Author Topic: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions (Read 360495 times)

Kat Kid · « **Reply #950 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:23:16 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 02:00:20 PM

when I inherit a shitload of western ks land the first thing I'm going to do is sell it to the areas rich land baron. it'll include all of the cows, tractors, houses, the works. and it's a take it all or nothing deal. also he has to box up and ship to me all my baseball cards that are in the basement of one of the houses (these are not part of the deal obv). and I know all the good ones in there so he better not try to swipe any. I've got this thing planned out.

isn't farmer sd bro going to try and buy city slicker bros out?

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #951 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:30:40 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 02:00:20 PM

when I inherit a shitload of western ks land the first thing I'm going to do is sell it to the areas rich land baron. it'll include all of the cows, tractors, houses, the works. and it's a take it all or nothing deal. also he has to box up and ship to me all my baseball cards that are in the basement of one of the houses (these are not part of the deal obv). and I know all the good ones in there so he better not try to swipe any. I've got this thing planned out.

what are the good ones? like a frank thomas rookie or a couple of sweet jose cansecos or what are we talking here

steve dave · « **Reply #952 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:44:40 PM »

jeter upperdeck rookie, bash brothers rookies, shaq rookies (hoops and upper deck), griffey rookies (fleer and upper deck), thousands of trash topps cards (he can keep these for all I care), bo jackson signed card, a bunch of remade old babe ruth cards that I roughed up and put in cases to make my friends think they were legit (sentimental value here), it goes on. essentially if you were a kid in the 90s I've got what you crave.

steve dave · « **Reply #953 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:45:36 PM »

Quote from: Kat Kid on January 25, 2018, 02:23:16 PM

Quote from: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 02:00:20 PM
when I inherit a shitload of western ks land the first thing I'm going to do is sell it to the areas rich land baron. it'll include all of the cows, tractors, houses, the works. and it's a take it all or nothing deal. also he has to box up and ship to me all my baseball cards that are in the basement of one of the houses (these are not part of the deal obv). and I know all the good ones in there so he better not try to swipe any. I've got this thing planned out.

isn't farmer sd bro going to try and buy city slicker bros out?

I'll muscle him into selling. I'm the brains of this operation.

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #954 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:49:29 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on January 25, 2018, 02:44:40 PM

jeter upperdeck rookie, bash brothers rookies, shaq rookies (hoops and upper deck), griffey rookies (fleer and upper deck), thousands of trash topps cards (he can keep these for all I care), bo jackson signed card, a bunch of remade old babe ruth cards that I roughed up and put in cases to make my friends think they were legit (sentimental value here), it goes on. essentially if you were a kid in the 90s I've got what you crave.

those are v good

sys · « **Reply #955 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:50:27 PM »

you have to sell to your brother, steve dave. good grief.

steve dave · « **Reply #956 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:59:19 PM »

he has his own baseball cards sys

star seed 7 · « **Reply #957 on:** January 25, 2018, 03:16:28 PM »

My dad was just talking about how some baron bought 1200 acres a few hobby farms away from him. That seems like an excessive amount of acres

sys · « **Reply #958 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:02:03 PM »

no, that's barely enough acres for anything. acres are surprisingly small.

ben ji · « **Reply #959 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:18:31 PM »

Quote from: libliblibliblibliblib on January 25, 2018, 03:16:28 PM

My dad was just talking about how some baron bought 1200 acres a few hobby farms away from him. That seems like an excessive amount of acres

Did you see the numbers my dad ran? Basically the only way to make any money farming is to own a crap ton of land. (Also milk the government teat for all it's worth)

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420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #960 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:20:34 PM »

1200 * $2,675 = $3,210,000 worth of land.

Depending on where the land is.

CHONGS · « **Reply #961 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:25:40 PM »

Like 900 football fields.

CHONGS · « **Reply #962 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:26:58 PM »

0.85 wamegos

star seed 7 · « **Reply #963 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:28:15 PM »

It wasn't bought for farming, just hobbying

CHONGS · « **Reply #964 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:29:17 PM »

You could keep about 40-60 adult male cougars in there.

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #965 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:30:44 PM »

Could probably make some kind of elite corn maze hobbying for that type of land.

mocat · « **Reply #966 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:45:32 PM »

you could make your own west(ern kansas)world

michigancat · « **Reply #967 on:** January 25, 2018, 05:00:22 PM »

Quote from: Chingon on January 25, 2018, 04:29:17 PM

You could keep about 40-60 adult male cougars in there.

this estimate seems high for some reason

wetwillie · « **Reply #968 on:** January 25, 2018, 05:07:23 PM »

It will all be taxed with the estate tax and you will get nothing

steve dave · « **Reply #969 on:** January 25, 2018, 06:10:25 PM »

Quote from: Chingon on January 25, 2018, 04:29:17 PM

You could keep about 40-60 adult male cougars in there.

Like, 2 irl maybe

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CHONGS · « **Reply #970 on:** January 25, 2018, 06:12:03 PM »

Link?

michigancat · « **Reply #971 on:** January 25, 2018, 06:31:15 PM »

every male cougar I've come across would need twice that

sys · « **Reply #972 on:** January 25, 2018, 08:55:54 PM »

he's talking about male cougars in cages. 40 to 60 male cougar cages. each caged male cougar would get 20-30 acres.

ben ji · « **Reply #973 on:** January 25, 2018, 09:00:28 PM »

UPDATE!

TL:DR - I think I talked him out of buying this 80 Acres by convincing him to purchase the 320 Acres directly next to the current farm when my Aunt wants to sell or passes away.

Talked to my dad tonight about it and while I still think its a terrible idea its not as bad as I originally thought. He currently makes around 7k per year leasing the land he already owns (although it was lower this year due to some insurance deductibles) that he would use to pay off the TWENTY

year loan. This brings the yearly payments down to a more managable 2-3 thousand per year ($12,000 yearly payment - $2400 estimated income - $7000 current income from land already owned)

He claimed to have 3 Aces up his sleeve

1. Wind Turbines - Last year he signed a lease with an energy company for the right to put up wind turbines. Currently gets maybe $1,000 a year but if they actually build some turbines it could be closer to 8-10k.

2. Breakout 200 Acres of Pasture into Cropland to bring in additional income. The current farm has around 400 acres of pastureland and around 200 acres of that could be turned into dry cropland. My uncle is currently in year 3 of a 5 year lease on the land and runs cattle on the pasture so its nothing that would happen soon. This has been his #1 plan ever since he inherited the farm. I always counter with "If its such a good idea why hasn't it been done in the past 100 years" but looking at the farm on google maps its literally the only large chunk of pasture land within 5 miles so maybe it can work.

3. Flip the land and sell it for $2000 an acre. He claims that he could currently sell it to someone right now for $2000 per acre but that my uncle wont sell it to this guy because he hates him for some reason. "This 80 Acres is part of the best quarter in that section, when grandpa passed away someone offered to buy it the next week". He would never actually do this though because as Steve Dave pointed out earlier farmers only like buying land.

My advice was to not count on any additional money from the Wind Turbines until they actually start construction. If they do build the Turbines save the money and if he still wants to buy more land when my Aunt sells or passes away (She is 6 years older and does not inject snake venom) then he will have a down payment and more farm revenue coming in to purchase her 320 acres that are contiguous with the current farm.

Long story short I have no idea how anyone makes any money farming.

sys · « **Reply #974 on:** January 25, 2018, 09:05:20 PM »

if he puts that turbine and grazing money into cryptocurrencies, he should have more than enough to buy the 320 and the 80 when his family starts to die.