Posted by GeneMO on October 01, 2014 at 18:17:37 from (71.51.203.52):
In Reply to: Buying Land posted by TXZane on October 01, 2014 at 16:15:00:
Contact the county FSA (Farm Service Agency) in that county. You may need the owners permission, or actually just ask him and have him supply or show you the Conservaton Plan. Nowdays every farm has to have a Farm Plan to show that it is not being farmed improperly. It will show it is HEL, (Highly Erodable Land). If it is, it is supposed to be farmed a certain way. Not farming across terraces, using conservation or No-till, etc.
If it is all pasture and the owner never grown row crops, he may have never done a farm plan. Anyway, is is something to check.
Also, look at the ditches or gulches. Any trash dumps? Old Herbicide cans leaking into the watershed?
Maybe drive up to a neighbors place and "visit" You can be surprised what neighbors know and will tell you.
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