A little rambling and grunting from the other side of the fence.
That looks like something I would jump on at 1/3-2/3, but only with a long term contract. I don't know how your land compares to other land in the area, either in quality, size, or ease of access. Is there a surplus of hay land available in your area?
I am using neighbors land on several different arrangements. Some of it is free, some is small rent, and one actually pays me, because there is as much rough ground to bush hog as there is good hay ground.
I lost my good 1/3-2/3 split ground to PR and politics after the floods last fall. This was a third of my acreage, and I will be scraping up a lot of marginal hay on marginal or worse land to replace it.
Size and location makes a big difference in what it is worth to me. I need enough acreage in one place to make a days work baling, or close enough to another place that I can work them both at once. Real good ground I can make some accommodation for, worn out pasture gets no consideration at all.
I have refused hay ground that was too small, to rough, too far away, or needed a lot of work, with no guarantee of continued use after the work was done.
All of the land I work gets soil tests and fertilizer as well as I can, but not as much as is actually needed. I have been pretty religious about lime. It makes no sense to me to not to take care of it as well as I can. If I have to cover the ground anyway, there might as well be some crop there to pay for it. The long term agreements get better treatment than the uncertain ones. Dealing with some landowners is a real pain, others are too easy.
So if you want to load up that field and bring it to Vermont, we can deal on it, otherwise you are on tour own.
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