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  • From: "BarbaraJ" <jbmckillip AT mesanetworks.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] farmland/ranchland preservation
  • Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 21:28:11 -0600

If it is where I am assuming it is (i.e. there is so little developed land anymore) then it is not being used, unless there are a few cattle to maintain ag status.  We are the new California.  I emailed you off list Kathryn.  And I made it to my "real" job on time, thank you!  the husband had to make a hay run to where we store our hay for the winter, so he didn't mind me waking him up to ask these important questions about open space.  He is involved with preserving our very limited open space here in Colorado.  The amount of money here is beyond comprehension....one of the richest in the US.  Which makes us regular folks sort of amazed.  all. the. time.  :)  Anyway, thanks for the update, lets hope for good things.  Open space in our area is well utilized for horse trail riding and dog parks.  And urban ag is making a hit here, so perhaps we can have some more garden space.  One open space area just put up several greenhouses and outdoor growing space for locals to use.  How cool is that?  Another large church took out their turf grass and made a community garden.  It gives us all hope!
 
Barb
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] farmland/ranchland preservation

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  Barb McKillip emailed me both on-list and then again off-list with some local conservation group referrals, along with the national groups that others have mentioned.  Barb, I hope you weren't too late for work this morning!   And yes, Margaret, she's trying to do a 1031 exchange.  I didn't want to get too technical in my email but that's exactly what she's planning to do.
 
We're not potential buyers (boy I wish we had that kind of money!).  We don't even know the seller.  My Dad's commercial property would be one of the properties involved in the 1031 exchange if it happens.  But his commercial property is a drop in the bucket in appraised value compared to the total appraised worth of the seller's parcel.  It's a huge piece of ground - 30 contiguous square miles +/-, within easy driving distance of two metro areas.  You can imagine the dollar value and development pressure on something like that.  I imagine she's being "entertained" with all sorts of commercialization offers, so our voices will be only one in a large group clamoring for her attention.  I also don't know if it's currently in agricultural production.  A lot of those pieces of ground went fallow as the commercial herds were sent to market and never replaced.  Many folks would never dream of it ever being productive, and thus it would only be logical to develop "wasted" ground.  We hope to educate them otherwise.
 
As I told Barb, this transaction is such a huge opportunity to make "a difference", that I could hardly sleep last night.  Even preserving some of it would, I think, get me a few more points towards admission to Heaven or wherever Good Deed Doers go when they die.  I have to say, I have no idea if the landowner is even interested.  I hope she is.  I'll keep everyone posted.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
 
In a message dated 4/7/2012 6:54:08 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, organic87 AT frontiernet.net writes:
Margaret, if you want to be sure the land will be used for agriculture instead of development, you can sell it with a conservation easement on it. You'll probably get paid less, but the land will be protected. You'd have to do this before agreeing to any sale. If you can afford to do so, please consider it.

The current purchaser may be interested in beef production right now, but an easement can protect it through future property transfers and changes in real estate conditions.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




On Apr 7, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Margaret L. Wilson wrote:

I will be interested in how this turns out.  I too, am from Colorado and still have some family property there.  Nothing like 20,000 acres though, WOW. I have mine up for sale so I know that large tracts are being bought for beef production.  We have the lowest number of cattle in this country since the 60s so pasture land is very valuable.  Hopefully this will preserve land instead of turning it into acres and acres of houses.
Margaret

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