Re: Local family farms- Depressing-LONG

Posted by Billy NY on August 11, 2006 at 12:19:46 from (205.188.117.14):

In Reply to: Local family farms- Depressing-LONG posted by Dave from MN on August 10, 2006 at 19:41:57:

This evolution of things as seen today and speculated for tomorrow, based on what we see happening today, seems as if once the damage is done, and recognized as a negative impact, it's always after the fact, and too late to change.

I honestly don't know what the solution is, without agriculture and traditional families continuing to form and keep things together, as well as property taxes, jobs to support farming operations that are not profit makers or alternate land uses besides developing, is our land just going to get swallowed up and become one mass suburbia some day ?

Same thing here, 10-15K for an acre, taxes on 98 acres here is over 8K annually and what really SUCKS is that this county really penalizes you if you get behind, no you can't catch up a few years or whateve is in arrears, you must pay it all, other counties are not like that, so backtaxes can lose your property quickly.

Developers are swarmed and lined up to ruin a huge part of our town, a once proud agricultural town, we used to sell Ford tractors to all the farmers who liked them, and the other guy sold JD and we even had a long time International dealer too, that was it. We are close to a city, but there was a line, that line is moving closer.

The whole thing is insane, some really nice property with views for 40-50 miles, rolling hills, some excellent crop and hay land, even if it is not flat, the hills make it interesting and give it character.

No longer desirable to farm due to expense and little profit, everyone that is left wants out to retire, not have the tax payment etc. One guy in town has bought his fair share to keep open, supporting a long established horse operation, but not everyone is going to buy and keep it open. It's a sad state of affairs, then you see how much is manufactured out of the country, and it's effects here.

It's hard to complain about what ain't yours and what happens to it, but what is the solution to keeping things to a minimum and not sacrificing a way of life, like many prefer in the open space.

Even within family, market prices of some land is far out of reach and ends up on the open market because that families members cannot afford it.

It's a huge problem without a lot of solutions, very hard to accept that some of our most cherished lands and farms will end up in the abyss of development.

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