who here rents farmland?

In our area land goes for $10,000-$25,000 an acre. We "rent" a lot of small parcels to raise hay. We don't pay anything, but by signing a tax form that the land is in productive farming, we save the owners about $200 an acre each year.

I wish we could buy some land. the land we 'rent' is in between the 2 parcels we own. we have an easement down the center. we have a large cattle herd and we rotate graze. heck, dh shop is partially over the line.
land around here avg. 5-6000 acre$.
you don't get land around here unless someone dies and it goes up for auction. if we lost our 'rental' land, we may as well sell the house and move, because its all one and the same with how everything is set up.

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Man I sure am glad we don't live in the areas mentioned above! I tend 25 acres up the road from us free just to keep it maintained. I fertilize, lime, and keep the brush and trees trimmed around the fields. Just hay land though. Others in this area rent land. Most of the time it's either a deal of 'tend it for free and keep it up' or 'tend it for $$ but less inputs' There are several people around here that will pay up to $20 an acre but put no fertilizer or do any fence/tree brush maintenance and will rent until the land has reverted to broomstraw and briars, then stop renting.

Of course land can be had for $1,000 to $2,000 an acre, good pasture/hay bringing the most with 2000 to 2500 per acre. Very little row cropping around here, but with proper soil maintenance and good management will support a cow to the acre or yield upwards of 4-5 tons of hay a year.