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DeltaRed

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Seems to be the latest rural fad-naming your
'farm'/'ranch'.Several of our nonfarming friends have
been urgeing(for a few years) us to do so.I'm not a
'fad-follower',but it might be kinda fun.Nothing
seemed appropriate.Recently I aquired an old rusty
dragbehind plow(yard art).Got to
thinking,"fitting"."The Rusty Plow Farm",or "Rusty
Plow Acres".What do ya think?
 
Either of those are good. Here are some that come to mind as well:

The Rusty Plow Share

Rustic Plow Place

Red Acres (a play on DeltaRed and Green Acres)

The Dead Furrow Farm (JUST KIDDING!)

I'm sure you will get lots of other thoughts here as well. Happy naming - whatever you decide!
 
My first wife dubbed this place" TARA " some 28 years ago ,And it Fitsvery Well thru it All , Remember Scarlets Daddy telling her " land is the only thing that LASTS, the only thing that matters ,,, TARA ! is WHERE YOUR STRENGTH COMES FROM "
 
I remember the old farm broadcaster on WOWO when I was a kid called his "place" Belle Lea Acres, as in bellyachers , may have been just an imagineary place I don't know but the name was amusing
 
Bought my first (DOS) computer in the '80s.......strictly for record keeping. Mississippi State had a free farm accounting program which I used for several years.......'til Windows was up and going good and M.S. chose not to up-grade their program. The sample/set-up program was named "Joe's Farm" and each user was encouraged (coulda been required) to 'name' their operation.......at least for bookkeeping purposes. Just for fun, I named mine "Acme Cattle Company" 'cause I'd always been a fan of the Road Runner. Wound up keeping and using the name; sold the last of the cattle 5 or 6 years ago, after having been in the business for 47 years. My bank account/checks still say "Acme Cattle Company" and I've even got Wile E. hanging from the ceiling in my office.

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Haven't named ours, but my wife was once receptionist for a doctor who bought 40 acres, built a house, etc.

He named it "Heria Hill". Even has an overhead sign across the driveway.
 
Years back, my parents place had 'Vale' in their farm's name. Since they helped us with the $$$ when we moved north into PA, my wife named our place 'Northvale', as thanks.
 
We were eevn less creative and call our place 'The Farm'. We even have a sign over the driveway with that genaric name. ;-)
 
I'm known as Bubba to all of my freinds and family so my neice named my place "The Bubbarosa"
My wife hates it so to poke fun at her I always get my catalogs and parts sent to that name.I think i'll keep it.
 
Mine is Briarwood My dad's first farm he owned was late 1950's. He called it SPUTNICK because it had him up in the air and going around in circles
 
Ours was called "Wake Robin" from a long time back. The wake robin is a trillium with a dark red flower, and a nasty smell, also called stinking Benjamin, or just stink pot. I remember getting letters from my sister while I was away at college, the return address was "Stinkpot Farm". She was going through a stage of teen age rebellion against her "slavery" on the farm at that time.

There was a one armed woodcarver, many years ago, who made hand carved signs for a number of farms in town. I always suspected that ha may actually have picked the names of some of them.
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Rustacres do to the fact I use was others would call scrap. Dad's place was "green acres dairy" Dairy farmer in South Dakota. Any building that went up had green side walls with white roofs. Dairy cows are long gone and oldest brother just bought the home quarter from dad.
 
My Dad always called our ranch "The Rockpile", since there are so many areas that have rock outcrops. The corner of the old ranch that I now live on also has plenty of rock in some places, so I guess it is still a pretty good name.

I have areas that I can plow and not dig up any rocks, but most of the tillable soil yields at least some rocks every time it is disturbed. The geologists say that this area was once covered by a glacial lake, and obviously it was in the path of the glacial Lake Missoula floods thousands of years ago. Some of the rocks I find are smoothed granite that possibly dropped off floating icebergs, but most of the rock is basalt, which might be any size and shape.

I hate to think of how many hundreds of tons of rocks I have picked off our fields in my lifetime. Yet I kind of enjoy that job, somehow. When I was a kid, we hauled rocks on a stone boat, but later we got tractors with front buckets, which makes it a whole lot easier to unload. I still load most rocks I pick by hand or using a manure fork.

Yeah, I think The Rockpile is a pretty good name for my property!
 
I've noticed that too - people naming their "farms" that are little more than a house and a pole shed on two or three acres. Real farms have had names for years, even generations, if they have registered livestock. Registered cattle, anyway.
I'm the 5th generation on my farm, but my Grandpa was the first to have registered cattle, so he picked the name. Enwood Dairy - from (E)arl (N)ichols (Wood)bury.
 
> Seems to be the latest rural fad-naming your 'farm'/'ranch'.

Apparently it was a big fad here in the 1920s-1930s. I like looking through old plat books and by 1931 it seems like most farms had a name in quotes next to the owner.

"Sweet Clover Dairy Farm"
"Hillside Dairy Farm"
"Meadowbrook Stock Farm"
"Twin Bluff Farm"
"Oak Spring Dairy Farm"

And that's just within a mile of two from my farm. Those names are all long gone now, if it wasn't for the plat book, they would be have been lost to time.
 
Our Farm name about as a prefix for our cattle. IDLE KNOT.We were alway busy on the dairy farm and wanted to use Idle Not but it was already assigned so mother said "lets ad "K" and make Knot, It was approved and is still in use today,
gitrib
 
My brother's FIL had a dairy. moved here from New York and didn't get along with the dairy assn.here. Named his farm Anilorac Farms.
said that described the S.C. dairymen operated.
bass ackwards. hint: Anilorac is Carolina, backwards
 
The party that bought my grandfather's farm christened it "Stick-a-Buyer Ranch." The sign hung above the drive entrance.

Larry
 
We don"t have a farm name, but years ago I returned one of those info cards to Farm Journal, using "Haywire Farm" in the address, since many things often went haywire. ONLY time I wrote that....decades ago. I still get mail with that in the addy, since FJ sells subscribers addresses.....those bums do anything to make a buck. Successful Farming does the same, many others....you have to tell THEM that you do not want your name sold. I think that is wrong. Now, with the free subscriptions, it pretty much tells you what their ragmag is worth. Just a vehicle to push ads.
 
My Uncle called his farm "Belly-Acres" because he said the family always belly-ached about trying to farm it.
All the old plantations used to be named.
I think it is silly now to pass by a three acre spot and see a sign saying "????? Ranch". But people can call their own property what they want to so if they think 3 or 5 or 20 acres is a ranch-so be it.
 
> Dad always called our place Poverty Flats.
I also like Cold Comfort Farm.

Ha! I like it. I might start calling my farm "Poverty Bottoms" it has a nicer ring to it than "The Hole in the Ground That I Pour All My Money Into" :)
 
I have not put up a sign, but have considered doing so with the name Nakwyda (not quite a) Ranch. It is only lacking fences, cattle, corrals, machinery, hay meadows, pastures, ......
 
our dairy farm is MOOZOO. it seemed appropriate 32 years ago when we bought the place, and it still fits today. its also the prefix for our registered holsteins.
 
My farm is the KC Farm. The K and C are the initials of my and my wife's first names. We like it. I even have caps printed for my beef customers that I give as an appreciation to them buying beef from me farm direct. We just have the name on our mailbox.
Kow Farmer
 
I have a neighbor that has paid $20,000 for rocks and boulders for landscaping. I aint kidding here, you are sitting on real money. Sell those rocks !!!!!
 
Well, I'm one of those wannabes with a barn on 4 acres, a handful of sheep and a couple dozen chickens.

I call it Someday Farm, cuz someday I'm gonna get that fence fixed, and someday I'm gonna haul that junk off and someday...
 
Wife calls ours, "The Carrot Patch," in regard to her rabbit business, sells rabbits for breeding and sale. Afterward, she added Shetland sheep, North Ameriican llamas, and angora goats - all raised for their wool. She also sells Angora rabbit wool.

Neighbor calls his "Stony Acres." Thought that was appropriate for here as well, but he got there first.
 
I am in horse country and almost every farm has a name cept me. A friend across the road has Greenwood, we call it "Deadwood" just to tic him off LOL
 
Ours is known "Shoestring Farms", because that's what it's run on, a shoestring! Our motto is "When it's too old and decrepit for others to use, it's just right for us"!
 
I haven't named my place yet, but I was thinking about "Bill's 2 Acres", cause it just happens to be 2.3 acres of ground.....
 
Years ago during the dairy states war on margerine, there used to be a place just south of the Minnesota border on highway 59 that had a sign "OLEO ACRES" One of the cheaper spreads. I always liked that one.
 
Guys, A neighbor of mine in the Okla Strip called his place "Seldom Rest Farms"
and a relative of of mine called his place........ "Poverty Farms"
I have called my place, but not Officially........
"Smith Cattle Company".... but more accurately.... "Fly By Night Cattle Company"
Later,
John A.
 
Our place is called Fire Ranch---where we raise Fire Ranch Beef.

But I like the farm down the road---Herway Farm.
 
The place I work, for the last 23 years, and have horses at is called Twin Brooks Farm. For the 2 Brooks runing threw the property.
 
Ours is called Misty Morning Farm due to me waking up one morning an watching the horses wandering around in the fog that was laying in the valley that runs through our pasture. That was the First night I ever stayed there. Woke the wife up and told her I had to show her something beautiful. I told her the name as she looked out she agreed that it fit. I wish I had taken a picture. This was before the house was built. All we had was the old bank barn and we had slept there in a tent. Kippster
 
When young we had a place in Oregon we named rock bottom ranch. Believe me when in our early 20"s it fit. Now back in il we do a little better(35yrs later) now we"re stony creek farm after the stream running thru our place. Hope we don"t hit rock bottom again
 
My parents named ours "The Whatever Farm". They had T shirts and hats made up with the name on them. I still have a hat and shirt.
 
My place is Rocks Ridge Angus. We raise Angus cattle, and are at the end of Rocks Ridge Road. We also seem to have more rocks than wanted by many people.

Friend's place is "Daily Crisis Farm". Something is always going wrong. Another old friend had a place called "'Ed ache Acres". A farm I cash rent is "Retired and Broke Farm". The farm of a medical friend is known as "The Funny Farm."

Guess there are all kinds of names out there.
 
Our 81 acres are the "Horn? Toad Ranch" - 'where the toads roam free(ly)', named after the (Texas) horned toad, which is actually a member of the lizard family. This site will not let me post a "dirty" word, so replace the "?" with a "Y", please!! ARRRGGGHHHH!!!
There are primarily 3 or 4 different ones, Texas still has a voluntary spotter and report program. Horn? Toads, as they are locally called, eat big red ants and with the fire ant eradication programs almost got extinct. We left and leave red ant colonies for them since we bought the place in 2004 and in 2010 had little baby ones for the first time (hatched from eggs). No fire ants here, so far so good.
Pick is from the net, source unknown.
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There's usually a light breeze blowing through here so I named our place "Passing Wind Farm". Wife gets a little annoyed when we get mail so addressed..... Speaking of which, wild onions are just right for the picking.
 
"Hillbilly Hill Farm", for us. Awhile back, someone who wanted to remain anonymous (but we knew who they were from the git-go), and their buddies, didn't like the old iron and other stuff I drug in, so they started trying to "shame" us into "following the Jones's". They filled out some of those subscription cards you find in magazines with "Hillbilly Hill" on them. We started getting mail with that in our address, and liked it so much we use it!
 
The very first thing I saw when I first looked at my place was a cloud of dragonflys so..."Dragonfly Farm". I remember as a youngster that some itinerent sign painter came through central Illinois and convinced the farms, my Grandfather included, that they simply had to have their name, telephone number, and mailing address painted on the rear quarter panels of their trucks. I still recall Granddad's International with that sign. So, for very, very little $ I had FastSigns make some similar graphics for the Dodge.
 
I'm not sure if that is a fad.

Our farm was named "GreenCastle" and was titled as such on May 10th 1775. Somewhere I actually have a copy from the archives of the original land patent, bought from William Crawford and Henry Hoagland national land survey which began under George Washington's direction, about 11 miles from here.
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The actual site of the original United States land survey, which is the basis for all of the original borders of our current US states was started in this area. George Washington actually owned almost 2700 acres, 3 miles from here, and appointed William Crawford to create the land surveys for this area of Western, PA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawford_(soldier)

Crawford was brutally killed by torture and fire in retaliation for the Gnaddenhutten massacre, on a raid against the upper Ohio tribes near Sandusky Ohio. My great great great great great grandfather was part of one of the militia companies that fought with George Washington. He and his son were also in the War of 1812.

Long story short, I don't think it is a fad to name a farm. It's actually an old tradition. When we were a registered Holstein dairy, we still used the name GreenCastle. It's a 240 year tradition.
 
I'm not sure if that is a fad.

Our farm was named "GreenCastle" and was titled as such on May 10th 1775. Somewhere I actually have a copy from the archives of the original land patent, bought from William Crawford and Henry Hoagland national land survey which began under George Washington's direction, about 11 miles from here.

The actual site of the original United States land survey, which is the basis for all of the original borders of our current US states was started in this area. George Washington actually owned almost 2700 acres, 3 miles from here, and appointed William Crawford to create the land surveys for this area of Western, PA

Crawford was brutally killed by torture and fire in retaliation for the Gnaddenhutten massacre, on a raid against the upper Ohio tribes near Sandusky Ohio. My great great great great great grandfather was part of one of the militia companies that fought with George Washington. He and his son were also in the War of 1812.

Long story short, I don't think it is a fad to name a farm. It's actually an old tradition. When we were a registered Holstein dairy, we still used the name GreenCastle. It's a 240 year tradition.

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam...Books C1-C234/Book C166/Book C-166 pg 345.pdf

june 10th 1787 is when it was filed with the county, as the county did not exist until then, being a part of Westmoreland County, then named after George Washington himself.
 
Our old home place that our Dad use to farm, it was all low bottom land in the back side. We always call it
"THE BOTTOM" My Brother & I have that place now.
The name for it is "THE BOTTOM". It will keep that name on down the next generation.

Hammer Man
 
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