Developing Infrastructure: Fencing and Water Systems

did not want that so that's my Spiel I think going out going to Farm Credit paying your down payment is the way to go and that's what we did here on the Stony Ridge so now we're talking about fencing here on the property fencing is going to cost you good fencing quality fencing that's going to keep your animals in like these cows is going to cost you anywhere from $6 to $16 per linear foot we've got five miles of fencing on this property let's just have you guys do some math on average about $12 a linear foot 5 miles at 12 bucks per linear foot how much do we have in fencing that's what you got to think about okay so when you're buying land and you're you're chasing that dream you need to think about water you need to think about fencing if you're going to have animals you need to think about how you're going to get the water to your animals you're going to have to think about and decide what animals you're going to raise you're going to raise sheep you're going to raise goats you're going to raise squash you're going to raise corn what you going to do a row crop farm that is less than this size Farm 150 acre row crop Farm will work you to death and you will go broke that's why we didn't do that okay we didn't want to sit at the farmers market all day long trying to sell watermelon and squat and making 18 bucks a day we didn't want to do that so what we did was decided we're going to go ahead and fence the place and start raising some cattle and after two or three years we'll start earning a profit on those cows uhuh six years we're six years into it right now and we're just seeing our first year of profit here on the Stony Ridge Farm another place where you might want to start looking for land is Zillow or realtor.com I think there's another site out there for land for sale guys post them down there if you know good sites and go over to your local Farm Service Office USDA office and there will be a bulletin board in there with all sorts of land that's for sale all the time it's always changing ask people ask people in the neighborhood ask people in the area that you want to live stop in and just shake hands and say Hey you know I'm Bill and this is Jane and and we were looking for a little bit of land to start our Homestead and we don't like development we just want a place where we can live the rest of our life or where we can start a farm or where we can uh start a homestead operation just like this ask around Word of Mouth word of mouth's how we bought…