Some friends of mine and I are looking to buy some land to be used
specifically for organic farming. If anyone knows of parcels for sale
that meet the criteria listed below, or of someone who can help us
find the kind of property we are looking for, please reply to
. Many thanks!

Land Criteria:

Locale: Midwest: Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming are desirable,
but will consider others

Acreage: around 350, preferable with a stream or river,
and small pond(s)

Use: Organic farming

Price: negotiable (less than $300/acre)

Zoning: Mixed: agricultural/residential

On 1/18/03 5:33 PM, in article
, "Kurt Kerchner"
wrote:

Some friends of mine and I are looking to buy some land to be used
specifically for organic farming. If anyone knows of parcels for sale
that meet the criteria listed below, or of someone who can help us
find the kind of property we are looking for, please reply to
. Many thanks!

Land Criteria:

Locale: Midwest: Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming are desirable,
but will consider others

Acreage: around 350, preferable with a stream or river,
and small pond(s)

Use: Organic farming

Price: negotiable (less than $300/acre)

Zoning: Mixed: agricultural/residential

Here are some prices for ranchland and farmland:

www.kc.frb.org/PUBLICAT/RED/PDF/AGSURV2Q.pdf

I'm not sure if prices are up or down since that article was published.
Crop prices haven't been anything to brag about but that doesn't seem to
matter much at times.

Dean







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On 1/18/03 5:33 PM, in article
, "Kurt Kerchner"
wrote:

Some friends of mine and I are looking to buy some land to be used
specifically for organic farming. If anyone knows of parcels for sale
that meet the criteria listed below, or of someone who can help us
find the kind of property we are looking for, please reply to
. Many thanks!

Land Criteria:

Locale: Midwest: Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming are desirable,
but will consider others

Acreage: around 350, preferable with a stream or river,
and small pond(s)

Use: Organic farming

Price: negotiable (less than $300/acre)

Zoning: Mixed: agricultural/residential

If you want to make a go of it farming you will need land that costs
more than 300 dollars an acre. You can't make something from nothing
and $300 and acre land is going to have some factor that really limits
production. It may be in a low rain fall area, thin soil or something
else. But it is capable of high producion it will bring a lot more
than $300 and acre.

Gordon

If you find more than one, let me know to I can get in on it too...
seriously, your price expectations are out of whack with reality.

For $300 an acre you can probably get some useless land that is no good for
farming or much of anything else except looking at or planting a timber
stand. Or your own personal wildlife habitat.

Good farmland in the areas you describe, with irrigation potential, is
selling for $1500 an acre or more. That's higher than the averages another
poster provided, but the averages include some marginal crop land, and crop
land with low percentages of tillable fields, and other stuff with problems.

Good luck.

--
Sam

"Kurt Kerchner" wrote in message
om...
Some friends of mine and I are looking to buy some land to be used
specifically for organic farming. If anyone knows of parcels for sale
that meet the criteria listed below, or of someone who can help us
find the kind of property we are looking for, please reply to
. Many thanks!

Land Criteria:

Locale: Midwest: Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming are desirable,
but will consider others

Acreage: around 350, preferable with a stream or river,
and small pond(s)

Use: Organic farming

Price: negotiable (less than $300/acre)

Zoning: Mixed: agricultural/residential