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The i states or southern or East or west or what? I think the best would be Iowa or Illinois.. I currently farm in the Texas Panhandle.. I enjoy it but we running out of water.. and do not get enough rain for sustainable Dryland farming.. Irrigation can take a lot of time it’s bittersweet lol.. right when we want to go on a family outing it breaks down!! Happens over and over.. but I have the ability to water up crops and put fertilizer through very easily.. so just curious what you alls opinion would be on that? 😊
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Bloom where you're planted
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Anywhere that I could get access to a market other than wheat, beans, and corn would be ideal IMO
I have friends in Minnesota and love going up there, I always say if I hit the powerball I'm buying a farm up there and moving out of western Nebraska, good crops, good people, plus you cant beat the fishing up there!
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They robbed from pension plans to fund their little pet projects. All part of the corruption
Not sure if it is Illinois or Cook County. .........but underfunded pension funds in the billions is the issue........McClean county Illinois is where i would want to be if i did not think the States finances will be a huge issue in the future. Beautiful land
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No they collect a shit ton. Our gas tax is horrible and now they want to tax the value of used car when you trade. They already taxed it once. There is so much corruption in Chicago its sickening. The feds raided the speaker of Illinois House of Representatives about three weeks ago. He’s been in since 1983. There might be a lot of Democrats going to jail soon. We have had 4 of last 7 governors do...
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iowa or minnesota. Illinois has a idiot governor gonna tax u out of business
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Our governor is a power hungry dictator and this covid shit is proving it. I’m glad I live just a couple miles from North Dakota....the free side of the red river
Isn't Illinois bankrupt because they haven collected near enough tax in the last 10 years?
Here in east Georgia, we were once the ocean, inherent sandy soils here. I can tell this is by far not the most productive farmland.There are obviously many acres in the midwest that are highly productive and wanted by many farmers; due to it being a former prairie shaped by bison that were steered by wolves from place to place, the fertile mollisols if the midwest are wanted by many. The fact of...
I heard once that McLean county IL is some of, or maybe THE most productive soil in the world for corn and soybeans. Whether it’s true or not, I’m not sure.
We farm in east central IL. Pretty sandy soil not as productive, but I kind of like the challenge!
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Here in south west Illinois we got a lot of clay and some post oak ground. Them guys up north can throw the seed out and raise 250 bushels, 180 is good here. The best we ever raised was 220
Have farms in NW MO, South Central IA, Just sold one in TX, and Have another in SE Arkansas right off the Mississippi, the delta is by far my favorite area. Close to a place where they load direct on to barges, so basis is always low. water is plentiful, dirt is flat and deep. flood irrigated.
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Doniphan county Ks is a good area for corn and beans. We have deep topsoil, and average about 32-36” of rain. Multiple elevators in all our surrounding towns, hasn’t been hard to find positive basis (outside of harvest)
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**** brother !
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Friend of mine always says, if there is greener pastures on the other side of the fence, you need to change something your doing on your side. Maybe fertilizer your side?, just a figure of speech. I believe the Lord puts us where we need to be sometimes that situation feels hard, but in His scripture he tells us there will be trouble in this world. A farmer has to have faith that God is in Contr...
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To add to one of your topics I would like to find a way to push back against the absentee land owners as well who want too much for cash rent. You should have to have some skin in the game as well instead of collecting a lump sum of money year in and year out without regard to the health of the soil you own or collecting despite your tenant losing his/her behind year in and year out.
I’ll trade 2k acres In Utah for 200 acres in corn country.
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I can tell you that Michigan sucks to farm in. High rents and not the yields like the i states to support them
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Willamette Valley in Oregon wouldn’t be bad either
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If I could trade farms with anyone it would probably be with someone in southern Idaho or the Central Valley in California. I would bet good money that those are the most profitable places to farm. The Columbia basin where I am at is pretty good but our state government and regulations are terrible.
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It seems like the guys in the Red River valley have it made in eastern North Dakota
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I farm on the Canadian side of the red river valley. Most people not cut out for the extreme conditions. Goes from too dry to too wet and planting and harvest windows are short due to the cold and wet springs. Its very heavy clay on table flat land. But very fertile soil.
Try to imagine getting 3” in a matter of 2 hours or less on ground that’s flat as a table. Probably to hard to imagine so dump a cup of water on your table and that’s what the last 2 years has been. 2-3 inches may not sound like a lot of rain but when you get it in a that fast it has nowhere to go so it backs up in our fields and causes terrible damage.
Why? Try farming here when it won’t stop raining. It’s not the cake walk you think it is.