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I think I've grown up a little bit! I used to be up all night every Friday and Saturday but yesterday by 10:30 it felt late to me ( that's crazy!) went to bed and got up at dawn! Knocking out some studying, then got to change my dad's oil for him, cut the grass, work out, and hike! I've hiked every single day last 4 weeks.
 
NoSnowATL said:
$567 per acre for corn so you really need more the 200 acres to make good enough money. I wonder what the avg field is.
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200 acres drop in the bucket out there. Some rows go for miles....they have thousands of acres. Being an old farm boy, I'd love to visit once but not live there.
 
metwannabe said:
200 acres drop in the bucket out there. Some rows go for miles....they have thousands of acres. Being an old farm boy, I'd love to visit once but not live there.
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Gezzz yea if you have thousands of acres you are making a ton of money but damn that’s some hard ass work. I would love it!
 
NoSnowATL said:
Gezzz yea if you have thousands of acres you are making a ton of money but damn that’s some hard ass work. I would love it!
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Dude they have massive GPS guided tractors and combines that can cover 16 rows or more at a time! The grain business out there is a multi billion dollar industry. I'd love to do that too
 
NoSnowATL said:
The google says the avg size field is 355. That’s around 80k a year. That’s just for corn.
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Yeah I think the numbers aren't gonna tell the whole story, the avg size farm is roughly 985 acres but I promise you they farm more than that. Tons of farmland is rented which doesn't show as part of the avg size. Shoot in little ol Halifax County here, avg size farm probably 100 acres or less but I know several farmers who tend 1000 acres or more. Welcome to the farming thread ??
 
Yeah ever since the 80s here in eastern wake county most farms are leased land . Lots of small farmers gave up because of the ------ circumstance at the time and just leased their land . There’s a handful of very large property owners out here with 1k plus who lease even more in eastern wake , Johnston , Franklin , and Nash counties . Wonder what the largest operations are.

Eastern NC has some massive operations with vast stretches of land .
 
metwannabe said:
Yeah I think the numbers aren't gonna tell the whole story, the avg size farm is roughly 985 acres but I promise you they farm more than that. Tons of farmland is rented which doesn't show as part of the avg size. Shoot in little ol Halifax County here, avg size farm probably 100 acres or less but I know several farmers who tend 1000 acres or more. Welcome to the farming thread ??
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My family owns a timber farm in South Georgia. All we have to do is hope for no hurricanes and yearly maintenance to bush hog the under brush. It gets cut every 7-10 years. I was given 90 of the 335 acres of pure pollen. If someone every buys the lots I will be a very rich man. ?
 
NoSnowATL said:
My family owns a timber farm in South Georgia. All we have to do is hope for no hurricanes and yearly maintenance to bush hog the under brush. It gets cut every 7-10 years. I was given 90 of the 335 acres of pure pollen. If someone every buys the lots I will be a very rich man. ?
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Nice
 
Despite all the development Wake county still has roughly 122000 acres of farmland, and is 46th in cash revenues from agriculture in the state of NC. In fact, as of 2018 Wake county ranked 12th in the state of NC in acres of tobacco, 16th in us, 10th in NC by market value, and 15th in the US! Agriculture is very much still big business in Wake County, and in fact is the biggest industry in the state of NC, employing 17% of the workforce. A great deal ( well of the handful) of peers who went off to University, specifically NC State majored in some sort of agricultural major. I was consdidering it actually. I may one day pick me some land though and get a little bit of sheep and goats. decent money in that.


www.wakegov.com

Soil and Water Conservation District

The Soil and Water Conservation District provides voluntary state and federal cost share assistance program opportunities for farmers, landowners, citizens and community gardens. Find environmental education programs, volunteer opportunities, and soil survey resources.
www.wakegov.com www.wakegov.com
 
I almost moved to the upstate of South Carolina ( yuck) a few years back as my father was working on a large farm/ slaughterhouse.
 
metwannabe said:
Yeah I think the numbers aren't gonna tell the whole story, the avg size farm is roughly 985 acres but I promise you they farm more than that. Tons of farmland is rented which doesn't show as part of the avg size. Shoot in little ol Halifax County here, avg size farm probably 100 acres or less but I know several farmers who tend 1000 acres or more. Welcome to the farming thread ??
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I'd love to own and operate a large farm particularly sod but the initial investment is so steep.
 
Lickwx said:
Despite all the development Wake county still has roughly 122000 acres of farmland, and is 46th in cash revenues from agriculture in the state of NC. In fact, as of 2018 Wake county ranked 12th in the state of NC in acres of tobacco, 16th in us, 10th in NC by market value, and 15th in the US! Agriculture is very much still big business in Wake County, and in fact is the biggest industry in the state of NC, employing 17% of the workforce. A great deal ( well of the handful) of peers who went off to University, specifically NC State majored in some sort of agricultural major. I was consdidering it actually. I may one day pick me some land though and get a little bit of sheep and goats. decent money in that.


www.wakegov.com

Soil and Water Conservation District

The Soil and Water Conservation District provides voluntary state and federal cost share assistance program opportunities for farmers, landowners, citizens and community gardens. Find environmental education programs, volunteer opportunities, and soil survey resources.
www.wakegov.com www.wakegov.com
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It won't stay that way. More money per sqft in wake/joco/harnett/lee/franklin for houses than farming, it's really a shame. I think eventually those counties will get eaten by the Raleigh metro monster and you will have to get out to Wayne/Moore/Randolph/Sampson/Nash to really be rural. I'll be interested to see if RTP 2 ever becomes a thing, I've heard rumblings for years that an automobile mfg wanted to move there and be an anchor for the development but lack of direct port access, limitations to the port at ILM, and limitations to the rdu airport were holding it back.
 
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SD said:
It won't stay that way. More money per sqft in wake/joco/harnett/lee/franklin for houses than farming, it's really a shame. I think eventually those counties will get eaten by the Raleigh metro monster and you will have to get out to Wayne/Moore/Randolph/Sampson/Nash to really be rural. I'll be interested to see if RTP 2 ever becomes a thing, I've heard rumblings for years that an automobile mfg wanted to move there and be an anchor for the development but lack of direct port access, limitations to the port at ILM, and limitations to the rdu airport were holding it back.
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Wake county is working on protecting 30% or 165000 acres of the counties space from development . Also a great deal of the farmland is conserved though not nearly enough. RTP2 ? What the heck is that dear god no. Only thing on our side is the fact that people work remotely , so massive office parks like RTP are not really profitable . I think what your describing is an absolute worst case scenario and we should work against that.
 
Lickwx said:
Wake county is working on protecting 30% or 165000 acres of the counties space from development . Also a great deal of the farmland is conserved though not nearly enough. RTP2 ? What the heck is that dear god no. Only thing on our side is the fact that people work remotely , so massive office parks like RTP are not really profitable . I think what your describing is an absolute worst case scenario and we should work against that.
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At my old job I had to go to the Triangle J Business Council meetings and they were all about RTP2. It would be out in Randolph and Chatham counties. Idk man people aren't looking for that cookie cutter .15 acre house as much anymore and the wake county/Raleigh taxes are going sky high. That's forcing them to the bordering counties
 
SD said:
At my old job I had to go to the Triangle J Business Council meetings and they were all about RTP2. It would be out in Randolph and Chatham counties. Idk man people aren't looking for that cookie cutter .15 acre house as much anymore and the wake county/Raleigh taxes are going sky high. That's forcing them to the bordering counties
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Chatham park is essentially supposed to be RTP2. Call me evil but I hope Preston developers out of Cary ( think they are working on it) go bankrupt . The full potential of the project isn’t going to be realized till 2040, they only last year started selling houses , and only have 1 company committed to setting up shop there . Sounds like a lot of risk. Randolph county though? Jesus they don’t want to leave a single area in the state of NC untouched . This is even worse than Florida and New Jersey !

Randolph is the heart of the state , if they develop Randolph there won’t be a single acre left in the piedmont untouched . The mountains , the coast .... all of it .
 
SD said:
It won't stay that way. More money per sqft in wake/joco/harnett/lee/franklin for houses than farming, it's really a shame. I think eventually those counties will get eaten by the Raleigh metro monster and you will have to get out to Wayne/Moore/Randolph/Sampson/Nash to really be rural. I'll be interested to see if RTP 2 ever becomes a thing, I've heard rumblings for years that an automobile mfg wanted to move there and be an anchor for the development but lack of direct port access, limitations to the port at ILM, and limitations to the rdu airport were holding it back.
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I've been working in Franklin Co over 4 yrs now and the metro monster is definitely encroaching on it.
 
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NoSnowATL said:
You know we have been saying that since 2011.
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Eh, 2014 was pretty good with 2 solid snow events, 2017-2018 winter was ok in December and January. If we look at it like that we get some solid snow every 3-4 years. 2021 could fit that bill. Of course I’m just spitting out numbers that mean very little, but you never know.
 
BufordWX said:
Eh, 2014 was pretty good with 2 solid snow events, 2017-2018 winter was ok in December and January. If we look at it like that we get some solid snow every 3-4 years. 2021 could fit that bill. Of course I’m just spitting out numbers that mean very little, but you never know.
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I forgot about 2014. That’s was a great winter.
 
BufordWX said:
Eh, 2014 was pretty good with 2 solid snow events, 2017-2018 winter was ok in December and January. If we look at it like that we get some solid snow every 3-4 years. 2021 could fit that bill. Of course I’m just spitting out numbers that mean very little, but you never know.
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I'm willing to bet Hoschton will get more snow than Norman this winter. Just a hunch.
 
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