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Loss of Farms in my area.

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Aowner

02-03-2008 17:15:16




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Me and the wife were riding around our area, about a 5 mile radius around our place. There are 2 dairy farms left and they have sold off about half of there cows. There are 3 farms left with beef cows left including us. One full time grain and cotton farmer that has pick your own and corn maze. There about six people that raise hay part time. There maybe 12 tracts of land left that are over 100 acres not forsale and at least that many that are split into 2 - 5 acre tracts forsale.

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rrlund

02-04-2008 06:47:57




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 Re: Loss of Farms in my area. in reply to Aowner, 02-03-2008 17:15:16  
You guys in Michigan,are you ready to consider that maybe I was right to vote for Granholm this last time? She put a stop to this kind of thing by destroying the economy of this state. We have to be the only place in the country to get a repreve from sprawl. Feels pretty good don't it?



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Spook

02-05-2008 00:36:48




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 Re: Loss of Farms in my area. in reply to rrlund, 02-04-2008 06:47:57  
I was talking to my dad down in Florida, he tells me that construction has come to a complete stop. The supply of homes and condos might be measured in years. Michigan got the worst of it, people can usually put off buying cars, but everybody is going into the hole now. I don't care who the governor was, when the auto industry eliminates a couple hundred thousand jobs, Michigan will be in the tank!! Show me any state that has a growing manufacturing sector? Aside from defense, it's all going overseas.

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Jerry/MT

02-03-2008 21:32:40




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 Re: Loss of Farms in my area. in reply to Aowner, 02-03-2008 17:15:16  
It"s happening everywhere. I used to live just above the Puyallup Valley in Washington and in a matter of a two years it went from farm land to subdivisions. I moved to Western Montana and I thought I got away from that but I"m wrong. Even here on the Rez, fee land is rapidly be divided in to 20"s and sold to folks for vacation homes. I don"t think you can get away from it. This is good cattle country but we are also blessed with beautiful views. These old ranchers who have worked hard all their lives can get $6000-$10,000/acre for their land so some rich guy can build a trophy house and come here and play for two months out of the year and get bored after 5 years and sell it go somehwere else and do the same thing again. Where are all those environmentalists who want to see open space when you need them? They"ve help make it hard for the guys working the land to make a living and then when they"re forced to sell out as a last resort, they sell to a developer and the open space that supports so much wildlife disappears. The dumb sh--s need to try to keep the ranchers on the land to keep development from ruining these places forever.

I"ll get off my soap box now.

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s.crum

02-03-2008 18:46:26




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 Re: Loss of Farms in my area. in reply to Aowner, 02-03-2008 17:15:16  
Feel fortunate that industry is popping up in the corn fields, that means a few jobs at least.
I got 12 acres of the farm I grew up on, mainly because I was the only kid that stayed so my stepfather (Dad) hooked me up with 6 acres so there was somebody (me) nearby to look after him and Mom in their later years. I bought another 6 acres out of Mom's estate that ajoins my property. Because this was an incorporated farm and I was 'the red headed stepchild', I had no legal claim to the farm, and the aunts and uncles were seeing quick dollar signs. I'm the only kid that got a piece of the old farm. The rest of the farm has sprouted $300,000 McMansions built eavestrough to eavestrough on 1/4 acre lots, 50% now complete with a FORECLOSURE sign in the strip of grass they call a front yard. Alot has changed around here in the past 47 years.

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roger a. morris

02-03-2008 17:38:23




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 Re: Loss of Farms in my area. in reply to Aowner, 02-03-2008 17:15:16  
It makes me sad to see the factorys and subdivisions pop up on what was once good farm land. I am only 23 yrs old and have seen how much the town has expanded in my life time and am worried it might some day reach our farm. we live 4 miles out of Goshen, IN and I remember when the wal-mart on the east side was corn field and now in the last few years the industry has expanded out 3/4 mile.



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Oldoaky-2

02-04-2008 05:41:06




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 Re: Loss of Farms in my area. in reply to roger a. morris, 02-03-2008 17:38:23  
How can this happen when the economy is as bad as everyone says????? ?????



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