves that will be by once a week.

Because of the price of hay, I can see paying $100 a month for good pasture with solid fence and shelter, even for a pair of calves. But a lot of people with cattle don't do their math the same way I do.

It was never worth my time to rent out pasture for cattle. Water and property taxes and insurance aren't free and cattlemen seem to think that pasture rent should be..

Be careful to have it in writing how many head because too many people will try to over-stock and their animals will eat the grass down to the roots and leave you with bare dirt and a crop of weeds in the spring.

[Mrs. Mucket]

More details: We won't put cows or horses on it. It will be used for a garden and small livestock like poultry and rabbits. That's why the AUM won't quite work.

[oregon woodsmok]

Let's see. You've got an acre of pasture, yet you won't allow animals on it?

If you want to rent that out as veggie garden, you can't grow veggies in a pasture, so I suggest that you rototill the whole thing so it is converted into crop land.

Or maybe you can find some one with a lot of heavy equipment, materials, and junk who needs a place to park it all.

[Mrs. Mucket]

LOL Oregon--I wouldn't enjoy that view! We have 30 acres of pasture for heavy livestock, but this one acre will be used for lightweights only for a couple of years. And a patch will be tilled for a garden. Much prettier to look at than a junkyard.

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Mucket

We're trying to come up with a rental figure and there's nothing comparable in our area to go by. Does anyone have an idea of your local rates? I'm looking for a flat monthly rate, not the animal unit amount. We're in Washington State and I know it varies across the country, but maybe I can find an average. Even numbers for an acre of plain pasture without barn would help.

It's for:
One acre of mixed forage pasture, perimeter fenced
300' sq. barn (enclosed but no interior walls) within fenced area
Water and power to barn but no irrigation to pasture
No services included (ie. boarding, feeding, etc.)

Thanks...

Check Craigslist. Go to farm and garden and put in pasture in the search.