First, I'd have to buy a ticket, which is about as likely as picking up a winner from the side of the road under our mailbox, but IF that sort of windfall happened...
#1, hire a good lawyer to put every cent above his fees into a foundation for helping aspiring farmers, preferably young ones.
#2, put myself as director of the board of trustees of such foundation for a mere 50k/yr (and up my annual wages significantly), and have the foundation purchase 'the old home place' (along with the bits sold off over the years), and start a new farmer incubator, to take young people interested in farming and give them some real hands on experience in crops, critters, machinery, maintenance, marketing, and the disasters that can happen along the way with myself and other well experienced farmers as mentors, then help fund their own place on "graduation" with a no or very low interest revolving loan fund.
#3, either auction this place and everything on it, move and start over, or have the whole place properly tiled and donate the works (equipment and all) to a young farm couple.
#4, take a portion of my directors wages and help repay my children's student loan debts, as a partial payment each month that they are gainfully employed.
I'm sure there are things I haven't considered, but being this is just a pipe dream, it matters not at all.
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