Where did some of these farms get their name?

Driving through the country you can see that many farms have names. Some are obviously contractions of the owners names. Others are based on the location or some landmark but others mystify me. A couple of example of names I have seen.
The phlthy Pharm..
Broke My Back Farm
The Pig Sty
Put-Put Acres

What crazy names have you seen on farm buildings and gates?
 
I go by pair-a-dice farm because farming has always been a gamble. Dad used to say we needed to call the place the procrastination plantation.
I saw one called Backachers
 
"Belly Acres"

A local doctor has 40 acres he fools around on. There's a big sign over the drive, "Hernia Hill".
 
back when I lived in SE MI, farm was Questover Farm. The couple had been looking for a farm for some time and when they saw that place, they said the quest was over.
 
The guy who bought my Grandpa's farm put a sign up over the drive reading "Stick-a-buyer Ranch." I was young and it took me a few years to realize the pun.

Larry
 
Mine is Cooper Hollow Farm I think we are the only Hollow in Oregon it names after the DLC owner Lewis L Cooper. 1875.
One on the hill above me is also a very old farm named Fishback Farm.
 
"Oleo Acres, One of the Cheaper Spreads" in Nutrioso, Arizona.

A client here has "Burning Daylight", which came from Jack London"s best selling book during his lifetime. Now usually means wasting time.
 
Old gal down the road had "Back Ache Acres", and a friend of mine calls his place "Daily Crisis Farm". Saw a place up in Pa that was "Lamb's Quarters". Another friend down here had a little place he called "Hooten Holler"- his last name was 'Hooten'.
 
A friend of mine had a farm and ran semi trucks , he called his malfunction junction . The drivers were always tearing things up.
 
Stony Acres Farm - needs no explanation!

The Carrot Patch - Raises bunny rabbits amongst other things.
 
Guy I know ran a farm and trucking operation called LHF. Abbreviation for Little Hope Farm.
Trucking operation was LHF. Abbreviation for long,hard and fast.
 
Frind of mine has been dairy farming many years.Calls his MOO COW FARMS. Another one Hillside Farm another Mountain Lair Farm. Neighbors name was John D., his wife Rose thus The JOHN-D-ROSA Ranch.
 
One I know is Poverty Hill Manor.

Neighbors last name is "Nichols" and there was Mom, Dad, and three kids. Called the place Quarterhome Farm.
 
Like many, my farm's name is a contraction of a former owner's name (my grandfather's). But I don't share his last name, so anyone who doesn't know this was Earl N. Woodbury's farm wouldn't guess where Enwood Dairy came from. Hard to get 'Enwood' from the name 'Hoesly'. :)
 
I can only think of 2. My favorite is Agri-Vation Farms/Crop Services. The other name that is apparantely quite popular is poverty acres.
 
There is one around here called the Margarine Estate. Underneath the name the tag line reads "It's a cheap spread".
 
The folks who bought Dad's farm named it "Back Break Acres' although I don't think anyone ever hurt themselves over it, he was a successful business man.
 
Ours is sometimes referred to as "Haywire Farm". But it has hung together for over 40 years.
 
Some folks named Hill had a little place they called "Hill's Half Acre". Saw one called "Cold Comfort Farm". Dad always called our place "Poverty Flats".
 
A guy who bought the family farm, let it get run down. Now I call it "The Groundhog Ranch"!
 
Lady had "4 ever in our broken heart" (picture of a broken heart) on the end of her barn. In fact it is still on Google Earth that way. I thought something really bad had befallen them and then I learned that all they were doing was grieving the loss of Bret Favre. That was about the time the sign was changed to "#12 is 3 X #4. G". Now, it says something about #12 but I don't remember what. The sign is well done, though. Looks like a professional did it.
 
My family and friends call me Bubba so my niece named mine "The Bubbarosa" It drives my wife crazy she hates it. So when I order parts or catalogs I have them shipped to that name!
 
My farm is "Mockingbird Hill". My favorite song of all times is Patti Paige's song of the same name. Also have mockingbirds here frequently.

Gene
 
My father's nickname is Flatrock, so we call ours Flatrock's Funny Farm. We don't have an official farm sign or anything. The name is just for fun.
 
(quoted from post at 18:13:43 10/07/13) There is one in New York that says Passing Wind Farm. I'm not making this up. Big Sal

That's the farm name that shows up on any gov't forms we fill out here....
 

Saw one years ago that maybe only us old timers would understand.

"Oleo Ranch, A cheap spread"

Referring to oleo, that is what they use to call margerine, and it was considered a "cheap spread" or alternative to butter.

I named my hunting cabin "The He-Man Wuman Haters club"
I even had caps made up for my hunting buddies.

Gene
 
My dad and his partner owned a farm just south of the "Blue Boom"(Clinton, IL Power Plant). They called it (sp) NIPTIGHT! There was a house next to the road and a stream. There were 14 people from MO that came up to work in the area in the 50"s. The house had 6 rooms and the partner said it had electricity and running water. There was the stream and electric lines across the road. Some of them helped my dad build a barn one summer and mom cooked a hole beef feeding them.
 
2badlybent; on a little old barn, west of Richland Center, Wisc. 'Almost - A - Farm'. There is an old red-belly Ford out front. Good topic!!
 

There is a place west of town that I have always admired the sign above the gate that reads "Need More Land and Cattle Company".

Tim
 

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