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Harwood auction in Michigan

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rrlund

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Any of you Michigan guys know anything about what's happening with Harwood Cattle Company?
They're having an auction. It says they've sold their farmland in Michigan and are moving operations to Montana. The sale is in Marion. What I was wondering was if the Ionia operation is closing down too,or just the "upnorth" farms?
This is the first I've heard of it.
Sykora auctions
 
Wow, I hadn't heard anything. I always understood that Jeff ran the farm in Marion and the Ionia farm was his dad's. I'm just speculating here, I know Jeff often talked about raising cattle out west, maybe his dad is retiring from farming and Jeff is going west to where he enjoys it better.
 
As long as they've had these farms,given how the property tax system works in Michigan,I'd think their taxes would be relatively low. I wouldn't want to be the person who buys it and has to pay them. Unless you put the land in farmland preservation you'd be taxed off of it pretty quick.
I haven't been to the Marion farm,but the one in Ionia has to be a nightmare the way the traffic is past that one. I sure wouldn't want to have livestock along that road,and they have farms on both sides of the road there.
 
Dunno. I was shocked this past summer when Omega was auctioned off. I always thought they had a pretty nice deal. Nice area, owned about half the county...beautiful place. Sell it all and move? Not me.

On the other hand living in Montana on a ranch does sound a bit like the working class dream, now don't it?
 
Just down the road from me and I haven't heard a word.
I'm not generally the conspiracy theory type, but I wonder
if they're not trying to keep it low key for a reason.
 
I've heard that Omega never made money, at least not in many years. They were farming also in Georgia? also. The real big operations seem to come and go. I know that at one time some of my ancestor's were the biggest farmer's in Wayne county. I also know that they never made a lot of money farming.... To my knowledge, none of my relatives does any farming today. Look at the biggest landowner's in the country, guys like Ted Turner - he buys lots of ground, much of it will never pay for itself. I have heard that one large horse operation in your area is owned by some folks in the trucking biz.
 
Interesting, It looks like that auction could be expensive for me. I am currently looking at squeeze chutes and head gates. I may have do some bidding. I wonder if some of the DEQ / DNR mandates are the reason for them to be moving on?
 
Randy, I did a little more checking, and what I've been told is that Jeff is sick and tired of competing with the dairy farms for ground(atleast around the Marion farm) probably a lot of competition for ground around Ionia too, just not so much dairy competition.
 
Ya,I know some of the dairy guys up there. I've heard about a lot of expansion and some pizzing matches.
 
I live right around the corner from Quinton. Borrison farms have purchased most of the farm around here. Do believe they paid a pretty penny. The rumor is 8k/acre, but only rumor for now. They just tiled a 120 acre very wet pasture across the road from me. Don't think they'd be throwing that kind of money around if they didn't buy it.
 
I know Quinton hurt himself earlier in the year too. Think he broke a leg or hip. That may have played into it. They sold off some land by cw tools on m66 a few years ago. Have had for sale signs on m66 on and off for years.
 
Nick M, are you on Nicholas?
I bought a few square bales of straw from a guy named Nick
there a couple years ago. Wondering if it might have been you.
 
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