What is common in your area.

Erik Ks farmer

Well-known Member
I sharecrop a fair amount of the ground I farm. I have done research into the common practices in the area. Curious as to what is common as far as shared expenses on 60/40 or 67/33 shares in other areas.
 
Then he"s cash renting, not share-cropping. 1/3-2/3 means landlord provides land, gets 1/3 of crop. Operator pays all crop expense, gets 2/3 of crop. 50-50 each pays half of crop expense, each gets half of crop. Some variations now, allowing for harvest, drying, etc. costs.
 
landowner puts up the land and farmer puts up the
labor and machinery. The inputs are then divided as
decided upon.
 
cash rent if you want land better be close to $400.00 acre figure and 3yr minimum starting to be normal.real rough stuff selling in 5500.00acre range up to 18,000.00 north of me about 80 miles. have over 400 acres to be sold first of month within few miles of me i look for 9000.00. sure afraid somebodies going to take hit again just like in the eighties. It won't be me.
 
Don't know of any share cropping done around here any more, Social Security rules a while back got rid of that, all cash rent.

Was 40/60 here, landlord paid his 40% of actual fert & chemicals, renter paid all of the application costs (supply all labor & machinery). Became common for the renter to haul landlords crop to a bin or elevator as well.

--->Paul
 
Dixon we're just poor hill farmers in the clay around here. Good land rents for a mere fraction of those numbers. My thinking appears to be on the same page as most of the others.
 
For corn and beans most of what Im seeing is 100-150 per acre cash rent with the farmer paying all the inputs and getting all the crop. Not many share arrangements. Tobacco, what little there is, I mostly see 50/50 with the landowner paying all the lime and fertilizer, half of the plants and chemicals, and furnishing barn and sticks. Farmer pays labor and furnishes tractor and equipment. Alflafa lots of 2/3 - 1/3 with landowner furnishing seed, lime, and fertilizer. A few 50/50. Most grass hay unfertilized is you get it for it. A few, 80/20 or 60/40's out there. If its fertilized then its the same as alfalfa usually.
 
"You cut it - you got it" is the way I have aquired extra land base, for hay production, in the past. I assumed all expenses with crop production, and got the whole crop. In most cases the property owner just wanted to see the property maintained.
 
When I was cash renting in the '90's I found that I couldn't afford to give the landlord more than 1/3 of the value of the crop.Wife's family owned land that was on a 1/3 2/3 deal and I believe the tenant covered all expenses except land tax.
My mother rented out part of her farm last year for $150 and I believe she is getting $175 next year.The farm next has been rented for $200 for several years and a farm nearby was $200 but the tenant offered 25 more a few years ago to be sure he would keep it.
I always paid rent before the years end.With low interest rates some are paying thier rent partially before planting and there are rumours of rents being paid in full in the spring. One of my co-workers says that rents are over $300 where he lives.
This is based on land that is bringing $10000 per workable acre plus $2000 for woodlot area attached.Buildings are valued at 0 unless they are exceptional.Most of the ones that are paying these rents have sweet corn/pea/snapbean contracts as part of a longer crop rotation and they grow a good sized acreage of dry beans as well as field corn soybeans and wheat.
 
(quoted from post at 11:03:09 12/30/11) Then he"s cash renting, not share-cropping. 1/3-2/3 means landlord provides land, gets 1/3 of crop. Operator pays all crop expense, gets 2/3 of crop. 50-50 each pays half of crop expense, each gets half of crop. Some variations now, allowing for harvest, drying, etc. costs.

So even though there is no cash changing hands it is still cash renting?
 
Very little share rent is done here anymore...When it was done
the landlord paid 1/3rd of the fertilizer and chemical plus
paid for all the lime..He got 1/3 rd of the crop..

Cash rent runs from $60 to $125 per acre for 125 bu corn,30
bu soybeans,and 45 bu wheat ground..The ave would be
about $85 per acre..
 
Very little share rent is done here anymore...When it was done
the landlord paid 1/3rd of the fertilizer and chemical plus
paid for all the lime..He got 1/3 rd of the crop..

Cash rent runs from $60 to $125 per acre for 125 bu corn,30
bu soybeans,and 45 bu wheat ground..The ave would be
about $85 per acre..
 

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