how big is ur farm?

We've 90 acres, 20 or so that's pasture, with about 10 in creek bottom and the rest in hilly, rocky hardwoods. ROW cuts the creek bottom land.

Too many tee posts to think about, and barbed wire weighs as much on the ground as it did on the spool.

Run ten head of steers six months out of the year. Made a profit this year.

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Pezzo Novante Ranch
Atoka County, Oklahoma

62 ac. half open (pasture) half wooded (all hardwood) 2 ponds, Ok 1 pond 1 big mud puddle. and a wet weather creek. no house or barn, as of yet. God has really blessed us. It is the most beautiful peace of land I have ever seen. and the best part is that we own it out right. Now the hard part waiting to move there. looks like about 5 years.

I kick myself every time this subject comes up. When we bought this 30 acres 25 years ago there was about 400 available I could have got all of it I wanted for ..................$490.00 per acre, and money really wasn't a problem. Just a lack of foresight. It all fronts a good gravel road just 2 miles from a major highway. Now when any is for sale it brings $5,000-7,500 an acre.

20 acres of oak and grassland with two small ponds. Excellent for growing rattlesnakes.

I have 100 acres, 20% is beaver ponds and a river the rest is wooded. It is my little piece of paradise. Chris

160 acres more or less sloping divided up like this:
approx. 80 acres wetland with meadow and series of flowing beaver ponds
approx. 50 acres woodlot mixed spruce/poplar/balsam/tamarack/pine
approx. 30 acres retired pasture with approx. 5 acres replanted red pine white spruce, scot's pine
approx. 2 acres with buildings/gardens

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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.

Yeah,

You got to love that 6-14% yearly increase in hardwood timber value every year since 1946. I will be in the timber until I die. I hope more people grasp the concept of low impact forestry. I use ATV's, Horses, Winching, and any other things I can to prevent damage to both the woodlot at the time of harvest in the the future do to ground pressure oversites. I logged 20 acres for a friend last year did 2/3rds of it with mexicans and block and tackle to prevent damage to foilage. Hard work watching them from the top of a 300ft 45 degree hill.

Later,
Keith

This is our 10 acres, ready for heavy discing or breaking, which I mentioned above in my post. That area used to be a beaver (rodent) pond. Thankfully they all left, on their own -- that dry year. They were starting to flood our new 55 acre field -- YIKES!


The dryest year in 40 years, we cleared out the area arrow is where it used to be, they left on their own, not back in two years.


Cleaned out creek at same time, for full 1/2 mile. And we cut back poplars on each side of old messy death-like creek. Messy and death-like due to the Beavers. They are worse than rats (IM not so HO).


This is the same spot in our Creek-Ditch, looking the other direction, July 04, flowing well. First year Barley just starting.

Dosen't anyone else have pictures?

Alex

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34 acres of mountain land. About 5 in pasture with a nice fast stream and the rest in timber which hasn't been logged in many many years. We plan to do some selective cutting in a few years to help pay off the mortgage. But first we have to train the oxen!

What I love the most about our place is the seclusion and the constant sound of running water.

P.

I've got 1. Just moved outta the city, where I had 1/7 of an acre. I plan to get a five acre field, and possibly a 43 acre field, although that depends on whether I have enough green-backs or not.

42+ acres (mostly forest, about 8 acres is wetland, 5 pasture), and 105+ acres of forest nextdoor.