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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Am I Required To Fence In My Land-Ohio Laws and neighbors
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:39:36 -0400


On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Wyatt Jones wrote:

 
Here are some of the Ohio laws regarding livestock confinement and fencing. 
 

Hi Wyatt,

You might want to check Richard Stewart's post earlier today to this list. Apparently the Ohio laws were amended in 2008. It sounds as if there may have been some changes in your section 971.02 (and maybe elsewhere); he doesn't quote the actual current language, but make sure you do have the actual current language.

I don't know whether the change would affect your particular circumstances, though. 


On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Wyatt Jones wrote:

The township trustee neighbor [ . . . ] The real motivation for him to tear down the fence behind the scenes in my opinion is that he is trying to coerce me into selling part of my land to him as he has been harassing me about it since I moved here.


It sounds as if you moved next door to a pre-existing hassle, on the one side, at least. Too late now, and you may have had really good reason to buy there anyway; but, anybody who's looking for land, talk to the neighbors before signing anything. While you have no control over who may move in later, it's often possible to find out before committing yourself whether one of the pre-existing neighbors is likely to cause you problems. (The neighbors may also know of, and tell you about, things about the property you're looking at that neither the seller nor the realtor mentioned.)

When I was farm hunting, at one place I looked at, the next door neighbor told me that he had agreed (only verbally, I think) with the current owner to take out a hedgerow between their two vineyards so that they could both use the common larger headland on which to easily turn their equipment. He farmed conventionally; I intended to farm organically. The equipment in question would of course have included sprayers and fertilizer spreaders. If I had bought that place, I would have been walking into an immediate major fight with my next door neighbor, as certification rules require setbacks between conventional and organic operations. I had other reasons not to buy that particular place, but that would have been a major reason against it all on its own; although what he wanted to do was a perfectly sensible idea, as long as the operations on either side of the property line were either both conventionally or both organically managed.

At another place I looked at, one of the neighbors told me that another neighbor was in the habit of trapping the property that was up for purchase, and was likely to expect to keep doing so. I have both feline and canine rodent patrol, entirely incompatible with leg hold trapping; and am personally attached to them. The law would have been entirely on my side, as it's illegal to trap on private land without permission from the landowner; but the fight could have been nasty. Again, there were other reasons not to buy the property; but that was a factor.

Again, Wyatt, you already own there: I mention this in case there are other people on this list who are considering buying land, whether for the first time or relocating.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale






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