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- From: Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?
- Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 20:10:28 -0500
In 1978 my neighbor hired me to clearcut 6 acres of oak forest. I did it on shares for firewood. He sold $20,000 of really nice logs, some good veneer (that's where the big check came from...the saw logs were around 10K)(log prices were sky hi around here then). He then hired our local cuthroat to clear the stumps and deroot down about a foot, with long tines on the Cat bucket, made for that. He told him to work until he got to $10k and then quit. Got it all cleared for that, ready to plant. So he had make 10K on logging and he and I both had several years of firewood.
The land has been into the normal rotation of corn/oats/beans/sod/hay.
It is good land.
On the hill to the south he cleared twenty acres over a few years. The county ag guy came by and was skeptical. The forester came by and said that THAT land was best left in trees. So it was replanted to white oak and ash. Another twenty years and they can start selectively cutting. The Ash Borer was not around then....he is now....the ash is toast.
Mike
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Nan Hildreth, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland, 05/10/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?, Nan Hildreth, 05/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland, 05/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
KAKerby, 05/08/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
frank ventura, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Willie McKemie, 05/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?, Richard Stewart, 05/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?, Barking Cat Farm, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Willie McKemie, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
frank ventura, 05/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?, TxBeeFarmer, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
clearviewfarm, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Mike Rock, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Richard Stewart, 05/09/2010
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[Market-farming] Red pine [was: clearing land cost?],
Richard Robinson, 05/10/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Red pine [was: clearing land cost?], michelle rome, 05/11/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Red pine [was: clearing land cost?], Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
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[Market-farming] Red pine [was: clearing land cost?],
Richard Robinson, 05/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Richard Stewart, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Mike Rock, 05/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Clearing Land Cost?, Keith Morris, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
clearviewfarm, 05/09/2010
- [Market-farming] Hail Damage and Broccoli, Radishes, Jay Sleichter, 05/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
KAKerby, 05/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Nan Hildreth, 05/10/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?, Barking Cat Farm, 05/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Nan Hildreth, 05/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?,
Nan Hildreth, 05/09/2010
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