I have had a good week locating new ground. An older friend of mine sent me to a friend of his that has 50 acres. 40 of it he is already leasing out but did not want conventional farming done by his house. He is giving it to me free of rent as long as I plant non gmo and do not use herbicides or pesticide. That is fine as I already have the equipment to cultivate. I talked to the neighbor of this guy who has about 8 acres of grass that butts up to the first property and he is also giving it to me rent free under the same conditions. So now I have a fair sized field that is rent free I just have to keep it chemical free. I will finish plowing it down to day and let it set for a few days (4-7) and disk it several times and let set for about 5 more days disk heavy again and plant 1.9 or 2.2 beans on it. Half will get winter wheat and half will get a buck wheat/clover mix and be planted to corn come spring. I also picked up 2 other 3-5 acre parcels of tall grass while the owners were out brush hogging them simply stopped and asked if they were interested in having someone farming the lots instead of them brush hogging. They both said they had never thought about it and were happy to give it to me to farm rent free just so they did not have to brush hog any longer. So all in all I picked up about 20-23 acres rent free this week and still have half a dozen more to go talk to. It won't be much longer and I will not be able to get beans on and will start fallowing for winter wheat. Thanks for all the replies below on the original post!!!!
Matt
Matt