Twenty years ago, a lot of good crop land here was available for $500 per acre. I bought a hundred acres at $400 per acre. Now, it's $1000 - $2000 and sometimes even a bit higher. Still cheap I guess when compared to some other areas. I guess that's why we've got a lot of Amish buying farms here. Our growing season is kind of short, elevation around 1500 feet, but we do have lots of water and some of the soil is pretty good.
A friend of mine retired two years ago - big old tie-stall barn half falling down. Two Deere 4020s, one Deere 3020, a big ugly Deutz-Allis 4WD, assorted equipment - all old. Also, large farmhouse and 240 acres of mostly mountainside and mountaintop farm land with maybe 10% hardwoods forest. All ag - but with good development potential. He sold the whole deal for $180,000. His desire was to see it stay in farmland. Well, the new owner ran it into the ground, cut down all the trees,and now - has resold it. I heard rumours of half-a-million dollars but - at the moment - that's only local gossip.
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Today's Featured Article - George's Fordson Major - by Anthony West (UK). This is a bit of a technical info to add on to the article about George's Major in the "A Towny Goes Plowing" article. George bought his Major from a an implement sale about 18 years ago for £200.00. There is no known history regarding its origins or what service it had done, but the following work was undertaken by Harold alone to bring it up to show standard. From the engine number, it was found that the major was produced late 19
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