On the hunt

[Walnut Beast]

Big Bucks, Big woods and Big tillable ground with a live creek or river running through it or a portion checks most boxes in my book. All the various pictures and mapping are great but nothing like laying eyes on a place.
And nothing like going to look at a 155 acre Iowa farm and the crops are blocking the way for a side by side and the agent says do you want to walk it. My kind of guy when it's in the high 90s and we walk through 50 acres of timber with a nice little pond hidden in the woods and a good stand of walnut trees various sizes.  I doubt I will be walking the 400 acre farm in Kansas tomorrow

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Not sure I totally understood that, but maybe I did.    If I did then, buy it right. Good luck to you WB!

[nativewolf]

Awesome and that's what you have to do.  Feet on the ground.  If the Kansas place has some walnut post some pics!

[hedgerow]

Walnut Beast.  It also depends on were you want to be. A lot of Iowa dirt is high priced. Kansas has a lot of different dirt and different prices. Only thing I can say is I would stay out of Nebraska. Our dirt in eastern Nebraska is high and land taxes are out of this world and we just got another raise. Ten to twenty years ago had several farmer friends sell out and move to Missouri. Land was cheaper and there taxes are cheap. So don't forget Missouri. If I could get my wife to move we would have been out of here years ago. 

[Walnut Beast]

Thanks for the advice. Your exactly right! Taxes are a way higher. 100 acres of raw land in NE is way higher than 400 in Kansas. The Kansas farm is pretty nice but not as many Walnut or Oaks on 80 acres of creek bottom woods as I had hoped. Mostly Hackberry, Ash and Cottonwood. Pretty dry in the Midwest. A huge pond that was probably 16' deep was dried up. The guy said years ago he caught some pretty good bass out of it. A old limestone barn with the old beams in pictures. Kicked up a good buck in a draw.  

 

 

 

 

 

      

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Man I love old barns like that.  I have one like that now and grew up in and around barns constantly.  Lived half my life in old barns.  Snap it up WB.

[47sawdust]

Kansas in the summer...."Heaven in the morning, hell in the afternoon''
That is a quote from a man who road a quad bike across Kansas with his wife and 2 young children.

[Walnut Beast]

Sell some land and get some really nice stuff and the company and agent get my new truck. Seems like a fair trade 😂. Great company and excellent agent! 

 

[Walnut Beast]

 

 A old stone house and one in the woods on an absolutely incredible farm  I'm in the process of getting. At some point they stuccoed the place years and years ago

 

 

 

   Stones being used on projects by a friends house he's in the process of finishing . I don't have a picture but he also did an incredible outside fireplace. No stones will be going to waste. He pointed out when we we're looking at it that they did a nice job cutting the stone back in the day

[Southside]

Where did you find that WB? 

[Walnut Beast]

This place beat all the places i looked at in Iowa hands down.

 

 

 

 Republic County. 240 acres, 170 acres tillable. Very diverse place with big views, big bucks and big woods

[Nebraska]

Looks a little like home to me...only that's  about 80 miles up stream from there. (Where i grew up)
Looks good.

[hedgerow]

Walnut Beast Glad you found a new place. Was down that way last month. Ran highway 36 from highway 81 east over to highway 77 and came back up north home. They have put a bunch of windmills from Belleville KS to Maryville KS along highway 36. I hadn't been down that way in a while. Which town are you closest to?

[Walnut Beast]

Cuba. I'm not a fan of the wind turbines. They're far enough away that I didn't mind. Very fortunate and excited to be getting this place before it went on the market. Ready to get some camera's setup down there in a few days. Where are you actually located or town you are by

[hedgerow]

Walnut Beast  My home place is just north west of Lincoln Nebraska. We also have some farms in the next county west of us down toward I-80. I grew up in southeast Nebraska and my folks had a small filling station truck stop and when my dad was alive he also ran a small fleet of livestock trucks. So between livestock and fuel hauling we ran highway 36 from Colorado east threw Kansas into Missouri. I remember Walters oil out of Cuba back in the day. 

[Walnut Beast]

More corn to Kansas! Was great to have early access on the new place to set up some feeders, cameras and water tanks but when you're on the deed today. it's time for a landowner tag. When your out in the middle of nowhere and need electricity and the power company says it will only set a quarter mile down the road from one intersection that has power and it's 7.55 a foot after that to set more at the road that will make you think twice where you want power to