Sad day for this farmer

[ovrszd]

I don't think it matters where you are located, land will sell for more to develop than farm.

 

[smstonypoint]

Pretty much guaranteed these days that if you are close to a major university (Ann Arbor, Columbus, etc.) your land has more value as residential than it does farming. I saw that in the Madison area. Those professors get paid a lot!

And rightly so.

Steve

 

[DrRod]

Sorry, but professors don't get paid a lot. The real money is in publishing and consulting. If there is anyone highly paid in the university community it is top administrators and the contractors bringing government contracts to the school. Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and dozens of small companies have a presence on large campuses to foster joint research and development contracts.

 

[Turbys_1700]

I don't know beef prices as I type this. Back years ago we had 3 small herds on 3 different farms. Pop has approximately 25 brood cows on each farm. We sold in the neighborhood 75 calves a year. At that time we tried to sell them at 400# where the price was 1 dollar per pound. Yearly annual income was $30K per year. Back then building lots around here we're in the 10K per acre range. Now it's double that. One farm was 100 acres, another 70, and another #70. Doesn't take long to realize farming will never compete to development whether it's residential or commercial.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dairy farmers really hurting.

That was a very low price that farm sold for in Culpeper. Some real estate investor will make a killing out of their expense..

 

[Bird]

Sorry, but professors don't get paid a lot.

But the football coach is another matter.

 

[ovrszd]

But the football coach is another matter.

That's a whole new thread.

 

[DrRod]

But the football coach is another matter.

Good point. And don't forget the basketball coach.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I heard once that humans are the only species that drink milk as adults. I certainly can't think of any others?

Never had barn cats, have you? I grew up milking cows, and the barn cats would line up at milking time for their milk.

Adult lactose tolerance in humans is a mutation that has only evolved twice, once in Northern Europe and once in East Africa, both times in just the last few thousand years. If your family is from Denmark there is almost no chance you are lactose intolerant, but if your family is from Italy it's about 50/50.

 

[ovrszd]

Never had barn cats, have you? I grew up milking cows, and the barn cats would line up at milking time for their milk.

Adult lactose tolerance in humans is a mutation that has only evolved twice, once in Northern Europe and once in East Africa, both times in just the last few thousand years. If your family is from Denmark there is almost no chance you are lactose intolerant, but if your family is from Italy it's about 50/50.

As a kid would squirt the milk in their mouths as I "pumped" it. My dog will drink milk if I give it to him too. But neither go around looking for a donor cat/dog to nurse on a regular basis.