traveling for rented ground

Brian806 · Jan 5, 2014

How far do some of you guys travel for rented ground from your home base? Im at ten miles now! I know were thiers alot of ground about fifty miles away from me seems along ways to travel and make a profit! But maybe im wrong! Whats your thoughts!

Formerly PaMike · Jan 5, 2014

In my area ground is all but impossible to get. There are some big time guys that travel several hours away. They load equipment onto their semi and go. To do that kind of farming you really need to be setup for it. You need a service truck, a way to fuel the equipment, and GOOD PLANNING. A lot of the guys I know that are doing this are going to Northen PA where they can get large amounts of hay ground.

Ray · Jan 5, 2014

There's a guy here in ohio that farms a couple thousand acres in Arkansas.

North Vale - PA · Jan 5, 2014

some years back, I put up hay on my parents place, 25 miles. I kept a mower, baler and tractor there, hauled rake, tedder and wagons back and forth plus every tool I could think of. That distance seems about tops to me.

JD Seller · Jan 5, 2014

The travel will eat up any additional profit you THINK you will make. Also do you not think there are farmers around that ground that is fifty miles away??? IF they are not renting it for the amount asked that should tell you that the conditions are different there. Fifty miles could be an entirely different soil type and crop needs/yields.

I do not see any profit in rented ground for the next few years. I would shore up what you have and be ready to step in when some of the local ground comes up for rent in a few years. It will more than likely take a change of tenants but these cash rents will have to come down as grain prices fall. So just be ready when they do would be better than traveling fifty miles to land that is a BIG question mark.

centralilbaler · Jan 5, 2014

Our tenants travel 40 miles for 400 acres.

Larry NEIL · Jan 5, 2014

Don't know if He's still at it, but some fellas were tellin me of a guy in Central Illinois that was doin about 25000 acres from Indiana to around Springfield a number of years ago.

paul · Jan 5, 2014

Not Illinois Famly Farms?

Or Stamp farms up north west of there?

Both of those have crashed in the past 2 years.

Paul

770puller · Jan 5, 2014

There is a family here in ohio farming 12000 acres in Missouri I heard and they farm a load of ground from southern ohio to Indiana up to fort recovery area

bison · Jan 6, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:47:01 01/05/14) There is a family here in ohio farming 12000 acres in Missouri I heard and they farm a load of ground from southern ohio to Indiana up to fort recovery area

used to travel up to 60 miles to rented land.
Today i would not even want it for free if it is further than a stone throw from the home place.

RalphWD45 · Jan 6, 2014

A Guy here on craigslist, had 40 ac farm with buildings on it, listed today, for $ 750.00 per acre/ year. I can't see that kind of money! Much less travel back and forth.

farmerwithmutt · Jan 6, 2014

we have a guy in our area that has land in the ukrane yup good old ussr. my renter goes at least 40 miles north and more east so maybe over 80 mi point to point.rent around here over 400 per acre hows that compare.

showcrop · Jan 6, 2014

I never went more than five miles. I did custom work further and charged travel time, but it just eats up so much time.

donjr · Jan 6, 2014

The farthest I travel for my ground is about five miles. But, I have one neighbor who travel about twenty miles, and several friends who travel even more- one who has ground about sixty miles from home (an owned farm on the eastern shore) and another who goes out about fifty miles for ground they lease. Of course, they also farm several thousand acres each, and are ground hogs- guys that can't stand to see someone else farming a piece of ground. They will also cut each others throat driving the rents up just to get a piece of ground from each other- even just a few acres. I can't wait to see how many are crying next year when crop prices drop even more than this year...

Nathan (SD) · Jan 6, 2014

From 96-06 some guys from Missouri farmed here in NE SD. The planted at home then loaded everything up and planted up here. I didn't knopw them personally but one of the seed salesman told me that rents got too high here. Rents went from $50 in 96 to $95 in 06. And they increased their Missouri acres,and being 40 yrs old instead of 30 their ambition for travel was getting less every year.

On a side note. The local guys that copied their farming techniques are the ones that drove the local rental rates up. So just cuz you aint from there don't mean that you can't slide in and farm for a profit cuz the locals can't.

Texasmark1 · Jan 6, 2014

I quit running rented ground. Usually it's junk and when you get it in shape the owner runs you off. And as far as distance, it didn't pay me to haul my stuff to the field for what I got out of it, without considering the irate drivers I had to deal with.

Mark

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