Farms: Over 150 Acres

Farms: Over 150 Acres

Want to earn part of all your living from a farm? You are at the right place. Our farming areas all have a long future ahead of them and we can’t wait to welcome you to the neighborhood. Please look under the sub pages to find the exciting properties that we can offer. Please contact us for aerial maps, an address, or for additional pictures. If you have questions, by all means ask. We are here to make your buying experience a great one! Note: if you don’t need as large an acreage or need something commercially viable, also check out what we have under “Country Living“.
“Sold” places will have details left here for a year so that you can make comparisons.

#1169 - Washington County SOLD
- Scenic, 4000' river frontage as well as mountain views
- 241.5 acres, w/river flats
- Multiple homes
- 8 Barns
- Most buildings are nearly new

       Highly scenic farm w/multiple homes features 31 acres of river flats, land capable of a 30 ton corn yield. Many buildings, mostly new. 3671’ of road frontage and another 4100 ‘on the Mettawee River, where one can swim and fish. A low 250’ elevation means far warmer weather and a longer growing season than you’d expect this far north. Mountain views are everywhere. It sports varied terrain with maybe 1/2 wooded. There are small amounts of Wetlands and a never-failing spring that easily services all homes and dairy barns. 70 acres of Organic-certified cropland + pastures. As the owners have lots of land to rent nearby, they pasture some of their own crop land. A neighbor allows them to use his crop land and in exchange gets a few hours of help from the owners and the right to tap some of their sugar bush, a handshake agreement. There are 1700 taps and a sugar house on the property. There are some new seedings and 4.5 acres of winter spells and almost no stones here. Vergennes clay soil on the uplands and Hamlin & Teel silt loams on the river bottom.
       There are two complete sets of buildings, I will discuss them separately as they are separated by the road, which would make an obvious division line if a new owner wished to subdivide.
       The Main Side - The main home is < 7 years old as are all the buildings other than part of the barn. The home sits well off the road and has ~2300 ft2 of living space + a huge laundry / storage room in addition. A 10’ wide front porch affords wood and ice storage underneath it. Downstairs, all floors are red oak with painted plyboard upstairs, where are located 4 bedrooms and a storage room (positioned to serve as an upstairs bath). Downstairs, there is an open floor plan with the kitchen, dining area and living rooms forming an “L”. Double doors open to the master bedroom. And a pantry is off the kitchen.
       The dairy barn is 38x66’ with 31 tie stalls; a milk house and ice house are attached on one side (with a 16’ leanto). On the other side, a hay barn (the only old building here) is attached. It is 36x100’ and has a 16’ leanto addition for machinery storage. There are 12x45 and 14x50’ silos. 8 straight horse stalls are also in the barn.
       There are many like-new barns for other purposes: a 28x40’ barn intended to be used as a shop, a 26x60’ machinery shed (it also has 4 straight horse stalls), a 32x50’ bandsaw mill, and a 20x72’ circular saw mill with attached sawdust room. There is also 20x32’ drive-through corn crib.
       Across the road is another complete farmstead, part of the property. The main home is an older colonial in good shape. At one end is a 28x28’ 2 car garage now used as a shop. It adjoins the main home (2598 ft2). First, you will enter an enclosed heated porch with a family room off this. This room has oak floors with some tasteful ceramic tile and also a sink. Then you enter the original part of the home which has a U-shaped open floor plan: kitchen / dining room with a step-down to the living room which features a painted paneled cathedral ceiling. Floors are either stained and finished plywood or painted plywood. A master bedroom with double doors is off this area. Upstairs are ~4 bedrooms. At the far end is a laundry /woodshed which measures an incredible 30x34’. It has its own attic. Adding it to the size of the main home would give us a 3600ft2 home.
       Just to the right of the main home is small building now used for storage, but was rented in the recent past as a one bath, one room home.
       Outbuildings include a 30x84’ three sided machinery shed and of course the dairy barn, a beautiful 66x66’ building with a bank entrance to a full loft. Underneath are 29 cow stalls, 8 calf stalls and 9 straight horse stalls. There is a leanto across one end. It has 2 silos - 12x50 and 14x50’.
Also in this location is the “Dowdy House” (30x28’, 1680ft2). It has polyurethaned plywood floors both up and down. Down features an open floor plan with kitchen, dining area and living room leading into the master bedroom. Upstairs is drywalled and ready to be divided into rooms any way you prefer

Taxes are insanely low for such a large property, especially so considering all the like-new buildings here - $5427 (total). The owners drastically dropped the price to $650000, far less than their investment here 7 years ago. And they may be amenable to splitting the farm to make 2 farms of it.

#1171 Western Montgomery County SOLD
- 150 tillable
- Creek flats
- Freestall dairy
- New Home
        Operating dairy with excellent land. There are 207 acres here with 150 tillable, including 40 of creek flats. All needed tiling was done years ago. Most of the rest could be pastured. There are 7465’ of road frontage and 3200’ on the Otsquago Creek. There is also 2 ponds which supply water (along with a 60’ deep dug well, ice-cold water). The ponds are full of fish (but not the well). The owner rents the farm next door which has equally good land, so he pastures some of his own crop land.
       You will find lots of buildings, many of them newer. Newest is the home, stick-built, 1300ft2, on a full dry basement. It has an open floor plan with kitchen/dining room/living room/laundry/office in one huge room. There is also 1.5 baths and 2 bedrooms. It is well-insulated and used little (propane) fuel. It and the milkhouse can be heated by an outdoor wood furnace as well.
       There are two mobile homes (14x60’ and 14x62’), older and rented out for additional income. They use the farm’s water but have their own septics and power. One has a new furnace.
       There is a newer 60 cow freestall (50x100’ - room for up to 50 more), a large feeding barn, a newer 36x130’ covered barnyard. Most of the young stock is in a newer 60x128’ pack barn that holds 75. There is also a 30x70’ solar barn for calves. Surplus youngstock can be housed in the old heifer barn (poor condition). Thue freestalls and the heifer facility feel manure into a cement 60z120’ holding tank for manure storage.
       Milking is done in a double 6 flat parlour, housed in the original dairy barn (which was once a 90 cow facility). The extra space there is used for a hospital area. It has overhead hay storage. And has 2 silos, both 24x60’ 0’. There is a 1500g bulk milk tank. There are 2 tunnel ventilation fans.
       There are a variety of smaller outbuildings: a roadside stand (permitted), a 2 car garage with a walk-in cooler (needs compressor), an old 25x50’ machinery barn; another is 30x93’. And there are 3 free-standing metal grain bins (2 at 7 tons and one at 1.5 tons).

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